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

With me today are two of my regular panel, first, ThreeMA founder, and Evolve PR Maven. Troy, Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. I'm a PR Maven now. And a strategy Maven. I barely have any clue what I'm doing half a time. Next week's going to be absolutely killer. But yes, I'm happy to be here. Your press releases have gotten really good, Troy, like noticeably better.

Yeah, I'm opening them now.

I'll screw you.

And I'm also joined by freelance writer Julian Rabbit Murdoch.

Julian, welcome to the show.

I seem to have most of my voice back too, so.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

You are now one of the few Rabbit Khan survivors who can speak normally.

Yes.

And we're also joined by Gas Powered Games Head and designer of Total Annihilation Supreme Commander, Dungeon Siege, Chris Taylor.

Thank you.

You know, at the moment, it's a bit of a challenging time for Gas Powered Games,

and you have a Kickstarter ongoing for a new game and sort of RTS MOBA combination that is currently, you know, that's called

Wildman.

And so it also seemed just like good time to finally do a topic that, you know, I've long wanted

to do for this show, which is, you know, talk about your career as a strategy designer.

When I think back on, you know, my past with the, you know, the RTS genre, you know, it's kind of weird.

When I look back on it, I tend to sort of define it by contributions from, you know, studios like, you know, in the early days, Westwood and Blizzard, and then Blizzard and

Relic. But, you know, when I really reflect on what I've probably spent, you know, a ton of time

playing and enjoying consistently, you know, for like 15 years now, you know, your games are actually,

I think, secretly my favorite RTSs, if I'm, you know, if I'm being completely honest.

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