Nice Thinking: "The Nice Board Game Industrial Complex, a Nice Games Club Skunkworks Project"

After Mark's time with COVID, the first day he was free to go outside, the area was covered with the smoke of distant wildfires. Another bout of smoke has rolled in to the Twin Cities just in time for the release of this episode.The club spends this Nice Thinking episode talking about the making of Glom, and discussing their feelings about pitching and publishing board games. They discover that Mark and Stephen dread pitching, but Ellen thinks it can be fun (it's her superpower).This section is about Dale, who edited this episode.I did write most of the Glom cards, but that was really playing to my superpower of brainstorming lots of ideas, very quickly. The club mentioned...that I have a full time job - TRUE...that I have to deal with the club's crap - TRUE...cats - TRUE - I volunteer at a cat shelterFor 'Dogpile!' the game - I thought up 100 dog names - EASY and I have been thinking up ~20 cat names a week (my superpower right?)Finally, they share the story of how Mark no longer edits every episode, and that's how Dale got to title this episode and add a section of episode notes about cats.GLOMGlom launched on June 14th, 2023. It is available for purchase now!Our official Glom hompage.This section is about cats.It’s kitten season and the cat shelters are full - please consider adopting a cat (or other animal, but you should really consider a cat or two). The city of Minneapolis Animal Care and Control has been waving cat adoption fees on select days. Minneapolis Pet AdoptionIf you choose a cat from Feline Rescue in Saint Paul, the name might have been suggested by Dale. Don't worry, you can promptly change their name to that of your favorite video game character. Feline RescueCheck out these two: Phobos and Deimos, named after the two moons of Mars (or Mario and Luigi if you prefer), they are available at the time of publicationDeimos and Phobos, the moon brothers are available for adoption via this link0:04:40Nice Thinking about our future in Board GamesThe game GLOMEpisode 210 is the NiceGames Jam that created GlomFor the record, the third deck that was renamed goal, was originally called “Scoring System Deck.”We talked about pitching the game with Peter Yang in episode 231Pitching Tabletop GamesWe're excited about 'Dogpile!' 'Dogpile!' was a game Jam from episode 272Dogpile!And we did a followup in episode 275Dogpile! (part 2)0:46:06Nice Thinking about NiceGameJam Games with PotentialMark's List of 5 Games1. From episode 272, Dogpile!2. From episode 275,Palace of Versailles3. From episode 192, recorded live, Roboston! (parts 1 and 2)4. From episode 157,Reravel: A Backwards Storytelling GameThey also mention these GameJam Games:6. From episode 134, Rules7. From episode 143Ants of Destiny: Morsels of the QueenNice Thinking about traveling to conferencesOrigins is June 21-25 2023 in Columbus OHGenCon is August 3-6 in Indianapolis, IN