Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNice Thinking: "A Local Indies Tournament"
Episode 265
It's a packed episode this week, with birthdays, illnesses, and some Nice Thinking. Stephen, Mark, and Ellen discuss how the group might put on a tou…
4 years ago
Teaching Gamedev to Young People, Again! (with Chris Totten)
Episode 264
It's a sequel to last week's episode! This week, your nice hosts speak with Kent State University animation and game design professor Chris Totten ab…
4 years ago
Teaching Gamedev to Young People (with Truman Simpson)
Episode 263
In this episode Truman Simpson joins us to talk about teaching game development to young people, through Gameheads, an organization for which Truman …
4 years ago
"Start fresh, in a certain way." Diagramming Gameplay Loops; Art Direction
Episode 262
In this episode, Stephen, Mark, and Ellen talk about gameplay loops. Then, they talk about art direction. Then they talk about loops. And then art di…
4 years ago
Machine Learning (with Anna-Lena Pontet and Luzia Hüttenmoser)
Episode 261
At GDC, your nice hosts met and spoke with this week's returning guests. We were so impressed with their project "[i] doesn't exist," we wanted to ha…
4 years, 1 month ago
Postmortem: "LxJamathon" (with Mark Hamilton and Ellen Burns-Johnson)
Episode 260
It's a Nice Postmortem! Ellen brings her instructional design colleague Mark Hamilton to discuss the development process behind the LxJamathon, a com…
4 years, 1 month ago
Nice Games Jam: "Blame the Cat! (with Monica Fan)"
Episode 259
Game designer Monica Fan joins us this week for a Nice Games Jam that is extra-mischievous and extra-cute. There's drama amongst the roommates, and w…
4 years, 1 month ago
Postmortem: "Infernax" (with Hunter Bond and Mike Ducarme)
Episode 256
It's a Nice Postmortem! Hunter Bond and Mike Ducarme talk the making of Infernax—an old school adventure platformer with puzzle elements, unholy curs…
4 years, 1 month ago
GDC 2022 Special (Part 2)
Episode 258
Settle in, because we could only trim the 5+ hours of interviews we recorded last month at GDC down to 2 hours. Of course, if you want to hear all of…
4 years, 2 months ago
Work Weeks (with August Brown)
Episode 255
What does your work week look like? Are you locked into a 9-to-5 the way that Dolly Parton described it, or are you free to set your own schedule? Wh…
4 years, 2 months ago