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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 182: Three's a Crowdsourcing

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2012

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Bruce, Troy, and Rob discuss the changing landscape of game financing, or at least they try to. The end up discussing Kickstarter almost exclusively, the return of Tom vs. Bruce, and their feelings of optimism about what crowd-funding can mean. Troy douses them with the cold water of reality. They also contemplate the strange meta-game of Kickstarters, and Ian Bogost's skepticism. Nobody can pronounce OUYA.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney.

0:03.6

First, we welcome our founder and resident Canadian. Troy Goodfellow.

0:06.9

Troy, welcome to the show.

0:08.4

Glad of you back. It's been a month.

0:10.3

And for some of us, it's been even longer.

0:13.2

We finally get to welcome back our friend and TV news superstar, Doc Hollywood himself, Bruce Garrick.

0:19.6

Bruce, welcome back to the show.

0:21.6

Hello gamers.

0:24.1

And now I just remembered why we didn't invite him back for so long.

0:27.9

That never stops being creepy.

0:30.2

God.

0:31.1

What can I say?

0:32.0

That's true representation of the state of gaming today.

0:37.7

So we've gathered together to talk about crowdfunding, free-to-play, alternate release channels,

0:44.4

but let's be honest, this show will inevitably be called the Kickstarter show.

0:49.4

In the past year, we've seen numerous Kickstarter projects launch within the gaming community,

0:53.6

and it seems like a good time to talk about how alternate funding methods are kind of changing strategy gaming.

0:59.8

So first I thought we'd kick it over to Bruce as the only guy here who's actually kickstarted something.

1:05.2

Bruce and our friend Tom Chick recently restarted the Tom versus Bruce column via Kickstarter, and Bruce, I'd like you to talk

1:13.2

through that process a little bit.

1:15.8

Okay, well, basically the process that we had was first get a Kickstarter, and then step

1:23.7

two was question mark, and step three was profit, and that worked out just fine the the whole point

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