Podcast Episodes

Nice Plays: Thirty Flights of Loving (2012)

Episode 50

In this episode (Nice Games Club's 50th!), Martha plays (and finishes!) a game Stephen once recommended to Mark (but Mark forgot about). A first-pers…

8 years, 8 months ago

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"Right the dang now." Scope Creep; eSports

Episode 51

In this episode, Stephen fights his demons, Martha likes sports now, and Mark learns a lot about both.

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Scope Creep

Martha took a blacksmithing c…

8 years, 8 months ago

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"I do business." DLC and Expansions; Genre in Games

Episode 48

This week, Stephen finally gets a theme song, Mark plays devil's advocate, and Martha gets dangerously close to a topic your nice hosts swore to neve…

8 years, 8 months ago

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Evil Games Club 2!

Episode 47

Uh oh… they're back… it's EVIL GAMES CLUB!

Snide laugh! Malicious gafaw! In this, our second evil episode, your evil hosts revisit some of the dumb to…

8 years, 8 months ago

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Playtesting (with Dale LaCroix)

Episode 46

Well, it finally happened. Dale LaCroix, (aka: "#1 Playtester," one-third of Evil Games Club, and Mark's wife) joins your nice hosts in the clubhouse…

8 years, 9 months ago

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"Qapla'!" Intro to Linguistics for Game Developers; Making Your Own Tools

Episode 45

This week, Martha has so much to talk about that she runs out of time, Stephen espouses the virtues of building your own gamedev tools, and Mark name…

8 years, 9 months ago

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Nice Plays: Boor (2017)

Episode 43

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final …

8 years, 9 months ago

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Nice Plays: Solomon's Key (1987)

Episode 44

"Nice Plays" are video episodes where your nice hosts play and talk about a game, and after 17 minutes, our egg timer goes off and we give our final …

8 years, 9 months ago

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"You can see the cabbage in it." Video Game Immersion; Main Menus and First Impressions

Episode 42

It's a slightly experimental show this week, as we try to see what a two-topic episode looks like. Also, Martha defends her love of coleslaw, Stephen…

8 years, 9 months ago

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"Proper ones and twos." Input Methods and Controls; Coding Syles; Splatoon 2, ur, I mean Shooters

Episode 41

This week, your nice hosts are still relaxing in Mark's dining room for an episode that has it all: a disagreement about Bluetooth, some good ClawTal…

8 years, 10 months ago

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