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About Grand Job Games

Grand Job Games is an independent one-person studio based in Ireland, making short, free games that run in a web browser.

What the studio makes

The studio releases small games built around a single mechanic: one input, one decision, one round of a few minutes. They are designed to be played once or twice rather than returned to daily, and they are built to load quickly on a mobile connection without an install step, account or launcher.

Everything published is free and ad-free. Each game lives on its own subdomain of grandjobgames.com, and new ones go up on the games page as they are finished, which at the moment is often.

The name

"Grand job" is an Irish expression for work that is perfectly acceptable and no more than that. It suits a studio making small games with modest ambitions, and it sets expectations at roughly the right level.

How the games are built

Everything is built for the web first, mostly React and TypeScript compiled down to a static bundle, with no engine runtime to download and no server behind it. Art is drawn as inline SVG or pixel art rather than loaded as image files, and sound is synthesised in the browser instead of streamed, which is why the games start almost immediately.

Nothing needs a network connection once loaded. Progress and high scores are saved in your own browser, so there is no account to make and nothing of yours sitting on a server. Jersey Pullers goes a step further and installs as an app if you want it on a home screen.

This site is a static build: every page is plain HTML served from a CDN, with no client-side JavaScript required to read it.

Who makes them

The studio is run by David Donnellan, who designs, builds and publishes the games. Work on new releases happens between other things, so the release schedule is irregular by design.

Contact

For press, collaboration, bug reports or anything else, emailhello@grandjobgames.com. Data protection requests are covered in theprivacy policy.