Three Moves Ahead 625: Caves of Qud

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Len, Jon, and Mike are joined by Freehold Games' Brian Bucklew and Jason Grinblat to discuss Caves of Qud. In a world where rogue"lites" and rogue-adjacents have blown up, what is the niche of a true, traditional roguelike? We also dig into the procedural generation of its post-multiple-apocalypses world and dreamlike writing style.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to Three Moves Ahead. I'm Len. I'm your host for this week.
0:07.7	And I'm joined this evening by John Bolding.
0:10.7	Howdy.
0:12.1	And by Mike Williams.
0:14.7	Hello, hello, folks.
0:16.8	And we have two special guests here tonight from Freehold Games.
0:23.5	We have co-founders Brian Bucklew.
0:26.1	Hello.
0:27.1	Who has been on the show before.
0:28.8	And in a 3MA debut, Jason Grenblatt.
0:32.6	Glad to be here.
0:33.7	Thanks for having me.
0:35.4	And you may have guessed that we are here to talk about caves of
0:40.3	CUD. I've been saying Q'd, but I've been told now that that's incorrect. That was going to be the first
0:45.9	thing I asked because I was like, is it Cud? Is it Quad? Is it QUD? Is it QUD? Is it QUD? That was going to be the very first question I asked.
0:57.6	I mean, we say cud, but also we're careful to say, like, we're happy to hear other people's, you know, head canon for the pronunciation and maybe even accept it.
1:10.0	So, you know, we were very not picky about this.
1:12.2	But if you want to just go with what we kind of straightforwardly say, it's caves of God.
1:17.9	Where does that word come?
1:19.9	Like, is that just a nonsense word that you came up with out of nowhere?
1:23.5	It's not.
1:24.3	And it's interesting because we, we, because of world building reasons that we actually
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