Good evening, you're listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I am your host for this week,

Leona Hafer, joined by our good friend freelance writer John Bolding.

Howdy all?

And by three MA's designated one responsible adult in the room, Mike Gillis.

Hello.

And today we're going to be talking about slipways from Beetle Wing.

It's an indie space.

It's kind of hard to describe.

I don't know.

John, how would you describe slipways to somebody who's never seen it before?

It's an indie space line connector.

You connect one, like you take one thing and you make a line that connects it to another thing.

That's it. That's what the game is.

Pretty much.

But beneath that, beneath that very simple concept, it is a logistics game and not a, it's an economic strategy game almost in the vein of like a board game where it has pretty simple rules where any given planet you pay some money and you colonize it and it takes an amount of time and you have a limited amount of time before the game is over, which is effectively

like turns in months, right? And then the planet needs some stuff and it produces some stuff.

And so you just, you're like, okay, so you're going to, you're going to make a net. So you've got an

earthlike world and it needs food. Okay. So you colonize a world

that produces food and it needs robots to produce food. So you go to a third world that's going to

need people to produce robots. And you're like, oh, okay, perfect. So you make a little triangle.

And then you sort of fractally spiral out that empire into the galaxy as efficiently and powerfully as possible.

It's fundamentally a score-chasing game about getting the best highest score you can.

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