Three Moves Ahead 20: Episode 20

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2009

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The panel returns to game design territory with a discussion of the problem of runaway winners in strategy games. Can you design around it? Should you? How do you keep a game interesting for everyone?Also, a progress report on our Dominions 3 game.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flastersteel.com.
0:07.2	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two of my usual panelists.
0:12.8	We have freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:14.7	Hello.
0:15.7	Do we still count Bruce as a regular?
0:17.7	Or is he missed it up now that he's like only titularly irregularly
0:22.4	we will never fire Bruce Garrick
0:24.5	his job to secure
0:28.0	as a Supreme Court justice
0:29.3	a freelance writer Tom Chick
0:32.7	I have a question Troy
0:35.4	can I get you a coffee
0:37.4	yes so if Bruce is a I have a question, Troy. Yep. Can I get you a coffee?
0:38.1	Yes.
0:44.1	So if Bruce is the Supreme Court Justice, are we... That's a terrifying thought.
0:45.8	Yeah, are we like interns in a Senate office, or where does that put us?
0:50.7	I'm wondering.
0:51.5	I think you're an appeals court justice, and I think...
0:55.0	I'm a reporter.
0:57.6	Julian's a bailiff or a county sheriff or something.
1:01.3	I want that job. That's way better.
1:04.0	It is way cooler. You want to be the guy with the gun.
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