How do you build a UEFN studio while keeping your own games moving forward? Simone, known as Weeplow, joins Matt to discuss the choices behind Party Golf, Fortnite brand projects, and his plans to grow Weeplow Creative in Milan.

Weeplow explains how experiments with a football prototype shaped Party Golf's physics, why he built a lobby that gives players control over which course they join, and how he managed scope as a solo developer. He also looks back at One by One and the decision to stop development after Epic's Picks. The lesson for Fortnite Creative developers is practical: a promising idea still needs a playable experience, an audience, and a reason to keep investing time.

On the business side, we discuss the bicycle prototype that helped secure the Giro d'Italia project, balancing client work with original games, and how Party Golf's Epic MegaGrant fits into his plans. We close with advice on studying player behavior and building games that feel good on PC, console, and mobile. It's a conversation about game design, technical art, and the realities of growing a game studio.

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Connect with Weeplow:
X: https://x.com/WeeplowCreative
Studio: https://weeplow.gg/
LinkedIn: https://it.linkedin.com/company/weeplowcreative
Party Golf and other games: https://www.fortnite.com/@weeplow

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AI is changing how games get built in UEFN and Roblox, but faster production still leaves creators with the hardest question: is the game fun?

Mark Price, also known as Warforge, joins Matthew on The Creative Juice Podcast to discuss AI game development, creative direction, and the skills developers need as their tools change. Drawing on his experience with Call of Duty: Ghosts, Devslopes, JOGO, and PlayUGC, Mark explains how he approaches building games and teaching others to use AI.

We explore Model Context Protocol (MCP), Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), Verse programming, and Roblox development. Mark describes automating asset preparation, moving gameplay systems between projects, and using AI agents to check each other's work. He also explains the planning and tools behind his one-hour Roblox experiment, and why getting a playable game running does not settle whether people will enjoy it.

The conversation goes beyond coding into technical art, UI and UX, playtesting, and Mark's plans for smaller development teams. We discuss the differences he sees between Fortnite Creative and Roblox as businesses, including audience fit and game discovery, plus why precise design decisions matter more than a vague request to make a game.

For game developers, Fortnite creators, and Roblox studio builders, this episode explores how to use AI while keeping responsibility for the player experience.

Connect with Mark and explore PlayUGC:
https://playugc.com/
https://x.com/PlayUGC

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When Epic invited Future Trash to pitch a Star Wars experience, the temptation was to go as big as the universe itself. Scott Ulliman and Nate Reese kicked around lightsabers and even a Death Star before choosing the least obvious hero: droids. This episode is about why that restraint worked, and what it takes to turn one of the world's biggest IPs into one of Fortnite's stickiest games.

Scott and Nate have worked together for almost two decades, from mobile games in Unity to their own indie title, and they describe jumping into UEFN as a massive increase in development speed. They walk through the research behind the design: replaying Cookie Clicker, studying the top Roblox games, cutting every idle moment they didn't enjoy, and adding pickaxing because they were too impatient to watch their own droids work. They also credit watching Havoc Hotel wean players into complex mechanics as a model for how Droid Tycoon onboards without overwhelming.

The back half is pure operator talk: growing the team with a new developer, producer, and dedicated QA after launch, staying picky about who joins, and the advice they'd give studios grinding in this ecosystem. As Scott puts it, they've failed more in their careers than they've succeeded, and knowing exactly who each game is for, while protecting the fun of making it, is what kept them in the game long enough to hit.

Scott Ulliman
X: https://x.com/scottulliman
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-ulliman-a3169516/

Nate Reese
X: https://x.com/natereesedev
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-reese/

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