We got an opportunity to speak with @skunkapegames.com about their remake of Poker Night at the Inventory (which comes out tomorrow!). We also go deep into the history of the original game's development and Telltale as a whole. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/0XXu...

Narrative game devs & marketers! I want to talk to you about marketing narrative games for a video. I've already set up a couple of chats, but would love to hear from a few more ppl. If you're down to answer a few questions, on-cam or otherwise, DMs are open! So is my email exalclaw[at]gmail.com!

My literal favourite thing about running a small studio: we can make things better overnight. - If you found the TR-49 screen uncomfortable to read / focus-on, try the new Reduce Glitches setting; it's significantly crisper / easier to read. - And if you hate helpful games, try Reduce Hints mode.

TR-49 is Inkle's best launch ever. Insightful commentary on the power of words. And proof that big budgets aren't what make games good Not bad for a project that started life as a throwaway idea Inkle never planned to sell www.polygon.com/inkle-tr-49-...

Does TR-49 work on Steam Deck? Here's an entire article about how, yes, it does work on Steam Deck, via @pcgamesn.com

Go play TR-49, it's a crunchy little treat that will unfurl inside your brain with the vibes of a mandela effect you invited in. store.steampowered.com/app/3838370/...

I don't understand what Emily means. It's all true.

For me, one thing that made this a great launch was how we teased it, blurring the lines of reality and fiction in the marketing. I'd spent the summer going down the rabbit hole of My Chemical Romance's Black Parade tour & loved the idea of creating a sort of ARG around the game launch.

In TR-49, a record of history is so distorted and revised by language that figuring out the truth becomes a puzzle. Will historians be able to figure out what is happening to us today when we’ve trained ourselves to speak in careful codes? My review. www.polygon.com/tr-49-review/

TR-49: OUT NOW Narrative deduction / audio drama "Outstanding" - PC Gamer "Politically fierce" - Polygon "One of the best" - Thinky Games "I wanted to know everything" - RPS "Impressive - very impressive indeed" - Eurogamer $6.99 / ~6 hours Steam: tinyurl.com/2jvt9ewk iOS: tinyurl.com/4ucwx4s7

The embargo on TR-49 reviews lifted 30 minutes ago and I'm sitting here reading the first reviews thinking, "I can't wait until @inkle.co wakes up."

24 hours from now we will release the works of Pemberton, Kendrick, Silverton and the rest into the world. We have no idea what the consequences will be. We have every reason to believe that when this happened before, it was seismic. Good luck.

Expelled! is one of the @theguardian.com top 15 switch games to play this year. Or now. You could also play it, right now. (and it’s on sale on steam for another few hours)

for normal, not-sad reasons, it would be cool to hear if anyone is looking for freelance coverage of games like TR-49, Cairn, or Perfect Tides: Station to Station when they're out!

Would love to speak to any regular international GDC attendees who are skipping this year's show (or were going to attend and have now cancelled) due to the current political climate. DMs here or [email protected], thank you!

btw indies, you should really hire @thisisstar.bsky.social if you can for trailers - her trailer for TR-49 is up on GameTrailers where it has 10x the views of anything released around the same time (except, I think, Warhammer). And for a game which is *really* hard to trailer too...

En streaming gratuit sur France Télévisions jusqu’au 10 janvier : "Jordan, itinéraire d’un pionnier du jeu vidéo", documentaire de 52 minutes.📽Il retrace mon parcours de la création de jeux vidéo dans les 1980 à mes BD en France aujourd’hui. www.france.tv/documentaire...

🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨 TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share. DESIGNATION: TR-49 GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA DATE: 21st JANUARY PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck This is what we know, so far.

Just in: we've received the necessary declassification paperwork related to the more sensitive materials we're in possession of. We should be able to show more details of the TR-49 device as soon as tomorrow.

"Once there was a mirror with two faces..." Heaven's Vault - Book 4 - Coming 2026

Hello to all my new followers! I am Harrison, a Narrative Designer & Writer who has worked on a bunch of things across my career including The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, Diablo IV and the Rime update for Myst (2020). I'm currently looking for work so DM me if you'd like to chat!

i just tried the machine we built and out of nowhere it did this

Also: if you run a podcast or know someone who does, and want me to come on and talk about my experience with audio drama (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Doctor Who, Central Intelligence, Buzz, etc.) and how that relates to my experience on TR-49... My DMs are open!

Old Skies made Polygon's "10 Best Adventures of 2025 list!" www.polygon.com/best-adventu...

I drew this artwork "Saturday 1979" remembering pre-internet weekends with my first computer, an Apple II (taking turns playing w/my brother) & made a limited edition of 20 signed & numbered prints. At this moment, 2 are left: 💾 jordanmechner.com/en/#gifts

Gamespot has listed Old Skies as one of the top 10 games of 2025! www.gamespot.com/gallery/the-...

⚠️ TR-49 -- an archive of books that don't exist ⚠️ We began investigating through a simple prototype - before we built the machine. The "game" has moved far, far beyond this now. But the old prototype is "playable". You may find it revealing. ❗ www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

Bonjour!Tomorrow, 10 Dec, I'll be at Emile Zola médiathèque in Montpellier signing my graphic novel REPLAY, followed by Q&A and screening of Marc Azema's new @france3occitanie.bsky.social documentary about my videogame journeys. Free & open to public, sign up at itinerairejordan.eventbrite.fr

ICYMI: How Benedict Cumberbatch led us to a vital clue, and in turn, our next game.

Great to see @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social's Old Skies and @inkle.co's Expelled on this list! (Also Dispatch, which I am loving, and Blue Prince, which I sunk 100+ hours into...)

Anyone who interviews people should interview Sally right away. She talks professionally and is very good at being interviewed.

It's Giving Tuesday at the VGHF! We've had an incredible 2025, but we need your help to make sure we can continue doing our charitable work in 2026 and beyond. We just launched our annual Winter Fundraiser campaign, please give if you're able (and share this post!). http://gamehistory.org/donate

I don't actually *know* that my late great-uncle worked at Bletchley. But the available evidence suggests he did. Here's what I know. I inherited a few things when he died - not in his will, but just collected from his attic. One of these is significant, and linked.

We're going live with Nick Herman and Dennis Lenart from @adhocstudio.com to play Dispatch! Come hang with us and maybe win a Steam key! www.twitch.tv/breakthrough...

Exciting announcement from @inkle.co this morning AND I get to play Dispatch on Twitch with Nick and Dennis from @adhocstudio.com in an hour? This is what we call "a good day at work."

Today is the day to tell a strange story. The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did. Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.

Join us tomorrow on Twitch to chat with two of the creators of Dispatch and play an episode or two! We might even give away some game keys if we're in the mood.

First Ron Gilbert, and now two of my favorite ex-Telltale coworkers? What a month! Join me and @raebaeplays.bsky.social on 11/20 for a chat with @nicholasherman.bsky.social and Dennis Lenart of @adhocstudio.com, while we play some of their massive hit, Dispatch. Can't wait!

Thanks to everyone who tuned in to today's stream, it was so much fun! If you missed the stream live, you can check it out here: www.twitch.tv/videos/26115... And if you're feeling charitable, we'll leave the incentives up for the rest of the day. (Or longer, if we forget to turn them off. 👀)

Going live in an hour!

In anticipation of my Twitch stream tomorrow with Ron Gilbert, I dug some Thimbleweed Park and Monkey Island stuff out of my closet that I'm offering as donation incentives. I'm also willing to cross-stitch Thimbleweed Park characters for charity! Donate here: donate.tiltify.com/81271afa-96a...

I'm so freaking excited for this. On Thursday, @nukkuler.bsky.social and I will be chatting with THE Ron Gilbert about his 40-year (!) game dev career, while we play his new game Death by Scrolling. Maybe I'll talk about the time I played The Secret of Monkey Island on a houseboat.

Get all the Myst games for $20 and support @play.breakthrought1d.org at the same time! Also, read this 12-year-old article that disappeared from the internet and now exists again.

The Nighthawks demo has arrived! During Steam Next Fest, seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, seduction, and forbidden supernatural gifts. Your second life begins tonight! store.steampowered.com/app/1221950/...

20 years ago Telltale Games embarked on a plan to create Sam & Max games. Right now Skunkape has a contest to win this vintage poster that I drew for that occasion: bsky.app/profile/did:...

🚨CONTEST ALERT🚨 Twenty years ago this week, Telltale announced they would be making new Sam & Max games. This caught the attention of people at GameTap, a video game streaming service that was looking for new content to attract subscribers -- and the rest is history! 🧵

If you happen to be at @data.ft.com FT Weekend in London, I'll be on a video games panel with these very smart people. 5pm tomorrow 🎮 I've posted the rest of my Sept-October schedule at www.jordanmechner.com/en/latest-ne...

I had a great time chatting with @mattaukamp.bsky.social and @pushinguproses.bsky.social for this episode, and now I can't wait to listen to the rest of it!

Thanks everyone who's shared this so far. We've had surprisingly few responses, so if you were worried about not standing a chance, we'd gently suggest you give it a go!

Hey, kids! Who wants to look at some Old Game Development Images? When we were starting work on remastering Sam & Max Save The World, we weren't sure what we wanted things to look like so we did a couple early tests by drawing over the original game, sweetening the colors, trying more stylization: