Three Moves Ahead
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Three Moves Ahead is the leading strategy game themed podcast on the internet. Every week a panel of knowledgeable gamers with strong opinions meets to talk about the strategy and war games of the day, design issues and games in the wider world.
Episodes
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Apr 17, 2013 • 1h 9min
Three Moves Ahead 213: On Campaign
Tom Chick joins Rob and Troy to talk about campaigns in RTS games, particularly StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm.
Apr 9, 2013 • 1h 2min
Three Moves Ahead 212: Set Disruptors to Acts of God
Troy, Julian, Dave Heron, and Rob talk about the role of extraordinary disruptions in strategy games. From acts of God to the acts of Khan, why don't more strategy games include disruptions? And should they?
Mar 27, 2013 • 58min
Three Moves Ahead 211: Worth a Thousand Words
PAX East 2013 was host to the second ever Three Moves Ahead panel, and this time we took on interface design. Troy and Rob were joined by Rob Daviau (IronWall), Eric Lee Smith (Shenandoah) and Nels Anderson (Klei)
Mar 21, 2013 • 1h 19min
Three Moves Ahead 210: A Silly Place
Chris and Rowan Kaiser join Rob to dissect SimCity and its many quirks.
Mar 12, 2013 • 1h 6min
Three Moves Ahead 209: Desktop to Tabletop
Bruce and Troy welcome Paul Rohrbaugh from High Flying Dice Games to the show to talk about what it means to be a desktop wargame publisher? Why do desktop games support greater variety in conflicts? Is there a limit on what can and cannot be done? What does a desktop consumer look like? And stay tuned to the end for a pretty cool wargame story.
Mar 7, 2013 • 52min
Three Moves Ahead 208: Social Gaming
Rob Daviau joins Julian, Rob, and Troy to talk about games that are more about social interaction than mechanics. Traitor games, party games, and negotiation games.
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Feb 27, 2013 • 1h 10min
Three Moves Ahead 207: Eagles Marching
Awesome Out of Ten's Fraser Brown and PC Gamer's T.J. Hafer join Rob to talk about Paradox's March of the Eagles.
Feb 19, 2013 • 1h 4min
Three Moves Ahead 206: Cold Warriors
It's just Troy and Rob this week as they reflect on Cold War strategy games and the unique challenges and temptations of that setting.
Feb 12, 2013 • 1h 2min
Three Moves Ahead 205: A Final Unity
2x2's Tomislav Uzelac joins Bruce and Rob to talk about designing Unity of Command, scenario design versus systems design, and where the series goes from here.
Feb 6, 2013 • 1h 4min
Three Moves Ahead 204: Gate-Crashing the Roman Empire
Jon Shafer joins Rob and Troy to talk about his new project, At the Gates, and the role of map evolution.
