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
Nice Replay
- 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
- Verisimilitude
- Indie Game Credits
Your nice hosts' pronunciation is on point this week as they say a really hard word a large number of times!
2023.02.02
Nice Thinking
This week, we invite our first guest for Nice Thinking! Adam Clewes-Boyne is putting together an initiative for neurodiversity advocacy and education in the games industry, specifically focused on ADHD.
2023.01.26
- Learning to Use Tools
- Co-Op Games
As the podcast approaches its fifth anniversary, your hosts get a little (more) frivolous.
2023.01.19
with Andrew Eiche
Your nice hosts talk to Andrew Eiche, COO at Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator, Cosmonious High) about the state of VR in 2022, and where VR and VR development tools may be going in the coming years.
2023.01.12
Nice Games Jam
Game designer Osama Dorias returns to the clubhouse to help design a game that can be played remotely, and provides some (much needed?) structure to the Nice Games Jam process.
2023.01.05