Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! "A Paragraph Signing" Incremental Learning ; Making Science Fiction Worlds
Mar 20, 2025
00:00
Lydia joins the clubhouse for her first regular episode as a host (it's calendar math)! The clubhouse discusses the release of Civilization VII and how it is taking up all of Stephen's time. Lydia brings to the table the question of how she can learn more games, and how tutorials don't work for her. Stephen regrets not being able to fully develop the world which is the setting for his five-minute student film.
Civ VII
Switch 2
0:15:01
Incremental Learning
Lydia talks about her success learning knitting, and her rectangle projections
The club talks about differences between recipes and game development tutorials
xkcd
0:54:10
Making Science Fiction Worlds
This topic was inspired by Stephen's science fiction student film. You can watch that here:
Wikipedia
Widget Satchel
Widget Satchel is a game that Mark, Stephen, and Ellen worked on. Mark developed a lot of background story, including this:
"I do not wish that the troubles of the past be carried into the stars. I imagined better for us and expected better also. But we do not realise our whole future in sequence, small futures each after the other. We must go anyway, blind and smiling, emissaries of wonder, explorers. On this day, at this place, together, we launch an expedition for which we are unprepared. Yet we are now even, a collected peoples concerned of justice looking in order to see our whole future, ahead of us.
Also check out this episode from when we released Widget Satchel