Happy birthday show, and thanks to you all for listening! Nice Games Club is five years old! That's a solid handful of years. * The feeling is real, even if this video isn't.
Nicest (2021) 0:43:17 Mark LaCroix Stephen McGregor Ellen Burns-Johnson Gaming Hades by Supergiant Games Firewatch by Campo Santo Where Should We Begin? A Game of Stories from Esther Perel Metroid: Fusion (Ellen played it on emulator) - Pokémon Quest - Bowser’s Fury - Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Metroid: Dread - Humankind Deathloop Rogue Company Haven - YouTube Valheim It Takes Two - Steam Most Anticipated (for 2022) 1:10:25 Mark LaCroix Stephen McGregor Ellen Burns-Johnson Gaming Endling: Extinction is Forever (from Handy Games) Weird West (by Wolfeye Studios, published by Devolver) - Game Informer Tiny Tina's Wonderlands - Game Informer SCHiM - Ewoud Solo-developed ‘Mars First Logistics’ is a physics-based sandbox on Mars - Alan Wen, NME.com Cyberpunk cat adventure Stray will let you do highly accurate cat stuff - Michael McWhertor, Polygon Little Kitty, Big City - Double Dagger Studio The Playdate handheld system!!! Kirby™ and the Forgotten Land - Multiversus (from Warner Bros) Dragon's Dogma 2 will run on the same engine as Resident Evil Village, leaker s… - Connor Sheridan, GamesRadar Gamedev Resolutions / What We're Working On (for 2022) 1:26:51 Mark LaCroix Stephen McGregor Ellen Burns-Johnson IRL Local Releases (2021) 0:13:45 Mark LaCroix Stephen McGregor Ellen Burns-Johnson IRL Fingeance by Escape Industries - itch.io Totally Reliable Delivery Service (console release this year) - YouTube Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (on Nintendo Switch this year) - Closed Hands by Passenger Games Ltd. Your nice hosts (Ellen, mainly) conduct a double-interview, with a consummate professional and a committed amateur, on the subject of game design though the lens of tabletop game mastering.
#Spyparty connecting forever professional Subjects include the dynamic between system design and session design, the balance between planning and improvisation, and how players can be encouraged to participate in the process. #Spyparty connecting forever professional.