I’ll have a proper playthrough later on the blog, but I did want to get some thoughts down about Sarah Northaway’s Rebuild for iPad before I went to heavy into how it plays and where it grabs you. First off, I am super tired of zombies, especially in games. A big part of that is […]
Entries from May 30th, 2012
Filling Time
May 29th, 2012 · Comments Off on Filling Time · Me
It’s amazing how busy things can get when you aren’t really writing anything. Sure, I’m still beating on that overdue X-Com article (end of week – promise), but there are things happening. What exactly? 1) Well, I wrote a guest blog for Pocket Tactics, a site dedicated to strategy games for mobile and tablets. It’s […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 170: Classic Game Analysis – Kohan
May 26th, 2012 · 20 Comments · Design, Podcast, RTS, Three Moves Ahead, Timegate
Tom Chick comes back to the show to join Rob and Troy for a look back at one of the great real time strategy series – Timegate’s Kohan games. What made Kohan unique and what games, if any, have followed on its original ideas? Is Kohan 2: Kings of War really an inferior sequel? Cities […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 169: Out of the Park Baseball and Managing Things
May 18th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
This week, Bill Abner from No High Scores returns to the show along with new guest Dirk Knemeyer from Conquistador Games. What do they have in common? Both have better OOTP league teams than Troy does. The trio talk about the improvements in OOTP 13, what makes the OOTP series so special and enduring – […]
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Should You Choose To Accept It
May 18th, 2012 · 7 Comments · Design
General Chernyayev has taken Tashkent. We do not know why. – Russian Minister of the Interior, Pyotr Valuev, 1865 Strategy games are, at their core, about greed and ambition. Yes, almost every game is a power fantasy, but strategy games properly understood are about gaining the most while spending the least. Since most strategy games […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 168: Return of Bomber Command
May 11th, 2012 · Comments Off on Three Moves Ahead Episode 168: Return of Bomber Command · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Lee Brimmicombe-Wood returns to the podcast so Bruce Geryk can talk more about bombers and commanding them, in the recently released board game Bomber Command. And unlike last time, we let them talk it all the way through! More on design decisions, simulating the air war and balancing history and play. Plus a detour into […]
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