Nicest of 2024

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 AccomplishmentsMarkFounded a 501(c)(3) organization, Nice Games Alliance.Got a new job, on a still unannounced game.Renewed the lease on the Noble Robot officeStephenI made two movies! (Or at least I will have by the end of the year)Immense progress on Future Club gameEllenMy RSV game won multiple industry awards Hired LydiaRunning out of plant roomJoannaSolved generalized serializationPalette generation tooLots of iterative things that were worked on last year  2024 "Nicest" GamesThis 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 seriesBonzaMark Astro BotStephen Dragon's Dogma IIUFO 50Puzzmo​​​​​​​Joanna Helldivers IIBreath of the Wild 2025 Most Anticipated GamesEllen Metroid Prime 4: BeyondWinter BurrowFragPunkBorderlands 4Rift of the Necrodancer...???Lunar: Remastered Collection (for Eric)Mark Civilization VIIStar Trek Ascendancy: The Final Frontier (the Gorn!)The Switch 2Stephen Dragon Dogma II DLC (I’m cheating I know)Civilization VIIHonestly probably Switch 2 stuff, tooJoanna Paralives  2025 ResolutionsEllen: Finally put together a portfolio site!Mark: Dreamsettler, again!Unannounced projectRelease 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!