Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead and I'm your host Rob Zakney.

With me for what already promises to be a disaster of a show from Rock Paper Shotgun, Quentin Smith. Quins, thank you for coming to help salvage this. It is a pleasure to be here. I don't know what you do if you were all alone. I suppose you'd be talking to yourself and that would be awful. It's only a matter of time before we have a show like that if things keep up the way they are.

But I'm glad you could make it at least. Troy Goodfellow is scheduled to be here, but apparently he had theater tickets. And so I guess we know where his priorities are, listeners. Well, I suppose. Is Troy a fan of Tower Defense? You know, I'm not sure, I'm not sure that he is,

but recently he wrote a piece on Anomily Warzone Earth

that was very complimentary,

and that's one of the things that caught my attention

is that Troy's not someone I consider a big tower defense fan,

but here was a game that really grabbed his fancy,

and that got me thinking, you know, between that and your what I think on Sanctum, it got me interested in the subject. Yeah, well, it is, it is a funny one because, I mean, you mentioned wanting to do a piece on this because, you know, partially because Tower Defense has kind of a bad name. and I think it's quite clear where that comes from,

because, you know, it is a genre with its roots in freeware and, you know, sort of casual browser games.

But, you know, I was thinking that perhaps the hurdle that strategy gamers need to get over

is to stop thinking of it as a genre and start thinking of it just as a mechanic, you know,

and Warzone, you know, anomaly Warzone Earth kind of proves that, I think, as does Sanctum.

Right, now, I kind of wanted to start with Sanctum because it's such an interesting game.

I was just playing it today before the show, you know, I haven't had a chance to get to it until just now.

So for listeners who aren't familiar with it, it's a first-person

tower defense game. And, Quinn, do you want to explain a bit of how it works and how it sort of

ramps up? Sure. Yeah, it's an interesting one. So it's not quite necessarily just a tower defense game

wherein you build towers and also a first person game, a first person shooter, where you're

expected to help those towers along with a section of guns because the two sides of the game

actually meld together quite nicely because those towers that you're building, they're actually

your walkways on which you're expected to sort of walk around and shoot down at enemies.

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