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Entries from August 14th, 2010

Flash of Steel/Three Moves Ahead Meetup August 14

August 14th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Me

This is the official meet up notice for the upcoming FoS/TMA gathering. As I’ve said on the podcast, I settled on the 14th of August in downtown Washington DC. The time will be 2:30 in the afternoon so we can drink leisurely and people can find their way home before it gets late. Most of […]

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FoS/TMA Meetup Reminder

August 14th, 2010 · Comments Off on FoS/TMA Meetup Reminder · Uncategorized

This is the official meet up notice for the upcoming FoS/TMA gathering. As I’ve said on the podcast, I settled on the 14th of August in downtown Washington DC. The time will be 2:30 in the afternoon so we can drink leisurely and people can find their way home before it gets late. Most of […]

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Real Time Strategy as True Wargames

August 10th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Blizzard, RTS

“Surrounded with trenches, Marius bided his time and paid no attention to the insults of the enemy. Publius Silo,who had the greatest authority and power among the Italians, once said to Marius, ‘If you are a great general, come down and fight us’; to which he answered, ‘No. If you are a great general, make […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 77: Starcraft 2 with Chris Remo

August 10th, 2010 · 13 Comments · Blizzard, Design, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead

  Troy – suffering from a splitting headache – is joined by Rob Zacny, Tom Chick (hooray) and Idle Thumbs/Gamasutra star Chris Remo before he heads off to join Irrational Games. The topic: Starcraft 2. Why does such a competitive, sports structured game like SC2 have such wide appeal? Is the single player campaign really […]

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More Stats: This Time the Podcast

August 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · Three Moves Ahead

Another throwaway stats post. To date, Three Moves Ahead has been listened to over 147,000 times across 76 episodes. The peak month was June’s 15,775 downloads after some very nice recommendations from people with more fans than we do. There are about 1000 iTunes subscribers – but only 69 reviews or ratings. So step up […]

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Starcraft 2: Some Thoughts

August 4th, 2010 · 27 Comments · Blizzard, RTS

A full review of Starcraft 2 will be written and published and elaborated on later. It is also the topic of next week’s podcast. I think that the commercial success of Starcraft and Blizzard’s ability to sell ice to Inuit has some lessons for the strategy game market. I’ve been avoiding reading other people’s reviews, […]

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