{"id":1629,"date":"2020-06-17T20:24:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T03:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2020-06-17T20:24:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T03:24:03","slug":"designer-notes-53-jon-ingold-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-53-jon-ingold-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 53: Jon Ingold &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\">In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Jon Ingold, who co-founded inkle and is best known for his work in interactive fiction, including <em>All Roads<\/em>, <em>80 Days<\/em>, and the <em>Sorcery!<\/em> series. They discuss why <em>Plundered Hearts<\/em> is his favorite Infocom game, how being a maths teacher is like being a level designer, and when he realized that parsers were a commercial dead-end.<\/p>\n<p><b>Games discussed:<\/b>\u00a0<em>Psi-5 Trading Company<\/em>, <em>Rogue<\/em>, <em>Out There<\/em>, <em>Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>, <em>Deadline<\/em>, <em>The Witness<\/em>, <em>Plundered Hearts<\/em>, <em>Starcross<\/em>, <em>Blade Runner<\/em>, <em>Curses!<\/em>, <em>The Mulldoon Legacy<\/em>, <em>All Roads<\/em>, <em>Make It Good<\/em>, <em>Heavy Rain<\/em>, <em>Frankenstein<\/em>, the <em>Sorcery!<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/jon-ingold-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/jon-ingold-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Jon Ingold, who co-founded inkle and is best known for his work in interactive fiction, including All Roads, 80 Days, and the Sorcery! series. They discuss why Plundered Hearts is his favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-53-jon-ingold-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1630,"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-1629","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\/2020\/06\/sorcery-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-qh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}