Nice Plays: Borderlands 2 (2012)
#59
2017.12.09
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!
- Fighting Games
- Character Roleplaying
#58
This week, Martha hosts her first roundtable episode, Mark starts another argument, and Stephen gets sassy about his favorite game genre.
2017.11.28
- Imposter Syndrome (revisited)
- Conferences / Gaming Events (revisited)
- VR Development (revisited)
- Prototyping (revisited)
- Messages and Meanings (revisited)
- Strategy Guides (revisited)
- The Future of Nice Games Club
#57
It’s a very special episode, as your nice hosts celebrate one year(!!!) of Nice Games Club by revising their favorite topics from the show’s first 50+ episodes.
2017.11.21
with Art Allen
#56
2017.11.14
Nice Plays: Super Mario Bros. 2 [Japan] (1986)
#55
In this episode, Martha (and then Stephen) are tortured by bad level design and user-hostile game mechanics in the original Japanese version of Super Mario Bros.
2017.11.07
Nice Plays: Color Jumper (2017)
#54
In this episode, Mark plays a new indie release by a Twin Cities developer. He dies a lot, and it's only partially the controller's fault.
2017.11.07
- Upcoming Games
- Release Dates
- Win Conditions
#53
In our first (and likely only ever) Halloween episode, Martha haunts the clubhouse, Mark delivers some bad Zelda-related news to Stephen, and from Stephen’s topic a thousand flowers bloom.
2017.11.01
with Ben Franks
#52
This week, we talk to Ben Franks, Dreamcast aficionado, and discuss the various ways its preservation has taken form. Your nice hosts also take a short trip down memory lane as we reminisce about our favorite video game hardware.
2017.10.24
Nice Plays: Thirty Flights of Loving (2012)
#50
In this episode (Nice Games Club's 50th!), Martha plays (and finishes!) a game Stephen once recommended to Mark (but Mark forgot about).
2017.10.10
Nice Plays: Pajama Sam 2 (1998)
#49
In this episode, Mark plays one of Martha's favorites, the classic PC point and click adventure Pajama Sam 2, and learns why she loves and is inspired by this game's development studio so much.
2017.10.10
- Scope Creep
- eSports
#51
In this episode, Stephen fights his demons, Martha likes sports now, and Mark learns a lot about both.
2017.10.07
- DLC and Expansions
- Genre in Games
#48
This week, Stephen finally gets a theme song, Mark plays devil's advocate, and Martha gets dangerously close to a topic your nice hosts swore to never talk about on the show.
2017.10.02
- Crafting Systems
- Game Jams
- Bad Gamedev Habits
#47
2017.09.26
with Dale LaCroix
#46
Well, it finally happened. Dale LaCroix, (aka: "#1 Playtester," one-third of Evil Games Club, and Mark's wife) joins your nice hosts in the clubhouse to talk about playtesting!
2017.09.20
- Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers
- Making Your Own Tools
#45
This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to
2017.09.12