Ian Sundstrom has managed the impossible. At least, in my mind he has. He has found a connection between painting and turn-based strategy. My mental landscape positions these two concepts at polar opposites: painting is joyous and expressive, while turn-based strategy is stern and composed. One is a child’s dance across a grassy field, the other is an old man brushing a speck of dust from his pristine military uniform. a “chess-like dance” A former painter and artist, Sundstrom says that when it came to forming the idea for his first game, he drew from the process of mixing colors on…