{"id":921,"date":"2015-02-10T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:10:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:10:20","slug":"podcast-henrik-fahraeus-with-jon-shafer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-henrik-fahraeus-with-jon-shafer\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #4: Henrik Fahraeus (with Jon Shafer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Henrik Fahraeus, who is a Game Director at Paradox Interactive, where he has worked on the <em>Crusader Kings<\/em>, <em>Europa Universalis<\/em>, and <em>Hearts of Iron<\/em> series. Also sitting in on the interview is Jon Shafer, lead designer of <em>Civilization 5<\/em> and currently at work on his independent strategy game <em>At the Gates<\/em>. They discuss whether the <em>Civ<\/em> and <em>EU<\/em> games live in alternate dimension, whether provinces are better than hexes, and why it&#8217;s bad to have too many sons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong> <em>Lords of Midnight<\/em>, <em>Seven Cities of Gold<\/em>, <em>Europa Universalis<\/em> series, <em>Hearts of Iron<\/em> series, <em>Crusader Kings<\/em> series, <em>Civilization<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/henrik-fahraeus\">idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/henrik-fahraeus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Henrik Fahraeus, who is a Game Director at Paradox Interactive, where he has worked on the Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, and Hearts of Iron series. Also sitting in on the interview is Jon Shafer, lead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-henrik-fahraeus-with-jon-shafer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923,"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-921","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\/2015\/02\/crusader-kings-heading.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}