Mark Ripley

@markripley

Scaleup

Dog Person

Unreal Engine

Wizard

Dungeons & Dragons

mobile gamer

Company builder

Developer

Retrogamer

Indie Games

Veteran

Indie Dev

iOS

Beer Enthusiast

Gamer

Apple Fan

Dog Owner

Business Development

PC Gamer

Thinker

New Ideas

Debugger

Bash

AWS Lambda

Dog Dad

System Administrator

People Manager

Video Games Industry

Game Enthusiast

Game Designer

Augmented Reality

Docker

Business Owner

Hiring

Stack Overflow

Systems Thinker

Talent Acquisition

Apple Geek

GitHub

Virtual Reality

Musical

Computer Scientist

Developer Advocate

Android

GitHub user

Expat

Mobile Dev

Inventor

Strategic Partnerships

Visual Studio Code

Engineering Manager

Amateur Chef

Game Player

Startup Enthusiast

Node.js

Video Game Design

Product Strategy

Java

Software Developer

Game Developer

Rabbit Hole Explorer

Leader

Software Engineer

Remote Worker

Unity Developer

JavaScript

Launcher

Machine Learning

Early Adopter

Project Management

Entrepreneur

Web Developer

AWS

Coding

Recruiter

Board Member

Mentor

Advisor

Founder

Consultant

Manager

Professional

Software Engineering

I’m a Games Industry veteran; problem solver, curious and meticulous engineer, natural team builder and leader. I’ve been specifying, developing and delivering interactive content since 1981.

I’ve a portfolio of over 100 titles representing a plethora of AAA brands and clients, along with in-house original IP. I pioneered Java games development, released the world’s first multiplayer Java game (showcased by Sun worldwide), pioneered 3D multiplayer games across NTL’s set top box network, working at board level, and specialise in working with low-spec devices or devices for which entertainment isn’t their primary focus.

Alongside games, I’ve also developed apps across all platforms, financial trading bots, Ethereum dapps, low-latency interactive streaming services, health and wellbeing apps. I try to keep abreast of the latest tech, with recent projects involving VR, AR and ML.

I'm open to

joining company boards,

advising companies,

talking to journalists,

partnering on side projects,

and freelance roles.

Contact Me

Resume

Oct 2020 - Present

Technical Director, maze theory

Jan 2019 - Present

Co-founder, Branching Narrative

Portfolio

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Looking for advisory roles I’m looking to get in touch with various investment funds, offering myself as a technical expert / CTO, either on an ad-hoc advisory basis, or as a non-exec to help direc...

Deathtrap Dungeon: The Interactive Video Adventure https://player.vimeo.com/video/411435389 Forming Branching Narrative with Matt Spall, we spent 18 months developing this game together, with the i...

Experiments with SkyQ In partnership with Flavourworks and Sky, I worked on a number of R&D projects with a view to get FW’s Erica game playable on Sky’s Q set top box. This had a number of challen...

Accurat Unity Plugin SDK Another Unity plugin project – I seem to get a lot of these! – exposing native iOS and Android libraries to Unity and constructing a C# friendly SDK around them. This proje...