Roles reverse as Dale joins Stephen and Lydia for a Nice Game Jam prompted by Mark. The results are an antiques-fueled jaunt through time, and an unexpected win for Stephen.

• Costcodle - Zak Kermitz, Costcodle
• Timeline Inventions - Zygomatic, Zygomatic
• Hypodermic Needles - Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine, Maximum Fun

Set of item cards from various years

10 chips for each player

Set of years/events

Timer

• Place 8 item cards on the table easily accessible for all players.
• Pick a random year/event.
• Set timer for 1 minute.

• Start the timer to start the round
• While the timer runs, players place chips on items to bid on them
• When the timer runs out, the player with the most chips on an item gets that item. In a tie, no one gets an item and it gets added to the pool during the next round
• Items that are earned get their times revealed, player closest to the chosen year/event wins
• Play repeats for three rounds, player with the most round wins wins the game

Beth leads Mark and Stephen through a therapy session. Stephen talks Kickstarter, Mark talks Patreon, and everyone agrees Beth's game Verdant Skies is great.

• Part-Time Hero: I'm Broke But I Have To Save The World! - Future Club, Kickstarter
• Dreamsettler - Tendershoot, Patreon

Beth Korth, board member of Nice Games Alliance, enters the clubhouse to talk about the purpose of the NGA and how to best fulfill that mission. They discuss how workshops, talks, and conferences fit into their plans. And how they can provide unique experiences and services that the gamedev community can't get elsewhere. They also emphasize the importance of lunch.

The clubhouse gets Cretaceous this week; your nice hosts have been challenged to create a game about dinosaurs and their feeding habits.

• Cretaceous period
  • Flowering plants evolved here
  • Early mammals here too
  • Velociraptors too!
• Different sized dinosaurs
• Name: Dinosaurs of North Dakota
  • Play as big (T-rex), small (dog-sized) and medium (triceratops)
  • Survive a day as each of these creatures
  • Order of play
    • Medium first (herbivore)
    • Big next (T-rex)
    • Small last (scavenger)
    • Then Paleontologist discovers (eats chicken with a PLASTIC fork)
  • Where you die determines how preserved the bones are during the paleontology phase
    • If you want more preserved bones you have to choose to not live as long (due to how the preservation works)
  • Gameplay
    • Play as the different creatures, the player chooses when that phase of the game ends
      • Can also end after a certain time played
    • Then you swap to a new creature and play as them, choosing when to end
    • When you get back to a creature, time has passed and things are different in the world (partly due to player influence from other creatures)
      • Player knocking down trees might be knocked down in future scenes, eating a lot of plants may make the area sparse in the future
    • Keep playing as the different creature until enough time has passed
    • Afterwards, play as a paleontologist and rediscover what you’ve done
    • Record what you’ve done with the knowledge the paleontologist has (and not the player), so it won’t actually be accurate to the player’s playthrough
    • Based on what the player’s done, it can affect what things the paleontologist will be able to say about the state of things after