Three Moves Ahead 403: Survival Strategy

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2017

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Survival: it's what separates people from animals. How far we've come from punching a tree until it explodes into logs that we can craft into workbenches. What began as humble topiary assault spread through time, Asia, and eventually into strategy games. This week, Rowan, Critical Distance's Zach Alexander, and Troy "Surely I can trade my encyclopedic knowledge of show tunes for food" Goodfellow get together to talk about survival strategy games. From half-RPGs to city builders, game devs like cramming a food clock into any game orifice they can find and the result are normal strategy games with the added fun of starvation and disease.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.
0:05.8	With me today, we have regular panelists from GamesBeat, Mr. Rowan Kaiser.
0:10.3	Hello.
0:12.0	And making his first appearance on Three Moves Ahead, the biz-dev-dove-running guy over at Critical Distance,
0:21.2	one of my favorite sites for tracking down interesting games writing,
0:24.7	Mr. Zach Alexander.
0:27.4	Hey, how's it going?
0:28.9	Welcome to the show.
0:30.5	Thanks for having me.
0:32.1	We're glad to have you here,
0:33.5	because apparently you know a lot about what we're going to be talking about.
0:36.7	Today we're going to do something a little bit different.
0:39.5	We're going to go on a bit of a games history trip.
0:44.0	We're going to try to analyze where a popular genre of the day has come from,
0:48.5	the twist and turns leading there doing a bit of games history genealogy.
0:53.8	And the topic we've chosen is survival games, specifically the colony managers, the
1:00.8	rim worlds of the world, the, that oxygen game, oxygen not included, banished games like this, which have prioritized creating a community
1:15.9	in a very hostile atmosphere. These games have become very popular in recent history and
1:22.3	it's taken a lot to actually get us here from the mid-80s to now.
1:29.5	Now, Rowan, this was your idea.
1:31.2	So we're going to start with you.
1:32.5	Why did you think this would be a topic worth exploring?
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