{"id":1011,"date":"2026-09-08T22:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-93-charles-cecil-part-1\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T22:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T22:04:47","slug":"designer-notes-93-charles-cecil-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-93-charles-cecil-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #93: Charles Cecil \u2013 Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2466\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Charles Cecil, co-founder of Revolution Software and best known for his work on Beneath a Steel Sky and the Broken Sword series. They discuss various dodgy tax avoidance schemes, what the Bitmap Brothers faxed to Acclaim, and how to teach players the grammar of adventure games. This interview was started on April 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Galaxian<\/em>, <em>Adventure A<\/em>, <em>Adventure B<\/em>, <em>Bandersnatch<\/em>, <em>World Cup Football<\/em>, <em>World Cup Carnival<\/em>, <em>Lure of the Temptress<\/em>, the <em>Broken Sword<\/em> series, <em>Beneath a Steel Sky<\/em>, the <em>Monkey Island<\/em> series<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/charles-cecil-part-1\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/charles-cecil-part-1<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p>\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Designer Notes 93: Charles Cecil - Part 1\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/1OTuz4cVZAys9oXKLBZvgc?si=nsXqpnccRN2buxv83F94-w&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\tThis entry was posted in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/category\/podcast\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Podcast<\/a> by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/author\/soren\/\">Soren Johnson<\/a>. Bookmark the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-93-charles-cecil-part-1\/\" title=\"Permalink to Designer Notes #93: Charles Cecil \u2013 Part 1\" rel=\"bookmark\">permalink<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-93-charles-cecil-part-1\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews veteran game developer Charles Cecil, co-founder of Revolution Software and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}