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 never talk about on the show.

When Mark was young, he bought unofficial Quake mods on CD-ROM.

Turns out, Electronics Boutique and EB Games are the same thing.

Turns out, Dungeons & Dragons does use software-style versioning for their “patch notes.”

After recording this episode, Mark had an idea for how to price DLC in Metro Nexus.

Wikipedia says “Genres are not usually defined by the actual content of the game.”

Turns out, Call of Duty games have been nominated for a lot of BAFTAs over the years.

A good critical review of Jason Schreier’s book “Blood, Sweat, And Pixels,” which Mark read recently and really liked.

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 topics Nice Games Club covered in previous episodes, and correct the record where required. We're at it again, being evil, that is!

• Dale posts bugs on Instagram now. - Instagram
• This is the spider Dale was talking about in the intro. - Instagram

A list of upcoming Game Jams

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While this topic was mostly evil talk directed at Nice Game Club, it also included some uncharacteristically sage advice from your evil hosts. Take heed, or suffer!

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 topics Nice Games Club covered in previous episodes, and correct the record where required. We're at it again, being evil, that is!

A list of upcoming Game Jams

(off topic!)

While this topic was mostly evil talk directed at Nice Game Club, it also included some uncharacteristically sage advice from your evil hosts. Take heed, or suffer!

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 to talk about playtesting!

Stephen writes down everything Dale says about what it takes to be a good playtester, Martha laughs at all of Dale's jokes, and Mark deals with the fact that his wife doesn't really like his game.

• We also talked about the recent solar eclipse. Check out Martha's photo, taken at the moment of totality

Dale Lynn LaCroix is a producer for Nice Games Club, a game development podcast that has been publishing episodes weekly since 2016.

Dale also provides prompts for the program's "Nice Games Jam" episodes, regularly guest hosts special episodes (such as in the show's annual GDC coverage), and is a part of occasional "Evil Games Club" episodes.

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 to talk about playtesting!

Stephen writes down everything Dale says about what it takes to be a good playtester, Martha laughs at all of Dale's jokes, and Mark deals with the fact that his wife doesn't really like his game.

Dale grew up playing computer games, but rediscovered her love of gaming with the more modern generation of consoles, starting when she insisted that she and husband Mark buy a then hard to come by Wii. Since then she can boast that she owns seven videogame consoles to her husband’s three.

Dale manages the Nice Games Club Twitter account (@nicegamesclub) where she mostly posts and retweets nice things, but can promise it won’t be free of the swears, or sarcastic comments about Gwent.

Dale claims to be the #1 Playtester, a title she gave herself. But don’t take her feedback too seriously, especially if she says your game is too hard because she’s not particularly good at games. Dale is also a part of the Evil Games Club where she also likes to give critical feedback to the Nice Games Club.

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 names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to.

Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev.

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 names the episode after a Star Trek thing because it's his birthday today so he gets to.

Discuss this episode on Reddit using this thread in r/gamedev.

"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 thoughts. In this episode, Mark plays the recent indie game Boor, and your nice hosts all find a lot to like about it!

Game: Boor (http://www.dazlog.com/boor/)

Developer: DazlogStudio
Publisher: Badland Games
Platform: Windows, Mac, Linux
Release date: February 14th, 2017
Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer

Summary: "Eden is a human colony far from Earth. To develop a better society, settlers made an artificial intelligence, BOOR, to help them, but this machine turned against them. When a little girl accidentally lands on the planet of Eden, she discovers BOOR has taken over and there are only a few survivors left. With her special ability to multiply herself, she'll help them destroy BOOR and reclaim the world."

• Martha and Mark worked on a game for the 2017 Global Game Jam about eyeballs!
• Boor was made by a single developer, a topic we discuss in a previous episode.Solo Development

"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 thoughts. In this episode, Stephen plays the NES port of the classic arcade game Solomon's Key!

Game: Solomon's Key
Developer: Tecmo
Publisher: Tecmo
Platform: NES
Release date: July 1987 (US)
Genre: 2D Puzzle-Platformer

Summary: "You and Dana, the wizard of Lyrac, must unlock Solomon’s scroll of secrets to restore peace in the constellations. With Dana’s magic, fire, and mystical powers, you will help release the imprisoned Princess of the Fairies and harness the evil forces within the constellations. But first, you need the key!"

• 30 years on, people are still arguing over how to pronounce NES - Hugh Langley, TechRadar
• Solomon’s Key was indeed part of the very first batch of games for the Wii Virt… - Wikipedia
• Solomon’s Key cheat codes