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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 249: Pressing Through Mud and Snow

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Mohawk Games' Soren Johnson joins Troy and Bruce to talk about Drive on Moscow, the followup to last year's Battle of the Bulge. Bruce gives some insight from behind the scenes and Soren explains why writing a good AI is a large undertaking.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Good evening. This is Three Moves Ahead, Episode 249, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

0:07.3

And tonight we continue our winter of wargaming with yet another detour through the vast,

0:13.7

barren Eastern Front, full of snow and dead Nazis everywhere. One of our favorite topics

0:19.3

through this winter, because it's minus 20 in Toronto,

0:22.8

and I want evil people to freeze to death too.

0:26.6

Couldn't do this without, of course, our great field marshal, Dr. Bruce Garrick.

0:33.2

Yeah, hello gamers.

0:35.8

And the sixth beetle of three moves ahead, our dear friend for Mohawk games, Sorin Johnson.

0:42.5

Hey, everyone.

0:43.3

Good to be here.

0:44.9

Tonight we are looking at Drive-on Moscow, the follow-up from Shenandoah Studios to their really quite excellent 2012 game Battle of the Bulge.

0:57.9

It follows, has pretty much the same mechanics, but moves to a different setting,

1:02.6

introduces a lot of new space and a few new mechanics here and there to vary things a little bit.

1:10.0

I know that Bruce and Sword have put quite a bit of time into it,

1:13.0

so I would like to talk about what Drive-on-Moscow adds,

1:17.3

whether it builds on or is just simply a new setting for

1:21.0

the mechanics introduced in Battle of the Bulge,

1:24.0

which I was a huge, huge fan of, and I think we all were.

1:27.1

And also maybe look at the lessons that Drive-On Moscow has for designers of iPad games, of war

1:34.8

games, and of people who have a system that they want to expand and make bigger here and there.

1:40.4

So I want to start with you, Soren.

1:42.3

How much time have you put into Drive-on-Moscow?

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