{"id":1369,"date":"2017-10-05T07:06:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:06:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:06:34","slug":"designer-notes-32-asher-vollmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-32-asher-vollmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 32: Asher Vollmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews independent game developer Asher Vollmer, best known as the designer of <em>Puzzlejuice<\/em> and <em>Threes<\/em>. They discuss why paper prototypes don\u2019t always translate well into video games, whether a game should take up 100% of your brain, and how he feels about the <em>Threes<\/em> clone <em>2048<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The Secret of Monkey Island<\/em>, <em>Leisure Suit Larry<\/em>, <em>Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast<\/em>, <em>Active Worlds<\/em>, <em>Furcadia<\/em>, <em>The Misadventures of P. B. Winterbottom<\/em>, <em>Semi-Automatic<\/em>, <em>Puzzlejuice<\/em>, <em>Tiny Wings<\/em>, <em>Threes<\/em>, <em>2048<\/em>, <em>Guildlings<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/asher-vollmer\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/asher-vollmer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews independent game developer Asher Vollmer, best known as the designer of Puzzlejuice and Threes. They discuss why paper prototypes don\u2019t always translate well into video games, whether a game should take up 100% of your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-32-asher-vollmer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1370,"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-1369","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\/10\/threes-header.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-m5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1372,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}