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