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Entries from January 9th, 2012

Holiday Guest Blog 6: Alan Au – “Home Field Advantage”

January 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Guest Blog

In what is probably the final guest blog of the season (so many shirkers), my old friend Alan Au steps up to write about the comforts and meaning of “home” in gaming. Alan and I have known each other for a long time and try to make the effort to connect in person on those […]

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Three Moves Ahead Episode 150: Year in Review

January 5th, 2012 · 11 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead

The original cast, gets together to look at the strategy games they liked in 2011. We focus on the positive and talk about Atom Zombie Smasher, Shogun 2, Unity of Command, Men of War and lots of other names are dropped. Also a preview of the games we are looking forward to in 2012. Tom’s […]

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Holiday Guest Blog 5: Dirk Knemeyer – “Theme and Mechanics”

January 3rd, 2012 · 6 Comments · Design, Guest Blog

I “met” game designer Dirk Knemeyer through our Out of the Park Baseball league. He’s had marginally more success than I have mostly through not finishing 30 games back four seasons in a row. Dirk is also an employer and collaborator, since I am doing research and consulting for him in the evenings and on […]

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2011 at Flash of Steel and Three Moves Ahead By the Numbers

January 1st, 2012 · 14 Comments · Blogs

Though I write for myself and would podcast for a few dozen, I am a statistics freak. So here’s how it looked for the blog and podcast in 2011. 2011 was the best year ever for visits and for downloads – in spite of me not writing much and me ceding first chair on the […]

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