{"id":3875,"date":"2012-04-28T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=3875"},"modified":"2012-05-20T22:57:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T02:57:37","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-166-strategic-tee-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/28\/three-moves-ahead-episode-166-strategic-tee-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episode 166 &#8211; Strategic Tee Ball"},"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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonshaferondesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Shafer<\/a> joins Rob, Troy, and Julian to talk about challenge in strategy games. What kind of challenges do we want from strategy games, and how does it get botched? Why are people still surprised when AI opponents aren&#8217;t very clever? Why are they so hesitant to take on multiplayer? What&#8217;s the difference between good scenario design and unfair scenario design? How amazing is Unity of Command? Seriously, you guys.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/threemovesahead\/ThreeMovesAhead166.mp3\">Listen here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/forums\/register.php\" target=\"_blank\">Register at Idle Thumbs<\/a> then join us in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/forums\/topic\/7726-episode-166-strategic-tee-ball\/\" target=\"_blank\">the episode thread<\/a>! <em>(In coming weeks, all discussion will be over there and podcast posts will be closed to comments.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><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>Jon Shafer joins Rob, Troy, and Julian to talk about challenge in strategy games. What kind of challenges do we want from strategy games, and how does it get botched? Why are people still surprised when AI opponents aren&#8217;t very clever? Why are they so hesitant to take on multiplayer? What&#8217;s the difference between good [&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-10v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875"}],"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=3875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3875\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}