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Three Moves Ahead

Three Moves Ahead 373: Amplitude Studios and the Endless Series

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8532 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week Rob and Fraser welcome special guest Jeff Spock, Narrative Director at Amplitude Studios. The Endless Series has garnered a large amount of praise with its impressive debut in Endless Space, the unique gameplay in Dungeons of the Endless, and the master class of 4X gaming in Endless Legend. Jeff goes over the challenges of writing for 4X and strategy games and how the universe has changed from Endless Space to Endless Legend. Endless Legend has changed quite a bit since launch and Jeff explains how the series has evolved and where it might go in Endless Space 2. This topic was chosen in a poll by our Patreon backers.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.4

Joining me today, we have freelance writer, Fraser Brown.

0:07.2

Hello!

0:08.3

And today we also welcome Amplitudes Jeff Spock to talk about the evolution of Endless

0:13.0

Legend, the Endless Series, and where things are headed next with Endless Space, too.

0:17.4

Jeff, welcome to the show.

0:18.8

Thank you very much. It's really cool to be here.

0:20.5

Well, I should say, perhaps perhaps bonsoir from France. I can't even begin to tell you how relieved we all are

0:26.5

that you don't have a thick French accent in addition to Skype compression. Fraser and I were

0:31.8

talking before the show and Fraser is like every time I've talked to someone from Amplitude,

0:35.9

like I've caught every fifth word they're saying and I'm not sure it's going to be a great podcast.

0:41.3

If you want to, I can do the Inspector Clouseau thing if that would be fun.

0:45.3

I think that went over a new generation of French fans, to be honest.

0:48.3

So you should feel free to do that.

0:51.3

Although none of us here are Peter Sellers, so perhaps we should steer clear of that.

0:56.2

But let's get started here. Jeff, what is your role at Amplitude? When did you join the studio? And

1:02.4

what was your background prior to the end of the series? My role at the studio is basically the

1:07.7

lead narrative writer guy. I got to choose the title, so it's narrative director, which really pleases me,

1:14.6

because I was one of sort of the five founding members.

1:17.6

There was Roma and Metsue, who were the two founders,

1:21.6

and we were sort of gravitating around them, Corrine, the art director,

1:25.6

Eric, who's the lead programmer and myself were sort of

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