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Three Moves Ahead 589: 'Board Game' vs 'Simulation'-style Strategy Games
Three Moves Ahead
English - April 21, 2023 22:42 - 1 hour - 66.1 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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It's an all-star panel as Len and Mike Williams are joined by Mohawk Games' and Idle Thumbs' own Soren Johnson and Paradox Tinto's Johan Andersson to chip away at a tricky target: the different design goals between a more "Board Gamey" strategy game like Civilization and the "Simulationist" breed exemplified by Europa Universalis. We discuss what we like and don't like about each one, who the audiences are for each, and how to navigate the significant overlap in those audiences. In the end, maybe it's not as adversarial after all...