Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

This is the Patreon-supported supporters voted topic show. We try to do one of these a month,

and this was our pick for February,

and of course it's not February now, it's March. Scheduling and busyness and schedules and

all of that got in the way of February, but we are giving you the show right now, and there

is still a March vote going on. This month's user vote was not even close, and it's really not a

surprise, since the topic is one that listeners have been trying to get me to speak on for years

now, pretty much since I started the podcast in 2009, and that is Dwarf Fortress, and games like

Dwarf Fortress, which I guess we are calling World Simulators.

This is not something I am qualified to speak on, but I do have three very qualified people here to, very qualified people, to talk about Dwar Fortress, the appeal of World Simulators, what distinguishes a good one from a bad one.

And first is our producer from the other side of the mic, someone we're always happy to have

come on the show, Mr. Michael Hermes.

Hello, I'm here and deeply disappointed in our fans who let sports management sims

fall dead last in that same pole with Dwarf Fortress.

We're going to do a franchise hockey manager show whether it kills me.

I'll find a way.

We will.

Returning to the show from Gaslamp Games, our friend, Nick Vining.

Always a pleasure.

And her first time on the show, we hope it's her first time.

It's her debut, a freelance writer and critic based out of Chicago, Gita Jackson.

Hi, it's me. I'm here also.

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