“My face is over here.” Special In-Person Special
#220
Your vaccinated hosts return to the clubhouse to record their first in-person episode in over a year. This one's for us, but you might like it, too.
2021.06.10
It's a gamedev podcast!
The show where nice gamedevs Ellen Burns-Johnson, Mark LaCroix, and Stephen McGregor (with friends and guests) talk gaming and game development!
with Adam Davis
#219
Can games be used for therapeutic purposes? Absolutely! In this episode we talk with Adam Davis, therapeutic Game Master, and a co-founder and executive director of Game to Grow, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
2021.06.03
- Novelty
- Intuition
#218
This week in the clubhouse, your nice hosts discuss the not so-intuitive nature of novelty, and the novel method of using intuition in games.
2021.05.27
with Mark Mandel
#217
There's a second Mark in the clubhouse! This week we're joined by Mark Mandel, who is involved in many things worth mentioning!
2021.05.20
with Allan Rust
#215
This week, we talk about the core interactions that games are made of with Allan Rust, creative director of The Game Agency. We've been wanting to have Allan on the program for a long time, and it was worth the wait!
2021.05.13
"They wouldn't fully respawn." Fingeance Postmortem
#216
Oh dang, Fingeance is out! In this episode, Stephen talks about finally releasing his long-in-development game that's been a big part of Nice Games Club history, too!
2021.05.06
Nice Games Jam
#214
Sound the alarm, it's the second half of Evil Games Club's latest nefarious reign over the clubhouse!
2021.04.30
- Playing Outside Your Genre / Difficulty
- Cheating
#213
Uh oh! The evils are back again for the first of a two-episode residency in the clubhouse, where Dale takes a hair census, Adia is "air-quoting heavily," and Dylan is a child of the Internet... literally.
2021.04.22
- Ellen's PC Build - The Journey Begins
- Press Reset by Jason Schreier
#212
This week, your nice hosts get smart. Stephen approaches a major milestone, Ellen's planning her first PC build, and Mark does a book report.
2021.04.14
with Osama Dorias
#211
It's back to basics this week as we welcome Osama Dorias, lead game designer on the upcoming Gotham Knights at WB Games Montréal, to talk about his multi-year journey of making games with his kids, and what it taught him about h
2021.04.08
Nice Games Jam
#210
This week your nice hosts have a rowdy game jam. Dale gave us a prompt: Create a matching game with a puzzle element. The puzzle must be "what matches first" and bonus points if there's cats.
2021.03.31
- Your Internal Battery
- Finding Your Artistic Voice
#209
This week, your nice hosts look within themselves. Mark is afraid of falling off the tree, Stephen does the teeter-tottering he has to do, and Ellen doesn't struggle with this.
2021.03.25
- Fonts
- Jank
#208
A regular nice roundtable! In the first part this week's episode, Mark leads an examination of how fonts can support gameplay, worldbuilding, and immersion.
2021.03.18
"It’s March tomorrow."
#207
After a slightly longer than usual hiatus, your nice hosts (along with your nice guest host Dale LaCroix) return to the virtual clubhouse for the first new episode of 2021 to talk about what we did on our winter break!
2021.03.11
Nice Games Jam
Your nice hosts recorded a live Nice Games Jam episode at 2D Con 2020! You can listen to the edited audio of the recording here!
2021.03.03