This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast: Veteran narrative designer @wildwinter.bsky.social takes us on a wild tour of the boundaries of story design and LARPs. One for all, and all for one! Check it out here: www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... ... or any-podcast-place!

I got annoyed that my pipeline tools might fail when writing files into Perforce, Github or any other repo. So here is a tiny open-source library that handles checking out, adding, and deleting files for whichever version control system happens to be in place. wildwinter.medium.com/simple-versi...

I got annoyed that my pipeline tools might fail when writing files into Perforce, Github or any other repo. So here is a tiny open-source library that handles checking out, adding, and deleting files for whichever version control system happens to be in place. wildwinter.medium.com/simple-versi...

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Well, Microsoft codesigning sucks for individual hobbyist developers.

Game Subtitles - what to do if your text is just too long? I've created a tool to make this easier - paginating and hyphenating where it needs to, in a variety of languages. In the vain hope that maybe I won't have to worry about it ever again! You can find it here: medium.com/@wildwinter/...

PSA: a lot of people asked for an ebook edition — and we’ve been able to put one together! And with hyperlinks, of course.

Game Subtitles - what to do if your text is just too long? I've created a tool to make this easier - paginating and hyphenating where it needs to, in a variety of languages. In the vain hope that maybe I won't have to worry about it ever again! You can find it here: medium.com/@wildwinter/...

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

@jon.inkle.co It reached Sweden. :-)

Note that I totally failed to hit the brief here and so said more than one thing. Ah well! (Good stuff in this book. Lots of good juicy crunchiness, in fact. From a lot of familiar names!)

📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope 100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max... ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!

Ah, shit... woke up in a mysterious and abandoned location, and I've lost my memory. I hope a series of gradually escalating challenges positioned between me and escape can instruct me how to open doors, use my powers, and double jump.

I've collected some tools and articles here, as it's all getting a bit messy. storytools.se

New feature for Dinky (the dialogue Ink editor) - record scratch audio for each line while in the editor, and be notified when it goes out of date. medium.com/@wildwinter/...

I've collected some tools and articles here, as it's all getting a bit messy. storytools.se

New feature for Dinky (the dialogue Ink editor) - record scratch audio for each line while in the editor, and be notified when it goes out of date. medium.com/@wildwinter/...

Interesting feedback on "but this doesn't make sense for use with Ink" and that's true, for a bunch of 'proper' uses of Ink it's not necessarily useful. Mostly this is me noodling to see what tools I can build, but a lot of ways Ink is being used now is not necessarily what Ink was designed for.

Working on some optimisations for what I call "The @richardcobbett.bsky.social Effect"

Another tool! Ink Explorer. Visualises the shape of an Ink story and lets you play through from any point, watching variables (and tweaking them), keeping track of visit counts, and letting you snapshot and restore the state. Early days - hope it's useful to someone! medium.com/@wildwinter/...

In modern problems, that's the second time our robot has made horrific noises while choking on a d20. The same d20. (Why is it on the floor? Because it's the cat's d20.)

It's strange how 1994's 'The Paper' (Michael Keaton, Glenn Close) won so many more awards than 1996's 'The Rock' (Sean Connery, Nicholas Cage) and yet was beaten by *checks notes* Edward Scissorhands- No, never mind.

Remember the Ink Localisation tool I made? I've just updated it with support for PO/POT files. YMMV, as ever. Nag me if I broke something! Hope folk find it useful: github.com/wildwinter/I...

We released a cast album of our extremely amateur comedy horror musical. Not high art, but great fun to do. :-) recordu.lnk.to/q4zcss

We released a cast album of our extremely amateur comedy horror musical. Not high art, but great fun to do. :-) recordu.lnk.to/q4zcss

Another small update thing - Dink and Dinky now support industry standard PO/POT formats for localisation. Might be of use to someone! github.com/wildwinter/d... github.com/wildwinter/d...

Absolutely brilliant last line. No spoilers, but Swedish Chef's kiss

"Every day you wake up, eat three breakfasts, and then smoke some weed. Every single day!" "What can I say? I'm a creature of hobbit."

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

Remember the Ink Localisation tool I made? I've just updated it with support for PO/POT files. YMMV, as ever. Nag me if I broke something! Hope folk find it useful: github.com/wildwinter/I...

Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work. wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...

Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work. wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...

The IndieCade Festival continues! Get ROSEWATER for 25% off. "A game that plays with you as much as you play with it." - @pordeciralgo.bsky.social IndieCade nominated for Best Performance, and winner of the @agotyawards.bsky.social for Best Art & Animation! store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

A nobel peace pryze doth not worke lyke the One Ring. It ys not about who ys physicallye holdinge it.

Is the thing that Obelix carries around a Gaul stone?

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

100%. One of the best ways to figure out if the dialogue flows, and also whether you've laid impossible-to-say traps for your voice actors.

Recording a musical!

It's Bowie's birthday, which means it's time for the annual repost of my drawing of a bunch of dancing Daves in the style of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Happy Birthday, Mr Jones.

I updated my open source Fountain screenplay parsing and writing libraries to also read and write Final Draft. Might be useful for someone! github.com/wildwinter/s...

This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.

The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 55% off during the Steam Winter Sale! Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow. What lies beneath the soil? Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...

OPPORTUNITIES Thread Not affiliated, please check all details before applying, shares welcome! 2K Lead Narrative Designer - UK - Brighton job-boards.greenhouse.io/hangar13/job...

Due to feedback from our testers, we have decided to patch "Happy New Year" to "Acceptable New Year" to avoid disappointment and better match the realities of the market.

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

"If I only could, I'd make a deal with cod, and I'd get him to swap our plaices..." Skate Bush