In this super-sized episode, your nice hosts get into the gritty details of game design with a trio of terrific topics. Martha lays out the concept for her next game, Stephen complains about Smash Bros. (!), and Mark takes a lot of notes. Plus, maybe the best topic transitions to ever come out of the clubhouse!

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Links

GlitchConnect

GlitchCon Brewery tour

Nice Games Club feedback form

[0:05:18] Prototyping

GDC Game Design Workshop

Mark's Sonic The Hedgehog solitaire card game

Holographic Mark Mk I

[0:26:28] Point and Clicks

"Puzzle Dependency Graph Primer" - Gamasutra

"The Day of The Tentacle: Dependency Graph Analysis" - The Website is Down

Double Fine Adventure

Humongous Entertainment

Cosmic Osmo

"25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web" - Ars Technica

[0:42:26] User Interfaces

"User interface design in video games" - Gamasutra

"The User Interface Continuum: A Study Of Player Preference" - Gamasutra

"Splinter Cell: Conviction Developer Diary" - IGN

"Mirror’s Edge - UX is not UI" - GUR-U

Hue's color blind mode in action

Color Jumper's color blind mode in action

"The Division UI and Gameplay Walkthrough"

"Breaking Conventions with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" - GDC 2017