- Role-playing
- To Rebuild or Not to Rebuild
#407
Joanna May returns to the clubhouse as a guest host! Your four nice hosts chat Tetris, knitting, and CSS, but also have a pair of actual topics to discuss...
2025.09.25
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!
Serious Play Conference 2025
#409
Your nice hosts Lydia and Ellen are on a seriously playful adventure in beautiful Rochester, New York for the Serious Play conference! They discuss game accessibility, D&D therapy, lexical gaps, validation, and more.
2025.09.18
- Video Content
- Use the Dang Potion!
#406
In this episode, Mark and Stephen talk about what they are excited about. Lydia deals with a existential crisis about keeping too much stuff.
2025.09.11
Nice Thinking
#405
Stephen Business is back! And he’s attempting to make a meme into a reality. The clubhouse attempts to answer these (and other) questions:
2025.09.04
- microStudio
- Min-Maxing
#404
It is a joyous day for pancake lovers everywhere, and a joyous week in the Clubhouse for Lydia who successfully made a thing using code! WOW! She shares her experience learning how to make buttons (and everything else) in microStudio.
2025.08.28
with Laura Onderwater
#403
Returning "favorite" Laura Onderwater re-enters the clubhouse to talk about task tracking, naming conventions, and paper trails of various kinds in an engaging discussion on concept art workflows.
2025.08.21
Nice Games Jam
#401
As promised, the three Korths, Andy, Beth and Gabe, join us in the clubhouse for our hundred and two or so episode tradition! The clubhouse was too crowded to fit Mark in, but having five hosts makes up for it.
2025.08.14
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
"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