Ubisoft’s Michael de Plater joins us for a fanboy grilling from Tom Chick. Why EndWar worked, its relative success and why Bruce never got to actually play EndWar for very long. Apologies in advance for Michael’s sound. His plug-in mic was not working for some reason so he talked to his laptop. Through a tin […]
Three Moves Ahead Episode 34 – The EndWar show
October 13th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead, Ubisoft
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SimMars?
October 13th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Industry, Maxis
I love lost games. I’ve written before about a few of them – Pantheon, Dinosaurs, Zulu Wars… So the recent “discovery” of a SimMars being developed by Maxis around the time that The Sims became job one is very cool. The domination of The Sims as a franchise and cash cow has a real risk […]
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Republic of Rome
October 10th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Board Games
This is Bruce’s big idea, and I couldn’t help but get swept up in his mania. Regular listeners/readers probably know that it’s not common for Dr. Geryk to get energized in favor of anything post-Reagan, so his recent call for the two of us to conscript friends/colleagues and the like for a game of the […]
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The CGM Archives
October 7th, 2009 · 4 Comments · CGM
It took the new blog from my former colleague Tiffany Martin to point out how much stuff is in the Computer Magazine Online Archive. The default search engine is terrible, and it takes a few tricks to find what’s there. But it does mean I will soon be adding links to my CGM articles listed […]
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Three Moves Ahead 33 — A Lecture from Dr. Geryk
October 6th, 2009 · 26 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Sometimes Bruce misses a show he really needs to be on – like the one where we pronounced the death of the Dominions 3 game. This week, Dr. Geryk won’t give up and he makes a compelling argument along the way. Bruce admits to a new way of thinking about games, we talk about reviving […]
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Three Moves Ahead 32 – 45 minutes of cold open
September 29th, 2009 · 14 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
So what do you do when your guest doesn’t show and your schedule for the rest of the week is shot to hell? You go ahead, press record and make it up as you go along. A beloved friend of the show is on his deathbed and no doctor is in sight to save it. […]
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