A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

One down (Germany), two (Finland, Japan) to go: the Allies defeat the Axis' most powerful nation-state in Europe in 1944: Triumph and Tragedy. © 2018 Fury Software/Matrix Games and Slitherine Ltd. Well, ladies and gentlemen, I finally did it: I played a complete scenario in Strategic Command WWII: World At War.... and won. Nemesis: The Western Allies and the Red Army overrun Nazi Germany in the fall of 1945.  ©  2018 Fury Software/Matrix Games and Slitherine Ltd. Yesterday was Sunday; I didn't have any good ideas for a blog post, and because my latest script is now in the hands of the director (Juan Carlos Hernandez), I also didn't have any pressing outside obligations to fulfill, so I took the day off from writing. Even though I used to play computer games when I was younger, I don't devote too much time to gaming as I used to. Yesterday I had plenty of options as far as entertainment was concerned: three new books to read, lots of movies and old TV s...

Screenshot of Strategic Command WWII: World at War main menu screen. © Fury Software/Matrix Games/Slitherine Ltd.  On December 6, 2018, British PC game publisher Matrix Games released Strategic Command WWII: World at War, a turn-based grand strategy wargame that depicts the Second World War on every major front from Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1939 to the end of the conflict in the summer of 1945. Developed by Toronto-based Fury Software for Matrix, Strategic Command WWII: World at War (or WAW) is part of the rebooted Strategic Command series that includes Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe, Strategic Command Classic: Global Conflict, and this year's Strategic Command: World War I.  Fury created this long-running series in the late 1990s, publishing its original game, Strategic Command: European Theater in 2002 through Battlefront. WAW is the fifth game in the series and it was designed by Hubert Cater and Bill Runacre, Fury Software's president/lea...