- Fun in Games
- Porting Your Game
Your nice hosts talk big picture and get deep into the weeds this week. Mark runs Flash at 60fps on the Switch, Ellen makes a Star Trek reference, and Stephen wants more games that aren't fun.
2020.12.31
Nice Replay
Nice Games Jam
It's another Nice Games Jam! This time, our boyfriend Dylan sent in a particularly interesting challenge, asking your nice hosts to design a game where the player's load-out impacts the game's controls.
2020.02.11
- Audio Basics
- Representation in Games
In this episode, your nice hosts make sure you know that Treasure Stack, the game Stephen "is paid to work on," is coming out Friday, March 1st!
2020.02.04
Nice Games Jam
Ellen is back to help out with a Nice Games Jam! Our prompt: create a JRPG-inspired game in under an hour. But like any good JRPG, it took twice as long to complete as expected...
2020.01.28
with August Brown
This week, August Brown (senior producer for Kongregate Publishing) enters the clubhouse to reveal the secrets of successful developer/publisher relationships!
2020.01.21
- Writing for Games
- Intellectual Property and the Public Domain
Your Nice Hosts are back from PodCon 2 and fresh off the Global Game Jam where Martha wrote a game for the first time! We talk all about that experience as well as celebrate Public Domain Day for the first time in 20 years.
2020.01.14
with Marina Kittaka
This week, your nice hosts are joined by Marina Kittaka, artist and co-developer on the upcoming Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.
2020.01.07
"100 times nice." 100th Episode Special
2019.12.31
- Language of Games
- Sequels
This week, Martha admits to piracy, Stephen tells Nintendo to just stop making GameCube controllers already, and Mark tells his favorite video game story which is about buttons because Mark is boring.
2019.12.24
- Scope Creep
- eSports
In this episode, Stephen fights his demons, Martha likes sports now, and Mark learns a lot about both.
2019.01.08
Nice Games Jam
This week on Nice Games Club we are trying out a new type of episode: Nice Games Jam! We get a topic from Martha’s boyfriend Dylan and then attempt to create a playable game by the end of the episode.
2019.01.01
- Loot Systems
- Loot Boxes
This week, your nice hosts get into it. Stephen is split on everything, Mark is the bad guy, and it's all Martha's fault.
2018.12.25
- Demoing and Playtesting
- Project Management
- Messages and Meanings
A day late but worth the wait! In this high signal-to-noise roundtable episode, each member of the club picks a topic that they are particularly passionate about:
2018.12.18
- Video Game Immersion
- Main Menus and First Impressions
It's a slightly experimental show this week, as we try to see what a two-topic episode looks like. Also, Martha defends her love of coleslaw, Stephen still doesn't really like VR, and Mark has almost completely lost his voice.
2018.12.11
with Ben Hanson
For an episode 18 months in the making, Ben Hanson, video producer for Game Informer and host of the excellent gaming podcast The Game Informer Show, finally enters the clubhouse f
2018.12.04