- Interactivity vs. Play
- Fail States in Art
#418
Lots of thinking about thinking in this episode as the Nice Hosts attempt to define some core concepts to gameplay. What even is a game? Interactivity? Play? A failstate?!
2025.12.04
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!
with Mark DeLoura
#417
Mark DeLoura's decades-long career in games includes roles ranging from Nintendo engineer to White House senior advisor.
2025.11.27
- Being Honest With Your Work
- The Critical Eye
#416
2025.11.20
Nice Games Jam
#415
This week, Lydia provides all the fun facts about living on a boat while your nice hosts develop a card game based around scurvy management!
2025.11.13
- Naming Files
- Unity Security Vulnerability (2025)
#414
This week features a timeless topic followed by a timely one, both of them pretty important. Lydia prepares for Chicago, Mark shares his slides, and Stephen gonna chill.
2025.11.06
Nice Thinking
#413
In this episode, Lydia and Stephen are rubber ducks for Mark as he talks through his ideas for a suite of Unity plugin tools. Buckle up, there's a lot!
2025.10.30
- Health
- Developing for Speed Runners
#412
Sam! returns to the clubhouse to help your nice hosts decide that Lakitu is no longer a savoir that comes down from the clouds, but since he has a job as a referee, should therefore be wearing a little ref shirt.
2025.10.23
with Sam Baeseman
#411
Your nice hosts welcome 3D artist and Nice Games Alliance board member Sam Baeseman into the clubhouse to talk about how online Discord communities become available and how to become a part of or lead such communities.
2025.10.16
Nice Thinking
#410
It's been awhile, but it's time for another video episode! This week, Mark's colleague Mike Lasch enters the clubhouse to build a digital prototype live on-air!
2025.10.09
Nice Games Jam
#408
We invite Joanna May into the clubhouse again in this supersized episode to design a game about stowing illicit goods into spacecraft as it's being built!
2025.10.02
- 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
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