Three Moves Ahead 49: Strategy Games and Story Telling

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week, Troy, Julian and Rob talk about the limitations and possibilities of story telling in strategy games. Can you have an authorial perspective in a system driven genre? Is the RTS campaign story irrevocably broken? Is there anything on the horizon that might give us hope? And stay tuned to the end where I ask for feedback for our anniversary show.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flashsteel.com.
0:06.1	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:11.4	Hello, everyone. I have a martini here, if anybody would like one.
0:15.6	And freelance writer Rob Zakeney.
0:19.1	Hello, I'm squared away with my Jameson. Thank you.
0:22.5	And I have an anchor steam.
0:24.6	There you go.
0:25.6	There we go, yeah.
0:27.5	Apparently it's a made in San Francisco since 1896.
0:31.6	You know why they call it anchor steam?
0:33.8	Why they call it steam?
0:35.6	It's because they used to actually cool it and ferment it on the roof of the building.
0:39.7	And so the building looked like it was always steaming.
0:43.3	I've done the tour.
0:45.7	It's fascinating.
0:47.7	You could leave that tour now, if that's the highlight.
0:51.6	If that's a big punchline, it ends with, and they ferment something.
0:57.0	Maybe I'll just get my sixers from the cooler, then.
1:00.2	The highlight is standing there drinking all the beer.
1:03.2	That's definitely the highlight.
1:04.5	Maybe I should do that the next time in San Francisco.
1:07.2	Not the next time, because I'll be in San Francisco next week, I think.
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