Nicest of 2018
#113
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!
- 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
- Game Dev as a Day Job
- Unions
#111
This week on Nice Games Club we talk all about the labor of love that is making games for a living: how it can be great, how it can be not-so-great and how it could get better.
2018.11.06
with Freya Holmer
#110
Freya Holmér, co-founder of Neat Corporation (makers of VR stealth game Budget Cuts) and creator of Shader Forge, joins the clubhouse remotely from Sweden, while your nice hosts join Freya on her regular gamedev Twitch
2018.10.30
with Krista McCullough
#109
On this week’s episode, your nice hosts talk with local artist/developer and VR Creative at Pixel Farm, Krista McCullough, about VR workflows and a lot more!
2018.10.23
- 90s Consoles
- Video Game Soundtracks
#108
This week your Nice Hosts turn the Club House into a time machine to discuss 90s consoles and listen to some wicked video game soundtracks.
2018.10.17
Code Comment: "Adjacency"
#107
This week’s episode is another edition of Code Comment, where your nice hosts look at the project, code, assets, and design of an indie game to see how it’s made.
2018.10.10