Three Moves Ahead 648: Heart of the Machine

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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3MA is finally embracing AI! Okay, not really. But Len and Jon do have many thoughts about Heart of the Machine, a fascinating, story-driven strategy RPG about becoming the world's first sentient computer.

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0:00.0	more like part of the machine, am I right?
0:05.9	And that's going to do it for this week.
0:08.0	Uh, no.
0:08.8	Thanks for tuning in, folks.
0:11.6	The shortest episode ever.
0:13.7	Someday, someday, it would be funny to do that.
0:17.2	Good evening.
0:17.9	You're listening to Three Moves Ahead.
0:19.9	I'm Lynn.
0:20.5	I'm your host. and I'm here with
0:22.6	the Intrepid John Bolding. Howdy. And we are pivoting to AI officially, the Three Moves Ahead podcast.
0:32.5	I think I can speak for the whole idle thumbs network actually. I don't think there's any legal
0:37.1	issue there.
0:40.2	No, not really. But we are talking about art of the machine, which is sort of a story of what
0:47.0	if we used AI to do good things instead of bad things or do really bad things?
0:54.3	What if we made an AI and then it made its own choices?
0:59.9	Wouldn't that be alternately fucked up or awesome?
1:05.4	From arson games and, of course, Hooded Horse, the publisher that publishes all of the games 3MA talks
1:15.5	about now.
1:17.1	John, to somebody who has never seen this before, what exactly is Heart of the Machine?
1:24.3	So, Heart of the Machine is a blend of 4X strategy game and highly narrative RPG, where you are a newly born, first ever sustainable sentient AI.
1:46.0	You're an artificial general intelligence of some kind.
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