Good evening, you're listening to Through Moves Ahead.

And I'm your host, Rob Zackney, here with The Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.

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We also welcome freelance writer John Bolding.

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And today, we are gathered together in the headquarters around the command map.

We have good men out there dying on the radio.

We can hear them calling for aid.

We are, of course, talking about Sirius Sims' Radio Commander, a experiment in narrative

war game design that may leave no stereotype behind.

Troy, why don't you describe a little bit what Radio Commander is?

Radio Commander is, and it's an episodic war game.

It's a campaign where you fall off mission to mission.

You take on the role of a radio commander.

You are somebody back at HQ.

And in front of you, you have a map and a mission to achieve.

You are given a few units who you give orders to and you plot their position on the map and you give them orders on

what they're supposed to be doing, where they're supposed to move to, where they are supposed

to engage, you can ask them for their status reports, you can call in airstrikes, call

an artillery depending on the mission, and through all of this, you are engaging in sort of a kind of story about the early years of

the, it's set in the Vietnam War, the early years of American involvement in Vietnam.

The game isn't very...

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