Rod Humble is the CEO of Linden Labs. He is also makes small games, the most famous of which is probably the conceptual game The Marriage. He’s also a wargamer, and I wish I’d had more time to talk to him about what he was playing when I briefly saw him at E3 this year. […]
Entries from July 15th, 2011
Three Moves Ahead Episode 125 – The Friendliest Phillipic
July 14th, 2011 · 62 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Troy and Rob are over the moon about Longbow’s Hegemony: Wars of Ancient Greece, and invite programmer and writer Rick Yorgason to the show so they can ask that timeless question: “How awesome is your game?” The three go into detail on the game’s simplicity, its superb camera controls and artwork, its integrated and effective […]
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Not Contemporary
July 12th, 2011 · 27 Comments · Design, Industry
In an interview with MCVUK, Christoph Hartmann, the president of 2K Studios, was asked about why X-Com was being turned into a first person shooter, instead of using the IP as God intended – a tactical strategy game. The ‘90s generation of gamers all love Xcom and we own the IP, so we thought OK, […]
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Weekend of Music
July 10th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Music
I know this is yet another non-strategy game post, and yeah, that sucks. I have a half dozen really big posts drafted that I don’t want to release into the wild quite yet – something on modeling crisis situations, the Indian character post, reflections on authorial voice in strategy game narrative…these are hard to finish […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 124 – The Show Must Go On
July 7th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Taking a moment from their respective vacations, Rob and Julian pick up the pieces after a couple show ideas fall apart at the last minute. Julian wants to talk about card mechanics and why he likes them so much. Rob wonders if most PC games eschew cards because they tend to symbolize and abstract concepts, […]
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Writing to the Goal & FoSTV Update
July 4th, 2011 · 10 Comments · FoSTV
I love to write more than just about anything else in the world. It’s connected to a larger love of language and how words fit together to make sense. In a lot of my chats with my close friends, we will find great or terrible sentences and examine how they become amazing or go horribly […]
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