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The idea that he responded to a job ad in a magazine where someone was looking for someone to help stack these people on each other. Whatever is going on in this whimsical world is just very entertaining. Hi everyone, welcome back to Kirby Conversations. I'm Sean Douglas, I'm a writer and podcaster, and I am here again with Kirby influencer, content creator, artist, and all around, good person to follow if you wanna follow Kirby stuff on the internet, Bridget. Hi Bridget, how are you today? Hello,
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I'm well, thank you. And
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we are also here with Kai, Captain Dangerous Parker, the merchandise photographer who's an affiliate for Nintendo and Good Smile and Critical Role and so many other places that love her artwork. If you're not familiar with her work, you should check her out on Instagram in the show notes. We have a link to that. But hi, Kai, how are you today? I'm
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And today we are going a little bit off the beaten path of Kirby to talk about something that is still very Kirby adjacent and even has Kirby references in it, but we are talking about Part-Time UFO, which is another game by Hal Laboratory. This was developed and published by their mobile imprint Hal Egg, which is a new offshoot of their company that they have that focuses on these smaller mobile projects outside of the Kirby space. Part-Time UFO is a game that came out in 2017, came to the US in 2018, and was on a lot of best of lists for mobile games that year. It got an updated, expanded switch release in 2020. And it's just been out there for quite a while now. I didn't realize you know when we were doing research for this episode, I didn't realize it had been around quite as long as it had been. But Kai, you mentioned like, oh, six years ago when this came out, and I was thinking like, six years ago?
