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!

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
       

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!

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