Three Moves Ahead 50: Designing Government and Debating Detail

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2010

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Having not seen each other in weeks, Tom and Bruce giggle like schoolgirls reunited after summer break before getting into their usual sparring. Troy just tries to keep people on topic – futilely. The putative topic: How do you design a game that makes the management of a government as interesting as the issues of war and peace? There’s a side trip into questions about abstraction and the problem of irrelevant detail.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:07.2	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two of my regular panelists.
0:11.5	Freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:13.2	Who wants a coffee?
0:20.0	Oh, your most unpredictable cliche ever.
0:24.3	And Dr. Bruce Garrick with us.
0:27.9	Hello gamers.
0:30.9	See what you're in for, Troy? See how we're starting?
0:33.8	Yeah, I know. We're in for...
0:35.4	This is my fault for scheduling this on an irregular night.
0:38.4	We are recording a night before we usually do so I can get the podcast up before I take off to the West Coast for a press event.
0:49.2	How are we all this week besides a little bit punched drunk by the sound of it?
0:53.8	Is a press event a euphemism for something? Maybe. I'd have to say press event because Lisa might listen to this. Oh, Desh-Mublea. Why don't you tell us what you're going to see, Troy? Because, boy, that sounds exciting. Yeah, I wish it were. We're going to see the new Settlers game, which Ubisoft, is publishing.
1:13.0	They're putting on an event, after how big it is, probably not very big if it's Settlers.
1:17.7	The big treat for me is that Bruce Shelley is somehow associated with this, poor bastard, judging from the previous Settlers games.
1:27.3	So it'll be nice to finally meet Mr. Shell, you have interviewed a couple of times.
1:31.5	He's a great guy, charming guy, brilliant mind, and I'll afford to meeting him.
1:37.2	I'll also hopefully get a chance to buy the logo designer for three moves ahead,
1:42.2	the dinner she is owed.
1:44.2	All the payment that the logo designer requested was dinner.
1:47.6	The next time I was in San Francisco, so hopefully I can meet up with her and we can pay off that debt.
1:53.2	Oh, good.
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