Designer Notes
Hosted by Soren and Soren Johnson · Idle Thumbs
4.9from 229 ratings
- 97
- Episodes
- 14
- Transcribed
- 229
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 2M
- YouTube views
About Designer Notes
Why do we make games? Every designer has a different and very personal answer to that question. Soren Johnson, founder of Mohawk Games, sits down with noted designers to find out by examining their careers as a whole.
- Publisher
- Idle Thumbs
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 30 Oct 2014
- Latest episode
- 2 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
14 of 97 episodes have a transcript.
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Designer Notes 97: My Perfect Console - Soren Johnson
6 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
Designer Notes 96: Owen Mahoney
6 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Designer Notes 95: Seth Sivak
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Designer Notes 97: My Perfect Console - Soren Johnson
Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The Christite is essentially randomly placed, but you have to kind of search for it um and yeah the the prices of the resources you know fluctuate based off what happens in the game and the the true moment of brilliance is the auction system in that game which is you know between each turn there's this phase where like if you don't have food you can buy it from one of your rivals right so going into you know each auction you kind of declare yourself as a buyer or a seller and like well what should the price be well um The designer, Danny Button, she built this sort of like almost Twitch, sort of arcade style auction where if you're a buyer, you're moving up on the screen. […]
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- Owen Mahoney
- Seth Sivak
- Patrice Desilets
- Caroline Marchal
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- YouTube views
- 1,920,207
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 118 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 111 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 66 / 100
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- Quality
- 62
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 91
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Soren and Soren Johnson host the show. Published by Idle Thumbs.
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