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inkle @inkle.co · 1d

There's a really good curation of 2025 games up on the Ars Festival page on Steam right now.

Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!

Ars Independent Festival 2025

Ars Independent Festival is an annual cultural event held in Katowice, celebrating independent video games and more.

store.steampowered.com

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Jackie's Podcasts+ @jaxyacks.com · 2d

I just published a new game for the Ink Game Jam!
You had to use @inkle.co's scripting language, Ink, with the theme "The Big Switch," which was perfect, since I was wanting to do a game about being #transmasc!
Let me know what you think!
#ambrolengame
ambrolen.itch.io/pick-your-ge...

Pick Your Gender by ambrolen

It shouldn't be hard to check the girl box. So why are you hesitating?

ambrolen.itch.io

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 2d

Talking publicly about game cities, @inkle.co's ink, and interactive text is a temptation I can rarely resist.

D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 2d

Find out *everything* about our forthcoming "Build An Interactive City In Text using ink" #gamedev & #worldbuilding course, in our live course presentation and intro to textual cities event!

🎯 22 October, 17:00 CET

🎫 Reserve your free ticket ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...

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Thinky Games @thinkygames.com · 6d

Heaven’s Vault also involves uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilization, but is a language deciphering game with a rich story and intricate worldbuilding.
thinkygames.com/game...
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Heaven's Vault · Thinky Games

Decipher an ancient language to discover the fate of a lost civilization.

thinkygames.com

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Steve Morton - 🔜 @AdvX Conf in November! @pvbuk.bsky.social · 8d

The Steam Autumn Sale is on now!
As usual, grab some @inkle.co games at up to 80% off! 😳😎
All under £9, some less than £2!
Grab some bargains asap! Gift them to family or friends! ☺️

store.steampowered.com/developer/in...

Steam Developer: inkle

Interactive adventures that span the world, cross the wilderness, and dig deep into the past. Every action will shape your story.

store.steampowered.com

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inkle @inkle.co · 12d

#inkjam25 has begun! This year, it's a generous 8-day jam, and the theme is

THE BIG SWITCH

If you want to join, you still can:

inkJam 2025

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-12 hosted by Jon Keevy. Welcome to the 8th edition of inkJam ! This is an annual community-organized jam all about ink, a versatile scripting language for narrati...

itch.io

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inkle @inkle.co · 15d

Reminder that the eighth annual jam for ink games starts in just a few days!

sign up below:

inkJam 2025

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-12 hosted by Jon Keevy. Welcome to the 8th edition of inkJam ! This is an annual community-organized jam all about ink, a versatile scripting language for narrati...

itch.io

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AbleToPlay | Find Accessible Games! @abletoplay.com · 16d

Venture through the Scottish highlands in A Highland Song by @inkle.co, a journey steeped in folklore waiting to be uncovered. With amazing audio configuration, musical timing assists, adjustable reading speed, rhythm support, subtitles, and more, we’re sure to find the lighthouse by Beltane. 🏔️

A girl with a brown ponytail and a yellow jacket walks through lush highlands. There are music notes floating off of her.

Gameplay. A girl with a brown ponytail and a yellow jacket climbs an old tower. There is dialogue above her that says, "I could mebbe get a decent view from the top of the turret."

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 21d

This November I'll be teaching a @d6learning.bsky.social course/workshop on the creation of text-only, interactive cities using @inkle.co's ink scripting language.

Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

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inkle @inkle.co · 22d

hold onto your husbands it's windy out there

Johnny Chiodini @johnnyohnny.bsky.social · 22d

Hi all, today at 4pm BST (8am PT, 11am ET) we'll be getting away with murder as I stream Overboard! Hope you can join me for some very silly fun youtube.com/live/AQAMvv6...

Let's Play Overboard!

YouTube video by Johnny Chiodini

youtube.com

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The Indie Game Art Gallery @indiegameart.bsky.social · 23d

A Highland Song (Inkle, 2023)

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inkle @inkle.co · 23d

We didn’t *design* Highland for speed running exactly but it’s kinda brilliant that it can be played that way

All Speedrun Records @speedrun-new.bsky.social · 23d

🔥🔥 NEW SPEEDRUN RECORD VERIFIED! 🔥🔥

🎮 Game: A Highland Song
🏆 Category: Any%
⏱ Time: 0h 19m 12s 030ms
👤 Player: littletonbi
🔗 Link: https://www.speedrun.com/A_Highland_Song/run/z00vj64z

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inkle @inkle.co · 23d

It’s working well! Ink is quite happy to be chopped up and threaded around and tunnelled through: it has relatively few structural assumptions so we can mostly do what we like. The main challenge points are debugging things like the inability to breakpoint inside ink script; that kind of thing

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inkle @inkle.co · 24d

Inkpot - The Unreal integration for Ink, as maintained by @thechineseroom.co.uk - has been updated: see the changelog for details!

GitHub - The-Chinese-Room/Inkpot: Inkpot - a container for Ink

Inkpot - a container for Ink. Contribute to The-Chinese-Room/Inkpot development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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inkle @inkle.co · 28d

For those looking to try out ink, #inkjam is back and the signup page is now live. One week, unofficial, founded by @paulloz.bsky.social and now hosted by @jonkeevy.bsky.social

Starts 29th September!

inkJam 2025

A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-12 hosted by Jon Keevy. Welcome to the 8th edition of inkJam ! This is an annual community-organized jam all about ink, a versatile scripting language for narrati...

itch.io

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inkle @inkle.co · 29d

Shared via the ink discord: a parser for basic mathematical expressions, in ink (!)

gist.github.com/IFcoltransG/...

A parser for very simple maths expressions in Ink

A parser for very simple maths expressions in Ink. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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inkle @inkle.co · 29d

The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest:

ifcomp.org/ballot

The Interactive Fiction Competition

ifcomp.org

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Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · Sep 5

Fantastic video essay by @sariaslays.bsky.social on Scottish games, featuring A Highland Song of course! It’s really well put together - and dips into how we made the game and where the inspiration came from: youtu.be/emA9MoxPDok?...

Well worth a watch!

Set in Scotland: Exploring Scottish Culture through Indie Games

YouTube video by SariaPlays

youtu.be

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inkle @inkle.co · Sep 4

Solid inkle-related feature in this month’s Edge!

Edge @edgemagazine.bsky.social · Sep 4

In Edge 415, out today: The Battlefield 6 team on rebuilding the blockbuster FPS from the ground up, an exploration of the process behind remasters and remakes, hands-on with forthcoming games including Resident Evil Requiem and Ninja Gaiden 4, and meeting with Riot to talk 2XKO.

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Alan Wen @damisanthrope.bsky.social · Sep 2

The feature I wrote about concept art in video games for ImagineFX a little while back is now available to read online at Creative Bloq, with insight from the concept artists behind Eternal Strands, A Highland Song and Tales of Kenzera: Zau www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-...

What is concept art? One of the most misunderstood crafts in game design explained

Three artists explain the varied work involved in designing dreams.

www.creativebloq.com

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GameLuster @gameluster.bsky.social · Sep 2

Best Indies Throwback Spotlight #3: A Highland Song from @inkle.co !

Read the full review here: gameluster.com/a-highland-s...

#indies #indiegame #indiegaming

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Phlare @phlare.bsky.social · Aug 27

Got the last of the event-based achievements in "A Highland Song" tonight. All that's left is the full completion achievements, climb/name/bless all peaks, and the 3- and 1-day traversals.

Getting close to having enough shortcuts unlocked to attempt those as well. #AHighlandSong

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inkle @inkle.co · Sep 1

A few little clues about our next project

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · Sep 1

After Expelled came out we looked around for our next project, considering mechanical successors to Highland, 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault…

… and settled on a design that looked “simple”, has a completely new-to-us-anyway loop and narrative architecture.

It wasn’t simple :(

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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interactive text can do all sorts of amazing things, and resident game urbanist @konstantinosd.bsky.social will show you how to use @inkle.co's ink to build an interactive city with it.

Here's all the information you'll need: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

Build An Interactive City In Text Using ink

Learn how to use the ink narrative scripting language to create virtual cities in text.

www.d6learning.com

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inkle @inkle.co · Aug 28

No, it’s still very much under construction

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