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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3050 on: May 17, 2016, 03:47:50 pm »
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How many non-non-Dominion games/expansions do you currently have "in the works" right now?
That would be telling.
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« Reply #3051 on: May 17, 2016, 03:48:26 pm »
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Are there any questions in this thread that you get tired of answering repeatedly, including this one perhaps?
It's easy enough to link people to whatever previous long essay on the topic. I don't have a long essay on this one yet.
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« Reply #3052 on: May 17, 2016, 03:48:47 pm »
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I understand if you can't answer this, but:
I appreciate your understanding.
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« Reply #3053 on: May 17, 2016, 04:40:30 pm »
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Is the answer to this question false?
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« Reply #3054 on: May 17, 2016, 04:46:05 pm »
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Is the answer to this question false?
No.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3055 on: May 17, 2016, 04:55:57 pm »
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Is the answer to this question false?

Do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3056 on: May 17, 2016, 05:18:39 pm »
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Are there any questions in this thread that you get tired of answering repeatedly, including this one perhaps?
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« Reply #3057 on: May 17, 2016, 05:33:31 pm »
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Are there any questions in this thread that you get tired of answering repeatedly, including this one perhaps?

There's a previous long essay on that topic here: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg600287#msg600287
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« Reply #3058 on: May 17, 2016, 05:57:50 pm »
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« Reply #3059 on: May 17, 2016, 05:58:06 pm »
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Are there any questions in this thread that you get tired of answering repeatedly, including this one perhaps?
The important thing is that we're posting.
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« Reply #3060 on: May 17, 2016, 07:23:34 pm »
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Now that you've actually done multiple interviews, do you have an answer to the question "What question are you most often asked in interviews?"?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3061 on: May 17, 2016, 07:39:46 pm »
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What was your first job?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3062 on: May 17, 2016, 07:43:49 pm »
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So I'd really like to see the comedy you wrote, the one that you got the Hinterlands flavor text from. Is there any chance of you publishing that or posting it somewhere at some point in the future?

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« Reply #3063 on: May 17, 2016, 08:25:04 pm »
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Now that you've actually done multiple interviews, do you have an answer to the question "What question are you most often asked in interviews?"?
Feel free to go through all the ones you can find and count up instances.
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« Reply #3064 on: May 17, 2016, 08:25:25 pm »
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What was your first job?
I had a paper route if that counts. Otherwise computer programmer.
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« Reply #3065 on: May 17, 2016, 08:26:32 pm »
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So I'd really like to see the comedy you wrote, the one that you got the Hinterlands flavor text from. Is there any chance of you publishing that or posting it somewhere at some point in the future?
I consider posting an excerpt sometimes, but you have not found the day when I go through with it.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3066 on: June 10, 2016, 10:24:44 am »
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With Isotropic not being maintained anymore, was all play testing for Empires done in person? Did a portion of it get tested on Isotropic and then the rest did not? How quickly would you make iterations to cards (do you like play one game and then you're like "okay for the next game Forum costs $5")?

When you play tested Catapult how many people threw their cards across the table?
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3067 on: June 10, 2016, 04:43:08 pm »
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As you worked as a programmer before, did you ever consider doing video games?
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« Reply #3068 on: June 10, 2016, 05:37:36 pm »
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With Isotropic not being maintained anymore, was all play testing for Empires done in person? Did a portion of it get tested on Isotropic and then the rest did not? How quickly would you make iterations to cards (do you like play one game and then you're like "okay for the next game Forum costs $5")?
I have always done plenty of testing irl, so it wasn't such a change for me. Doug started out doing Empires but stopped at some point. I recruited Bryan L. Doughty to have another external playtester irl.

It has always been the case that sometimes I change a card between games - I did it on the first night of trying Dominion, I did it in games before Dominion.

When you play tested Catapult how many people threw their cards across the table?
No-one. You could be the first.
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« Reply #3069 on: June 10, 2016, 05:40:11 pm »
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As you worked as a programmer before, did you ever consider doing video games?
For a while I thought I would end up making video games. I did not get that job.

I did make two fleshed-out games as a hobby: The Little Guy Game (like a very puzzly Loderunner) and Dudes of Stuff & Things (my take on Heroes of Might and Magic), the latter of which still works and can be downloaded from this site. http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg356980#msg356980
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« Reply #3070 on: June 10, 2016, 07:20:18 pm »
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Why have you made more posts at 5 AM, 4 AM and 3 AM than at 7 AM?
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« Reply #3071 on: June 10, 2016, 07:26:51 pm »
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Why have you made more posts at 5 AM, 4 AM and 3 AM than at 7 AM?
Since mostly I don't need to be awake at a particular time, except dinner time and evening gaming, I tend to stay up slightly later each night, until I am up all night. Then I want to be awake during days again, so I try to pull an all-dayer to reset when I'm getting up to the morning. Then, the cycle repeats.

So I spend a lot more time awake in the middle of the night than I do in the morning.
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« Reply #3072 on: June 10, 2016, 08:11:21 pm »
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Will we be seeing a Secret History of Empires soon?  :)
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« Reply #3073 on: June 11, 2016, 12:19:46 am »
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Will we be seeing a Secret History of Empires soon?  :)
I'm there for you.
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Re: Interview with Donald X.
« Reply #3074 on: June 11, 2016, 01:43:25 am »
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What is your favorite expansion to date?
Related question: What (other than promos) do you consider to be your greatest failure in dominion?
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