Three Moves Ahead 602: Patreon Preview: An Interview with Michele Pirovano (dotAGE)

Three Moves Ahead

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

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Listen to the first five minutes of our November Patreon episode for free, and then hear the full one hour and 15 minute interview by subscribing at Patreon.com/3MA! Len had a chance to chat this month with Michele Pirovano, the (almost) solo developer of dotAGE, a game we all had a great time with this year. They discuss how board game design has had a positive influence on the world of strategy video games, how it could continue to do so, the struggles of being an indie dev, and why the upcoming genre of roguelike city-builders works so well.

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone. This is Len. We're doing something a little new this week. I'm going to post just the first five minutes of our November Patreon episode, which is available right now on the main feed. It's an interview with Mikhaili Pirovano, the developer of Dot Age, which you may have heard we did a full episode,
0:22.3	a regular episode on recently. So yeah, this is just the first five minutes of our November
0:27.9	Patreon episode. If you want to hear the rest of it, you can subscribe for as little as $5
0:34.0	at patreon.com slash 3M.A.
0:40.5	And if you're already a patron, thank you so much.
0:42.9	We really could not do this show without you.
0:45.4	Good evening.
0:48.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead.
0:50.7	This is our November Patreon episode.
0:52.1	I am Len.
0:53.2	I am your host this week. And I am joined by Miquela Pirovano. Did I pronounce
0:57.5	that correctly? Yeah, you did. Okay, cool. The developer of Dot Age, which we just did a regular
1:04.4	episode on, probably it'll be about a couple weeks ago by the time you're listening to this.
1:10.4	And you're the solo developer for this game, correct?
1:14.7	Yeah.
1:15.2	Thank you very much for having me here.
1:18.0	I'm the solo developer apart from the music and the voices you hear in the game.
1:25.2	Got it.
1:25.9	Yeah.
1:26.9	And you've been working on this for quite a long time, I understand.
1:31.8	Yeah, it's been since 2014, so almost nine and nine years.
1:38.3	Wow.
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