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Topic Category Host or Guest # Episode Starts at
Your Internal Battery Gaming, IRL Ellen Burns-Johnson 209 "Go pound a Monster." 0:24:56
Your Game’s Website Marketing Martha Megarry 37 "Ugly and hard to use." 0:08:13
XOXO Festival Events Martha Megarry 148 "Intentionally random." 0:19:53
Writing for Games Narrative Martha Megarry 115 "Steal this episode." 0:15:15
Writing for Games IRL, Narrative Anna C Webster 315 Writing for Games n/a
Writing for Games Game Design, Narrative Adia Alderson 160 Evil Games Club 4! 0:10:00
Worldbuilding Game Design, Narrative Mark LaCroix 201 "Not like Beauty and the Beast." 57:08
World Building in Platformers Narrative Mark LaCroix 158 "Space ferrets lift off!" Widget Satchel Special 0:40:38
Working with Family IRL Stephen McGregor 182 "I will not threaten you with a noogie." 0:42:09
Working on a Bigger Team Production Julia Keren-Detar 322 Working on a Bigger Team n/a
Working From Home IRL Stephen McGregor 169 "The new normal." 0:09:00
Working From Home IRL Dale LaCroix 189 Evil Games Club 5! 0:04:47
Workflows IRL, Production Aubrey Jane Scott 85 Workflows n/a
Work/Life Balance IRL Stephen McGregor 12 "Can I tweet about this?" 0:18:22
Work/Life Balance IRL Stephen McGregor 151 "I don't always want to do that." 0:49:10
Work Weeks Production August Brown 255 Work Weeks n/a
Work Spaces IRL, Tools Stephen McGregor 76 "Smart lazy." 0:52:06
Win Conditions Game Design Stephen McGregor 53 "Boo!" 0:31:07
Wikis and Guides Gaming Ellen Burns-Johnson 251 “Done enough.” 0:46:47
Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories Physical Games Ellen Burns-Johnson 288 "Time is just a search bar away." 0:08:49
What We're Working On (in 2021) Nicest Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 206 Nicest of 2020 1:12:17
What We Did On Our Winter Break (2023) IRL, Meta 337 "The Roboston Sessions" n/a
What We Did On Our Winter Break (2022) IRL, Meta Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 292 "Leveling out the table." n/a
What We Did On Our Winter Break (2022) IRL, Meta Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 248 "Additional things and stuff." n/a
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
What We Did On Our Winter Break (2020) IRL, Meta 162 "We are making progress toward that, then." n/a
What We Did On Our Winter Break (2019) IRL, Meta 114 What We Did On Our Winter Break n/a
Westworld as a Video Game Misc. Mark LaCroix 3 "It's against the law to stop." 0:02:00
Watching Games Gaming, IRL Mark LaCroix 10 "Try it once." 0:01:28
Wandering into Game Development IRL Jamaal Sawyer-Dymski, Greg Borreson 305 Wandering into Game Development n/a
VR Workflows Production, VR / AR / XR Krista McCullough 109 VR Workflows n/a
VR in 2022 and its Future VR / AR / XR Andrew Eiche 273 The State of VR in 2022 n/a
VR Development (revisited) VR / AR / XR Martha Megarry 57 "This misinformation vortex." One year of Nice Games Club! 0:24:50
VR Development VR / AR / XR Martha Megarry 1 "We in this." 0:55:57
Visual Worldbuilding Art Laura Onderwater 340 Visual Worldbuilding n/a
Visual Novels Game Design, Marketing, Narrative Gloria Kim, Lane Davis 93 Visual Novels n/a
Visual Composition Art, Game Design, UI / UX Mark LaCroix 294 "Layers and layers of hair." 0:17:12
Visual Coding Programming, Tools Alina Matson 252 Visual Coding n/a
Virtual Reality VR / AR / XR Andrew Fladeboe 97 Virtual Reality n/a
Violence in Games Game Design Dev Jana 25 Violence in Games n/a
Video Game Soundtracks Audio Stephen McGregor 108 "All that and a bag of chips." 0:38:30
Video Game Nostalgia Gaming Dylan Skerbitz 160 Evil Games Club 4! 1:01:15
Video Game Juice Game Design Lane Davis 29 "I am a Juice Journeyman!" 0:35:18
Video Game Immersion Gaming Stephen McGregor 42 "You can see the cabbage in it." 0:05:54
Video Game Events Events Martha Megarry 127 “When two colors of paint really love each other…” 0:09:21
Version Control Production, Tools Martha Megarry 26 "The Stevechievement." 0:03:58
Verisimilitude Art, Game Design Ellen Burns-Johnson 278 "Insert interesting car here." 0:05:23
User Interfaces Game Design Mark LaCroix 19 "Pick up all the things." 0:42:26
User Interfaces Art, UI / UX Jajeev Nithiananda 145 User Interfaces n/a
Upcoming Games Gaming Mark LaCroix 53 "Boo!" 0:04:41
Unreal Engine Game Design, Production, Programming, Tools Zack Gilbertson 307 Unreal Engine for Indies n/a
Unlocks Game Design Stephen McGregor 163 "Please cheat, I don't care." 0:06:19
Unity Runtime Fee and Subsequent Policy Correction IRL, Tools Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson, Freya Holmér 324 Much Ado About Unity (with Freya Holmér) n/a
Unit Testing Programming Martha Megarry 133 “That wasn’t the angle I was going for.” 0:41:31
Unions IRL Martha Megarry 111 "Game workers unite!" 0:38:53
Tutorials Game Design, UI / UX Stephen McGregor 90 "Press A to jump." 0:41:51
Turn-Based RPGs Gaming Martha Megarry 101 "Don’t start with me." 0:52:15
Transmedia IRL Felix Foster, Lane Davis 13 Co-op Recap: Transmedia n/a
Train Jam Interviews Events Dylan Skerbitz 17 GDC 2017 Special (Part 1) 0:13:13
Train Jam Events Martha Megarry 17 GDC 2017 Special (Part 1) 0:00:58
Tools of the Trade Tools Martha Megarry 12 "Can I tweet about this?" 0:32:33
Tips for Designing Games for Learning Events, Game Design, UI / UX Ellen Burns-Johnson 203 Tips for Designing Games for Learning n/a
Tiny Horrors Game Design, Narrative Rosalie Vile 299 Tiny Horrors n/a
Therapeutic Games Game Design, Tabletop Adam Davis 219 Therapeutic Games n/a
The Taxonomy of Horse Games Game Design, Gaming, Production Alice Ruppert 303 The Taxonomy of Horse Games n/a
The State of "Dogpile!" IRL, Tabletop Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 311 The State of "Dogpile!" n/a
The Psychology of Animation Art, Game Design, UI / UX Ellen Burns-Johnson 304 "Play thrice, and make thrice." 0:48:16
The New Clubhouse IRL, Meta Mark LaCroix 235 The New Clubhouse n/a
The MIX 2019 Events Mark LaCroix 124 GDC 2019 Special 0:49:05
The Logistics of Moving On IRL, Production Zach Barth 293 The Logistics of Moving On n/a
The GDC That Wasn't Events, IRL 168 "GDC" 2020 Special 0:12:40
The Gaming Press Gaming, IRL, Marketing Ben Hanson 88 The Gaming Press n/a
The Future of Nice Games Club Meta 57 "This misinformation vortex." One year of Nice Games Club! 1:13:57
The Ethics of Engagement Game Design Ellen Burns-Johnson 284 "Shiny rocks get me every time." 0:36:22
Team Building IRL, Production Stephen McGregor 123 "Does this game mechanic spark joy?" 0:01:57