Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! Nicest of 2024
Dec 20, 2024
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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!
2024 Accomplishments
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
2024 "Nicest" Games
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
- Mark
- Astro Bot
- Stephen
- Dragon's Dogma II
- UFO 50
- Puzzmo
- Joanna
- Helldivers II
- Breath of the Wild
2025 Most Anticipated Games
- Ellen
- Metroid Prime 4: Beyond
- Winter Burrow
- FragPunk
- Borderlands 4
- Rift of the Necrodancer...???
- Lunar: Remastered Collection (for Eric)
- Mark
- Civilization VII
- Star Trek Ascendancy: The Final Frontier (the Gorn!)
- The Switch 2
- Stephen
- Dragon Dogma II DLC (I’m cheating I know)
- Civilization VII
- Honestly probably Switch 2 stuff, too
- Joanna
- Paralives
- Paralives
2025 Resolutions
- Ellen: Finally put together a portfolio site!
- Mark:
- Dreamsettler, again!
- Unannounced project
- Release Operators!
- Get Nice Games Alliance some sponsors/donations!
- Stephen: Play more games! Do more stuff outside of my apartment.
- Joanna: Put out a bigger better game demo!