We're back! This week, your nice hosts talk about what they did over their winter break, from taking up residence in a new clubhouse, to developing a new logo and website, and more! But in the end, everything is still nice.

Highlights of this extra-long special episode:

Martha proposes a Nice Games Club IDE color theme...
...Dale joins the show to point out that making a logo for a podcast is harder than making a logo for a game...
...and after all the redesign work, Stephen makes a late pitch to rename the show "Hot Takes Games Club."

Plus, the entire clubhouse goes back and forth making promises (setting expectations) on the new website. It's an iterative process, people!

What We Did On Our Winter Break (2019-20)

Nice Games Club Logo Development

Here's a Nice Game Club "Bug" concept that was rejected

Logo Option #1: Stars

Logo Option #2: Git Tree

Logo Option #3: Coding Brackets

Stephen and the Fingeance team talk about their love of "choice #3" in one of our "Code Comment" episodes:

Code Comment: "Fingeance"

Iteration on Logo #3 (brackets)

Logo in multiple color contexts, including the "Valentine" theme

Two concept images showing the new Nice Games Club logotype on a stylized video game cartridge.

Variations on the "logo on a cartridge" concept

We made our new site using Drupal, a VERY open source web development tool.

December 2019

IGDATC's monthly meetings

Dale talked about developing Reravel, which was first developed during a Nice Games Jam episode:

Reravel: A Backwards Storytelling Game

January 2020

Protospiel

Hyperdot, a game by Stephen's brother Charles McGregor was released this month on January 31st. It is available on Xbox, Steam, itch.io and Windows PC. You can buy it now.