{"id":977,"date":"2008-06-20T12:25:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/more-on-spore-from-soren\/"},"modified":"2008-06-20T12:25:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T16:25:39","slug":"more-on-spore-from-soren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/20\/more-on-spore-from-soren\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Spore from Soren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/feature?pager.offset=0&#038;cId=3168266\">Jeff Green&#8217;s interview with EA&#8217;s Soren Johnson<\/a> about <em>Spore<\/em>, game design, and other stuff in the industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1UP: So let&#8217;s say you were just getting into the business now, but you had the same education and interests. Do you still see yourself pursuing this path on the PC?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SJ: Yeah, because I&#8217;m still very much a strategy guy. If computers weren&#8217;t around, I probably would have tried to design board games. That still, for me, feels like the place to be. If I was 21 now [and] in school, I&#8217;m sure I would have some sort of wonky strategy game site doing some sort of hex-based war game or something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most shocking part of the interview? Atari had a hard time selling the <em>Civilization<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be sure to read Jeff Green&#8217;s interview with EA&#8217;s Soren Johnson about Spore, game design, and other stuff in the industry. 1UP: So let&#8217;s say you were just getting into the business now, but you had the same education and interests. Do you still see yourself pursuing this path on the PC? SJ: Yeah, because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[50,40,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}