{"id":4227,"date":"2013-02-06T21:14:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=4227"},"modified":"2013-02-06T21:14:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T02:14:34","slug":"three-moves-ahead-episode-203-and-204-the-kickstarter-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/06\/three-moves-ahead-episode-203-and-204-the-kickstarter-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Moves Ahead Episodes 203 and 204: The Kickstarter Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A trip to Iceland prevented me from posting last week, so I’ll take this chance to remind people that watch this space that we did a Classic Game Analysis of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander with Chris Taylor from Gas Powered Games<\/a>. The conversation, naturally, turned to his struggling Kickstarter<\/a>, and Rob wrote a great summary of the studio’s situation, recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can listen to that show directly from her<\/a>e, and discuss it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, we uploaded our conversation with our good friend Jon Shafer. Though the show topic was map evolution, since the topic was inspired by his new game, At the Gates<\/em>we ended up talking a lot about it<\/a>. His Kickstarter, with a more modest goal than Taylor’s<\/a>, is going to be a success, in all likelihood.<\/p>\n

You can listen to Episode 204 here<\/a>, and discuss it on the Idle Thumbs forum here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I get a lot of Kickstarter emails and requests – many from people with good ideas or interesting ideas – but we are not a Kickstarter podcast and don’t want to be a place that just promotes “maybe this will get finished” games. In these cases, of course, the developers have track records that demonstrate they can deliver a product, and both are fascinating people for other reasons than the fact they are Kickstarting stuff. (Taylor has long been one of my favorite devs to watch give a speech, and Shafer – a frequent guest, often at the last minute – will be guaranteed our support in one way or another just like Vic Davis will always be invited to talk about his new games. 3MA has a corporate culture of its own.)<\/p>\n

So don’t expect us to do a lot more Kickstarter shows unless we know the developer or have easy access to them and there is a hook for a good show.<\/p>\n

In any case, they were great conversations and I encourage you to listen to them. <\/p>\n

(Shafer’s show sort of breaks my conflict rules since my company played a small part in the promotion of his announcement by doing a mass mailing and some editing for him, but I am more contaminated by being his friend than by being someone that will see a very tiny amount of money funneled my way. Consider this a disclaimer.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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