It's a cheery and bright episode to get you through the dark cold days of winter! ☃️ Your hosts (plus guest Joanna May) wrap up 2024 with a readout of their nicest things from the year—nicest games, nicest accomplishments, and nicest procrastinations. Plus, plans and projects for 2025, some soft resolutions, and a review of some exciting upcoming titles you're likely to see hit various storefronts in the next calendar year. A happy year's end to all!

• Cover image credit goes to Animal Crossing World.

  This year's selection of Nice Replays start next week. See you in 2025!

Mark

• Founded a 501(c)(3) organization, Nice Games Alliance.
• Got a new job, on a still unannounced game.
• Renewed the lease on the Noble Robot office

Stephen

• I made two movies! (Or at least I will have by the end of the year)
• Immense progress on Future Club game

Ellen

• My RSV game won multiple industry awards <3 
• Hired Lydia
• Running out of plant room

Joanna

• Solved generalized serialization
• Palette generation too
• Lots of iterative things that were worked on last year
  

This is not a “best of 2024” or even a definitive list of our favorites. It’s just a few games we want to be nice to.

• Ellen

• We Were Here series
• Bonza

• Astro Bot

• Dragon's Dogma II
• UFO 50
• Puzzmo

• Helldivers II
• Breath of the Wild 

• Ellen

• Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
• Winter Burrow
• FragPunk
• Borderlands 4
• Rift of the Necrodancer...???
• Lunar: Remastered Collection (for Eric)

• Civilization VII
• Star Trek Ascendancy: The Final Frontier (the Gorn!)
• The Switch 2

• Dragon Dogma II DLC (I’m cheating I know)
• Civilization VII
• Honestly probably Switch 2 stuff, too

• Paralives
  

• Ellen: Finally put together a portfolio site!
• Mark:

• Dreamsettler, again!
• Unannounced project
• Release Operators!
• Get Nice Games Alliance some sponsors/donations!