JEPDraper

29/12/2023

New blog post is out!

Would greatly appreciate if you could give it a read.

Isle of Man based video game developer

29/12/2022

Looking back on an...interesting year.

East London based video game developer

10/04/2020

‪I’m currently running into several stability issues involving Unity, on top of some hurdles regarding a local and networked multiplayer game I’m working on, so I have a question to ask. ‬

‪Has anyone who follows me worked on a multiplayer game in Unreal. How does it compare? ‬

31/08/2019

28/07/2019

if you wanna help me test out board games, Tabletop Simulator, which I use for online board game playtests, is £6.38 at GreenManGaming.

Pick up your Tabletop Simulator PC copy from Green Man Gaming today and remember to sign in for our best price.

19/07/2019

I have a Play Testing Newsletter where you can sign up if you're willing to be contacted regarding helping me play test games. Multiple specific options available (board games, mods, independent games, etc.) http://eepurl.com/dBF3n1

14/05/2019

Today I had the pleasure of attending the University of Bristol Games Show.

Third year computer science students have made a variety of games with some interesting concepts.

You had one which used RFID Sensors and your phone to allow you to take part in this Overcooked type cooking game, a potions making game that used a haptic feedback device (which I unfortunately did not get to play), a spy game where you had to travel to different ‘countries’ around the building to obtain information about your target, and a VR shopping game where one person had a shopping list and a trolley, and the other had a VR helmet and the ability to pick up items.

I had an awesome time seeing what Bristol students had been hard at work making, and I loved how non-conformist the games were.

Can’t wait for next years show.

@ Merchant Venturers Building

26/04/2019

Last night I had the pleasure to attend this months monthly anti-social at the Bristol Games Hub. This one had a guest appearance from , so they had multiple talks including one from the freaking Oliver Twins (We all had to keep our fan-boying in check 😂). I learnt a lot, and had a great time. The games hub is an amazing game dev community for Bristol and the south west, and I’d highly recommend their anti Socials for learning and networking. @ Stokes Croft

02/03/2019

On Thursday I got to play Mars Horizon: Blast Off! by local developers, Auroch Digital.

It's a game I had a lot of fun playing and I'd highly recommend it.

They're currently running a Kickstarter Campaign and they have 5 days to raise the last £270 of their campaign.

Check it out!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aurochdigitalltd/mars-horizon-blast-off-a-card-game-about-getting-t?ref=project_tweet

11/02/2019

Some local game developers, Auroch Digital based at the Bristol Games Hub have just launched their Kickstarter for Mars Horizon: Blast Off! A card game where you're competing to be the first manned crew to reach Mars! Go check it out!

An authentic, tactical yet fun card game about leading a space agency from its first rocket launch through to the first mission to Mars

28/01/2019

Over the weekend I completed my THIRD Global Game Jam, and my 6th Game Jam overall.

I worked in an amazing team of 7, and we are proud to present MOVING DAY, a local coop party game.

The game can be downloaded here: https://globalgamejam.org/2019/games/moving-day-3

You play as 4 College Students asserting dominance over your shared house by getting the most personal items into the most rooms.

Also it's a local multiplayer party game, so it requires multiple controllers to play.

Assert dominance over your new housemates by making a house a home, your home. An up to 4 player party game where you try to move as many of your items in the house as possible all while keeping your housemates items out of the house.Jam Site: The Foundry | PlayWest | UWEGames | 2019Jam...

31/12/2018

My top 7 creative works of 2018 (Games, TV Shows, Movies and Music Albums) [FREE]

Official Post from Joel Draper: So, as it's now the final day of 2018, recently I've been seeing a lot of "top 10 games of 2018" or "top 10 movies of 2018" and I was thinking to myself "I haven't seen that many movies from this year or played that many games from this year." After all, a lot of the....