One guest cancels, but his shoes are ably filled by Gameshark’s Todd Brakke as Troy, Julian and Rob hold forth on the game that has already eaten Troy’s life – and he has to keep writing about it for at least another month. Listen as the team talks about their favorite innovations in Civ […]
Entries Tagged as 'Developers'
Three Moves Ahead Episode 84: Civilization V with Todd Brakke
September 30th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Firaxis, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Civilization 5, AI and Scoring Games
September 22nd, 2010 · 50 Comments · Firaxis, Gameshark, Review
In case you missed it, my Civ 5 review is now up at Gameshark. Some very intelligent readers and friends are taking the “not an A” score as an indictment of the game. Considering that all of the early reviews were total and complete raves (early rave reviews for a major franchise! shocking!), this is […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 81: Elemental Post Mortem with Brad Wardell
September 8th, 2010 · 34 Comments · Podcast, Stardock, Three Moves Ahead
A terrible launch of a game I wanted to love turns what should have been a “WOW” show into another opportunity for Brad Wardell to explain how Stardock screwed up. Listen how imperfect QA practices, overconfidence, groupthink and not taking every beta crash report seriously turned one of the year’s most anticipated new IPs […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 79: Victoria 2
August 25th, 2010 · 20 Comments · Paradox, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Rob Zacny’s sound goes in and out, but when it works you can hear him, Troy and Julian talk about the latest grand strategy game from Paradox. Why does it make Julian angry? Do you have to force the politics to make them interesting? What does the game get right and wrong about the […]
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The Sims and Roleplaying
July 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Escapist, Maxis, RPGs
You can read my new article on The Sims over at the Escapist – the first thing I have written there in a long time. As always, any comments about the article itself should be posted over there if you have an account. That way people know you are reading it.
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The Return of CivAnon
June 22nd, 2010 · 9 Comments · Firaxis, Industry
I loved this marketing campaign when 2k and Firaxis did it for Civilization 4. Happy to see it is back
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