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

Join me tonight is our elite irregular panelist, Bruce Garrick.

Hello to all of the gaming people in their talkings.

I think you've flub that one a little bit, Bruce.

I think you've had better hello gamers.

Ah, I'm sorry.

And we also welcome back our friend, senior game designer at Wright Games Now, Ananda Gupta. Ananda, welcome to the show. Thanks for having it, guys. I appreciate it. Before we get started, Ananda, I'm just curious. Is there a little part of you that wishes you were working on XCOM too, now that they're doing sort of a weird insurgency thing? Is that, because that seems like it such so in your wheelhouse when i heard about it i was like oh my goodness this this seems like a perfect

marriage well i spent a long time working on xcom 2 i uh i was working on xcom 2 for almost two years so

uh so so i did uh there's there's a lot of my heart and soul in xcom 2 and i'm really

looking forward to playing it uh as it when it comes out this year.

Well, I have a question then.

Or is there a part of you that wishes you were working on computer Pax Britannica?

There is a part of me that wishes that, too.

So I've actually been listening to a lot.

In Maryland, when I was still in Maryland, I commuted to work, and I listened to a lot of 19th century history courses, especially those.

So from the teaching company, and there's one professor at the teaching company, Professor Patrick Alitt, who teaches, I think, at Emory, I want to say.

And he has just this array of wonderful courses about the 19th century. So I listened to his Industrial Revolution course and his British Empire course. And I've got, you know, we're waiting on the Victorian one, but he has one all, just all about the society and culture of Victorian England. And, and I need, and so, like, that definitely stoked within me the desire to do a...

To do something set in that period.

I'm thinking about a board game along those lines as well, but that'll have to wait till after Imperial Struggle's done.

Okay.

So as far as tonight goes, we have kind of a...

We have kind of a vague topic to start out with, because it basically

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