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Jon Ingold

@jon.inkle.co

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Narrative @inkle.co he/him Writer: EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator. “Life doesn't always work out like it's s'posed t' / Like bread doesn't pop when you watch the toaster"

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · Oct 18

Little thread of talks about writing and interactive narrative I've done, so I can pin it here:

First up - Sparkling Dialogue from Adventure X; how to make interactive conversations that have flow and meaning to them

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vRf...

AdvX 2018 - Jon Ingold - Sparkling Dialogue: A Masterclass

YouTube video by AdventureX

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Char @alphachar.bsky.social · 46m

100%! We're a team of two with no artist working on our game Sparrow Warfare at the moment & I'm having the BEST fun remixing, collaging, recolouring & vectorising public domain art to make our bird tiles! It also feels like bringing little fragments of the past into the future.

A collection of bird tiles made by remixing, collaging, recolouring nad vectorising public domain bird illustrations along with other props

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 40m

i really like that sense of having a historical footing: we're using a pencil sketch from 1598 as a logo for the next game

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 3h

For anyone looking for art to use and remix that's entirely free:

pdimagearchive.org/infinite-view/

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 21h

Charles Cecil says that using AI to upscale artwork for Broken Sword: Reforged was a mistake. "The result was not enormously satisfactory," he says. Instead, Revolution ended up redrawing the backgrounds from scratch, using the original artwork as a reference.

www.gamesindustry.biz/ai-was-an-ex...

"AI was an expensive mistake": Charles Cecil on innovation, insolvency, and Broken Sword

Plus, why Revolution Software needs to innovate for Broken Sword 6 – and why it might be a long way off

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20h

We’ve forced them to watch enough 80s UK tv that they believe me

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20h

Convincing my 12yo that gossip girl is based on a British series from the 80s called “tattle lass”

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Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 23h

For the Shadow of the Colossus story, we interviewed 14 people including project leads Fumito Ueda and Kenji Kaido, hired Gravity Rush concept artist Takeshi Oga to illustrate the cover, and put together a 10,000-word story with help from @milkman.bsky.social @shmuplations.bsky.social and others.

Shadow of the Colossus: An oral history

Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Team Ico’s masterpiece by looking back with 11 people who worked on it (and three who didn’t).

www.designroom.site

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

"he had a nose shaped like a can-opener, and was about to leave for a camping trip in a bit of a hurry"

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

Descriptions of what people look like are a waste of time

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

No one should give a reform politician the whip for the obvious reason

Ed Jennings @edjennings.bsky.social · 1d

Another one falls in Kent.

Reform has suspended county councillor Robert Ford after a complaint was made about him by 'several female members of staff.'

The party said that Cllr Ford refused to engage with the complaints process, so he has had the whip removed pending a disciplinary process.

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やまやま @mountain-mountain.bsky.social · 1d

All achievements unlocked !! - A Highland Song #AHighlandSong

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

Very specific to narrative designers but

“Refusal of the call”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 1d

It’s certainly very specific

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 2d

"gymnast to house painter" is a fantastic profession, but personally I am in fact an "invisible net maker", as is every other narrative designer

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 2d

it's also an industry with a very long timescale to any change. nothing's going to really get better in a year or even two. but at least the owner's motivation is hopefully more aligned with the passenger's desires

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inkle @inkle.co · 2d

Great web-template for ink stories; nicely designed with a lot of out of the box features!

Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 2d

I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.

Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template

Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim

A free template for Ink stories

remy-vim.itch.io

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 2d

i had no idea

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?

Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership

www.theguardian.com

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 2d

I’m opening for client work for the first time in years! If you need a writer or editor, get in touch! Link is in my profile. My work has been recognized with nominations for several awards.

I’m also into game dev, and would love to work on some games.

Please help by signal boosting 🙏

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inkle @inkle.co · 3d

How the Colossus machine that cracked the Reich’s most sophisticated code wasn’t built by Turing - but by a Post Officer worker unknown to history, his colleagues and a barber.

Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies

The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...

www.theguardian.com

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 4d

Hard to say; it seemed to be a vanilla recruitment page on LinkedIn not an actual company.

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 4d

* dice. Even the dice. Jesus I don’t want ai I just want autocorrect to fuck off

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 4d

just ran my first ever d&d session (for some kids) and yeah, ok, it was really fun. even the dice.

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David Varela @writingstudio.bsky.social · 5d

Creative Assembly is looking for a Principal Narrative Designer.

No affiliation. Just sharing the link...

jobs.jobvite.com/creative-ass...

Creative Assembly is looking for Principal Narrative Designer.

Creative Assembly is one of Europe's leading games development studios, founded in 1987 and located in West Sussex, UK, Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria. We craft deep and detailed games that matter...

jobs.jobvite.com

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