{"id":3197,"date":"2011-06-15T23:40:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2011-06-15T23:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T04:40:17","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-121-pride-of-nations-and-philippe-thibaut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/15\/three-moves-ahead-episode-121-pride-of-nations-and-philippe-thibaut\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 121 &#8211; Pride of Nations and Philippe Thibaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/three-moves-ahead\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img3.imageshack.us\/img3\/5442\/itunescounters.jpg\" alt=\"ThreeMovesAhead\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Paradox France&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ageod.com\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Philippe Thibaut<\/a> and GWJ&#8217;s Erik Hanson colonize 3MA this week to talk about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prideofnationsgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pride of Nations<\/em><\/a>, Paradox France&#8217;s new grand-strategy game of imperialism. Erik and Rob are intrigued by <em>Pride&#8217;s <\/em>cynical view of colonial competition and its novel mechanics. Philippe explains the game&#8217;s origins and how it is at once a departure for Paradox France and a natural extension of their work as AGEOD. The <em>Victoria II <\/em>comparison comes up for discussion, and Erik and Philippe discuss the game design challenges of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/threemovesahead\/ThreeMovesAhead121.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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradox France&#8217;s Philippe Thibaut and GWJ&#8217;s Erik Hanson colonize 3MA this week to talk about Pride of Nations, Paradox France&#8217;s new grand-strategy game of imperialism. Erik and Rob are intrigued by Pride&#8217;s cynical view of colonial competition and its novel mechanics. Philippe explains the game&#8217;s origins and how it is at once a departure for [&hellip;]<\/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-Pz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197"}],"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=3197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3197\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}