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Hosted by Lydia, Stephen, and Mark · leisure · EN · 522 episodes
The podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming and game development. Nice!
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Lydia, Stephen, and Mark hosts Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast!, a leisure show with 522 episodes published.
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Episode #448
Your nice hosts discuss a previously talked about topic, and also engage in something completely new (though both are an excuse to discuss work issues in reality), with a brief divergence to mention a Star Trek anniversary. 0:06:02 Replayability 0:27:34 Blue-skying
Episode #447
In this episode, your nice hosts welcome Heather Flowers into the clubhouse to talk about math and probability, while Heather insists they should be on Evil Games Club instead. The group reflects on art and the interpretation of art. Chance Mechanics Game Design Heather Flowers Games Unfair Flips - Heather Flowers , Steam 500 Finger Fillet - Heather Flowers , Steam Understanding Systems Suspense - Cat Manning, Jason Grinblat, Max Kreminski, Graeme Lennon, Alexsei Pepers, Lauren Scott , Polaris Game Design Retreat Other mentions Buckshot Roulette - Wikipedia Archane Kids Manife$to Number Gotcha - itch.io
Episode #446
Two of your nice hosts are prepping to go to Junction Jam (which already happened, you'll hear about it soon!), but before then the discussion goes over the why players can and should be invested in your game, and how to push back against crunch in the workplace. Junction Jam - Global Game Jam 0:06:57 Player Investment 'Cauldron of bats' and other great collective nouns Emma Cownley Jot Jot Boom 0:38:05 Crunch Culture Occupational Burnout in Games 2024: Causes, Impact, and Solutions Lis Moberly, Tim Stobo Game Developer Conference
Episode #445
From a floral prompt, a daring caper blossoms. This week your Nice Hosts answer the question: How many flowers to you have to eat to pull off a heist? Clank!: A Deck-Building Adventure - Board Game Geek Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Board Game Geek The game board for Clue: The Great Museum Caper Our spreadsheet of Flowers, Powers, and Barriers. Prompt Create a game about flowers. The flowers may give you powers (regular or super) or may become animated when they are in full bloom. An example of a regular power is power of attorney or a driver's license and example of a superpower is invisibility. Game type Tabletop game Materials Game board Thief meeples Barrier cards Flower tokens Flower combination legend Flower box containers Ability tracker "a one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems" Setup Lay out the board Place the "one-to-one scale replica of a particularly rare flower completely made of precious metals and gems" in the center chamber Distribute flower tokens Shuffle flower tokens in a bag Add flower tokens to flower boxes without looking at them Place the boxes on the marked spaces on the board Distribute the remaining flower tokens around the flower patches marked on the board Place barriers Shuffle barrier cards For each marked space on the board, draw a barrier card and place it on the space Player setup Choose a thief meeple Take a flower combination legend Take an ability tracker Rules Players are thieves after the same jeweled flower in the center of the board Players must gather different flowers to give them the ability to get through the board/maze Goal is to get through to the center of the maze-like building first Players navigate to get the different flowers Combinations of flowers give you new abilities (either mundane or super-powered) Players may only have 3 active abilities at a time (if you get a new one, the first one gets pushed out) Could be places or a power that allows you to remove all of your powers Players need to get these powers to get through barriers in the game Barriers can be gotten through by various means (2 or 3, minimum 1) On the board there are places where flowers grow (distributed fairly) (tokens of a color/image) Some places have flower boxes, and they’d give you a random flower More of the flower boxes in the center of the board If someone gets to the center, they win, but the others now want to try and get them caught (so they can now win) Players create new barriers for the winning one to keep them from being able to get out
Episode #444
In this episode, Mark touts the virtues of commenting, Stephen dreads the topic, and Lydia wishes she could talk about marginalia. Code Comment The Critical Eye Part 2 This is part 2 to The Critical Eye in Episode 416 "I saw a Beatle."
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