Three Moves Ahead 269: Crisis Management

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2014

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Game Designer Chris King joins Rob and Troy to talk about crisis management and political tension in video games. In this anniversary year of World War I it's only fitting to discuss the systems and mechanics that create the powder kegs that eventually spawn global conflict. It's also never a bad time to talk about Victoria 2.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakney. Joining me tonight, we have Paradox Schill and podcaster extraordinaire, Troy Goodfellow. Troy, welcome to the show. So this week, I'm Paradox Schill, and other weeks I'm founder of Three Moves Ahead. That's nice to know exactly how you feel about me this week. You got to change it up You got to change it up. It keeps you on your toes.
0:22.5	It really does. It's nice to have the introduction shift a bit. It is good to be here on a very sunny,
0:27.9	but still cool Tuesday afternoon. I am so envious of you saying that right now because I am sitting
0:35.1	here in basically a swamp.
0:42.5	Boston has turned into a summertime hellscape from which I cannot escape.
0:45.9	So congratulations on being Canadian.
0:47.9	Congratulations on still being in civilization.
0:55.9	Anyway, we welcome our old friend Chris King of Crispin Games and the game designer of Victoria 2.
0:56.9	Chris, welcome to the show.
0:58.5	Yeah, thank you very much, Rob.
0:59.2	Good evening, everyone.
1:09.1	Today we're going to be talking about crisis diplomacy and crisis management and sort of escalating tensions in international relations in video games.
1:14.4	And kind of this is kind of a, this is kind of setting up what we're going to be doing for at least some of the month of August for the centennial of World War I.
1:17.6	We're going to be looking at how events related to World War I are handled in games.
1:22.3	We'll probably be trying to look at some particularly good games that touch on that subject.
1:27.3	But since this is, since things really started rolling in July of 1914, this seems a good
1:33.0	time to sort of revisit the July crisis and sort of talk about how games approach things
1:38.6	like, you know, complex, you know, balances of power and escalating problems in international
1:43.7	relations because, you know, we spend a lot escalating problems in international relations because, you know,
1:45.9	we spend a lot of time talking about diplomacy on this show, and diplomacy is handled in a lot of
1:52.5	different strategy games, but what you don't see quite as much, I think, is some of those really
1:57.6	interesting great power dynamics that kind of make international relations history so interesting to read.
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