Mark Ripley

IndieDev ahoy! Riding the choppy games industry waves aboard a battered raft. http://wearedinosaurs.uk

We make interactive and immersive experiences. We are expert in understanding and using new technologies - including VR, AR and other XR tools.

A healthier, more sustainable future for children Our mission is to empower children to take ownership of their future, by building an extended reality playground, designed to improve children’s health and wellbeing. We launched Fish Bladder Games to pursue our passion for change in order to help children remove their perceived barriers and gain confidence, by improving their physical and mental wellbeing. We have witnessed first hand the positive impact that increased levels of physical activity, particularly, has upon people’s overall outlook both during our time in the British Army, and whilst working in the fitness industry, and we want to ensure that this opportunity is extended to younger demographics using a solution built specifically for them.

Graewolv is an entertainment company founded by industry veterans. The team consists of experienced professionals hell-bent on creating great games and entertainment. We are a privately owned company with studios in Malta and Sweden. Our desire is to create original, immersive worlds and experiences, to entertain a passionate audience that share our love for action-filled, engaging narratives in immersive worlds.

Work-for-hire software development, across desktop, console, Facebook/Messenger, mobile, AR and VR platforms. GBTech specialised in software for the healthcare industry. We also handle porting, project rescue and consultation.

Providing work-for-hire development expertise in the fields of blockchain and particularly Ethereum.

Psygnomi started from humble beginnings, providing consultation to various companies, including Unity Technologies. Since then it has grown to nearly 20 staff, each with experience ranging from 15 years to over 30, providing game and app development expertise on a variety of projects. We're experienced with most platforms - across desktop, mobile and console devices - and gaining new experiences with AR and VR. We're working with new and established IP, developing new games and apps, or porting existing ones to new platforms.

HeadcastLab are a mobile broadcaster. We create and animate characters and scenes, broadcasting interactive content to a wide range of connected devices via a technology platform that is designed to be used by anyone. We call this process Headcasting and it’s the jumping off point for a huge number of communications strategies, enabling the creation of real-time, rich-media messaging for brands, stars and the public. The Headcaster is a complete social messaging platform for friends, brands and stars. Stars will bring their followers with them and perform via their own bespoke characters, whilst brands will broadcast into the space via their celebrity endorsements or mascots. As CTO I'm speccing and overseeing the development process, managing internal and external staff, whilst getting my hands dirty with Unity, C# and native code plugins....

Initially founded to service number of projects for Tauntr – total budget $200K. Managed 10 freelance, 2 full time employed staff, all home based, using Basecamp, Trello, Skype. Designed projects, defined timescales, managed staff, often managing client’s changing requirements.

Consulted for Eidos, producing games framework integrating web-based games into Facebook Assisted third-party games companies integrate their games.

Pheonixed FG with core staff, spread across 3 subsidiaries: Cheeky Vision, Cheeky Marketing, Cheeky Wireless. Wireless was chosen by 3 alongside only two other companies to provide launch content for their service. Developed “StarMiner”, embedded on numerous Vodafone UK handsets. Moved to Corfu in 2003 and renovated a house.

Co-founded world-leading developer of games and apps for Web, iTV and mobile. Initially 6 staff, generated £380K profit on £500K turnover in first six months. Valued at £36m by Ernst Young and Arthur Andersen as part of a proposed buyout by well-known gambling company. Developed business plan for and negotiated £1.2m investment for 25% stake from two other sources in two rounds, allowing growth to 30 staff, sales department and further generation of in-house IP, which attracted over 15m visitors a month to friendlygiants.com. Partnered with Pace and NTL, producing pay-per-play 3D multiplayer games (using in-house 3D renderer) for NTL’s set-top boxes; Daily Mirror, producing online pay-per-play games with prizes for mirror.co.uk; EasyEverything, producing pay-per-play versions of in-house IP; Channel 4, producing “Mini Motty” desktop toy, as well as numerous licensing deals for IP including PlayJam and Freeloader. Brokered licensing deals with blue chips for owned-IP content.

Recruited and headed up Apps Development team, creating games and multimedia content for clients including Ferrari and various premier league football clubs. Evaluated leading-edge technologies, including visit to former military company in Tel Aviv.

Protocol were a highly successful advertising agency, specialising in new media and online.

Design and development of SQL-Retriever, an ODBC-SQL database connectivity solution.