{"id":1280,"date":"2017-05-06T19:37:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-07T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2017-05-06T19:37:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T02:37:01","slug":"designer-notes-26-sid-meier-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-26-sid-meier-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 26: Sid Meier &#8211; Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ipsType_normal ipsType_richText ipsContained\" data-role=\"commentContent\" data-controller=\"core.front.core.lightboxedImages\">\n<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews legendary game designer Sid Meier, best known for designing <em>Pirates!<\/em>, <em>Railroad Tycoon<\/em>, and <em>Civilization<\/em>. They discuss what game Sid wishes he designed, how to determine if a prototype should be turned into a game, and why we need a Zombie civilization.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Civilization Revolution<\/em>, <em>CivWorld<\/em>, <em>Ace Patrol<\/em>, <em>Starships<\/em>, <em>Tetris<\/em>, <em>SimCity<\/em>, <em>Seven Cities of Gold<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/sid-meier-part-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/sid-meier-part-4<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews legendary game designer Sid Meier, best known for designing Pirates!, Railroad Tycoon, and Civilization. They discuss what game Sid wishes he designed, how to determine if a prototype should be turned into a game, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-26-sid-meier-part-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ace-patrol-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-kE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1283,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}