{"id":985,"date":"2015-04-20T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:10:02","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:10:02","slug":"podcast-chelsea-howe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-chelsea-howe\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #6: Chelsea Howe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Adam Saltsman interviews Chelsea Howe, who is a Creative Director at EA Mobile. She is best known for her work at TinyCo, where she led the design of <em>Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff<\/em>, and for her community efforts organizing the Queerness and Games Conference, the Global Game Jam in San Francisco, student workshops, and more. They discuss how DAU&#8217;s and LTV&#8217;s compare to Quarterback Ratings, why F2P games end up as conservative as AAA games, why mobile devs have to pay people to play their games, and if a game is worthwhile if the player isn&#8217;t learning something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong> <em>Choice Chamber<\/em>, <em>Renga<\/em>, Twitch Plays <em>Pokemon<\/em>, <em>Candy Crush Saga<\/em>, <em>Dragon Age<\/em> series, <em>Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/chelsea-howe\">idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/chelsea-howe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Adam Saltsman interviews Chelsea Howe, who is a Creative Director at EA Mobile. She is best known for her work at TinyCo, where she led the design of Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff, and for her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-chelsea-howe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":986,"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-985","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\/04\/renga-heading.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-fT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}