| Comedy in Games |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
199
|
"Random hilarious nonsense."
|
0:44:16 |
| Games for Young Children |
Game Design, Marketing |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
199
|
"Random hilarious nonsense."
|
0:10:42 |
| Messages and Meanings (revisit) |
Game Design, Meta |
Stephen McGregor |
200
|
"A Spark Plug." 200th Episode Special
|
1:13:45 |
| Learning Through Games (revisit) |
Game Design, Meta, UI / UX |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
200
|
"A Spark Plug." 200th Episode Special
|
0:52:05 |
| Worldbuilding |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
201
|
"Not like Beauty and the Beast."
|
57:08 |
| Fail States |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
201
|
"Not like Beauty and the Beast."
|
32:28 |
| Tips for Designing Games for Learning |
Events, Game Design, UI / UX |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
203
|
Tips for Designing Games for Learning
|
n/a |
| Actionable Gamification by Yu-kai Chou |
Game Design, Tools |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
205
|
"Mindworm husbandry."
|
0:40:44 |
| 4X Games |
Game Design, Gaming |
Martha Megarry, Stephen McGregor |
205
|
"Mindworm husbandry."
|
0:05:08 |
| What We Did On Our Winter Break (2021) |
Game Design, IRL, Meta |
Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Dale LaCroix, Ellen Burns-Johnson |
207
|
"It’s March tomorrow."
|
n/a |
| Jank |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
208
|
"All of this mess that I'm throwing at you."
|
0:39:52 |
| Finding Your Artistic Voice |
Game Design, IRL |
Stephen McGregor |
209
|
"Go pound a Monster."
|
0:48:12 |
| Building Blocks of Design |
Art, Game Design, IRL, Tabletop, Tools |
Osama Dorias |
211
|
Building Blocks of Design
|
n/a |
| Playing Outside Your Genre / Difficulty |
Accessibility, Game Design |
Adia Alderson, Dylan Skerbitz |
213
|
Evil Games Club 6!
|
0:05:21 |
| Cheating |
Game Design, Gaming |
Dale LaCroix |
213
|
Evil Games Club 6!
|
0:34:48 |
| Gameful UX |
Game Design, UI / UX |
Allan Rust |
215
|
Gameful UX
|
n/a |
| Fingeance Portmortem |
Game Design, Production |
Stephen McGregor |
216
|
"They wouldn't fully respawn." Fingeance Postmortem
|
n/a |
| Novelty |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
218
|
"Kids like cubes these days."
|
12:27 |
| Intuition |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
218
|
"Kids like cubes these days."
|
45:19 |
| Therapeutic Games |
Game Design, Tabletop |
Adam Davis |
219
|
Therapeutic Games
|
n/a |
| Storytelling |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
222
|
"The anitidote to hype."
|
0:10:00 |
| Grind |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
224
|
"To whom it may concern."
|
0:47:59 |
| Giblet the Trash Can |
Game Design, IRL |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
227
|
Giblet the Trash Can
|
n/a |
| Designing for VR |
Game Design, IRL, VR / AR / XR |
Dana Ware |
230
|
Designing for VR
|
n/a |
| Guns |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
234
|
"Godot! God-ot? Godot."
|
0:43:14 |
| Frustration |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
236
|
"Forged by that experience."
|
0:10:34 |
| Game Shows |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
237
|
"The drama of the reveal."
|
0:33:38 |
| Prototypes |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
237
|
"The drama of the reveal."
|
5:15 |
| Illusions of Choice |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
238
|
"Just-In-Time Compiler."
|
37:28 |
| Relaxing Games |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
239
|
"Oh is that Rugrats?"
|
0:05:30 |
| Commitment |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
239
|
"Oh is that Rugrats?"
|
0:35:00 |
| Sledgehammer Bride |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
240
|
Sledgehammer Bride
|
n/a |
| Silent Protagonists |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
241
|
"..."
|
0:43:58 |
| Power-ups |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
243
|
“The different beams I can do.”
|
0:23:09 |
| Co-Op Games |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
244
|
"Maximum Whooo!"
|
53:10.0 |
| Hidden Information |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
245
|
"Gamedev is jazz."
|
0:36:33 |
| Player Count |
Game Design, Hardware |
Mark LaCroix |
245
|
"Gamedev is jazz."
|
0:08:33 |
| Designing like a Dungeon Master |
Game Design, Narrative, Tabletop |
Katrina Ostrander, Jon Kiehne |
247
|
Designing like a Dungeon Master
|
n/a |
| Joy vs. Fun |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
249
|
"I got all the moons."
|
44:00 |
| Adventurer, Please |
Game Design, Tabletop |
|
250
|
Game Dev London does Nice Games Jam
|
0:41:19 |
| Safecracker!! |
Game Design, Tabletop |
|
250
|
Game Dev London does Nice Games Jam
|
0:18:36 |
| Games With Your Dogs |
Game Design, Physical Games |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
254
|
Games With Your Dogs
|
0:10:25 |
| Diagramming Gameplay Loops |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
262
|
"Start fresh, in a certain way."
|
0:15:20 |
| Teaching Gamedev to Young People |
Game Design, IRL |
Truman Simpson |
263
|
Teaching Gamedev to Young People
|
n/a |
| Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again! |
Game Design, IRL |
Chris Totten |
264
|
Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again!
|
n/a |
| Narrative Pacing |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
266
|
"That’s not a friendship!"
|
0:45:21 |
| Off-Ramps |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
268
|
"No referees?!"
|
0:50:00 |
| Curling |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
268
|
"No referees?!"
|
0:10:15 |
| Level and Interaction Design |
Game Design |
Nina Marotta |
269
|
Level and Interaction Design
|
n/a |
| Should we design for Killers? |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
270
|
"Killed the flightmaster, killed the griffin..."
|
0:49:50 |
| Inspiration from Behavioral Economics |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
274
|
"I’m not coding your game, y’all figure that out."
|
0:40:58 |
| Broken games |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
276
|
"Always be the banker."
|
0:24:00 |
| Postmortem: "Scrapeboard" |
Events, Game Design, Hardware |
Frank DeMarco, Blake Andrews |
277
|
Postmortem: "Scrapeboard"
|
n/a |
| Verisimilitude |
Art, Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
278
|
"Insert interesting car here."
|
0:05:23 |
| Designing a Spiritual Successor |
Game Design, Gaming, Production |
Dmitry Samartsev, aka Special Bread |
279
|
Designing a Spiritual Successor
|
n/a |
| Bringing Other Media into Games |
Art, Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
280
|
"Two bits of goop."
|
0:54:36 |
| Keeping a Game Design Journal |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
280
|
"Two bits of goop."
|
0:16:16 |
| Idle Games |
Game Design, Gaming |
Mark LaCroix |
282
|
"Today’s the day that I screw things up."
|
0:31:45 |
| The Ethics of Engagement |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
284
|
"Shiny rocks get me every time."
|
0:36:22 |
| Rhythm Rumble |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
285
|
Revisiting Rhythm Rumble
|
n/a |
| Cameras |
Game Design, Programming |
Stephen McGregor |
286
|
"I realize you were making a more point thing?"
|
0:09:27 |
| Fusing Genres |
Game Design, Marketing |
Millie Walker |
287
|
Fusing Genres
|
n/a |
| Characterization in Pet Management Games |
Art, Game Design, Gaming |
Sarah Yu, Beth |
290
|
Characterization in Pet Management Games
|
n/a |
| Visual Composition |
Art, Game Design, UI / UX |
Mark LaCroix |
294
|
"Layers and layers of hair."
|
0:17:12 |
| Nice Thinking Notes |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
295
|
Pizza Land
|
n/a |
| Player Trust |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
296
|
"Metroid is very serious."
|
0:48:39 |
| Secrets & Easter Eggs |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
296
|
"Metroid is very serious."
|
0:24:43 |
| Postmortem: "C.A.R.L." |
Game Design, Marketing, Production |
Andrew Kenady |
297
|
Postmortem: "C.A.R.L."
|
n/a |
| Skill Trees |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
298
|
"One size bigger and red."
|
46:38 |
| Tiny Horrors |
Game Design, Narrative |
Rosalie Vile |
299
|
Tiny Horrors
|
n/a |
| Endings |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
302
|
"I love it when you kinda agree."
|
0:13:40 |
| The Taxonomy of Horse Games |
Game Design, Gaming, Production |
Alice Ruppert |
303
|
The Taxonomy of Horse Games
|
n/a |
| Stephen's "Rule of Threes" |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
304
|
"Play thrice, and make thrice."
|
0:17:30 |
| The Psychology of Animation |
Art, Game Design, UI / UX |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
304
|
"Play thrice, and make thrice."
|
0:48:16 |
| Unreal Engine |
Game Design, Production, Programming, Tools |
Zack Gilbertson |
307
|
Unreal Engine for Indies
|
n/a |
