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Doom, Quake, Age of Empires Designer - Sandy Petersen - Ep22
Sandy Petersen is a world class video game designer thats worked on iconic games like Doom, Quake, Civilization, Age of Empires Series and Halo Wars. This is his second appearance on the Bored With Nelly Podcast.
0:00 Intro
1:15 First game memories
3:50 Early videogame career
13:53 Level design at id software
17:17 RoR Expansion
19:28 Conquerors Expansion
25:11 Why Ensemble Studios was bought by Microsoft
28:40 Culture at id software (and Microprose) like
29:50 Toxic coworker destroying id software
33:00 Culture at Ensemble Studios
42:50 What feature or project did he never get to make?
49:50 Water battles in AoE1 and AoE2
43:29 Balance in AoE2
1:01:00 AI resign excuses
1:02:26 Ensemble playtesting, releasing bugged products with other companies
1:10:00 New DLC reaction
1:15:33 AoE3 best title but the downfall of ensemble?
1:21:13 Why ensemble was dissolved (EA)
1:29:00 Should you work for EA
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Sandy Petersen is a world class video game designer thats worked on iconic games like Doom, Quake, Civilization, Age of Empires Series and Halo Wars. This is his second appearance on the Bored With Nelly Podcast.
0:00 Intro
1:15 First game memories
3:50 Early videogame career
13:53 Level design at id software
17:17 RoR Expansion
19:28 Conquerors Expansion
25:11 Why Ensemble Studios was bought by Microsoft
28:40 Culture at id software (and Microprose) like
29:50 Toxic coworker destroying id software
33:00 Culture at Ensemble Studios
42:50 What feature or project did he never get to make?
49:50 Water battles in AoE1 and AoE2
43:29 Balance in AoE2
1:01:00 AI resign excuses
1:02:26 Ensemble playtesting, releasing bugged products with other companies
1:10:00 New DLC reaction
1:15:33 AoE3 best title but the downfall of ensemble?
1:21:13 Why ensemble was dissolved (EA)
1:29:00 Should you work for EA