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Designer Notes 62: Josh Sawyer - Part 1

Dec 8, 2021

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How Do People Really Need to Know About Character Creation?

01:34

Infinity Engines

02:37

The Darklins - The Game I Still Want to Make

02:10

Introduction

2min

Game of Thrones - Adventure

2min

What Did You Play More Games After That?

2min

Is There a 'Teroplaing' Side to Computer Games?

2min

The Gold Box Games

2min

Did You Play a Barnsdale Construction Set?

2min

The Hind Book

2min

Bardstail 3

2min

Yd, It Was the Best Way to Grind

2min

10.

Did You See What Youre Doing?

5min

11.

Infinity Engines

3min

12.

How Do People Really Need to Know About Character Creation?

2min

13.

How to Tell a Story Organically in a Game?

2min

14.

Did You Have a Certain Style Eris Like This?

3min

15.

What Did You Like About Second Edition E Dnd?

5min

16.

The Darklins - The Game I Still Want to Make

2min

17.

How to Increase the Final Value of a Skill That Stagnated Because You Become So Good at It

2min

18.

Did You Ever Try Any Programming?

2min

19.

Did You Get to Let People to Play the Game?

2min

20.

The Conservatory of Music - What Is It?

3min

21.

You're Getting to This Hard Corof Programe

2min

22.

How Did You Know You Wanted to Be an Illustrator?

5min

23.

Don't Drop Out of College

2min

24.

I'm Going to Be a Tattoo Apprentice, I Don't Know.

3min

25.

I'm Like, a Man Is So Cool

2min

26.

Why Is It Such an Important Efagy for You?

2min

27.

The History of the World, Part II

3min

28.

The Dark Lands

2min

29.

The Dark Lands - A Brief History

3min

30.

How Did You Become a Graphic Designer?

2min

31.

Flash, Is It the Easy Way to Get Flash?

3min

32.

Black Eye Studio

3min

33.

How Did You Get Your First Job in Interplay Marketing?

5min

34.

Is There a Lead Designer in Icewandale?

2min

35.

The Infinite Dungeon Crawler

2min

36.

Cressla Tomb - A Dungeon?

4min

37.

I've Never Been a Big Fan of Traps

3min

38.

I'm a DMS Player, and I've Been Playing a Lot of Games Lately.

4min

39.

Prebuffing

2min

40.

Issu Be Spase Yo Hate Bals Again?

2min

41.

The Soul Series - Consumables

2min

42.

Is It Your Project to Ga O Get Ot the Door?

4min

43.

I've Been a Gamer for a Long Time, but I'm a Gamer, and I've Had a Lot of Fun With It.

3min

44.

Isemandales

2min

45.

Is Multiplier a Good Game?

2min

In this episode, Soren interviews veteran RPG designer Josh Sawyer, best known for his work on Icewind Dale, Fallout: New Vegas, and Pillars of Eternity. They discuss how making a website for a tattoo parlor led to his game career, what is the purpose of traps in an RPG, and how much lore is too much lore. This episode was recorded March 24, 2018.

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