{"id":999,"date":"2015-05-04T13:20:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/?p=999"},"modified":"2015-08-24T01:09:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T08:09:55","slug":"podcast-brad-muir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-brad-muir\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #7: Brad Muir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Brad Muir, who is a designer\/programmer at Double Fine. He was a programmer on <em>Psychonauts<\/em>, the lead designer of <em>Brutal Legend<\/em>, and the project leader on <em>Iron Brigade<\/em>. Brad is currently leading the development of <em>Massive Chalice<\/em>, a tactical strategy game now available on Steam Early Access. They discuss trying to make peace with narrative-based games, why consoles (and not tablets) are the future of MOBAs, what it&#8217;s like pitching ideas to publishers, and why Brad worked at Raven for 89 days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Games Discussed:<\/strong> <em>Spec Ops: The Line<\/em>, <em>The Walking Dead<\/em>, <em>Crusader Kings 2<\/em>, <em>Hunt the Wumpus<\/em>, <em>The Legend of Zelda<\/em>, <em>Brutal Legend<\/em>, <em>Alter Echo<\/em>, <em>Psychonauts<\/em>, <em>XCOM<\/em>, <em>Massive Chalice<\/em>, <em>Trenched\/Iron Brigade<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brad-muir\">idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/brad-muir<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Brad Muir, who is a designer\/programmer at Double Fine. He was a programmer on Psychonauts, the lead designer of Brutal Legend, and the project leader on Iron Brigade. Brad is currently leading the development of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/podcast-brad-muir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1000,"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-999","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\/05\/massive-chalice-header.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3EGlq-g7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","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=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}