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Your nice hosts have covered hundreds of topics over the years, so we've categorized them here! Select a category, or browse the whole list. You can sort by topic name, episode name, or episode number.
Topic Category Host or Guest # Episode Starts at
Input Methods and Controls Hardware Stephen McGregor 41 "Proper ones and twos." 0:01:29
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
Instructions Tabletop Ellen Burns-Johnson 364 Player Personas n/a
Instructions Game Design, Misc., UI / UX Mark LaCroix, Ellen Burns-Johnson 362 "Apply your context, thusly." 0:07:31
Intellectual Property and the Public Domain News, Production Mark LaCroix 115 "Steal this episode." 0:37:57
Interactive Fiction Narrative Adia Alderson 6 Co-op Recap: Interactive Fiction n/a
Interdisciplinary Communication Production Stephen McGregor 289 "You lost all your dragons." 48:44
International Age Ratings Systems Marketing Mark LaCroix 136 "E for Everybody!" 0:15:29
Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers Audio, Game Design Martha Megarry 45 "Qapla'!" 0:03:31
Intuition Game Design Ellen Burns-Johnson 218 "Kids like cubes these days." 45:19
Jank Game Design Stephen McGregor 208 "All of this mess that I'm throwing at you." 0:39:52
Joy vs. Fun Game Design Ellen Burns-Johnson 249 "I got all the moons." 44:00
Keeping a Game Design Journal Game Design Ellen Burns-Johnson 280 "Two bits of goop." 0:16:16
King Making Game Design Stephen McGregor 347 "A slow meat computer" 0:23:00
Language of Games Game Design Martha Megarry 94 "Somebody's first episode." 0:11:31
Leadership IRL, Production Ellen Burns-Johnson 177 "How Quality Is It?" 0:24:37
Leadership IRL, Production Frani Esquenazi 317 Leadership n/a
Learning a Game Engine Programming, Tools Ellen Burns-Johnson 234 "Godot! God-ot? Godot." 0:13:05
Learning Through Games Game Design, UI / UX Ellen Burns-Johnson 75 Learning Through Games n/a
Learning Through Games (revisit) Game Design, Meta, UI / UX Ellen Burns-Johnson 200 "A Spark Plug." 200th Episode Special 0:52:05
Learning to Use Tools Misc., Tools Ellen Burns-Johnson 244 "Maximum Whooo!" 14:05
Lessons from Tears of the Kingdom Game Design Mark LaCroix 308 "You've probably seen them in Zelda." 0:26:40
Level and Interaction Design Game Design Nina Marotta 269 Level and Interaction Design n/a
Level Design Game Design Mark LaCroix 96 "But WE know what we're talking about." 0:14:19
Level Editors Game Design, Programming, Tools, UI / UX Charles McGregor 183 Level Editors n/a
Licensing IRL, Production Mark LaCroix 310 "What's a little grand larceny?" 0:10:27
LIVE from GlitchCon 2017 Events, IRL Rebekah Saltsman, Adam Saltsman 27 LIVE from GlitchCon 2017 n/a
Lives and Continues Game Design Stephen McGregor 130 “Once more with feeling!” 0:38:52
Local Releases (2018) News 113 Nicest of 2018 n/a
Local Releases (2019) News 161 Nicest of 2019 0:02:26
Local Releases (2020) News 206 Nicest of 2020 0:20:56
Local Releases (2021) IRL Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 246 Nicest of 2021 0:13:45
Localization Accessibility, Production, Programming Mark LaCroix 156 "All your maps are belong to us." 0:18:42
Localization Systems Production, Programming, UI / UX Mark LaCroix 121 "I definitely thought of that ahead of time." 0:07:03
Loot Boxes Gaming, Marketing Martha Megarry 63 "I have so much feelings..." 0:29:30
Loot Systems Game Design Stephen McGregor 63 "I have so much feelings..." 0:03:58
Losing IRL Stephen McGregor 37 "Ugly and hard to use." 1:06:40
Lusory Attitude Gaming, IRL Ellen Burns-Johnson 302 "I love it when you kinda agree." 0:38:51
Machine Learning Narrative, Programming Anna-Lena Pontet, Luzia Hüttenmoser 261 Machine Learning n/a
Main Menus and First Impressions UI / UX Mark LaCroix 42 "You can see the cabbage in it." 0:39:27
Maintaining an Open-Source Project Programming Mark LaCroix 270 "Killed the flightmaster, killed the griffin..." 0:21:25
Making a Demo Marketing, Production Mark LaCroix 84 "We should go outside!" 0:12:40
Making Games for Spaces Events, Physical Games Martha Megarry 147 "In situ." 0:47:04
Making Your Own Tools Tools Stephen McGregor 45 "Qapla'!" 0:44:57
Mario Kart Gaming Dylan Skerbitz 33 Evil Games Club! 1:22:23
Mark Does GDC Business Events Mark LaCroix 124 GDC 2019 Special 0:53:56
Mark's Most Anticipated (for 2019) Nicest Mark LaCroix 113 Nicest of 2018 n/a
Mark's Nicest (2016) Nicest Mark LaCroix 9 Nicest of 2016 n/a
Mark's Nicest (2018) Nicest Mark LaCroix 113 Nicest of 2018 n/a
Marketing 001 Marketing Ellen Burns-Johnson 142 "Space ferret seeks PR support." 0:28:08
Mark’s Nicest (2017) Nicest Mark LaCroix 66 Nicest of 2017 0:22:09
Martha's Most Anticipated (for 2019) Nicest Martha Megarry 113 Nicest of 2018 n/a
Martha's Nicest (2016) Nicest Martha Megarry 9 Nicest of 2016 n/a
Martha's Nicest (2018) Nicest Martha Megarry 113 Nicest of 2018 n/a
Martha's/Mortho's Most Anticipated (for 2018) Nicest Martha Megarry 66 Nicest of 2017 n/a
Martha’s/Mortho’s Nicest (2017) Nicest Martha Megarry 66 Nicest of 2017 0:08:19
Media Influences Game Design, IRL, Narrative Xalavier Nelson Jr. 193 Media Influences n/a
Media Relations Marketing, Production Holly Harrison 89 "A mean secret that stays in this room." 0:01:25
Meetings IRL, Production Stephen McGregor 236 "Forged by that experience." 0:50:28
Megagames Game Design, Gaming, Physical Games Trenton Greyoak 329 Megagames n/a
Mental Health IRL, Production Alanna Linayre 186 Mental Health n/a
Merch Marketing Mark LaCroix 71 "Martha's philosophy on life." 0:07:49
Messages and Meanings Game Design Mark LaCroix 15 "We are artists and we should be artists." 0:52:56
Messages and Meanings (revisit) Game Design, Meta Stephen McGregor 200 "A Spark Plug." 200th Episode Special 1:13:45
Messages and Meanings (revisited) Game Design Mark LaCroix 57 "This misinformation vortex." One year of Nice Games Club! 0:48:44
Metroidvania Level Design Game Design Stephen McGregor 158 "Space ferrets lift off!" Widget Satchel Special 0:10:29
Micro-Postmortems Events Mark LaCroix 18 GDC 2017 Special (Part 2) 0:38:22
Microsoft E3 2019 News 135 E3 2019 Special 0:16:57
Milestone Builds Production Mark LaCroix 251 “Done enough.” 0:13:18
Minigames Gaming Ellen Burns-Johnson 294 "Layers and layers of hair." 0:39:45
Mobile Games Gaming, Hardware Martha Megarry 30 "75% sure." 0:23:34
Modding Gaming Stephen McGregor 103 "Put it in a WordSpace!" 0:05:00
Most Anticipated (for 2020) Nicest Mark LaCroix, Martha Megarry, Stephen McGregor 161 Nicest of 2019 0:25:39
Most Anticipated (for 2021) Nicest Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 206 Nicest of 2020 0:48:39
Most Anticipated (for 2022) Gaming Mark LaCroix, Stephen McGregor, Ellen Burns-Johnson 246 Nicest of 2021 1:10:25