Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. We're a little shorthanded tonight as the annual Rabbit Con plague has stolen Julian's voice, and Bruce is enjoying a belated honeymoon with Tom Chick. But at least 3MA founder and sporadic flash of steel blogger, Troy Goodfell has joined me here in the 3MA bunker. Hey, I got two posts up this week. That one had to with the podcast, but posted another one today. So we're doing all right. Yeah, damn right. It's like a regular thing now. I'm going to try, I promised last year. I'm going to try to do one a week, but I'm going to try to actually try for more than that. But, yeah, sporadic, and I am always happy to be here.

And, of course, we also welcome back our friend and Conifer Games designer, John Schaefer.

John, welcome back to the show.

Hey, guys, thanks. It's great to be back on, especially today.

Why Conifer?

Should we explain how we're talking about?

All right, I suppose I'll do that part since Rob was trying to set me up there.

So, for people who haven't seen the news yet, I've actually left to found my own game development studio.

And it's named Conifer Games.

So Rob is asking why I chose that name. I don't consider it the coolest tree.

What do you consider the coolest tree?

We're going to get back to that later.

The sycamore, but be that as it may.

So why Conifer, John, of all the names you could have named your company?

You only get one shot at this. And you went for Conifer.

Yes.

Well, you mentioned out of all the names,

and if you actually go through all the trademarks,

there's basically like 12 left in the entire world.

That's it.

No.

So there were a couple things that went into that.

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