Nice Replay

  • 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

In this episode, your nice hosts celebrate 100 episodes of Nice Games!

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
 
  • Watching Games
  • Narrative in Games
  • Board Games

Our 10th(!!!) episode has your nice hosts teetering on the edge of not-so-niceness as they each describe something they just don't get (or don't quite like) in gaming, and hope the other two can bring them around.

2018.11.27
 
  • Gaming Mastery
  • Strategy Guides and Wikis
  • Designing Party Games

Some firsts in this episode: Our first iTunes review (thanks, Abdiwak!), our first episode of interconnected topics, and our first big ideological disagreement (ooo, drama!).

2018.11.20