Three Moves Ahead

This week, host Troy Goodfellow and panelists Tom Chick and Bruce Geryk spend most of their time talking about <em>Empire: Total War</em>, with a lot of armchair game design. Tom challenges the very premise of the Creative Assembly design philosophy, Bruce rejects Tom's premise and Troy tries to get a word in edgewise. Learn for Tom's "perfect strategy game", Bruce's love of Dominions 3 and Troy's memories of Dagestan.<a href="http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3173120">Troy's review of Empire: Total War</a><a href="http://www.crispygamer.com/columns/2009-03-10/rush-boom-turtle-sins-of-a-sins-developer.aspx">Tom's interview with Brian Fraser of Ironclad Studios</a><a href="http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/forumdisplay.php?f=146">Dominions mod forum</a><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic/browse_thread/thread/d81613e14c63cd14?">Tom discovers Dominions on Usenet</a>Have a question? Email me at troy DOT goodfellow AT gmail DOT com. And pick Bruce's homework assignment in the comments.

Three Moves Ahead: Episode TwoHost: Troy GoodfellowPanel: Tom Chick, Bruce Geryk, Julian MurdochThe second episode of TMA talks about Halo Wars, Demigod, Sins of a Solar Empire and Empire: Total War, with slight detours into Lord of the Rings Online and whether or not it is cool to use Google while podcasting.