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[Donald X.]

How many non-non-Dominion games/expansions do you currently have "in the works" right now?

That would be telling.

[Donald X.]

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.

[Donald X.]

I understand if you can't answer this, but:

I appreciate your understanding.

[Seprix]

Is the answer to this question false?

[Haddock]

Is the answer to this question false?

No.

[LastFootnote]

Is the answer to this question false?

Do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

[Tables]

Are there any questions in this thread that you get tired of answering repeatedly, including this one perhaps?

[GendoIkari]

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

[Donald X.]

Is the answer to this question false?

Do colorless green ideas sleep furiously?

http://smbc-comics.com/index.php?id=772

[Donald X.]

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.

[ConMan]

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?"?

[Seprix]

What was your first job?

[J Reggie]

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?

[Donald X.]

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.

[Donald X.]

What was your first job?

I had a paper route if that counts. Otherwise computer programmer.

[Donald X.]

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.

[Chris is me]

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?

[Asper]

As you worked as a programmer before, did you ever consider doing video games?

[Donald X.]

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.

[Donald X.]

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

[Roadrunner7671]

Why have you made more posts at 5 AM, 4 AM and 3 AM than at 7 AM?

[Donald X.]

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.

[werothegreat]

Will we be seeing a Secret History of Empires soon? 

[Donald X.]

Will we be seeing a Secret History of Empires soon? 

I'm there for you.

[Doom_Shark]

What is your favorite expansion to date?
Related question: What (other than promos) do you consider to be your greatest failure in dominion?