- Creative Direction
- Time Management
#355
Time is money, friend! Okay, not always. Sometimes time is a puzzle involving many interlocking responsibilities.
2024.07.11
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 Ron Gilbert
#354
Your nice hosts welcome famed designer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park) into the clubhouse to discuss the virtues of inexperience, friction for its own sake, how it's all about story, and it's puzzles all the way down.
2024.07.05
- Code Libraries
- Game Overs
#353
This week, your nice hosts talk about code that isn't yours and ask about the natural conclusion of the narrative. Mark is handy, Ellen kinda wants to add a note, and Stephen is grounded.
2024.06.27
with Ryan Adams
#352
This week we invite Ryan Adams, of Corgi Art House fame, to discuss his expertise in game production.
2024.06.20
- Pivoting
- Working on Multiple Projects
#351
This episode recounts each guests' recent project - Stephen is developing a new spirit for Spirit Island, Ellen is getting into music, and Mark talks at length about his car.
2024.06.13
with Kobe Anthony (aka MEMODEMO)
#350
As MEMODEMO, Kobe Anthony creates music for video games and inspired by video games. In this episode, we learn about Kobe's creative process for composing music.
2024.06.06
Nice Thinking
#349
Stephen brings a half-baked thought into the clubhouse for this Nice Thinking episode: how can we improve dialogue systems? He's got some opinions, which Mark and Ellen immediately debunk, but it leads to some engaging conversation.
2024.05.29
Your game has a message... did you write it?
#348
Last month, Mark gave a talk at the IGDATC Gamedev Meeting about what it might mean to take game development seriously as an artistic practice, theorizing that video games are still a very young and immature medium by that stand
- King Making
- Thinky Bits (Off-Screen Gameplay)
#347
In the episode, Mark, Ellen, and Stephen talk local events, including (don’t worry everyone’s fine) a fire in the clubhouse’s building, construction, and the games they are playing, so if you are just here for the topics, go ahead and sk
2024.05.16
with Chris Bergman
#346
Most of our favorite games aren't created by solo devs; they're created by groups of people. And, when you get a bunch of people together in a group, culture happens.
2024.05.10
- South by Southwest 2024
- Player Friction
#345
In this more games-adjacent episode, Mark recounts his experiences at the South by Southwest conference this year!
2024.05.02
with Seth Fulkerson
#344
In this Episode Seth Fulkerson joins us in the clubhouse to talk the game engine, GameMaker.
2024.04.25
with Laura Onderwater
#340
We’re joined this week by Laura Onderwater, friend of the show! Laura is an experienced concept artist currently working with Greensky Games.
2024.04.19
with Alyssa Walles and Audi Sorlie
#343
Your nice hosts conclude their GDC 2024 coverage with a pair of interviews they conducted at the show. Mark catches a post-show cold, Stephen gets over his, and Ellen thought everything sounded great.
GDC 2024 Special (Part 2)
#342
And now, the conclusion (sorta!), as tour nice hosts recount the back half of the week at this year's GDC.
2024.04.04