{"id":1741,"date":"2009-08-25T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T19:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2009-08-25T14:56:36","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T19:56:36","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-27-mark-h-walker-and-lock-n-load","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/25\/three-moves-ahead-episode-27-mark-h-walker-and-lock-n-load\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 27 &#8211; Mark H. Walker and Lock N Load"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/three-moves-ahead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img3.imageshack.us\/img3\/5442\/itunescounters.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMovesAhead\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The panel welcomes Mark H. Walker to the round table for a bruising discussion of his upcoming squad based wargame <em>Lock N Load: Heroes of Stalingrad<\/em>. Bruce and Julian dominate an unusually combative conversation, which only shows how much we care. What is the place of narrative in war games? Do designers overestimate how intuitive their designs are? <\/p>\n<p>Apologies for the sound quality here. In spite of a perfect sound test earlier in the day, Mark&#8217;s satellite internet was not up to the task later that night so he had to phone in. Then the recording somehow made Troy&#8217;s comments appear three seconds later than they actually happened, making editing a real pain in the ass and borking the <em>Dominions 3<\/em> discussion altogether. (Short version, Bruce didn&#8217;t send his turn but had noticed he was attacked by Julian&#8217;s deer men.) We&#8217;ll make up for it next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/threemovesahead\/ThreeMovesAhead027.mp3\">Listen here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/threemovesahead.libsyn.com\/rss\">RSS here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=307176617\">Subscribe on iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.locknloadgame.com\/\">Lock N Load<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/matrixgames.com\/\">Matrix Games<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The panel welcomes Mark H. Walker to the round table for a bruising discussion of his upcoming squad based wargame Lock N Load: Heroes of Stalingrad. Bruce and Julian dominate an unusually combative conversation, which only shows how much we care. What is the place of narrative in war games? Do designers overestimate how intuitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,126,127,99],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-s5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1743,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741\/revisions\/1743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}