with Rick Stemm
In this episode your nice hosts welcome Rick Stemm of PikPok to the clubhouse to talk about what happens after a game gets greenlit.
2024.02.29
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!
- Secrets & Easter Eggs
- Player Trust
In this episode, Mark makes up a reason to take a road trip, Ellen outwits everyone, and Stephen was also there.
2024.02.22
Nice Games Jam
2024.02.15
- CSS
- Skill Trees
2024.02.08
- Branding & Iconography
- The Ethics of Engagement
It's spooky season! Stephen is SO over it, but he can't escape all the scary stuff happening in this week's episode.
2024.02.01
Nice Games Jam
It's been a while but your nice hosts come up with a game in roughly an hour, this one for the cat owners out there! After a fairly long meta, we get into the mind of a cat and design a competitive game for them to play.
2024.01.25
Much Ado About Unity (with Freya Holmér)
Earlier today, Unity issued an update to their controversial "runtime fee" policy introduced last week. What changed? What didn't? How could this have even happened? What does it mean going forward? Can we ever trust Unity again?
2024.01.18
- Pre-production
- Idle Games
Your nice hosts start off strong with an excellently performed intro, and it just gets better from there!
2024.01.11
with Zach Barth
Your nice hosts invite Zachtronics founder Zach Barth to discuss the closing of the studio and the logistics of moving on from that.
2024.01.04
Cheating (omnibus edition)
This year, Ellen thought a lot about cheating in games. So your nice hosts kept doing episodes about it. Three in total over this last summer.
2023.12.28
Nicest of 2023
#336
The clubhouse continues the annual tradition of reviewing the past year. But first they need to talk about Doctor Who and new Minnesota state flag.
with Will Bredbeck
#335
Will went to school for illustration. After many plot twists—including a bike accident, leading a team of animators, and climbing mountains in Alaska—he ended up working in games.
2023.12.14
Nice Games Jam
#334
This week, the clubhouse becomes the birdhouse; we're talking pigeons! Dale created a prompt inspired by Ellen's activities as a child and she bombards your nice hosts with a TON of pigeon facts! We somehow designed a game out of it!
2023.12.08
- Debug Functionality
- Polish
#333
Your nice hosts start this episode with some personal updates, and (spoiler) it does not "go quick" as planned, then take on two really fascinating production topics.
2023.11.30
with John Donkin and Rob Donkin
#332
In this episode the brothers Rob and John Donkin of BadViking join the hosts in the clubhouse for a frank discussion on goals and expectations, scoping, and setting milestone timelines, and making feedback useful.
2023.11.23