Mark Ripley - Games Industry Dinosaur
@markripley
Fractional CTO. I help tech startups scale. Making games since 1981, 200+ published titles. Solo indie dev. LinkedIn: YouTube: Indie:
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.
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
I wonder if David Darling ever did find his marbles.
I bet they wished they'd taken my advice....
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.
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.
The fate of MMORPGs (and perhaps AAA games) was long foretold.
Then when the Steam royalty payment comes in....
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.