with Andy Korth
#402
As is tradition, a couple of episodes after a hundredth we invite one or more of our pals the Korths into the clubhouse.
2025.08.07
It's a gamedev podcast!
The show where nice gamedevs Lydia Symchych, Mark LaCroix, and Stephen McGregor (with friends and guests) talk gaming and game development!
"From apocrypha or experience." 400th Episode Special
#400
It's a big one for your nice hosts... and your newest nice host wants to know more. Lydia takes Mark and Stephen though the history of the program, in three acts.
2025.07.31
- Composting
- Overdesigning
#399
Ellen's back for a serendipitously in-sync pair of metacognition-rich roundtable topics.
2025.07.24
Nice Thinking
#398
2025.07.17
- QA Workflows
- Designing Discovery
#397
Your nice host return to the complex and sometimes underappreciated world of quality assurance in the game dev space, and also explore discovery as a design focus.
2025.07.10
with Freya Holmér
#396
We welcome Freya Holmér back into the clubhouse to talk about 3D game development for independent game developers.
2025.07.03
Nice Games Jam
#395
This week, your Nice Hosts have a new prompt from a new source. Lydia's husband, Ian, draws from a rainy source of inspiration and the Hosts are all-in.
2025.06.26
- Save Systems
- Keeping Secrets
#394
Your nice hosts talk about saving both your position in a game and saving your secrets from being spread around.
2025.06.19
- Emotional Effects of Music
- A New Foe Has Appeared!
#393
Mark rushes through the introduction to talk about his two rush projects, one of which, Blippo+, was announced on Sunday during the PC Gaming Show!
2025.06.12
with Adrian Sandoval
#392
This week in the club house Adrian Sandoval describes how video games are speed running art history. Your nice hosts have their minds blown many times and Steven discovers he might actually like history!?
2025.06.05
- What Happened With Future Club
- Design Surface Area
#391
Your nice hosts all secured a Switch 2 pre-order... from a certain point of view. Then, Stephen examines the body, Mark attempts a vocabulary, and Lydia has recommendations.
2025.05.29
with Ashley Phipps
#390
The clubhouse welcomes Ashley Phipps, producer for the game Clock Out at 2, to discuss the topic of mental health and discrimination.
2025.05.22
- Friction by Design
- Diversity in Scoring
#389
In this episode the club house talks about the games that they have been playing. Mark attempts to define the terms good friction and bad friction, declares his distaste of rouge-likes, and talks about friction in his current projects.
2025.05.15
with Haley MacLeon
#388
Your nice hosts get a crash course on video game IP law from lawyer and MinnMax cohort, Haley MacLeon.
2025.05.08
- Let's Plays
- Responsive Game Design
#387
A new Nintendo is on the way, and your nice hosts talk about both it and the world it's being born into.
2025.05.01