"Argue with me, I guess." Interactivity vs. Play; Fail States in Art

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! · Dec 4, 2025

Lots of thinking about thinking in this episode as the Nice Hosts attempt to define some core concepts to gameplay. What even is a game? Interactivity? Play? A failstate?!

Buckle in for an intellectual conversation, and remember to go to nicegames.com/feedback to tell Stephen exactly why he's wrong about any of it.

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