{"id":1514,"date":"2018-11-24T07:46:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2018-11-24T07:46:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T14:46:51","slug":"designer-notes-43-clint-hocking-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-43-clint-hocking-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 43: Clint Hocking &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews veteran game designer Clint Hocking, who started his career working on the original <em>Splinter Cell<\/em> and was also the Creative Director of <em>Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory<\/em> and <em>Far Cry 2<\/em>. They discuss how his early time as a Dungeon Master informs his design work, how he took a huge pay cut to join the games industry, and how the <em>Splinter Cell<\/em> team was conflicted over dynamic gameplay vs. set piece content.<\/p>\n<p><b>Games discussed:<\/b>\u00a0<em>Space Invaders<\/em>, <em>Turbo<\/em>, <em>Dig Dug<\/em>, <em>Dragon\u2019s Lair<\/em>, <em>Lode Runner<\/em>, <em>Ultima IV<\/em>, <em>Dungeons and Dragons<\/em>, <em>GURPS<\/em>, <em>Thief<\/em>, <em>Deus Ex<\/em>, <em>Rainbow Six<\/em>, <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>, <em>Splinter Cell<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/clint-hocking-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/clint-hocking-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren Johnson interviews veteran game designer Clint Hocking, who started his career working on the original Splinter Cell and was also the Creative Director of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and Far Cry 2. They discuss how his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-43-clint-hocking-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1515,"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-1514","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\/11\/splinter-cell-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-oq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514","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=1514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1514\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}