Podcast Episodes

Serious Play Conference 2025

Episode 409

Your nice hosts Lydia and Ellen are on a seriously playful adventure in beautiful Rochester, New York for the Serious Play conference! They discuss g…

9 months, 1 week ago

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"There's little guys in my screen." Video Content; Use the Dang Potion!

Episode 406

In this episode, Mark and Stephen talk about what they are excited about. Lydia deals with a existential crisis about keeping too much stuff. And nob…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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Nice Thinking: "Fishing Minigame Collection"

Episode 405

Stephen Business is back! And he’s attempting to make a meme into a reality. The clubhouse attempts to answer these (and other) questions:

How many fi…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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"Okay, I need to learn buttons." microStudio; Min-Maxing

Episode 404

It is a joyous day for pancake lovers everywhere, and a joyous week in the Clubhouse for Lydia who successfully made a thing using code! WOW! She sha…

9 months, 4 weeks ago

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Concept Art Workflows (with Laura Onderwater)

Episode 403

Returning "favorite" Laura Onderwater re-enters the clubhouse to talk about task tracking, naming conventions, and paper trails of various kinds in a…

10 months ago

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Nice Games Jam: "Repair-ent"

Episode 401

As promised, the three Korths, Andy, Beth and Gabe, join us in the clubhouse for our hundred and two or so episode tradition! The clubhouse was too c…

10 months, 1 week ago

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Revisiting Your Games (with Andy Korth)

Episode 402

As is tradition, a couple of episodes after a hundredth we invite one or more of our pals the Korths into the clubhouse. This time we were lucky enou…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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"From apocrypha or experience." 400th Episode Special

Episode 400

It's a big one for your nice hosts... and your newest nice host wants to know more. Lydia takes Mark and Stephen though the history of the program, i…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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"Half trash compactor, half empty." Composting; Overdesigning

Episode 399

Ellen's back for a serendipitously in-sync pair of metacognition-rich roundtable topics. In this episode, Lydia shares a chapter from one of her favo…

11 months ago

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Nice Thinking: "Untitled Memory Mechanic"

Episode 398

Ellen’s back in the clubhouse, let’s see what she remembers. Lydia brings a Dungeons and Dragons mechanic about recovering memories called 'Untitled …

11 months, 1 week ago

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