EP14 The Game of War

it's hardcore history i imagine given the uh subject matter that i talk about on this program that there are quite a few people in the audience that have played strategy and tactic war gaming type um games on their computer or video console or what have you over the years if that's a subject that interests you gonna have an interview on this program where we talked to one of the founders of a company who makes the most up-to-date modern types of games um you know with a historical theme and all that i found by uh having the conversation with him that a lot of the same sorts of uh decisions and trade-offs and and questions and quandaries came up in their development meetings that that we had in the development meetings for war remains the virtual reality project i worked on um and that's at the world war one museum in kansas city by the way if you want to see that so if you like that kind of stuff a fascinating interview with maximilian ria who's a game is hell let loose and um it's it's a fascinating concept so so we'll talk to him a little bit later uh it was if there is a ben ben's idea that we talk about we sort of set up the context of that with a little personal stuff which i don't like to do uh and i told ben i said uh who cares it's not very interesting and you know it's just me talking about my life and ben said well it's not very interesting whose fault is that that's a hard one to have a pithy comeback for isn't it but the reason he brought it up is he said you know you talk about war games on the program all the time you're going to be talking about something like that later in the program why don't you talk about you know war games as you knew them kind of a war games now if this sounds like grandpa carlin on the front porch in the rocking chair whittling telling stories to the youngins and falling asleep about every 10 minutes i apologize the good old days right but um it might be worth just just bringing it up because there's little things about wargaming that your general member of the general public ...