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Entries from October 18th, 2010

This Is Your Brain on Strategy Games

October 18th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Me

It’s not that I only play strategy games – I love a good RPG or puzzle game. I used to play a lot of adventure games, too. But strategy and war games are my bread and butter, my alpha and omega, the reason I blog and podcast and get paid to begin with. There is […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 86: Logistics, Supply and News

October 14th, 2010 · 11 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead, Wargames

  Troy and Rob start the show with a talk about what Derek Paxton’s move to Stardock means for Elemental and the future of Stardock. They then segue into a discussion about logistics and supply rules constrain the player in interesting ways. Rob tells another wargame anecdote, we debate whether an AI really understands supply […]

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Guest Blog: Star Ruler Review

October 14th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Guest Blog, Review, Sci Fi

Kevin Hutchins is probably one of my oldest continual online friends. We made contact on the old Home of the Underdogs forum, he has had Thanksgiving at my house, and we’ve talked on and off for years. Still, I needed him to write a more thorough bio note, because what do you say about a […]

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Guest Blog: Message and Meaning in Strategy Games

October 11th, 2010 · 17 Comments · Design, Guest Blog

Jeff Petraska is a long-time board and computer gamer, and has written articles over the years for Fire & Movement, The General, and C3i magazines. He sent me a long email full of questions last week, and I thought it would work much better as a full post than as an exchange between us. As […]

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Strategies in Civilization 5

October 10th, 2010 · 22 Comments · Firaxis, Me

This will probably be my last word on Civ 5 for a while on the blog, but if any of my colleagues want to use this platform to hold forth, I won’t stop them. I’m working on a short strategy guide on Civ 5, and to be honest it is a bit difficult to write. […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 85: Betrayal and Manipulation

October 7th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

  Julian and Rob are joined by Rob Daviau (Hasbro) and Chris Remo (Irrational) to talk about how games let us give in to our worst impulses and betray our friends. Neptune’s Pride, Risk, Weinhandler, Starcraft and a dozen other games come up. Rob sounds very NPR in the intro. Then the whole thing goes […]

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