{"id":1494,"date":"2018-06-22T04:39:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2018-06-22T04:39:26","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T11:39:26","slug":"designer-notes-40-brian-reynolds-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-40-brian-reynolds-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 40: Brian Reynolds &#8211; Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 why Big Huge made <em>Rise of Legends<\/em> instead of Rise<em> of Nations 2<\/em>, why you shouldn\u2019t let a company provide you with a computer, and how he cost Zynga $800K from a spreadsheet error.<\/p>\n<p>Games discussed: <em>Rise of Nations<\/em>, <em>Rise of Legends<\/em>, <em>Settlers of Catan<\/em>, <em>Age of Empires 3: The Asian Dynasties<\/em>, <em>Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning<\/em>, <em>Farmville<\/em>, <em>Mafia Wars<\/em>, <em>FrontierVille<\/em>, Brian Reynold\u2019s Unreleased Fashion Game, <em>CityVille 2<\/em>, <em>DomiNations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brian-reynolds-part-3\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brian-reynolds-part-3<\/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 why Big Huge made Rise of Legends instead of Rise of Nations &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-40-brian-reynolds-part-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1495,"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-1494","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\/06\/FrontierVille-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-o6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1496,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}