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

Joining me today, we welcome back through as a head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

Good evening, everyone.

We also welcome back once again, our friend from the Game Design Roundtable, David Heron.

Two weeks on a row. This is fantastic, gentlemen.

And what a show we have for you tonight.

Tonight, we are going to be revisiting a somewhat forgotten RTS of the late 90s called Dark Rain, the Future of War, which was published

by Activision and developed by Oren. And it is a game I remembered,

not entirely fondly, but

absence made the heart grow fonder, and then I revisited it.

So I've had, you know, it's one of those things where I've got this like

multi-layered relationship with this game,

based on sort of my first reaction and then like how

I sort of reconsidered the game over the years.

And now I'm actually like playing it again and discovering like all the things I was wrong or

right about or just kind of completely misremembered.

But in addition to this, we're also going to be talking about sort of what we might call like the golden age of um of rts

games in that it wasn't just that there that it was a sort of fresh and and viable genre with

lots of stuff happening but it was also just an era where you could have a lot of RTS games. And that era has most

definitely ended. So anyway, gentlemen, let's turn to you and what did you make of Dark Rain?

Well, this was a game that you approached me a couple of weeks ago and we were a bit

surprised that i had actually played it um you know what it didn't the the name uh was was there in my

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