Three Moves Ahead 209: Desktop to Tabletop

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2013

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Bruce and Troy welcome Paul Rohrbaugh from High Flying Dice Games to the show to talk about what it means to be a desktop wargame publisher? Why do desktop games support greater variety in conflicts? Is there a limit on what can and cannot be done? What does a desktop consumer look like? And stay tuned to the end for a pretty cool wargame story.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead. I am your host, Bruce Garrick. Today, we are joined by one of our founders and regular panelists. Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. That was a very conspiratorial voice there, Bruce.
0:16.3	No, that's my McNeill-Air Report voice. Oh, really? I'm trying? Yes. I did know you had a McNeil-Lair report voice.
0:22.7	Oh, yeah.
0:23.2	That's quite impressive.
0:24.4	Yeah, Robin McNeil. He was my favorite. Wasn't he Canadian? Yes, he was. Excellent. See, there you go. We're great people. You've been in this show for a while, Bruce. I have not, but I'm back
0:35.3	and I have brought with me a guest
0:38.5	A Guest.
0:39.0	Ooh, a guest.
0:40.1	Head honcho of high fly I have not, but I'm back. And I have brought with me a guest.
0:39.1	Ooh, a guest. Head honcho of high-flying dice games and formerly of firefight games and longtime desktop publishing war game Maven, Paul Rorbaugh.
0:52.5	Paul, welcome to the show. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. And anybody who's channeling Canadians is good in my book,
0:58.5	because I love going to Canada. Well, then you and Troy can grab some Labatz blue.
1:06.0	Yes. Oh, God. Yeah. Nobody drinks Labats blue. Oh, I do.
1:11.3	Didn't Labats just get bought by some, I thought they were bought by the Dutch or something?
1:16.2	They're all owned by Belgians now.
1:18.4	Everybody wants a piece of Canada.
1:21.1	Everybody wants, everybody really quietly, stealthily wants to be Canadian.
1:26.7	Troy can lead us in that effort.
1:30.1	So the topic today is desktop publishing of war games.
1:35.4	I thought this would be an interesting topic for several reasons.
1:38.5	One is that we've had several shows about indie computer games and the independent publishing scene
1:48.3	and how developers are able to bring ideas to market that are not generally mass market interest,
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