Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! – Details, episodes & analysis

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Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!

Lydia, Stephen, and Mark

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 501

The podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming and game development. Nice!

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - videoGames
10/07/2026
#97
🇬🇧 Great Britain - videoGames
09/07/2026
#52
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
07/07/2026
#82
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
06/07/2026
#71
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
05/07/2026
#52
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
04/07/2026
#46
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
03/07/2026
#28
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
02/07/2026
#22
🇫🇷 France - leisure
02/07/2026
#89
🇩🇪 Germany - videoGames
07/04/2026
#62

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The Intersection of Puzzle and Story (with Ron Gilbert) [Nice Replay]

Thursday, January 2, 2025 • Duration

#354The Intersection of Puzzle and Story Interview2024.07.05

Narrative designer and pal of the program Beth Korth fills in for Ellen as guest host this week and next!

Your nice hosts welcome famed designer Ron Gilbert (Monkey Island, Thimbleweed Park) into the clubhouse to discuss the virtues of inexperience, friction for its own sake, how it's all about story, and it's puzzles all the way down.

The Intersection of Puzzle and StoryGame Design Narrative Production Return to Monkey Island will have a hint system because the internet exists now - Joshua Rivera, Polygon Verdant Skies - Steam Classic Game Postmortem: Maniac Mansion - GDC, YouTube

The phrase "confederacy of dunces" derives from a Jonathan Swift quote.

Examples of movies that feature a poorly-received genre twist include Serenity (2019), Remember Me (2010), and Safe Haven (2013).

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"The super-powerful beam or whatever." Code Libraries; Game Overs [Nice Replay]

Friday, December 27, 2024 • Duration

#353"The super-powerful beam or whatever."Roundtable2024.06.27

This week, your nice hosts talk about code that isn't yours and ask about the natural conclusion of the narrative. Mark is handy, Ellen kinda wants to add a note, and Stephen is grounded.

It looked so easy in the brochure, but the brochure lied - Antony Ingram, HagertyCode Libraries0:07:41Mark LaCroix Production Programming Tools Best practices for writing code comments - Ellen Spertus, Stack Overflow Blog - Your nice hosts discussed licensing in a previous episode:Game Overs -

"Please go vote." Runtime Asset Management; Double Jump vs. Dash

Episode 370

Thursday, October 24, 2024 • Duration

This week, your nice hosts talk a little bit about our civic duty before getting into two very on-brand topics. Make a plan to vote on (or before!) November 5th. Information at https://vote.org/

Runtime Asset ManagementUnityDoom WikiDouble Jump vs. DashHeather AlexandraKotakuAlex WiltshireRock Paper ShotgunWikipedia

"Insert interesting car here." Verisimilitude; Indie Game Credits [Nice Replay]

Thursday, February 2, 2023 • Duration

#278"Insert interesting car here."Roundtable2022.09.14

Your nice hosts' pronunciation is on point this week as they say a really hard word a large number of times! In this episode, Mark and Ellen BOTH introduce even more complicated words to the other hosts, and Stephen admits to losing an argument (which he'd done on the show before but still don't tell his brother).

Noble Robot OfficeVerisimilitude0:05:23Ellen Burns-Johnson Art Game Design Verisimilitude Definition - Dictionary.com Veracity Definition - Dictionary.com The Quest For Verisimilitude: Realism, Illusion, and Consistency In Video Games - Erik Kain, - , One comment of note in the thread: “Your point about making things simple is extremely important. Lots of things in real life are simple and it’s the combination of items interacting that it becomes complicated. When a DM makes the simple complicated there’s a danger of the world becoming too complex and breaking verisimilitude from the other side.” - - - , Indie Game Credits - -

Nice Thinking: "Neurodiversity in Gamedev (with Adam Clewes-Boyne)" [Nice Replay]

Thursday, January 26, 2023 • Duration

#271Neurodiversity in Gamedev (with Adam Clewes-Boyne)Nice Thinking2022.07.28

This week, we invite our first guest for Nice Thinking! Adam Clewes-Boyne is putting together an initiative for neurodiversity advocacy and education in the games industry, specifically focused on ADHD. It started as a meetup at a conference, and Adam wants to see where it can go next.

Neurodiversity in GamedevEvents IRLAdam joined us, after a fashion, in a previous episode:Game Dev London does Nice Games Jam Coffee with Butterscotch podcast - Butterscotch Shenanigans How the Gender Gap Leaves Girls and Women Undertreated for ADHD - CHADD Strategic Planning for Nonprofits - National Council of Nonprofits

"Maximum Whooo!" Learning to Use Tools; Co-Op Games [Nice Replay]

Thursday, January 19, 2023 • Duration

#244"Maximum Whooo!"Roundtable2021.11.25

As the podcast approaches its fifth anniversary, your hosts get a little (more) frivolous. Mark shares some industry news about hardware releases. Ellen prompts everyone to share their experiences of learning development tools and examine their process of learning through the lens of Maximum Whooo. Stephen explores the difference between cooperative and collaborative gameplay, and invents something called a Feedborm. Dang!

Steamworks Virtual Conference: Steam Deck - Steam Steam Deck launch delayed by two months - Jay Peters, The Verge Indie handheld Playdate delayed to 2022 - Michael McWhertor, - Learning to Use Tools14:05 - , - - - , Co-Op Games53:10.0 - , - ,

The State of VR in 2022 (with Andrew Eiche) [Nice Replay]

Thursday, January 12, 2023 • Duration

#273The State of VR in 2022 Interview2022.08.11

Your nice hosts talk to Andrew Eiche, COO at Owlchemy Labs (Job Simulator, Vacation Simulator, Cosmonious High) about the state of VR in 2022, and where VR and VR development tools may be going in the coming years.

Andrew talks about how industrial design should influence VR design, why you shouldn't take inspiration from movies, and how ergonomics are important. Also, Ellen takes a hard stand on the right way to use a dial.

VR in 2022 and its FutureVR / AR / XR Owlchemy Labs The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman, book

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Nice Games Jam: "StorySlide (with Osama Dorias)" [Nice Replay]

Friday, January 6, 2023 • Duration

#281StorySlide (with Osama Dorias)Nice Games Jam2022.10.06

Game designer Osama Dorias returns to the clubhouse to help design a game that can be played remotely, and provides some (much needed?) structure to the Nice Games Jam process. Stephen is obsessed with Bananas, Ellen contemplates her mystery banana gift, and Mark realizes some of these concepts might be too complicated for small children.

Osama previously joined us for episode 211:Building Blocks of DesignThis isn't the first time we'd had a guest join us for a Nice Games Jam:Blame the Cat! (with Monica Fan)Osama on Twitter Osama's podcast is "The Habibis"

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The slides we created for this episode's playtest.The Noun ProjectPrompt"Design a game that can be played remotely with (Osama's) children (and ideally is still fun for adults)"Game typeTabletop gamePlayer count3-6Materials

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Visual Coding (with Alina Matson) [Nice Replay]

Thursday, December 29, 2022 • Duration

#252Visual Coding Interview2022.03.17

This week we're joined by Alina Matson, developer of Fitment—a microworkout app designed with cozy gamers in mind. Alina talks about how she has used the popular Unity plugin Playmaker to kick-start her transition from a career in mechanical engineering to gamedev. Positive vibes abound. Plus, surprise singing!

Visual CodingProgramming Tools Playmaker - Hutong Games, Unity Asset Store Bolt - Unity, Unity Asset Store Blueprint Visual Scripting - - - , - We mentioned a previous interview episode with Freya Holmer,

Designing like a Dungeon Master (with Katrina Ostrander and Jon Kiehne) [Nice Replay]

Thursday, December 22, 2022 • Duration

#247Designing like a Dungeon Master Interview2021.12.10

Your nice hosts (Ellen, mainly) conduct a double-interview, with a consummate professional and a committed amateur, on the subject of game design though the lens of tabletop game mastering. Subjects include the dynamic between system design and session design, the balance between planning and improvisation, and how players can be encouraged to participate in the process.

Designing like a Dungeon MasterGame Design Narrative Tabletop Alternity - Sasquatch Game Studio MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research - Robin Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, Robert Zubek, Northwestern University Dread, a game of horror and suspense - - - Katrina imagined a future with "Westworld as a video game," which coincidentally was a topic in one of our first episodes:

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