Just Play a Game Studios, LLC (or JPAG Studios) is a game development studio currently focusing on creating fun and quirky independent titles. JPAG Studios began as a group of online friends interested in exploring game design. After months of work and experimentation, Just Play a Game Studios, LLC was officially established in May 2011. The studio’s first title, Spy Babies: Episode 1 is heading towards completion, and should be available on XBox Live Indie Games Spring/Summer 2012.
Marie Barnes
Founder; Team Lead; Programmer; Designer
Marie wishes she had more time to do her favorite things which include tabletop rpgs, board games, and walking in the city in the rain. She loves to curl up with a good comic book, scifi, or fantasy novel. She has the frequent delusions that she will write a novel, either before or after training in the mountains for a year to become a martial arts master. In the best dream she’s ever had she was Batman fighting a horde of zombies. To her eternal sorrow she has not had this dream again. If JPAGS ever makes her rich, she will open a rescue for dogs and cats. Her own much beloved mutts’ names are Moogle and Guybrush.
Marie’s very favorite games are large open-ended RPGs like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Fallout, and Betrayal at Krondor although she plays almost every other sort of game. She spends way too much time of late on the Brandywine server in Lord of the Rings Online.
Stan Kramer
Co-Founder; Art Lead; Designer; Writer
The visual side of JPAG Studios, born out of Stan’s long devotion to Photoshop. Like a callous god, Photoshop often tests Stan’s devotion by crashing mere seconds after he’s wondered “when’s the last time I saved?” But his faith never wains, mostly because he enjoys suffering. Along with making the fanciest stick figure art, Stan also fancies himself a writer, for some reason. Along with his writing duties for JPAG Studios, Stan is also “hard” at work on a comic project of his, Void Domain eM. It’ll probably end up being published under the JPAG Studios banner. He also really enjoys watching American football, and playing tennis (even though his carefully crafted figure would suggest otherwise).
His favorite games include Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Shadow of the Colossus, Fallout: New Vegas, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Final Fantasy VI.
Stan’s on Twitter!
Robert Burgess
Programming Lead
Descended from the cold, harsh wastes of Northern England, Rob has a particular appreciation for afternoon tea, late night pub sessions and Monty Python. What differentiates him from every other Englishman you ask? Well, he is devilishly handsome. When he isn’t knee-deep in code, Rob can often be found hidden in some corner of his man cave, giggling at his own buffoonery, or simply away in a daydream; longing for a glimpse of the River Tyne once more. Rob holds English football close to his heart, especially his beloved Newcastle United, and also enjoys a spot of Fly Fishing from time to time. Not many people know this, but a bug in Rob’s character forces him to reproduce his sing-and-dance rendition of Billy Ocean’s Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car at the slightest hint of the hit single. After the Arctic and Pacific, he is Rob’s favourite Ocean. Naturally, Rob plays his fair share of video games. His favourites are The Secret of Monkey Island, Half-Life 2, Bioshock and Red Dead Redemption.
The Just Play a Game Studios logo designed by Lock Designs