{"id":993,"date":"2026-09-08T20:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-95-seth-sivak\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T20:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T20:11:50","slug":"designer-notes-95-seth-sivak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/designer-notes-95-seth-sivak\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Notes #95: Seth Sivak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode, Soren interviews Seth Sivak, best known as the co-founder and CEO of Proletariat, makers of World Zombination and Spellbreak. They discuss how he invited hover doobers, the many times Proletariat almost went out of business, and whether free-to-play still makes sense. This episode was recorded on September 13, 2025, and was engineered by Michael Hermes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Games discussed:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis<\/em>, <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em>, <em>Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?<\/em>, <em>Half-Life<\/em>, <em>Gears of War<\/em>, <em>Wii Sports<\/em>, <em>Guitar Hero<\/em>, <em>Cafe World<\/em>, <em>Frontierville<\/em>, <em>Mafia Wars<\/em>, <em>Adventure World<\/em>, <em>Dragon Age Legends<\/em>, <em>FarmVille<\/em>, <em>CityVille<\/em>, <em>World Zombination<\/em>, <em>Clash of Clans<\/em>, <em>Streamline<\/em>, <em>Pokemon Go<\/em>, <em>DayZ<\/em>, <em>PUBG: Battlegrounds<\/em>, <em>Speakbreak<\/em>, <em>DOTA 2<\/em>, <em>Civilization IV<\/em>, <em>Apex Legends<\/em>, <em>World of Warcraft<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/seth-sivak\">https:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/designernotes\/episodes\/seth-sivak<\/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 95: Seth Sivak\" 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\/14RpXKDFSIKAUP4ezS8QCU?si=g5irmsmkRNqS85MIByvUuw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designer-notes.com\/designer-notes-95-seth-sivak\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, Soren interviews Seth Sivak, best known as the co-founder and CEO of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993","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\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/x.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}