You are listening to Three Moves Ahead, the official podcast of Flash of Steel.com.

This is episode 74, and I am your host, Troy Goodfellow.

And with me today are Julian Murdoch.

Hello, hello.

And Rob Zakeney.

Hi, everybody.

Julian, we missed you last week.

No, you didn't.

We were telling our origin stories.

Oh, nice segue.

Nice segue.

Very nice.

It's a great segue because this week we're doing one of our classic game analysis

episodes.

And this time we chose something that is not a strategy game,

but something that I think informs both the ideas of creating new worlds.

And it's a setting that I'd like to see more of in strategy games.

And that is the Freedom Force series from Rational Games, two of my very favorite action

RPGs ever made.

So we reached out and grabbed Ken Levine from Rational Games to join us on the

podcast or talk about freedom force and game design and whether there is any lessons in it

for strategy games. So Ken, thanks for being here. Happy to be here, Troy. I understand you're a regular listener.

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