Nice Games Jam: "I’m Holding It for a Friend"

Nice Games Club - a gamedev podcast! · Oct 2, 2025

We invite Joanna May into the clubhouse again in this supersized episode to design a game about stowing illicit goods into spacecraft as it's being built!

(Note: Minor hiccup with the audio recording in the first 2 minutes, so Lydia is off mic briefly but it fixes itself.)

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We mention Dogpile!, a game we made in a previous game jam.

Dogpile!

Prompt

Design a puzzle game about loading passengers and/or cargo into various spacecraft (or other transport).

Game type

Tabletop game

Player count

4 or more

Rules

The ship is a pad of paper with outline of ship (legal pad sized)

The…