{"id":3126,"date":"2011-05-12T21:30:59","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=3126"},"modified":"2011-05-12T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:32:16","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-116-creeps-and-towers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/12\/three-moves-ahead-episode-116-creeps-and-towers\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 116 – Creeps and Towers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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Here come the creeps, led by Rob and Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s<\/a> Quintin Smith! Fortunately, they encounter a maze of discussion and towers of topics. Inspired by first-person tower defender Sanctum <\/em>and tower attacker Anomaly: Warzone Earth<\/em>, Quinns and Rob explore how these games change the tower defense formula, and what about that formula needed changing? Are we doing a disservice to a neat mechanic by insisting that it is a genre? Why are we continually drawn in by games we often find shallow and unsatisfying? Is tower defense really about destruction, or is there an under-served creative aspect to these games?<\/p>\n

A lot of games and pieces come up for discussion here, so brace yourself for a link attack.<\/p>\n

Quinns’ Sanctum <\/em>Wot I Think <\/a><\/p>\n

Troy’s reactions<\/a> to Anomaly: Warzone Earth<\/em><\/p>\n

Rob, two years ago, on tower defense games<\/a><\/p>\n

Quinns on Ace of Spades<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

3MA on AI War<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Rob’s “excessively positive” Dungeons <\/em>review<\/a><\/p>\n

The Verdun game Rob couldn’t remember is The Trench<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Kieron Gillen on Warfare: 1917<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Listen here.<\/a>
\nRSS here.<\/a>
\nSubscribe on iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here come the creeps, led by Rob and Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s Quintin Smith! Fortunately, they encounter a maze of discussion and towers of topics. Inspired by first-person tower defender Sanctum and tower attacker Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Quinns and Rob explore how these games change the tower defense formula, and what about that formula needed changing? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"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-Oq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126"}],"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\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3129,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3126\/revisions\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}