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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 29/09/2026

So after all that palava, the Falmouth bomb has been detonated. I've had more explosive farts. Still, glad it's all sorted.

Pathetic spurt of seawater produced by bomb detonation.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/09/2026

...and 7 years ago I was hanging out with film crews and famous people.... This was the film set containing co-founder Matt Spall, Ian Livingstone and Eddie Marsan, as we filmed the sequences for Deathtrap Dungeon. This was someone's front room, in a warehouse apartment somewhere in London.

Film set containing co-founder Matt Spall, Ian Livingstone and Eddie Marsan, as we filmed the sequences for Deathtrap Dungeon.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 17/08/2026

Ooh get me, I've installed WhatsApp. I'll be on TikTok next at this rate.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 12/08/2026

Decided to add dissolving platforms via a neat material function trick I found. There's no other players in there so there's no action or real gameplay, but I just wanted to show off the platform :)

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 31/07/2026

Phew! Multi map support is in, just got to make a map selection GUI now. Up to 10 players, on an island in the sky, each with 25 coins. Bonk a player for some coins, or bonk them off the edge for all their coins. Player with most coins wins.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 27/07/2026

Whilst I've been recovering I've been trying to coax my brain into action by learning UEFN and Verse - a language so unlike any other. The game's a cross between a Mario Party game, Smash Bros, and Worms. Totally silly. Bonkers, even ;) I'll release an island code when it's ready.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 17/07/2026

Oof! From the days when I was properly grumpy. Mind, spending all day making iPhone 1 games with XCode can do that to a person.

Facebook post from 17 years ago, bemoaning the popularity of Peggle.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 11/07/2026

Before everyone and his dog ran a games outsourcing company, 20 years ago I was busy doing it halfway up a mountain on a Greek island. The team were spread from South America, to UK, to Vietnam! Clients were mostly American. Anyway, here's an insight into what life was like at Effervescing Elephant

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 10/07/2026

I wonder if David Darling ever did find his marbles.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 26/06/2026

I bet they wished they'd taken my advice....

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 25/06/2026

As many of you know I'm currently going through chemo, to mop up any stray cells the surgery didn't remove. Just tablets, but 12x 500mg a day. First round was fine, bit tired towards the end but otherwise uneventful. Second round, complete hell.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/05/2026

It's record fair day in Derry again. Brunch in "soup and potatoes" place, then a wander around Derry itself, then the yummy coffee and cake place. One street made me giggle. One side was Irish pub after Irish pub. The other had a shop selling every Virgin Mary imaginable followed by a sex shop.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/05/2026

The fate of MMORPGs (and perhaps AAA games) was long foretold.

Facebook post from 2010: "Downloaded D&D Online. Waited whilst it installed, updated, restarted, updated some more, then ultimately started. Whereupon I found it was shit."

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 10/05/2026

Then when the Steam royalty payment comes in....

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 02/05/2026

Thought I'd give this Claude Code thing a spin, as everyone seems to be raving about it. Splurged £18 for the Pro version. Pointed it at a simple one-java-file applet game. Hmm.

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 20/04/2026

This picture of Manchester appeared in my Facebook Memories from 14 years ago. Look - no skyscrapers!

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 16/04/2026

Is it identity theft when the victim has the same name as you?

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Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur @markripley.com · 22/03/2026

An old post from 11 years ago, showing press reviews in the Daily Mirror and Telegraph of "Headcaster", an app we made whilst I was CTO at Headcast Lab.

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