{"id":1590,"date":"2019-12-18T06:14:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:17:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T13:17:10","slug":"designer-notes-50-alex-hutchinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-50-alex-hutchinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 50: Alex Hutchinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Alex Hutchinson, Creative Director at Typhoon Studios and best known for his work on <em>Spore<\/em>, <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed 3<\/em>, and <em>Far Cry 4<\/em>. They discuss how they both would have screwed up <em>SimCity<\/em>, how working at Ubisoft is like <em>Brewster\u2019s Millions<\/em>, and what happened with <em>Spore<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Pepper 2<\/em>, <em>Sensible Soccer<\/em>, <em>SimCity<\/em>, <em>The Urbz<\/em>, <em>The Sims 2<\/em>, <em>Spore<\/em>, <em>Army of Two: The 40th Day<\/em>, <em>Assassin\u2019s Creed 3<\/em>, <em>Far Cry 4<\/em>, <em>Journey to the Savage Planet<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/designer-notes-50-alex-hutchinson\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/designer-notes-50-alex-hutchinson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews game designer Alex Hutchinson, Creative Director at Typhoon Studios and best known for his work on Spore, Assassin\u2019s Creed 3, and Far Cry 4. They discuss how they both would have screwed up SimCity, how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-50-alex-hutchinson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"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-1590","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\/12\/far-cry-4-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-pE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1593,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}