{"id":1484,"date":"2018-05-16T12:20:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2018-05-16T12:20:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:20:19","slug":"designer-notes-39-brian-reynolds-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-39-brian-reynolds-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 39: Brian Reynolds &#8211; Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews veteran game designer Brian Reynolds, best known for his work on <em>Colonization<\/em>, <em>Civilization 2<\/em>, <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>, and <em>Rise of Nations<\/em>. They discuss when Brian discovered <em>Twilight Struggle<\/em>, how <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em> influenced <em>BioShock<\/em>, and whether he could have made <em>Rise of Nations<\/em> at Firaxis.<\/p>\n<p><b>Games discussed:<\/b>\u00a0<em>Twilight Struggle<\/em>, <em>Civilization 2<\/em>, <em>Gettysburg<\/em>, <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>, <em>BioShock<\/em>, <em>Call to Power<\/em>, <em>Rise of Nations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brian-reynolds-part-2\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brian-reynolds-part-2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews veteran game designer Brian Reynolds, best known for his work on Colonization, Civilization 2, Alpha Centauri, and Rise of Nations. They discuss when Brian discovered Twilight Struggle, how Alpha Centauri influenced BioShock, and whether &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-39-brian-reynolds-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1485,"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-1484","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\/2018\/05\/smac-header.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-nW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","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=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1486,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions\/1486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}