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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 161: Safety in Numbers

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2012

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

As is appropriate for a week where you join a group of podcasting super-friends, the regular panel of Bruce, Troy, Rob, and Julian gets together to discuss co-op gaming. They share old war stories, co-op and learning, what they want from co-op, and how co-op games employ adversarial and story elements. Julian tells a story about collaborative board gaming, Bruce strangles him.

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0:00.0

Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves

0:01.9

Ahead. The official podcast of

0:04.0

Idle Thumbs.

0:05.4

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

0:07.2

No, what?

0:08.7

Not the first. Idle Thumbs, no.

0:09.9

They're just our umbrella organization.

0:13.0

They're the front.

0:14.2

I thought they were the robot overlords.

0:16.2

Are we all pod people now or something?

0:18.4

It would explain their efficiency.

0:20.4

All right. Well, let's get down to business and talk Fire Cry 2.

0:25.4

All the time.

0:27.1

All the time.

0:28.5

We've got the full regular panel here this week, which is fitting because we're all good pals,

0:34.2

and our topic this week is co-op gaming. So why don't we just dive right in and, uh, Troy, this was kind of, this was kind of your idea. Was it? Oh, yeah, probably. I have so many ideas in a day, Rob. I just, you know, lose track of us. Troy, Troy, Troy. You're an idea, man. I'm an idea, man.

0:54.5

If you fund my MMO.

0:56.5

Oh, God. That. There's, we should do a podcast on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, Kickstarter. There's, there's, there's a lot of good fodder. Oh, yeah. There's a lot of sad strategy game kickstaters out there, too. Oh no, that would break my heart too much.

1:10.7

There really are.

1:11.6

There's so many of them that are just like,

1:13.3

I have this great idea for a territory control game, and here's my cardboard prototype, and I only need $6,000 to get a printed in China, and like three people give them $50, and you know they're all related. Oh, man. Yeah. Maybe we this is, maybe we shouldn't do that topic.

1:28.4

I think that would be... Instead, let's talk about being nice to each other. Let's talk about, well, co-op is sometimes being nice. But, yeah, I mean, this was a topic that came to me. We were talking about Wargame European Escalation. I mean, it's something we've talked about and talked around before, and I may have I had the idea I had before that.

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