Episode 003 Getting Good (Easy to Play Hard to Master)

This episode covers:

 

Dark-Age a Miniature Skrimish Game for Table Top Play

Street Fighter V for all contemporary platforms

Warcraft Orcs and Humans for PC

AI War for PC
Jetpack for MS Doc PC

Mario Maker for 3DS and Wii U

 

Items discussed in What we Learned this Week:

 

Talking Dark Age the game and it's facebook community

http://dark-age.com/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/183757445321780/

 

Core-A Gaming, Skill Gap and simplifying games that already have established audiences:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSgA_nK_w3A

 

Cultural representation of characters in the Street Fighter franchise and how it plays so much like a silly cartoon with some confounding stereotypes but also orignal concepts for characters.

 

For those interested in progress on AI War 2:
http://arcengames.com/category/aiwar2/

 

What came up in Games we've been playing:

Extra Credits discussion on Free to Play and Whales:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwI0u9L4R8U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mhz9OXy86a0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBtXyv0Q1Eg

 

Shout Outs:

 

Northgard for PC:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/466560/Northgard/

 

Ultra Street Fighter 2 for the Switch:

http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ultra-street-fighter-2-the-final-challengers-switch

 

CMON's Zombicide: Green Horde Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cmon/zombicide-green-horde

 

CMON's Dark-Age

http://dark-age.com/the-game/getting-started/