MGIF S6: That's A Wrap!


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THAT’S A WRAP on Season 6 of MGIF. I'm taking time over the summer to put together S7 and EVOLVE this thing we call MGIF.

Thank you to ALL my guests without whom this would be a very boring podcast where I’m just talking to myself in various cafés around London.

I’m off to evolve the show in one way or another over the summer and come back to you with something new added to the pod (what that is I’m not sure right now) so stay subbed and we will return in your pod player one day.

As always, thank you so much for listening. Follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E20: Jess Nesling


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This episode is with the fabulous voice actor Jess Nesling!

We talked about:

Growing up in Swansea, finding your “real voice”. how Ice Age inspired Jess to get into voice acting, overcoming shyness, using voice acting to play pranks, taking advantage of the home built voice booth during lockdown and how it influenced Jess’ direction in her career as it looks now, and just absolutely loads more.


Me and Jess have absolutely identical brains and get on marvellously. This is great ep to mark the twentieth pod of the season and I just know you’re gonna love it.

As always, thank you so much for listening. Follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E19: Shay Thompson


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This episode is with the spectacular Shay Thompson!

I met with Shay at Alexandria Palace - or Ally Pally as it is known - and we had a stroll in the beautiful sunshine before sitting down in a corner of Alexandria Palace to discuss a big variety of topics. We talked about:

Growing up in London and having two bus drivers as parents

Working in styling and fashion

Getting into presenting and building confidence in that world

Inspirations

Improving your presenting and getting better at listening and looking back at yourself

Working with McLaren as your first presenting gig

…and a hell of a lot more!

Shay is just fantastic and we got on really well - I think we should have our own show if I’m honest, so keep that in mind, commissioners, alright? Cool, thanks.

As always, thank you so much for listening. Follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E18: Anna Hollinrake


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This episode is with third time guest, a MGIF staple, podcast soulmate Anna Hollinrake!

I met up with Anna at our favourite sandwich shop and we loaded up on nice stuff before struggling to balance various bagels, coffees and pastries to the local park to chat about the recent announcement of Electric Saint’s first game, Crescent County!

Of course it’s me and Anna, so what ACTUALLY happens is a good half an hour of what happens when you put two brains of a similar type into a sunny park and distract with pigeons, ducks, a heron, a troupe of preschool children on a trip and a swarm of terriers.

Anna is an absolute dream and any and all time spent with her is precious, valuable time and I hope you enjoy coming along on the ride with us. Crescent County looks absolutely incredible, super cool and you should wishlist it today, it’ll really help the game and it deserves to do well

As always, thank you so much for listening. Follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E17: Moo Yu


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This episode is with industry veteran, Mr Moo Yu!

I met up with Moo outside Waterloo station in London, where we went for a short stroll on a rainy afternoon before finding a covered space outside a cafe to chat about Moo’s career, his first games growing up, as well as parenting and other topics, before sliding into chat about the very recent announcement of Moo’s new game, Myth Match!

The trailer for this game looks really cool and a really unusual take on the merge puzzle game subgenre, so this will be one to keep an eye on.

Moo is lovely and we had a really fun, animated chat outside Waterloo station as various sirens, motorbikes and traffic lights beeped, rumbled and roared in the background, the advantage of this podcast being those become pleasant background ambience by the time you hear it.

As always, thank you so much for listening. Follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E16: Lana Zgombic


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This episode is another returning guest - it’s the majestic Lana Zgombic!

I visited Lana at home where she gave me the grand tour of her lovely flat, complete with Elden Ring and Bloodborne themed painted portraits, a selection of Amiibos aplenty and an even greater choice of fancy teas, before sitting down at the dining room table to chat about Lana’s move away from centring all her extracurricular activities around gaming and why that’s important to her right now.

Plus we talk about the current state of the industry and what needs to change in order to encourage young people and diverse candidates into the industry when things are so tumultuous.

AND! As of TODAY, Lana has started at the studio Snap Finger Click, so we talk a little about that at the end of the episode.

Lana is absolutely brilliant and a spectacular guest, and it was a delight to be able to see her again and sit down one to one for this lovely relaxing chat.

Thank you so much for listening, follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E15: Rory Powers


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This episode is with the POWERFUL Rory Powers.

Rory is one third of the colossal let’s play youtube channel known as RKG, one half of wildly successful podcast This Paranormal Life, a musician, a writer - the guy does it all baby!

I went to the TPL studios to hang out with Rory and chat all SORTS of stuff (as well as video games of course) and it was a belting chat, it really was. Extra long ep this week so get stuck in and I hope you really enjoy it.

Rory is a wonderful guy, thoroughly entertaining and lovely, a natural talent, and we get along really well, so you’ll appreciate the energy in this one I’m sure.

Thank you so much for listening, follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x




MGIF S6 E14: Masud Milas


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This episode is with the one and only, Mr Masud Milas!

Masud is a comedian, comedy writer and makes up one third of the Mystery on the Rocks podcast.

We met up in our favourite coffee place then walked around Soho, before sitting down in a park in the beautiful London sunshine.

We talked about:

  • Working creatively within limits

  • Writing and the creative process

  • Writing for stand up

  • Arthouse films and when they go too far

  • Indie art games and what’s interesting us in that field right now

…and a shite ton of other tangents, as we do on this pod.

Masud is the best, a great pod guest and one of my favourite dudes, so you’re bound to enjoy this one, especially if you heard his first appearance back at the start of Season 5 in 2022!

Thank you so much for listening, follow me over at @garydooton and @mgifshow. Stay subbed, stay following!

Lots of Love,

Gary x