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Dan Fedor, the founder of Blue Bottle Games, joins Bret & Ian to talk about working with collaborators, memorization techniques, AI, GPT-3, picking and choosing systems in a game design, the long lost art of physical goodies in toys, and more.

The GMC's very own friendly tyrant, Mark Alexander, also known as Nocturne, joined Bret & Ian to talk about patience in game communities, the YoYo House, game jams, interesting non-game projects created in GameMaker, photography, a ZX Spectrum-inspired game he's creating, the technology singularity, and of course, the GameMaker Community.

In part 2, we continue our conversation with LimboLane, discussing Smile For Me's epilogue, the community that has emerged around the game, designing fun websites, method acting, and what's next for the studio.

Yugo Limbo & Day Lane (LimboLane) join Bret & Ian to discuss their nod-and-shake adventure, Smile For Me, along with designing a minimal, yet expressive format for interacting with the game's world, the challenges it presented, and the considerations developers need to keep in mind when designing Kind Games.