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Joseph Humfrey

@joe.inkle.co

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Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio. ⛰️ A Highland Song 🚢 Overboard! & Expelled! 🕌 Heaven’s Vault 🌍 80 Days 🖋️ ink 📱 Apps @ https://Selkie.Design 🦭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪

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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 3h

Rift Riff released on mobile & it's portrait-only. just look at how sexy portrait is

App Store (iOS):
apps.apple.com/us/app/rift-...

Google Play (Android):
play.google.com/store/apps/d...

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

sexy screenshot of rift riff in portrait on mobile

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 1h

Daaaamn that looks good 😍 downloading now!

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inkle @inkle.co · 2d

Adorable!

やまやま @mountain-mountain.bsky.social · 2d

All achievements unlocked !! - A Highland Song #AHighlandSong

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 2d

Mostly, it’s just very well designed. I have a long list of specific nitty gritty technical little things I like. It’s also really fast and lightweight for what it is (Unity is pretty bloated by this point).

Narrative… nothing specific I don’t think, it’s just really nice to work with.

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 2d

We have our little quarrels now and then of course, but Godot just does SO MUCH right.

I haven't quite fallen down the GDScript rabbit hole just yet, but watching from afar, it's a very beautiful language.

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 2d

I… think I might have fallen in love with Godot 💖

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 2d

Lovely work!

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 2d

Was great to meet you, and loved the talk. Forgot to say too, the home PC references were 👌

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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

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

Hahaaaaa!!

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

YARRRRR

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

This was NOT on my bingo card for what I expected to be in our next game: an audio clip of me singing like a pirate

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

NEVER

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

Was awesome hanging out with you! Safe travels 👋

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

Swapped coffee with @strasser.bsky.social, made my first cup of C•Sol and this morning, it’s delicious!

Now drinking my first ever cup from home roasted beans from @pbobak.bsky.social, tastes amazing too!

Thanks coffee buddies 🫶

My current library (not including already frozen beans!)

Bags of coffee from Neighbourhood in Liverpool, Kapow in Leeds, C-Sol in Austria, Square Mile in London, St Martins in Leicester, and a sample of hand roasted beans in a tin.

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 6d

Just got back from @swiftleeds.co.uk, it was fantastic! My first non-game conference, and my first small conference - it had a great, friendly, welcoming vibe. GDC is always fun but it’s also MASSIVE and by comparison impersonal and super commercial.

Leeds is a beautiful and vibrant town!

A beautiful arcade in Leeds (arcade as jn “indoor street” not as in “video games”)

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 7d

I look forward to being replaced with the new and improved model!

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 8d

Will track you down!

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 8d

@chriswu.com great job, your talk was fantastic! 🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕛

(Also holy shit time zones are insane)

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 8d

My younger son holding up a drawing with “I want to be a game developer when I grow up” with a drawing of Mario.

No idea where he gets these silly juvenile ideas.

❤️

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 8d

The thing about this is, is this is how born-rich people *already* do it - whether it's making art, or starting a business, or whatever they successfully do. They already know it works.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 8d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 10d

Incredible work chaps 💪 💪 💪

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 12d

(I can’t imagine ever trusting such a small model for actual writing suggestions though!)

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 12d

I shocked myself by using it for the first time the other day! I used it for some simple but otherwise laborious text formatting and layout in Apple Notes and it actually worked well.

Joseph Humfrey @joe.inkle.co · 14d

I'd love to be able to piggy back off the Notes database to create an app for something with a more tailored UX but that at its core is human-readable text and media.

Either way, it would be possible to fallback to a default presentation if you uninstall the app or extension.