{"id":1517,"date":"2026-09-11T19:14:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-86-anton-strenger\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T19:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T19:14:24","slug":"designer-notes-86-anton-strenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-86-anton-strenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #86: Anton Strenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2330\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode, Soren interviews Anton Strenger, best known for his work on <em>Civilization 5<\/em>, <em>Civilization 6<\/em>, and <em>Beyond Earth<\/em>. They discuss how he ended up paying Carnegie Mellon so that he could work at Firaxis, why there aren\u2019t many Great People after 1900, and whether <em>Civilization<\/em> has secretly become a live-service game. This episode was recorded on October 22, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Games discussed: <\/strong><em>ESPN Extreme Games<\/em>, <em>Quest for Glory 4<\/em>, <em>Pokemon<\/em> series, <em>Suikoden II<\/em>, <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>, <em>Civilization<\/em> series, <em>Old World<\/em>, <em>History of the World<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/anton-strenger\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/anton-strenger<\/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 86: Anton Strenger\" 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\/1FV7gFIBwfgBNGFe0JAGUz?si=o_gYeXaUTcC8qYV_eq3c8w&#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-86-anton-strenger\/\" title=\"Permalink to Designer Notes #86: Anton Strenger\" 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-86-anton-strenger\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Anton Strenger, best known for his work on Civilization 5,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","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\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}