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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 37: Episode 37

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2009

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Chris Park from Arcen Games joins us this week to talk about independent game development and how his sci-fi RTS AI War: Fleet Command saw the light of day. Park talks about the design process, the challenge of modeling risk and reward and the difficult part of difficulty levels. It’s also one of our longest podcasts ever. Arcen Games Tom’s column on AI War: Fleet Command Feature Series: The Decade Quarter to Three, where you can find Tom’s movie podcast Send your questions for Episode 40 to troy.goodfellow AT gmail.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

0:06.0

I'm your host, Troy Goodfell, and with me today is my co-host, I suppose, a freelance writer Tom Chegg.

0:13.0

Before we start, I'd like to ask you, Troy, if I can get you a coffee.

0:18.0

That is a great idea, but I've had enough coffee today, and now I'm into the chardonnay. Well, I can't help you there. You're on your own. I've got one. I'm fine. Thank you. But I appreciate the offer. How are you, Tom? Oh, I'm very well. I have a nice shot of espresso here. I'm really psyched about who we have today. I think this guy has done a great job,

0:39.7

and I'm looking forward to picking his brain a little bit.

0:42.5

Yes, we have a special guest today,

0:43.8

and our guest is Chris Park,

0:46.6

the designer of AI War Fleet Command.

0:49.9

Fleet Command, A.War Fleet Command,

0:52.0

from Arkin Games.

0:54.2

Chris, thanks for joining us.

0:56.1

No problem. Thanks for having me.

0:58.3

And by the way, Chris, the part of the name that always messes me up is I never remember,

1:02.2

is it just one AI war or is it multiple AI wars?

1:05.8

I know. That misses up a lot of people.

1:08.7

So which is it?

1:10.1

It's AI War, singular. You've got a bunch of people. So which is it? It's AI War, it's singular.

1:11.7

You've got a bunch of the advanced wars and all that sort of thing,

1:15.7

and there actually is another AI Wars game that's unrelated to us that I discovered belatedly.

1:23.0

Yeah, I remember stumbling across that.

1:25.0

Now, surely you have dwarfed those guys in terms of, like, Google hits, right?

1:29.6

Like, have we buried them yet? Yeah, I feel bad about that, but yeah. No, you don't. No, you don't. No, you don't know. Well, I'm not trying to shut anybody else out, but when I originally was searching for a title for the game, you know, AI War was the obvious title given the focus,

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