Three Moves Ahead 136: Franchises and Fumbles

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Strategy, Strategy Games, War, Games & Hobbies, War Games, Games, Video Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2011

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Soren Johnson quits in a huff and leaves podcasting so he can try his hand at making games. But first, Soren, Rob, Julian, and Troy talk about franchises and how they develop, or don't. Rob tries to make the case for considering Paradox-developed games as a single franchise, but Troy explains why that doesn't work. Soren talks about the Civilization series, and why it has evolved the way it has. The panel considers franchise exploitation, and the Blizzard model.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.3	With me tonight are my regular summer panel, led by 3MA founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:07.8	Good evening, everyone.
0:09.3	We're also joined tonight by the chronically overworked Julian Murdoch.
0:13.0	Well, not that overworked, but I'm here.
0:15.8	And finally, we welcome once again our summer intern, Sorin Johnson.
0:19.9	Soren,
0:22.9	this coffee isn't going to make itself.
0:25.4	I can't I can't stand this.
0:27.4	You guys are too tough.
0:30.2	He's going to quit. He's going to
0:31.7	quit. He's going to find a better gig.
0:33.1	I can't take this any longer.
0:34.6	There's other people who will put me to work, you know.
0:36.8	Remember, Sean, it is all. It is all for college credit. Well, he's already got what he needs, actually. I actually wrote a course evaluation, and I've been signing a recommendation for, like, weeks. I don't even know where this stuff is going. All right. I'm out of here, then. See you. Well, not yet. I haven't sent off the course evaluation yet.
0:59.0	But yeah, so I do hope wherever you land soren it works out well for you and if it doesn't,
1:05.0	you know, we're always ready to take on another unpaid intern.
1:09.0	And it's also not our fault.
1:12.8	Not entirely our fault.
1:16.9	Well, I never quite thought I could make a career out of this, so we'll see.
1:21.6	So another podcaster is crossing over to development.
1:26.8	It's an old story by now, huh?
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