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Three Moves Ahead 332: Chaos Reborn

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2015

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week Rob, Bruce, and Troy "I'm not playing unless I can summon a unicorn" Goodfellow discuss Chaos Reborn. In 1985, game designer Julian Gollop released Chaos: The Battle of Wizards for the ZX Spectrum. He would later go on to be the designer of the venerable XCOM series. Chaos Reborn is a new game in the tactical gaming space made possible by a successful Kickstarter campaign.

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0:00.0

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

0:03.9

Joining me tonight, we have Three Moves Ahead founder Troy Goodfellow.

0:07.3

Good evening, you know.

0:08.7

We also are joined by our elite irregular panelists, Bruce Garrick.

0:13.3

Hello gamers.

0:15.1

And tonight, we are discussing a topic chosen by you.

0:18.5

Snapshot Games Chaos Were Born from ex-com creator Julian Gallup

0:22.5

narrowly won a hotly contested voting battle between it and Galsive 3, and our backers

0:32.1

chose Chaos Reborn for our next show topic. So we're going to be talking about this rather odd little wizard turnbate, wizard combat turn-based tactical game.

0:44.7

And, you know, Bruce, let's start with you.

0:48.8

What do you make of this game at first glance?

0:51.9

Gosh, I don't know what to, I didn't know what to make of it, except it, and it was Julian

0:55.1

Gallup, so I was like, well, this has got to be good.

0:57.0

And I was right.

0:58.8

But gosh, it's so interesting how games that have this sort of lineage, you know, Julian

1:06.9

Gallup is obviously the creator of X-com for those who don't know.

1:10.0

I'm sure all of our, most of our listeners do.

1:12.9

But then he also created this game chaos a long time ago. Gosh, when did it come out?

1:19.9

Chaos was, I should have had this before I, before I opened my mouth, but in any case, he also did Laser Squad,

1:29.1

Laser Squad Nemesis. Julian Gallup is kind of the, I feel like he's the godfather of

1:35.1

of single, single man, tactical, turn-based showdowns. And, and this is the perfect kind of game that i would expect to uh... you know be

1:48.3

born from a board game which is what he actually did

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