Numerous well known indie developers and other game industry figures have participated, including Jonathan Blow, Doug Church, Chaim Gingold, Justin Hall, Chris Hecker, Austin Grossman, Marc LeBlanc, and Randy Smith.
MDA is based in part on the Formal Abstract Design Tools for games discussion initiated by Doug Church.
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She is an organizer of the annual Game Design Workshop at the Game Developer's Conference, where she teaches with designers Doug Church, Marc LeBlanc, Frank Lantz, Stone Librande, Clint Hocking and others.