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Three Moves Ahead 586: Industrialization and Snowballing w/ Bret Devereaux
Three Moves Ahead
English - March 24, 2023 20:33 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 451 ratingsVideo Games Leisure games strategy war war games strategy games Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Len and Ian are joined once again by our official unofficial historical consultant, UNC Chapel Hill's Dr. Bret Devereaux, to discuss a couple of interrelated topics: Snowballing in strategy games and the process of industrialization. We take a wide-ranging trek through games and history that touches on different ways developers have tried to put checks on snowballing, what factors prevented real societies from hitting that exponential growth until the 1800s, and which games portray it best. There's also a lot of chat on our exploits in the recent 1.2 patch for Victoria 3, because of course there would be.