{"id":257,"date":"2011-02-13T12:47:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T12:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-05-25T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T08:24:06","slug":"scott-jon-siegel-playdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/jury\/scott-jon-siegel-playdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Jon Siegel (Playdom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Jon Siegel was employee #70 or so at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zynga.com\/\">Zynga<\/a>, where he was lead design on <strong>Word Scramble<\/strong> for iPhone, and a game designer on <strong>Caf\u00e9 World<\/strong> for Facebook, which at its peak had 10 million people playing it every day!<\/p>\n<p>He cut his game design teeth at <a href=\"http:\/\/areacodeinc.com\/\">area\/code<\/a> in New York, creators of hits like <strong>Drop7<\/strong> on iPhone, <strong>Parking Wars<\/strong> on Facebook, and <strong>CSI: Crime City<\/strong> on Facebook. area\/code was recently acquired by Zynga to become Zynga New York.<\/p>\n<p>Around that same time he wrote regular columns for both Escapist Magazine and Joystiq, on the design of non-digital games, and reviewing non-digital games, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, he&#8217;s working as a Game Designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playdom.com\/\">Playdom<\/a>. He was Design Lead on <strong>City of Wonder<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Scott has a presentation during the second day of GGC, <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/sessions\/david-vs-goliathville-a-call-to-arms-for-indie-social-game-developers\/\">trying to bring indie game developers on to the social gaming scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Jon Siegel was employee #70 or so at Zynga, where he was lead design on Word Scramble for iPhone, and a game designer on Caf\u00e9 World for Facebook, which at its peak had 10 million people playing it every day! He cut his game design teeth at area\/code in New York, creators of hits &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/jury\/scott-jon-siegel-playdom\/\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gotlandgameconference.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}