Three Moves Ahead 51: Science and Technology

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2010

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Troy is joined by Tom, Bruce and Rob as they counter December’s religion show with a talk about how strategy games treat science. How do you link technology to other game mechanics? Is there a risk of runaway games if you emphasize science too much? Dead ends, blind research, science of observation and whether you can actually have hard science in a strategy game. And Bruce replies to comments about his thoughts on Hearts of Iron 3’s infantry weapon research model. Heisenberg’s War: The Secret History Of The German Bomb Three Moves Ahead Episode 20 on The Snowball Effect in Game Design Tom and Miriam Sitting in a Tree (Wayback Machine – very slow)

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0:00.0	Oh, happy day when miracles take place
0:02.6	And scientists control the human race
0:06.4	When we assume authority of human chromosomes
0:11.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com
0:16.7	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is a full panel.
0:20.8	Freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:22.5	Who wants a coffee from me today?
0:27.1	Freelance writer Rob Zakney.
0:29.6	Hello.
0:31.3	And Dr. Bruce Garrick.
0:33.4	Hello gamers.
0:35.6	By the way, for a minute, I thought we were on the gay fans of Broadway musicals podcast.
0:42.4	I thought I dialed into the wrong podcast.
0:44.7	Well, any podcast with Troy.
0:47.2	Yes, it's going to be full of gay.
0:50.3	Hold on.
0:51.0	What was that theme song?
0:52.1	That wasn't Gilbert and Sullivan.
0:54.0	That was like, like, Rockers and Hammerstein. Actually, it was from Lil Abner. Oh, good Lord. A comic strip? They had music and comic strip? They had a musical. Lil Abner, I was talking in IRC with people today, and so I mentioned Sadie Hawkins, and then that just clicked that song in my head for some reason.
1:12.1	How are we all today?
1:13.8	The song about like science and miracles or what was the song?
1:17.7	The song was a happy day from Lil Abner where a bunch of scientists are singing about how science can make everything better.
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