- Audio Basics
- Representation in Games
#118
In this episode, your nice hosts make sure you know that Treasure Stack, the game Stephen "is paid to work on," is coming out Friday, March 1st!
2019.02.26
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!
Nice Games Bulletin
#117
2019.02.19
Nice Games Jam
#116
This week on the program we attempt another Nice Games Jam, where we are given a prompt from Martha's boyfriend (and Evil Games Club co-host) Dylan, which we have to use to create a playable game by the end of the episode.
2019.02.12
- Writing for Games
- Intellectual Property and the Public Domain
#115
Your Nice Hosts are back from PodCon 2 and fresh off the Global Game Jam where Martha wrote a game for the first time! We talk all about that experience as well as celebrate Public Domain Day for the first time in 20 years.
2019.02.06
What We Did On Our Winter Break
#114
Ellen Burns-Johnson joins us once again in the club house to discuss our work on Widget Satchel (a platformer staring an adorable ferret!) We talk all about what went well, what was challen
2019.01.29
Nicest of 2018
#113
- Scope Creep
- eSports
In this episode, Stephen fights his demons, Martha likes sports now, and Mark learns a lot about both.
2019.01.08
Nice Games Jam
This week on Nice Games Club we are trying out a new type of episode: Nice Games Jam! We get a topic from Martha’s boyfriend Dylan and then attempt to create a playable game by the end of the episode.
2019.01.01
- Loot Systems
- Loot Boxes
This week, your nice hosts get into it. Stephen is split on everything, Mark is the bad guy, and it's all Martha's fault.
2018.12.25
- Demoing and Playtesting
- Project Management
- Messages and Meanings
A day late but worth the wait! In this high signal-to-noise roundtable episode, each member of the club picks a topic that they are particularly passionate about:
2018.12.18
- Video Game Immersion
- Main Menus and First Impressions
It's a slightly experimental show this week, as we try to see what a two-topic episode looks like. Also, Martha defends her love of coleslaw, Stephen still doesn't really like VR, and Mark has almost completely lost his voice.
2018.12.11
with Ben Hanson
For an episode 18 months in the making, Ben Hanson, video producer for Game Informer and host of the excellent gaming podcast The Game Informer Show, finally enters the clubhouse f
2018.12.04
- Watching Games
- Narrative in Games
- Board Games
Our 10th(!!!) episode has your nice hosts teetering on the edge of not-so-niceness as they each describe something they just don't get (or don't quite like) in gaming, and hope the other two can bring them around.
2018.11.27
- Gaming Mastery
- Strategy Guides and Wikis
- Designing Party Games
Some firsts in this episode: Our first iTunes review (thanks, Abdiwak!), our first episode of interconnected topics, and our first big ideological disagreement (ooo, drama!).
2018.11.20
- Optimization
- Pokémon
#112
In this week's episode, Mark tackles optimization and Martha attempts to Catch 'em all.
2018.11.15