{"id":1570,"date":"2019-10-14T18:53:19","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T01:53:19","slug":"designer-notes-48-adam-saltsman-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-48-adam-saltsman-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 48: Adam Saltsman &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game developer Adam Saltsman, who co-founded indie publisher Finji and is best known for his work on <em>Gravity Hook<\/em>, <em>Canabalt<\/em>, <em>Hundreds<\/em>, <em>Capsule<\/em>, and <em>Overland<\/em>. They discuss how <em>Cave Story<\/em> showed him that he could make games on his own, why he thought he worked with the guy who invented <em>Boggle<\/em>, and his many failed attempts to join the video games industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Super Mario Bros. 2<\/em>, <em>Wolfenstein 3D<\/em>, <em>Doom<\/em>, <em>Cave Story<\/em>, <em>Tower Blocks<\/em>, <em>Boggle<\/em>, <em>Gravity Hook<\/em>, <em>ThrustBurst<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/adam-saltsman-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/adam-saltsman-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game developer Adam Saltsman, who co-founded indie publisher Finji and is best known for his work on Gravity Hook, Canabalt, Hundreds, Capsule, and Overland. They discuss how Cave Story showed him that he could make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-48-adam-saltsman-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1571,"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-1570","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\/2019\/10\/canabalt-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-pk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570","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=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}