Oh boy alot of questions

[alexti]

Originally posted by Jam3:
It seems like its always an independant developer that goes and makes a great game like this and then completly deviates from the norm on core design in some way.

Chess, checkers, tic tac toe, etc etc etc all have the guess where I am going to move next style of game play BUT order is serialized!!

Have you tried to design a method to have simultaneous turns in a board game? I'm not surprised at all that chess, checkers etc are serialised. Not that it does them any good. Probably every such game suffers from this causing inequality between sides. Many of them try to resolve this problem in various ways, but it still doesn't produce true balance. In computer game, it's easy to implement simultaneous turns, so naturally developers decided not to invent problem they didn't need to