He has written songs for Caedmon's Call, Andrew Peterson, Jason Gray, Jill Phillips, and Eric Peters.
[3] He began performing for local charity events, including fundraisers for Clearwater's Morton Plant Hospital.
[3] On weekends and vacations from college, Goodgame was the keyboardist for the Southern rock Black Creek Band, which released an album entitled Live from Gainesville during his tenure.
[3] From February to August 1995, he toured the Southeastern United States with the band before returning to Birmingham-Southern to finish his degree.
[3] "This Nashville-recorded troubadour's calling card is a superb self-made CD that's full of memorable melodies, stirring production, ear-catching lyrics and personable vocals.
[4] Except for one track – a cover of Bob Dylan's I'll Be Your Baby Tonight – Goodgame composed the music and lyrics to all ten songs on the album.
[3] In addition to performing the lead vocals, Goodgame also played the piano, acoustic guitar, harmonica, accordion and mandolin on the album.
[7] Goodgame eventually began writing songs for contemporary Christian artists such as Caedmon's Call, Jason Gray, and The Midtown Project.
[14] An April 2015 Parents Life review of Goodgame's Sing the Bible with Slugs & Bugs – which features 18 tracks of direct Bible quotations set to music, said the album "possesses a high-quality artistic sensibility that few children's CDs maintain", adding that the songs would "have kids memorizing Scripture in no time".