{"id":394,"date":"2013-01-31T22:49:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T06:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/?p=394"},"modified":"2013-01-31T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T06:49:51","slug":"chris-taylor-and-game-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smudgemarks-engelwerks.com\/minions-of-the-fickle-muse\/2013\/01\/31\/chris-taylor-and-game-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Taylor and Game Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

I've been thinking lately of doing a post where I talk about various podcasts I listen to, but right now I want to point out a particular episode I listened to today.<\/p>\n

Three Moves Ahead<\/em> is a great podcast about strategy gaming, and this week they had designer Chris Taylor<\/a> on. He's done a number of different games, most of which are off the beaten genre path, including the greatest love\/hate relationship of my gaming life: Total Annihilation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The episode goes into a number of different things: Near the beginning they go into the faux-3D graphics of TA<\/em> (which fooled many people into thinking it was true 3D rendering, and I thought for a bit was the most amazing sprite-system I'd ever seen; neither was correct), there's some more about programming trickery in the middle, and much of the end goes into something of a meditation on the state of the gaming industry, including the fact that it's possible to get a great amount of money on Kickstarter\u2014if you're deliberately resurrecting an old property. If you're doing something new, not so much.<\/p>\n

Episode 203 is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while I'm talking, I'll mention episode 99<\/a>, \"War in the East\", which has one of my favorite moments in the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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