Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Job Market (with Amir Satvat)
Episode 437
This week's guest has good advice, harsh truths, hard numbers, and a big smile. Amir Satvat, tireless advocate and resource-provider for game develop…
4 hours ago
Nice Thinking: "Bachelorette Weekend Dinner Quest"
Episode 436
In this episode Lydia discusses how best to make all her friends hangry by making them do puzzles before releasing food. By which I mean, she got Ste…
1 week ago
Vehicle Design (with Kris Roberts)
Episode 435
Seatbelts, everyone! This week the Nice Hosts talk vehicles, which apparently means more than just cars. That's good news because none of them know m…
2 weeks ago
"I need less squidgy." Part-time Work; Hint
Episode 433
After the supersized meta of this episode, your nice hosts discover (or rediscover in some cases) the joy of part-time work, and contemplate the intr…
3 weeks ago
Dark Patterns (with Sam Liberty)
Episode 434
Your nice hosts have talked a lot over the years about exploitative game design, and this week we brought in an expert on gamification to lay out som…
4 weeks ago
Working with Voice Actors (with Yuri Lowenthal)
Episode 432
In this episode, Yuri Lowenthal, prolific actor and Insomniac's Spider-Man, web-crawls into the clubhouse and does whatever a spider can, assuming a …
1 month ago
Interactive Fiction Communities (with Andrew Plotkin)
Episode 431
Warm weather is on the way and you need to stay hydrated. As a start, take a sip of water every time you hear the phrase "in the 90's." This week we'…
1 month, 1 week ago
"Look who's old now!" Exhibiting Your Game; Design Investigations
Episode 430
We talk of the old and the new in this episode, where we sort of revisit a long ago discussed topic and bring in a new topic for our (and your) perus…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Healthy Criticism (with August Brown)
Episode 429
We welcome August Brown back into the clubhouse once more to discuss healthy criticism in the workplace, and how to foster that environment in your s…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
"He's scientific methoding you." Characterization Through Mechanics; Tutorials vs. Instructions
Episode 428
How is it April? The episodes have been so long lately it feels like it should be more than two months since the hiatus ended. As a countermeasure, t…
2 months ago