{"id":548,"date":"2026-09-05T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/my-perfect-console-soren-johnson\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T17:37:00","slug":"my-perfect-console-soren-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/my-perfect-console-soren-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes 97: My Perfect Console \u2013 Soren Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2554\">\n\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Designer Notes is hosting a special guest episode from Simon Parkin\u2019s excellent podcast My Perfect Console, in which he interviews Soren Johnson about his career and his favorite games. In each episode, Simon asks the guest to choose five games to compose their version of a perfect console or, in Soren\u2019s case, a perfect personal computer. Check out the show at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/myperfectconsole.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"myperfectconsole.com\">myperfectconsole.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong> <em>Pinball Construction Set<\/em>, <em>M.U.L.E.<\/em>, <em>Seven Cities of Gold<\/em>, <em>Legacy of the Ancients<\/em>, <em>Alpha Centauri<\/em>, <em>Oxford Mercer<\/em>, <em>Civilization III<\/em>, <em>Civilization IV<\/em>, <em>Spore<\/em>, <em>Offworld Trading Company<\/em>, <em>Old World<\/em><\/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 97: My Perfect Console: Soren Johnson\" 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\/0Ld8XQXaONk3ILBvc4Xvw5?si=3e513fd5c04b442f&#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\/my-perfect-console-soren-johnson\/\" title=\"Permalink to Designer Notes 97: My Perfect Console \u2013 Soren Johnson\" 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\/my-perfect-console-soren-johnson\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Designer Notes is hosting a special guest episode from Simon Parkin\u2019s excellent podcast My Perfect&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","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\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}