Special

Horror Games 201 (with multiple guests)
#327

Nice Games Club continues to celebrate the Spooky Season with the second-ever “Nice Games Panel”. Our panelists include creators known for their work on horror games: James Pratt, TorpalDork, and Max Kunze.

2023.10.19
 
Horror Games 101 (with multiple guests)
#325

It's the first-ever "Nice Games Panel," in which we invite multiple guests on the show to discuss something interesting!

2023.10.07
 
Much Ado About Unity (with Freya Holmér)
#324

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?

2023.09.22
 
Cheating, Part 2
#316

In the second installment of your nice hosts' discussion about cheating in games, we talk about the nature of cheating in contemporary video games: what it looks like, what factors shape it, and how worried we gamedevs should be about it

2023.08.04
 
The State of "Dogpile!"
#311

(Some of) your nice hosts went to Origins Game Fair last week! Aside from taking in the show and learning more about the world of board games, they were there to attend the launch of their card game Glom.

2023.06.29
 
GDC 2023 Special
#300

We hear from "California Business Mark" who spent the week on-location at GDC 2023.

2023.04.01
 
Nicest of 2022
#291

The year 2022 in review! Yes, it's now halfway through February, but being a few weeks late is part of the annual "Nicest Of" tradition.

2023.02.16
 
"Time is just a search bar away."
#288

It's the show's sixth anniversary!

2022.11.26
 
GDC 2022 Special (Part 2)
#258

Settle in, because we could only trim the 5+ hours of interviews we recorded last month at GDC down to 2 hours. Of course, if you want to hear all of it, there's always the Patreon... 😉

2022.04.21
 
GDC 2022 Special (Part 1)
#257

Your nice hosts, plus Dale, traveled to California for free bagels (and other reasons) in this first part of our yearly GDC special.

2022.03.31
 
Game Dev London does Nice Games Jam
#250

For our 250th episode, your nice hosts play a few rounds of a pair of games made by the folks from Game Dev London as part of their very own Nice Games Jam!

2022.03.03
 
"Additional things and stuff." What We Did On Our Winter Break (2021-22)
#248

Hiatus flew by this year for your nice hosts, but they're back in the newly-renovated clubhouse with their annual recounting of what they got up to while away.

2022.02.17
 
Nicest of 2021
#246

It's that season—there's snow on the ground, and it's time for the annual "year in review" episode.

2021.12.17