{"id":2338,"date":"2010-04-07T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T16:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2010-04-07T15:33:59","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:33:59","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-59-distant-worlds-space-is-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/07\/three-moves-ahead-episode-59-distant-worlds-space-is-big\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 59: Distant Worlds – Space is Big"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ThreeMovesAhead\"<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Troy, Tom and Rob talk about Code Force’s Distant Worlds<\/em>, a 4x Space RTS that tries to tackle the challenge of ceding control. How can a game get past player paranoia about letting the AI handle things? When does a player choose to intervene? How can the AI failure at basic tasks undermine your confidence in everything else? Why and when does Distant Worlds<\/em> work?<\/p>\n

Also, last chance to win one of two copies of Making History<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Listen here.<\/a>
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My first crack at the virtual viceroy problem<\/a>
\nTom discovers he has spice at Fidgit<\/a>
\nDistant Worlds<\/em> at Matrix Games<\/a>
\nBe Tom’s We Rule friend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Troy, Tom and Rob talk about Code Force’s Distant Worlds, a 4x Space RTS that tries to tackle the challenge of ceding control. How can a game get past player paranoia about letting the AI handle things? When does a player choose to intervene? How can the AI failure at basic tasks undermine your confidence […]<\/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":[3,126,71,127],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-BI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338"}],"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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}