Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zagney. On tonight's show,

we welcome Three Moves A Head founder, Troy Goodfellow. It is great to be back. It's been about a month, I think, so I kind of missed it. I was getting used to doing it for a while. We also welcome back, our friend Paul Dean, of the Shut Up and Sit Down Show. Hi, thank you for having me again. Always good to have you. Tonight we take a look at our Mello, a new fantasy strategy game from League of Geeks.

It's a game I League of Geeks.

It's a game I've had my eye on since I first heard about it last year when developer Trent Custer's told me it was an attempt to make a living board game.

My first thought was that he was making Jumanji, but I've since discovered that this is tragically not the case.

Paul, this board game, PC game hybrid seems like it's in your wheelhouse.

What is Armello and what separates it from other fantasy strategy games?

Armello is, on the surface of it, it's very board game.

It's this fantasy game about a corrupt king who is slowly sort of it, it's very board gamey. It's this fantasy game about a corrupt king who is

slowly sort of dying or rotting away. And you have four players, and I think it's always

four players, whether you're, you know, all actual humans playing the game or AI. And it's

basically a, what's the best way of describing it?

There's multiple ways to succeed.

You can either find a way to heal the king

or you can find a way to sort of succeed the king

and step into his place by deposing him.

But there are various ways of doing that.

It's like a board game, I suppose.

It has hex tiles.

It has cards that you play, but it all sort of runs on your computer,

partly because League of Geeks told me ages and ages ago in an interview

that it does actually function as a real-world board game,

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