Summary: <p>After a <em>slightly</em> longer than usual hiatus, your nice hosts (along with your nice guest host Dale LaCroix) return to the virtual clubhouse for the first new episode of 2021 to talk about what we did on our winter break!</p> <p>PLUS: Mark is a tax robot, Stephen hopes he’s not fired, and Ellen loves being right.</p> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://passenger-games.itch.io/closed-hands">Closed Hands</a>, the interactive fiction game (directed by <a href="https://danhett.com/">Dan Hett</a>) that Mark worked on over the last few months, was released this week!</p> </li> <li> <a href="https://youtu.be/SPoqzn1Eedg?t=141" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clsoed Hands at Twin Cities Playtest (January 2021)</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://austinkleon.com/show-your-work/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Show Your Work!</a> - <a href="/author/austin-kleon" hreflang="en">Austin Kleon</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://workingoutloud.com/en/the-book" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Working Out Loud</a> - <a href="/taxonomy/term/314" hreflang="en">Seth Godin</a> </li> </ul> What We Did On Our Winter Break (2021) <a href="/person/mark-lacroix" hreflang="en">Mark LaCroix</a> <a href="/person/stephen-mcgregor" hreflang="en">Stephen McGregor</a> <a href="/person/dale-lacroix" hreflang="en">Dale LaCroix</a> <a href="/person/ellen-burns-johnson" hreflang="en">Ellen Burns-Johnson</a> <a href="/topics/game-design" hreflang="en">Game Design</a> <a href="/topics/irl" hreflang="en">IRL</a> <a href="/topics/meta" hreflang="en">Meta</a> If you missed it, last week we re-ran our Roboston episodes: <a href="/episode/192/replay" hreflang="en">Roboston! (parts 1 and 2)</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wNNCdGKxcExkWo_H7MaTGKRGmC-i0Wm6EO02Hju45c0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roboston: Game Rules</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Skme00IeAU42iIoGCFl6s5c_gIxdRGIh5V7jJzTGQeY/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roboston: Development Session Notes</a> <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jCROJrqoiNeIPUsULT8MEr8Z8TU2JV7frGVmCCMuI_Q/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Your nice hosts' hiatus "Working Agreement"</a> We brought Roboston to Twin Cities Playtest in January... ...and again in February.
