I think most of us encountered our first house rule without even knowing it was one. We’d be playing Monopoly with friends or families, because we were too young to have good taste in games or friends, and we all used the Free Parking rule – taxes and Chance/Community chest money went into the center […]
Entries from November 30th, 2011
Question Time!
November 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Three Moves Ahead
We don’t all have Tim Tebow at the ready to just stop sucking at the last minute and pull out a win. So this week moved along nicely and then we realized we didn’t have a topic for this week’s podcast (since we are recording next week’s on Saturday, and assumed everything was in hand, […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 144 – Risky Business with Rob Daviau
November 24th, 2011 · 8 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Friend of the show and returning guest Rob Daviau joins Rob and Julian to talk about his new game, Risk: Legacy. They talk about how Legacy uses unlocks and persistent changes to deepen the standard Risk experience. Daviau describes lessons learned during playtesting about how players learn games and fail to make good long-term decisions. […]
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Stories within Systems: Why Randomness Matters
November 24th, 2011 · 15 Comments · Design
This post is mostly thinking out loud. So please fill the comments with your own insights. Though the idea Chick Parabola predated Tom Chick’s eloquent discussion of early in Three Moves Ahead history, the core idea speaks to a hardcore understanding of what strategy games are all about. Like chess or Go or Little Wars, […]
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The Toronto Meetup: Armchair Design Session
November 22nd, 2011 · 7 Comments · Me
The meetup at the Tequila Bookworm last Saturday was a good crowd of eight, which was about perfect since we had a chance to play games with almost everyone, but not really talk, which is a shame. The space was good except for the mismatched tables and Goodwill chairs, but we had it to ourselves. […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 143 – The Personal Touch
November 18th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Phill Cameron comes back for a conversation with Rob, Troy, and Julian about how personality and persistence change our relationship to strategy games. Troy reveals the depths of his callousness to tiny, computerized men. Julian points out that Dwarf Fortress is the pinnacle of this approach, but Troy explains why it frustrates him. Rob is […]
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