{"id":1575,"date":"2019-10-31T21:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T04:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2019-10-31T21:25:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T04:25:55","slug":"designer-notes-49-adam-saltsman-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-49-adam-saltsman-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 49: Adam Saltsman &#8211; Part 2"},"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>Mario<\/em> speed runs are the original infinite runners, why <em>Canabalt<\/em> is in 6 shades of grey, and when does Permadeath make sense for a game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Canabalt<\/em>, <em>Captain Forever<\/em>, <em>Jetpack Joyride<\/em>, <em>Alone<\/em>, <em>Hundreds<\/em>, <em>Portico<\/em>, <em>Overland<\/em>, <em>868-HACK<\/em>, <em>XCOM: Enemy Unknown<\/em>, <em>XCOM 2<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/adam-saltsman-part-2\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/adam-saltsman-part-2<\/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 Mario speed runs are the original infinite runners, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-49-adam-saltsman-part-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1576,"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-1575","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\/overland-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-pp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575","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=1575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1575\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}