| Player Friction |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
345
|
"Everything is everything."
|
1:08:31 |
| Creative Career Paths |
Art, Game Design, IRL, Misc. |
Will Bredbeck |
335
|
Creative Career Paths
|
n/a |
| Game-based Learning |
Events, Game Design, Production |
Jennifer Javornik |
331
|
Game-based Learning
|
n/a |
| Excerpt from a conversation with Dr. David Chandross |
Art, Game Design, Misc., Narrative |
|
330
|
Serious Play Conference Special
|
0:28:07 |
| Excerpt from a conversation with Roz Hussin |
Game Design, IRL, Misc. |
|
330
|
Serious Play Conference Special
|
0:45:07 |
| Megagames |
Game Design, Gaming, Physical Games |
Trenton Greyoak |
329
|
Megagames
|
n/a |
| Save Scumming |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
328
|
"Smarter, more evolved."
|
31:57:0 |
| Horror Games 201 |
Game Design |
James Pratt, Torple Dook, Max Kunze |
327
|
Horror Games 201 (with multiple guests)
|
n/a |
| Elegance |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
326
|
"The opposing metric of jank."
|
0:33:00 |
| Horror Games 101 |
Game Design |
Samuel Guglielmo, Nikk F, Conner Rush, Schera Wyss, Henry Hoare |
325
|
Horror Games 101 (with multiple guests)
|
n/a |
| Grind |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
320
|
"Stephen, explain this."
|
06:08 |
| Putting the Real World in Games |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
318
|
"Sad or fascinating?"
|
0:50:22 |
| Cheating, Part 2 |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
316
|
Cheating, Part 2
|
0:16:58 |
| Copying Others |
Art, Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
314
|
"Salt, in everything?"
|
n/a |
| Player Motivations |
Game Design, Gaming |
Mark LaCroix |
314
|
"Salt, in everything?"
|
0:26:57 |
| Companion Characters |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
312
|
"Ask your friends."
|
0:46:22 |
| Nice Thinking about NiceGameJam Games with Potential |
Game Design |
|
309
|
The Nice Board Game Industrial Complex, a Nice Games Club Skunkworks Project
|
0:46:06 |
| Fall Damage |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
308
|
"You've probably seen them in Zelda."
|
56:40 |
| Lessons from Tears of the Kingdom |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
308
|
"You've probably seen them in Zelda."
|
0:26:40 |
| Unreal Engine |
Game Design, Production, Programming, Tools |
Zack Gilbertson |
307
|
Unreal Engine for Indies
|
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 |
| The Taxonomy of Horse Games |
Game Design, Gaming, Production |
Alice Ruppert |
303
|
The Taxonomy of Horse Games
|
n/a |
| Endings |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
302
|
"I love it when you kinda agree."
|
0:13:40 |
| Tiny Horrors |
Game Design, Narrative |
Rosalie Vile |
299
|
Tiny Horrors
|
n/a |
| Skill Trees |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
298
|
"One size bigger and red."
|
46:38 |
| Postmortem: "C.A.R.L." |
Game Design, Marketing, Production |
Andrew Kenady |
297
|
Postmortem: "C.A.R.L."
|
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 |
| Nice Thinking Notes |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
295
|
Pizza Land
|
n/a |
| Visual Composition |
Art, Game Design, UI / UX |
Mark LaCroix |
294
|
"Layers and layers of hair."
|
0:17:12 |
| Characterization in Pet Management Games |
Art, Game Design, Gaming |
Sarah Yu, Beth |
290
|
Characterization in Pet Management Games
|
n/a |
| Fusing Genres |
Game Design, Marketing |
Millie Walker |
287
|
Fusing Genres
|
n/a |
| Cameras |
Game Design, Programming |
Stephen McGregor |
286
|
"I realize you were making a more point thing?"
|
0:09:27 |
| Rhythm Rumble |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
285
|
Revisiting Rhythm Rumble
|
n/a |
| The Ethics of Engagement |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
284
|
"Shiny rocks get me every time."
|
0:36:22 |
| Idle Games |
Game Design, Gaming |
Mark LaCroix |
282
|
"Today’s the day that I screw things up."
|
0:31:45 |
| 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 |
| Designing a Spiritual Successor |
Game Design, Gaming, Production |
Dmitry Samartsev, aka Special Bread |
279
|
Designing a Spiritual Successor
|
n/a |
| Verisimilitude |
Art, Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
278
|
"Insert interesting car here."
|
0:05:23 |
| Postmortem: "Scrapeboard" |
Events, Game Design, Hardware |
Frank DeMarco, Blake Andrews |
277
|
Postmortem: "Scrapeboard"
|
n/a |
| Broken games |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
276
|
"Always be the banker."
|
0:24:00 |
| 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 |
| Should we design for Killers? |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
270
|
"Killed the flightmaster, killed the griffin..."
|
0:49:50 |
| Level and Interaction Design |
Game Design |
Nina Marotta |
269
|
Level and Interaction Design
|
n/a |
| Off-Ramps |
Game Design, Gaming |
Stephen McGregor |
268
|
"No referees?!"
|
0:50:00 |
| Curling |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
268
|
"No referees?!"
|
0:10:15 |
| Narrative Pacing |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
266
|
"That’s not a friendship!"
|
0:45:21 |
| Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again! |
Game Design, IRL |
Chris Totten |
264
|
Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again!
|
n/a |
| Teaching Gamedev to Young People |
Game Design, IRL |
Truman Simpson |
263
|
Teaching Gamedev to Young People
|
n/a |
| Diagramming Gameplay Loops |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
262
|
"Start fresh, in a certain way."
|
0:15:20 |
| Games With Your Dogs |
Game Design, Physical Games |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
254
|
Games With Your Dogs
|
0:10:25 |
| 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 |
| Joy vs. Fun |
Game Design |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
249
|
"I got all the moons."
|
44:00 |
| Designing like a Dungeon Master |
Game Design, Narrative, Tabletop |
Katrina Ostrander, Jon Kiehne |
247
|
Designing like a Dungeon Master
|
n/a |
| 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 |
| Co-Op Games |
Game Design |
Stephen McGregor |
244
|
"Maximum Whooo!"
|
53:10.0 |
| Power-ups |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
243
|
“The different beams I can do.”
|
0:23:09 |
| Silent Protagonists |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
241
|
"..."
|
0:43:58 |
| Sledgehammer Bride |
Game Design, Narrative |
Stephen McGregor |
240
|
Sledgehammer Bride
|
n/a |
| 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 |
| Illusions of Choice |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
238
|
"Just-In-Time Compiler."
|
37:28 |
| 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 |
| Frustration |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
236
|
"Forged by that experience."
|
0:10:34 |
| Guns |
Game Design |
Mark LaCroix |
234
|
"Godot! God-ot? Godot."
|
0:43:14 |
| Designing for VR |
Game Design, IRL, VR / AR / XR |
Dana Ware |
230
|
Designing for VR
|
n/a |
| Giblet the Trash Can |
Game Design, IRL |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
227
|
Giblet the Trash Can
|
n/a |
| Grind |
Game Design, Gaming |
Ellen Burns-Johnson |
224
|
"To whom it may concern."
|
0:47:59 |
| Storytelling |
Game Design, Narrative |
Mark LaCroix |
222
|
"The anitidote to hype."
|
0:10:00 |
| Therapeutic Games |
Game Design, Tabletop |
Adam Davis |
219
|
Therapeutic Games
|
n/a |
