Three Moves Ahead 63: Frozen Synapse

Three Moves Ahead

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2010

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Tom and Bruce are absent again while Troy, Julian and Rob dissect the still in beta Frozen Synapse, a small team tactics game from Mode 7. Troy finds it too difficult, Rob loves the potential for story telling, and Julian digs the puzzles. Listen as we talk about tactical games, the union of art and design, indie game marketing, a digression on Ancient Trader and an apology from Troy on his terrible mailing skills. Frozen Synapse Rob Zacny on The Hunter (Escapist), Sins of a Solar Empire (Game, Set Watch) and Birth of America (UGO)

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.8	I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today is the same panel I had last week, my go-to civil war buffs, who are not talking civil war this week.
0:16.5	A freelance writer Julian Murdoch.
0:18.6	Hello, hello, hello.
0:20.5	Armed with what beverage tonight?
0:23.1	I'm just doing a regular old gin martini.
0:26.2	I'm kicking it old school in honor of the game we're talking about.
0:29.6	Very good.
0:30.9	And freelance writer Rob Zakni.
0:33.0	Hey, it's a Civil War game if I say it is.
0:36.5	Okay.
0:39.1	So, yeah, tonight we're talking about, or this week we're talking about Frozen Synapse,
0:44.5	a game from, what's the developer's name?
0:49.3	The developer is...
0:51.3	Mode 7, yes.
0:53.0	Wasn't that an S-N-E-S, like motion technology back in the day?
0:58.0	Mode 7?
0:58.8	I have no idea.
0:59.9	Yeah, super-S.
1:01.9	Yeah.
1:03.5	Oh, well, that's well it reminded a ballerick of knowledge.
1:07.9	It's a simple texture mapping graphics mode to allow background layers to be rotated and scaled.
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