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

On today's show, I'm joined once again by Three Moves Ahead founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, all.

We also welcome our friend, freelance writer Fraser Brown.

Hello.

So, we talked about a fair number of RTS games of late, and quite a few over the course of this year.

But, you know, Fraser, Troy, lately I've been

feeling a little concerned for the health of the genre. And I should be clear, I'm talking

mostly about what I consider the sort of the traditional RTS, right, where you build, you know,

big armies, lots of guys, and go tear up a base. And so while there's exciting sort of new things happening in the space,

especially with a game like Soren Johnson's Offworld Trading Company,

you know, in the wake of active aggression and sort of observing a Starcraft scene

whose future seems a little bit in doubt.

I just, I, I'm starting to get a little concerned that, you know, in a few years' time,

this genre that's kind of been a staple of the show, a staple of the strategy space,

might not be around as we've known it for the past like 15, 20 years.

And I'm curious if you guys have any sort of misgivings yourselves. I'm just surprised that you're concerned now, because we probably have more RTSs

that came out this year than we have in the last, you know, five years. We had, you know,

planetary annihilation, the expansion. We had gray goo, which was quite an interesting and outstanding.

I thought RTS, we had active aggression.

We have a couple of new things coming from Star Doc in the next few months that they're publishing,

one they're developing and one that they're publishing.

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