Jon Shafer joins Rob, Troy, and Julian to talk about challenge in strategy games. What kind of challenges do we want from strategy games, and how does it get botched? Why are people still surprised when AI opponents aren’t very clever? Why are they so hesitant to take on multiplayer? What’s the difference between good […]
Entries from April 28th, 2012
Three Moves Ahead Episode 166 – Strategic Tee Ball
April 28th, 2012 · 16 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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40 Years, 1 million hits
April 23rd, 2012 · 9 Comments · Me
Last week marked a couple of milestones for me. First, and probably most shockingly, I finally turned 40. It wasn’t as stressful a birthday as my 39th was for a number of very personal reasons, and I would have been content to let the day pass without much comment. But 80+ Facebook greetings, some nice […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 165 – Beware of Falling Samurai
April 21st, 2012 · 2 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
PC Gamer staff writer Tom Senior and freelance writer Phill Cameron come to Rob’s podcasting island, bringing with them rifles and steam-powered ironclads. Things swiftly turn violent as they discuss Shogun 2: Fall of the Samurai, and some of the Total War series’ longstanding contradictions. How does balance function in Fall of the Samurai, and […]
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Science in Strategy Games: Master of Orion series
April 16th, 2012 · 15 Comments · Feature:Science
What this is about, and a list of the games. I am not going to talk about Master of Orion 3, because I had no interest in playing that again. But revisiting Master of Orion 1 and 2 reminded me of many things I had forgotten about both games, and confirmed a lot of suspicions […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 164 – PAX East 2012 Panel: Strategy – What’s Changing, What Needs To
April 12th, 2012 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episode 164 – PAX East 2012 Panel: Strategy – What’s Changing, What Needs To · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
We heard the people, and we brought Three Moves Ahead directly to the masses who gathered at PAX East. But what if you missed it? Will we punish you for your lack of dedication? Yes, but you can still listen to this episode. Listen to Rob forget to introduce himself or the panel, a panel […]
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PAX East 2012
April 10th, 2012 · 3 Comments · PAX
One of these days, I am going to have to do one of these shows just as a gamer. PAX East was last weekend, and there is something special about consumer facing shows. Yes, in any large crowd there will be a healthy dose of rudeness, weirdness and schadenfreude, and maybe an audience born on […]
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