Interview

with Sam Liberty
#434

Your nice hosts have talked a lot over the years about exploitative game design, and this week we brought in an expert on gamification to lay out some of the dark patterns in games that take players' money and time via deceptive fra

2026.05.28
 
with Yuri Lowenthal
#432

In this episode, Yuri Lowenthal, prolific actor and Insomniac's Spider-Man, web-crawls into the clubhouse and does whatever a spider can, assuming a spider can talk into a microphone about the art of acting in video games.

2026.05.21
 
with Andrew Plotkin
#431

Warm weather is on the way and you need to stay hydrated.

2026.05.14
 
with August Brown
#429

We welcome August Brown back into the clubhouse once more to discuss healthy criticism in the workplace, and how to foster that environment in your spaces.

2026.04.30
 
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
 
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
 
with Laura Onderwater
#403

Returning "favorite" Laura Onderwater re-enters the clubhouse to talk about task tracking, naming conventions, and paper trails of various kinds in an engaging discussion on concept art workflows.

2025.08.21
 
with Andy Korth
#402

As is tradition, a couple of episodes after a hundredth we invite one or more of our pals the Korths into the clubhouse.

2025.08.07
 
with Freya Holmér
#396

We welcome Freya Holmér back into the clubhouse to talk about 3D game development for independent game developers.

2025.07.03
 
with Adrian Sandoval
#392

This week in the club house Adrian Sandoval describes how video games are speed running art history. Your nice hosts have their minds blown many times and Steven discovers he might actually like history!?

2025.06.05
 
with Ashley Phipps
#390

The clubhouse welcomes Ashley Phipps, producer for the game Clock Out at 2, to discuss the topic of mental health and discrimination.

2025.05.22
 
with Haley MacLeon
#388

Your nice hosts get a crash course on video game IP law from lawyer and MinnMax cohort, Haley MacLeon.

2025.05.08
 
with Joanna May
#377

We invite Joanna May into the clubhouse to discuss serialization. We get ever so slightly closer to discovering what serialization even is with Joanna's help!

2024.12.12
 
with Lydia Symchych
#375

All of your hosts are together in the Clubhouse for a special interview! Lydia Symchych is an impact game designer who has been working with Ellen over the last year.

2024.11.28
 
with Arvi "Hempuli" Teikari
#373

Releasing 2019's "Baba is You" after more than a decade of making puzzle games was a milestone for this week's guest, but it was also just the beginning of his design journey.

2024.11.15