Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! Ellen, Stephen, and Mark
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The podcast where nice gamedevs talk gaming and game development. Nice!
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Game Production (with Ryan Adams)
This week we invite Ryan Adams, of Corgi Art House fame, to discuss his expertise in game production. Ryan shows us how production is more than just moving tickets around, and how valuable it is to have someone on the team organizing tasks for everyone. But also, there's plenty of moving tickets around!
Game Production
Production
Corgi Art House
Blood On The Thames
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Steam
ClickUp
Building Better Games
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Benjamin Carcich and Aaron Smith
Becoming a Game Producer
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Pauline Gepilano
How to prepare yourself for Game Production
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Creative Assembly
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YouTube
Five Traits In A Good Producer
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Timothy Cain
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YouTube
Ryan Adams
Guest
Ryan Adams is a junior producer at Corgi Art House.
External link
LinkedIn -
"One thing cannot hold all the passion I have." Pivoting; Working on Multiple Projects
This episode recounts each guests' recent project - Stephen is developing a new spirit for Spirit Island, Ellen is getting into music, and Mark talks at length about his car. The club helps Ellen process a recent pivot her company had to make. And Mark reveals some simple insights from his life: urgent vs. high priority, he has an irritating existence, that he's very restless, that he's skeptical of his satisfaction, somethings that I know very well, being married to him. The episode ends with a pitch build an emotional support group on nicegames.club/discord, by asking everyone to share how they structure their time.
Stephen and Spirit Island
Spirit Island
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Board Game Geek
Ellen gets into music
Mark's SmartCar
Thomas Jefferson was born in Virgina
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Wikipedia
Mark changes out his car panels
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Mark LaCroix
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Threads
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patreon.com/nicegamesclub
nicegames.club/discord
0:11:20
Pivoting
Tango Gameworks of Hi-Fi Rush was closed
0:40:27
Working on Multiple Projects
The Eisenhower Matrix task managment matrix
Asana
The days in the lives of creative work from Mason Curry
in a circle chart
deMilked
in an infographic
Open Culture
in an article
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Creative Process & Workflow for Music (with Kobe Anthony (aka MEMODEMO))
As MEMODEMO, Kobe Anthony creates music for video games and inspired by video games. In this episode, we learn about Kobe's creative process for composing music. He also shares a bit about how he uses his DAW (digital audio workstation) to capture sounds and convert them into melody and beats. Also featured in this episode: memes, rhythm games, and three seconds of terrible beatboxing.
Creative Process & Workflow for Music
Audio
Izotope RX 11 (audio repair toolkit)
XO by XLN Audio
2 Mello
Not in the Groove (game)
Sideshow Bob Stepping On Rakes Compilation
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Cartoon Vids
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YouTube
Rolling Sampler
777
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RoughSketch
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YouTube
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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Hanlon's razor
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Wikipedia
Kobe Anthony (aka MEMODEMO)
Guest
Kobe is on Bandcamp, YouTube, Soundcloud, Ko-Fi & more. Here's his Linktree!
From a student spotlight piece by the University of Oregon:
Kobe came from a musical home, so his love for making music started when he was very young. “My first memory of noticing music in video games was when I played Sonic Heroes for the first time as a three-year-old. I remember hearing the theme song and it was, quite literally, life changing,” Kobe explains. From there, he started playing with GarageBand and, eventually, as he got older, started making original music on a much more advanced system MIDI. Kobe published his first song at eight years old called “Chaos Angel Error Emerald,” a remix of the theme song to Zone 7 of Sonic Advance 3, “Chaos Angel.”
Under the pseudonym MEMODEMO, Anthony has over 5,200 monthly listeners on Spotify, over 4,500 followers on Soundcloud, and over 370,000 subscribers on YouTube. -
Nice Thinking: "Dialogue Through Goals"
Stephen brings a half-baked thought into the clubhouse for this Nice Thinking episode: how can we improve dialogue systems? He's got some opinions, which Mark and Ellen immediately debunk, but it leads to some engaging conversation.
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Your game has a message... did you write it?
Last month, Mark gave a talk at the IGDATC Gamedev Meeting about what it might mean to take game development seriously as an artistic practice, theorizing that video games are still a very young and immature medium by that standard. It's "sorta-Socratic" seminar, a set of three case studies, and a string of stone cold bummers that ends on a hopeful note.
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"A slow meat computer" King Making; Thinky Bits (Off-Screen Gameplay)
In the episode, Mark, Ellen, and Stephen talk local events, including (don’t worry everyone’s fine) a fire in the clubhouse’s building, construction, and the games they are playing, so if you are just here for the topics, go ahead and skip to minute 23. Ellen learns about King Making, Stephen humble brags about being good at Smash Brothers, and Dale plays kingmaker in naming the second topic!
News
Masu Fire
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Paul Walsh
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Star Tribune
Bus Rapid Transit (BRT)
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Jared Brey
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Governing
What We are Playing
Dragon's Dogma 2
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Wikipedia
Princess Peach Showtime NPR Review
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Rakiesha Chase-Jackson
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NPR
0:23:00
King Making
Stephen has been QA testing Harvest Kingdom
Ben Hunder
Discord
The YouTube video that Stephen references
Distraction Makers
YouTube
Kingmaking in Root (Leder Games) video
Cole Wehrle
GDC
Smallworld
Board Game Geek
0:49:17
Thinky Bits (Off-Screen Gameplay)
Games discussed
Return of the Obra Din
Spirit Island
Board Game Geek
Death Drives a Bus
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