About
A small UK studio for roleplay tooling.
X-Ample Studios designs and builds software around FiveM and GTA V roleplay: custom scripts and resources, server development, Discord bots, and the web tools that sit next to them. The same studio trades as X-Ample Development.
The studio is led by Dan Pilkington (Danny), Founder and CEO. If you are writing about a project, start with the contact page or the Discord.
We keep the surface area small on purpose. A script, a bot, or a dashboard should still make sense to the people running the community after the project is handed over.
The team is listed separately. We do not publish client names or performance figures here.
How we work
Specific
The work is shaped around one community: its server, its staff, and its players. We do not pad a quote with features that will not be used.
Plain
Interfaces and configuration should be readable without a guided tour. If a staff member cannot tell what a control does, it is not finished.
Handover
Delivery includes what someone needs to run the thing: where it lives, how it is configured, and what we deliberately left out.
Straight
We say what a piece of work will and will not cover before we build it. Limits are part of the agreement.
Approach
- 01ListenWhat the community runs today, what is breaking, and what done means.
- 02ScopeA written boundary: inclusions, exclusions, and how we will know it works.
- 03BuildImplement against that boundary, and show it while there is still time to correct course.
- 04Hand overAccess, configuration, and a short explanation of how to live with it.