We were on a good run and it couldn’t last forever. A pleasant light little seasonal chat about how to cope with the gaming constraints of visiting our families went off the rails when we realized that that topic would only last us about forty minutes. I made the mistake of pushing us forward […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 94: Home for the Holidays
December 9th, 2010 · 9 Comments · Board Games, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 93: Theme, Mechanics and Meaning
December 3rd, 2010 · 10 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
GWJ’s Lara Crigger and JTS’s Todd Brakke join Troy and special guest Soren Johnson in a wide ranging talk about how how theme and mechanics work together or fight each other. What is Left for Dead really about? Why are themes so important to Lara? How do mechanics translate meaning? Why is Civilization so […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 92: Classic Game Analysis – X-Com
November 23rd, 2010 · 23 Comments · Design, Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
PCGamer’s Dan Stapleton joins Troy, Rob and Bruce to talk about what made 1994’s X-Com one of the best strategy/tactics games ever made. Tension, atmosphere, UI, level blending, real time v turn baed and indie efforts to bring the magic back. Listen here. RSS here. Subscribe on iTunes. Hideous UK Box Art Xenonauts UFO: […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 91: Licensed Behavior
November 16th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
Troy almost fires Rob and Julian on this episode as a conversation about licensed strategy games. Bruce Geryk holds forth on why War of the Rings is like Stratomatic Baseball, Julian sings of Starfleet Battles and Rob talks about his experiences in another board game. What makes a license succeed or fail? Can either […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 90: Order, Order
November 9th, 2010 · 16 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
News that a genetic algorithm has cracked the Starcraft code prompts Troy to ask the panel about the place of build orders and in-stone strategies in the genre. Julian talks about chess and Hoard, Rob talks about the beauty of a game that opens up and Troy sucks at everything. Also news on the […]
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Three Moves Ahead Episode 89: Elections and Campaigning
November 4th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Podcast, Three Moves Ahead
No one was in much of a mood to talk about anything this week, but we did it anyway and it was almost topical. Gameshark’s Bill Abner joins Troy and Rob for a rambling chat about election games they’ve played, election games they haven’t played and whether the dream election game they imagine is […]
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