Three Moves Ahead 370: Dean Essig

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2016

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Bruce welcomes award-winning game designer Dean Essig of The Gamers to talk about his long history of designing wargames. Dean's experience in the military and attention to detail have helped him create long-lasting series that model combat on several different levels. Dean and Bruce discuss the process of playtesting, the challenges of tactical, battalion, and operational level games, double-blind gaming, and why Illinois is such a great state.

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0:00.0	Good evening and welcome to three moves ahead.
0:02.0	I'm your host, Bruce Garrick.
0:03.6	Tonight, I have founder and grand pooh-bah of The Gamers, Dean Esseg.
0:08.9	Dean, welcome to the show.
0:10.3	Thank you for having me, Bruce.
0:12.5	So, Dean, you've been around an awful long time.
0:15.6	No.
0:17.8	Well, you've been around long enough for me to recall the gamers games back in, I think, the early 90s, but I'm sure you started playing games before that.
0:28.8	How did you get into the hobby?
0:30.5	I actually got into war gaming by accident, which is one of my favorite little wargaming stories that I ran across a copy of Luftwaffe, the Avalon Hill game.
0:41.6	Oh, I know that one.
0:42.2	A bookstore, the suburbs of Chicago.
0:45.5	Wow, okay.
0:46.3	And being a dumbass, a 13-year-old, 14-year-old, or whatever it was, I didn't read it hard enough to figure out that it was a game.
0:53.5	I thought it was a box set of books. Okay. I went't read it hard enough to figure out that it was a game. I thought it was a
0:54.1	box set of books. I went home with my box set of books and was tragically dragged into the
1:01.4	hobby, kicking them screaming because it wasn't a box set of books. The other half of that story
1:07.8	is that we never ever played Luftwaffe properly.
1:11.7	Really?
1:12.3	The game itself was relegated to the status of poker chips.
1:16.6	It had little round counters in it, and we used those as poker chips.
1:20.2	So that's as close to playing Luftwaffe as I ever got.
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