{"id":859,"date":"2014-11-03T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T16:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2015-05-04T13:21:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:21:03","slug":"designer-notes-is-a-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-is-a-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes is a Podcast!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, I&#8217;ve been a frequent guest on various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?page_id=622\">video game podcasts<\/a>, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/3ma\">Three Moves Ahead<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thegamedesignroundtable.com\/\">The Game Design Roundtable<\/a>. I&#8217;ve always enjoy the format and have now decided\u00a0to start one of my own. Thus, I&#8217;d like to announce the Designer Notes podcast, in which I sit down with noted game designers to discuss why we make games.<\/p>\n<p>The folks\u00a0at Idle Thumbs\u00a0offered to host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\">the podcast<\/a>, which\u00a0greatly\u00a0helped getting this new endeavor started. My first guest is Rob Pardo, formerly the Chief Creative Officer at Blizzard. We had such a long discussion that I had to break it into two parts, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/rob-pardo-part-1\">first half<\/a>\u00a0ranges from his first gaming memories through StarCraft, Brood War, and Warcraft 3. I&#8217;ll be posting the second half in early December. Future guests include Frank Lantz,\u00a0Henrik F\u00e5hraeus, Jon Shafer, Daniel Cook, Brad Muir, Brian Reynolds, Chelsea Howe, and Daniel Benmergui.<\/p>\n<p><em>EDIT: The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/rob-pardo-part-2\">second half<\/a> is now available.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years now, I&#8217;ve been a frequent guest on various video game podcasts, especially Three Moves Ahead and The Game Design Roundtable. I&#8217;ve always enjoy the format and have now decided\u00a0to start one of my own. Thus, I&#8217;d like to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-is-a-podcast\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861,"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-859","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\/2014\/11\/designer-notes-podcast.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-dR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}