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Jon Ingold
@jon.inkle.co
Narrative @inkle.co he/him

Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
Yes. Yup. Yaas. Oh, yah. AYE, I DO. Yeees, I have beeeen knowwwwn toooo. And I Could Not Possibly Comment!
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
yes, it's useful; there are always silly syntax errors in ink - a hyphen or a miscount of *'s in the wrong place can have huge implications. It is however, difficult to actually do, since a script might not "move" without external shoving. We often design games 'weirdly' just to ALLOW random testing
January 12, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Nothing in-built, but we‘ve made basic automated testers for various projects. We tend to make them bespoke for the way the project works
January 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Wait till you get to Mr Badger‘s apocalyptic underground city
January 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
The results, to me, are exciting… and while we have no next project lined up here at inkle I am very keen to explore this space further: procedurally assembled, specifically recorded. More more more!
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Ever since that I’ve wanted to see how far you can push using linear recordings for non-linear contexts. The actors - this time, @rmcloughlin.bsky.social and @paulwarren.bsky.social - did some heroic work with a fairly strange script (But then again, film isn’t shot in sequence!)
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
We quite like “database thriller” as a genre; idk who coined it
January 8, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Yeah, I can see that…!
January 7, 2026 at 7:43 AM
thank you!
January 6, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Making time the enemy in "real-time" fiction:
Time waits for no one - Jon Ingold | Atlantic Games Conference 2025
YouTube video by Atlantic Games Conference
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January 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Landscape, level design and exploration: www.youtube.com/watch?v=66KY...
#IVIPRODAYS2024 | Lecture di Jon Ingold (inkle)
YouTube video by IVIPRO - Italian Videogame Program
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January 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
A few more!

How to create a story: the whole process, from concept to outline, in 25 minutes, with jokes.
AdventureX 2025 – Talk: Jon Ingold "Always Trade Up: from Inspiration to Storyline"
YouTube video by AdventureX
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January 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM