Three Moves Ahead 490: Micro-RTS Games

Three Moves Ahead

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

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🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Not every novel must be Inifinite Jest, not every RTS game must be Starcraft 2. Sure, sometimes you need to hold your copy of Starcraft 2 with the cover facing out so people at the coffee shop KNOW you're playing Starcraft 2, but sometimes you just want to play a quick game of something and get out. This week, Rob and Cameron Kunzelman discuss three RTS games the can be played in less time than it takes to listen to this episode. So once you are done loudly asking if the barista has a second bookmark you can borrow for the footnotes, take a listen to our discussion on Circle Empires, Escape Dead Earth, and Death Crown.

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0:00.0	Good evening you are listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host, Rob Zakeney, here with freelance writer Cameron Cunzelman. Cam, welcome to the show. Thanks. Thanks for having me. What is your top-going concern these days? I was trying to think, like, what's the best way to introduce you? Are you the world's foremost expert on Balders Gate? Are you a game study study buddy? what is what's the thing that people need to look up to get more
0:23.7	more of Cam Kundleman and figure out what you're all about? Oh gosh. I don't know. Yeah, game study
0:28.8	studies is probably one of those big things. You can you can just Google that game study studies
0:33.7	studies is where me and Michael let's sit and, you know, spend a couple hours
0:39.2	reading a book and talking about it, walking through it painstakingly. We just finished an
0:45.2	episode, just posted an episode on the King of Kong where we talk for longer than that movie is.
0:52.4	I mean, that's how, yes, that's what it requires to do analysis.
0:55.6	I'm, look, yes, I had a podcast shout out from under me
0:58.9	because we talked longer than the things we were discussing.
1:02.5	But nevertheless, I think that was crucial to having a good discussion.
1:07.6	Yeah, no, no, I get it.
1:09.0	But yeah, that's my thing.
1:10.2	Yeah, and if you are curious about the oncoming Baldersgate 3, you know, you can check out Mages and Murder Dads, which is a show that we did a few years ago.
1:23.1	We did it over several years, but where we played all the balder skate games and some other kind of
1:27.7	inheritors of the tradition and talked about them also in extremely minute detail.
1:34.7	So if you're looking to prep for a balder skate three, that kind of thing.
1:38.5	Yeah, but I, you know, I write a lot.
1:41.4	I produce videos and podcasts and things like that. I can tell you where all those things
1:46.8	are at the end of the episode to encourage you to listen to this whole thing. But in the meantime,
1:53.2	to that theme of talking about something longer than it takes to experience it, we're going to be
1:59.6	talking about micro-R games, for lack of a better term, because
2:06.4	there's kind of been a nice crop of small format, real-time strategy games that in some
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