Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead and I'm your host Rob Zakeney.

Joining me tonight we welcome our friend freelance writer Steven Strom.

Hello. And we also welcome back freelance writer Fraser Brown.

Hello!

And finally we have Games Beats Blurst of Times correspondent Rowan Kaiser.

Stupid monkeys. So today we're going to be talking about Lurst of Times correspondent, Rowan Kaiser.

Stupid monkeys.

So today we're going to be talking a little bit about the intersection of procedural generation and strategic layers in both strategy games and other sorts of games they're trying to crib a little bit

from strategy games themselves. Roan, you want to kind of lay the ground for this a little bit?

Basically, we are kind of accidentally doing two non-strategy game shows in a row

because it just so happened that Pillars of Eternity 2

and State of Decay 2 were released in the same month, which was also relatively dry for strategy

games after we had a very, very robust start of the year for strategy games.

So that's just kind of a weird coincidence, but State of Decay 2 seemed to get a lot of interesting ideas out from you and me and Stephen, which it's an interesting idea that I think fails most remarkably at the strategic layer.

And that sort of had us talk about, you know, other games that try to bring in strategic components into genres that are not necessarily strategic.

And also, I think this gives us a really great excuse to talk about Sweetin for the third time in like a month on this show.

And I know that both me and Stephen are super hyped about that.

Congratulations on backdoring that back-in.

Yeah, at some point, I'm just going to have to tear the band-aid off,

and we're going to do the Sweeney-in show.

But for now, I guess, we'll keep letting it be germane to the conversation at hand.

Yeah, and I think once we sort of looked at what state of decay two did and did wrong,

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