Episode Details

Nicest of 2024

Episode 378 Published 1 year, 6 months ago

Description

It's a cheery and bright episode to get you through the dark cold days of winter! ☃️ Your hosts (plus guest Joanna May) wrap up 2024 with a readout of their nicest things from the year—nicest games, nicest accomplishments, and nicest procrastinations. Plus, plans and projects for 2025, some soft resolutions, and a review of some exciting upcoming titles you're likely to see hit various storefronts in the next calendar year. A happy year's end to all!

Cover image credit goes to Animal Crossing World.
This year's selection of Nice Replays start next week. See you in 2025!

2024 Accomplishments

Mark

Founded a 501(c)(3) organization, Nice Games Alliance.
Got a new job, on a still unannounced game.
Renewed the lease on the Noble Robot office

Stephen

I made two movies! (Or at least I will have by the end of the year)
Immense progress on Future Club game

Ellen

My RSV game won multiple industry awards <3
Hired Lydia
Running out of plant room

Joanna

Solved generalized serialization
Palette generation too
Lots of iterative things that were worked on last year

2024 "Nicest" Games

This is not a “best of 2024” or even a definitive list of our favorites. It’s just a few games we want to be nice to.

Ellen
- We Were Here series
- Bonza
Mark
- Astro Bot
Stephen
- Dragon's Dogma II
- UFO 50
- Puzzmo
Joanna
- Helldivers II
- Breath of the Wild

2025 Most Anticipated Games

Ellen
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Winter Burrow