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Three Moves Ahead 97: Bronze with Alex Kutsenok
If you chat with me about strategy or board games, I have mentioned Bronze to you. Alex Kutsenok is the lead designer of Bronze and he sits down with…
15 years, 8 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 96: Shafer, Patches, Holiday Wishes
On the night before the day before Christmas, Troy and Rob and Julian sit down to talk about Jon Shafer leaving Firaxis, mega patches for turn based …
15 years, 8 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 95: End Game Moves
In response to a listener/reader question, Troy and Rob talk about end games that work and end games that don't. What do we mean by the "end game"? W…
15 years, 8 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 94: Home for the Holidays
We were on a good run and it couldn't last forever. A pleasant light little seasonal chat about how to cope with the gaming constraints of visiting o…
15 years, 8 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 93: Theme, Mechanics and Meaning
GWJ's Lara Crigger and JTS's Todd Brakke join Troy and special guest Soren Johnson in a wide ranging talk about how how theme and mechanics work toge…
15 years, 9 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 92: Classic Game Analysis - X-Com
PCGamer's Dan Stapleton joins Troy, Rob and Bruce to talk about what made 1994's X-Com one of the best strategy/tactics games ever made. Tension, atm…
15 years, 9 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 91: Licensed Behavior
Troy almost fires Rob and Julian on this episode as a conversation about licensed strategy games. Bruce Geryk holds forth on why War of the Rings is …
15 years, 9 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 90: Order, Order
News that a genetic algorithm has cracked the Starcraft code prompts Troy to ask the panel about the place of build orders and in-stone strategies in…
15 years, 9 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 89: Elections and Campaigning
No one was in much of a mood to talk about anything this week, but we did it anyway and it was almost topical. Gameshark's Bill Abner joins Troy and …
15 years, 9 months ago
Three Moves Ahead 88: Ethics, Morality and Motivation
Bruce Geryk returns to the show to give special guest Michael Abbot a hard time in a discussion that is intended to focus on the ethical and moral di…
15 years, 10 months ago