{"id":2159,"date":"2010-02-10T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T17:23:30","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-51-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/10\/three-moves-ahead-episode-51-science-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 51 &#8211; Science and Technology"},"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>Troy is joined by Tom, Bruce and Rob as they counter December&#8217;s religion show with a talk about how strategy games treat science. How do you link technology to other game mechanics? Is there a risk of runaway games if you emphasize science too much? Dead ends, blind research, science of observation and whether you can actually have hard science in a strategy game.<\/p>\n<p>And Bruce replies to comments about his thoughts on <em>Hearts of Iron 3&#8217;s<\/em> infantry weapon research model.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.libsyn.com\/media\/threemovesahead\/ThreeMovesAhead051.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.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306810115?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0306810115\">Heisenberg&#8217;s War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0306810115\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/07\/07\/three-moves-ahead-episode-20\/\">Three Moves Ahead Episode 20 on The Snowball Effect in Game Design<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/19990429015250\/http:\/\/www.next-generation.com\/jsmid\/news\/5827.html\">Tom and Miriam Sitting in a Tree<\/a> (Wayback Machine &#8211; very slow)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy is joined by Tom, Bruce and Rob as they counter December&#8217;s religion show with a talk about how strategy games treat science. How do you link technology to other game mechanics? Is there a risk of runaway games if you emphasize science too much? Dead ends, blind research, science of observation and whether you [&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":[126,127],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-yP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}