Three Moves Ahead 65: Tutorials and Training

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2010

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Tom Chick returns after a month away from the podcast to join Troy and Rob in a discussion about designing tutorials for strategy games. Is the failure of tutorial design a root of the decline in strategy gaming? Can you really integrate a tutorial into a story based campaign? What are the responsibilities of the gamer to learn what he/she is doing on a battlefield? Dave Perkins’s tutorials for Solium Infernum

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0:00.0	You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.
0:06.7	This is episode 66, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow, and with me today are two of my regular panelists.
0:13.9	Freelance writer Rob Zackney.
0:15.7	Hey, happy Mojito Monday.
0:18.1	It's Mojito Monday?
0:19.6	Well, it is here.
0:21.9	And for the first time in a month, freelance writer Tom Chick.
0:26.1	I am a fiend for mojitos.
0:29.0	However, if anyone would like coffee, I'm happy to not only make you a coffee, I will give
0:35.3	you a brief step-by-step tutorial into how to make a coffee
0:40.0	yourself in honor of today's podcast.
0:43.1	That awkward segue.
0:45.2	It's not awkward at all.
0:46.5	Troy Goodfellow, you need to learn.
0:48.2	That was a fantastic segue.
0:50.3	How dare you?
0:52.9	Take it up with the union. Today's topic is tutorials.
0:57.0	We've talked about manuals last year, one of our most popular shows, widely commented on,
1:03.0	and when we've revisited, we've revisited, was about manuals and the decline of documentation
1:07.0	in general and what makes a good manual.
1:09.0	Lately, I've always thought about what makes a good tutorial and why they're different.
1:13.5	How do you train somebody to play a strategy game?
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