Three Moves Ahead 171: Fun with 3MA

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2012

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Tom Chick, SMG studios designer David Heron, and Jon Shafer join Rob to reflect on their various issues with "fun" and how we relate to games. It's a rambling discussion about what we want from games, how we want to talk about them, and whether enjoyment is possible without fun.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.7	The night, we're joined by our old friend and quarter three blogger Tom Chick. Tom, thanks for coming back to the show. Thank you for having me. I'm a little nervous about the people we have on today because I feel outclassed. So why don't you explain who they are and I'll tell you while I'm nervous in a second. Okay.
0:24.2	So we also welcome back, our friend, Star Doc designer, John Schaefer.
0:33.9	John, welcome to the show, and I'm, again, really sorry about throwing you to the ground last weekend and punching you.
0:35.2	Hi, Rob.
0:36.9	Yeah, it's fine. You know, you lost miserably at Wizwar, so it's only fair.
0:40.5	Okay, well, I'm glad we could exercise that demon with a spirited game of joust.
0:47.0	And finally, we welcome first-time guest, David Heron, a designer at SMG Studios,
0:52.3	and one with quite a bit of experience in both card games and video game development.
0:57.0	David, welcome to the show.
0:58.5	Hi, thanks for having me. I've been looking forward to finally joining a conversation.
1:04.7	All right, so Tom, why do you feel outclassed?
1:08.6	Okay, so these two guys have like serious, like, game design know-how.
1:13.1	You have the real molyfluous, like, authoritative voice.
1:17.3	I kind of feel like a guy coming to a shooting range with a slingshot,
1:21.5	and you guys get assault rifles, and it's just enough fair.
1:25.4	You are far too modest after that Dragon's Dogma review.
1:29.8	We all know you're packing some pretty serious heat.
1:33.4	That's an RPG.
1:34.5	What are you doing reading about that, Rob Zakene?
1:36.8	Well, it was getting linked around it.
1:38.7	I got to say, it was an inspired can see, basically reviewing a game by listing all the
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