Three Moves Ahead 192: Fallen Enchantress with Derek Paxton

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2012

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Derek Paxton comes back to the show to talk with Tom, Rob, Bruce, and Troy about Fallen Enchantress, his massive revision of 2010's Elemental: War of Magic. He explains how he started reshaping Elemental, and how the project grew along the way. Tom is already a big fan, and even suggests that Fallen Enchantress may be close to Master of Magic-levels of greatness. Rob and Troy are a bit more reserved, and some arguments break out over diplomacy, the early game, and the tactical combat. Derek details his thinking on each of those points, and goes a long way to explaining why Fallen Enchantress works the way it does.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney.
0:03.3	Tonight we have two of a regular panel, founder Troy Goodfellow, and staff surgeon, Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:09.6	Hi, everyone.
0:11.2	Hey, hello, gamers. How great are all games? Aren't they great?
0:15.3	That's what I like to hear. I like that positivity. Just keep giving us that, Bruce.
0:20.0	Here we go. No more negativity from you. None. We also welcome back our old friend and no stranger to negativity. Quarter to three is Tom Check. I give all games a 7.2. It's good, safe score, responsible. No, it's not. That's slamming it. That's like a serious hardcore slam. That means you hate it.
0:38.2	7.2. That's right. I'm sticking by that. I'm very confused, by the way, about this game. I can't wait to hear from the guy who you're about to introduce because I don't know about you guys. I keep wanting to call this game something about a princess. I want to call it like fallen princess or enchanted princess. That's what I actually don't keep calling this.
0:55.4	Yeah, it should have, like, for some reason, somewhere over the development. I want to call it like Fallen Princess or Enchanted Princess. That's what I accidentally keep calling this.
0:55.0	Yeah, it should have like for some reason somewhere over the development cycle, I got in my head that there was a princess involved.
1:01.0	And I want to know where that came from and why there isn't actually a princess.
1:05.0	Or the princess, Tom.
1:07.0	Isn't it subtitled like Fallenchantress, Colan, The Last Starfighter?
1:12.3	We did sneak a lavender pony in the last patch for one of the members of the player community.
1:18.6	So I guess you could almost get there.
1:20.6	You could almost make your princess game if you wanted to.
1:24.3	I like that.
1:24.9	Hey, who was that, Rob?
1:26.0	That is tonight's guest, Derek Paxton,
1:27.8	of Star Dock and lead designer of the recently released, uh, oh, God.
1:33.4	Enchanted Princess. Twilight. Oh, geez.
1:39.8	Fallen enchantress. Yes, I could just imagine Stephanie cringing somewhere, but...
1:45.5	Oh my God, I'm so glad she's not here to babysit this chat.
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