Reminder that the eighth annual jam for ink games starts in just a few days! sign up below:

Venture through the Scottish highlands in A Highland Song by @inkle.co, a journey steeped in folklore waiting to be uncovered. With amazing audio configuration, musical timing assists, adjustable reading speed, rhythm support, subtitles, and more, we’re sure to find the lighthouse by Beltane. 🏔️

This November I'll be teaching a @d6learning.bsky.social course/workshop on the creation of text-only, interactive cities using @inkle.co's ink scripting language. Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

hold onto your husbands it's windy out there

A Highland Song (Inkle, 2023)

We didn’t *design* Highland for speed running exactly but it’s kinda brilliant that it can be played that way

Inkpot - The Unreal integration for Ink, as maintained by @thechineseroom.co.uk - has been updated: see the changelog for details!

For those looking to try out ink, #inkjam is back and the signup page is now live. One week, unofficial, founded by @paulloz.bsky.social and now hosted by @jonkeevy.bsky.social Starts 29th September!

Shared via the ink discord: a parser for basic mathematical expressions, in ink (!) gist.github.com/IFcoltransG/...

The annual Interactive Fiction competition is open! 82 entries from the short and silly to the less short and serious, with a couple written in ink, alongside Twine, Inform and all the rest: ifcomp.org/ballot

Fantastic video essay by @sariaslays.bsky.social on Scottish games, featuring A Highland Song of course! It’s really well put together - and dips into how we made the game and where the inspiration came from: youtu.be/emA9MoxPDok?... Well worth a watch!

Solid inkle-related feature in this month’s Edge!

The feature I wrote about concept art in video games for ImagineFX a little while back is now available to read online at Creative Bloq, with insight from the concept artists behind Eternal Strands, A Highland Song and Tales of Kenzera: Zau www.creativebloq.com/art/digital-...

Best Indies Throwback Spotlight #3: A Highland Song from @inkle.co ! Read the full review here: gameluster.com/a-highland-s... #indies #indiegame #indiegaming

Got the last of the event-based achievements in "A Highland Song" tonight. All that's left is the full completion achievements, climb/name/bless all peaks, and the 3- and 1-day traversals. Getting close to having enough shortcuts unlocked to attempt those as well. #AHighlandSong

A few little clues about our next project

Interactive text can do all sorts of amazing things, and resident game urbanist @konstantinosd.bsky.social will show you how to use @inkle.co's ink to build an interactive city with it. Here's all the information you'll need: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

While away I’ve had the chance to read @jon.inkle.co’s wonderful Heaven’s Vault book III. I loved the first two, but he’s really taken a step up this time, in terms of depth and complexity, taking advantage of what novels can do that games can’t (or struggle to do!)

This thread is one million times more interesting than one million articles about whether or not one million chatbots would ever work out the script for Hamlet.

The next game includes a kinda first bash at a "theatre"-system: there are two characters, each with threads of conversation they follow - one is the player, one an NPC, and each can reply to the other. So we have two conversations running, overlapping, with the balance tipping both ways as it goes

Have you played "A Highland Song"? you should. #AHighlandSong #inkle

It's the last day of @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social :O We've had a blast w/ indie games this week, here's what narrative lead Kristi & marketing lead Margaret enjoyed! As a tiny team, we're so inspired to see the worlds that @tinybookshopgame.com @inkle.co & others have dreamed up. #indiegames

THIS IS TOMORROW! Starting at 11am EST/Vzla time I'll be in the Tiny Teams 2025 Fest @tinyteamsfest.bsky.social! I'll be playing: 👉Expelled! by @inkle.co 👉Please, Watch the Artwork by Thomas Waterzooi 👉Paraside: Duality Unbound by Mistold Games And next week, we'll continue playing more!😊

Seriously, it's such a fantastic game! Read our review here: www.comfycozygaming.com/2023/12/05/a...

hey everyone buy both these games

Few games will ever manage to match the beauty of 'A Highland Song'.

Inkle make truly wonderful games with excellent writing and beautiful worlds. If you’ve a few quid spare and want a lovely time playing a video game, you owe it to yourself.

Wonderful game, go buy it

Two absolute bangers

A Highland Song is 40% off in the @wholesomegames.com Steam event! store.steampowered.com/app/1240060/... Expelled is 40% off in the @yogscast.com Steam Event! store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/... Luckily, the Highland team wasn't quite tiny and Expelled isn't quite wholesome, so no confusion

A rollicking good time!

Appleseed's Indie Game of the Day! Day 12) A Highland Song by Inkle A Highland Song has been my latest obsession. You play as a girl named Moira who wishes to see the sea, and is journeying across many peaks to get there. It's a beautiful game with gorgeous landscapes to explore & climb.

Expelled! is a narrative mystery by Inkle. Play as Verity, a scholar accused of murder at a girls’ boarding school. Explore hidden corridors, uncover secrets, and navigate tricky social hierarchies to clear your name. 🕵️‍♀️🎓 Game by @inkle.co‬ #IndieGame #IndieGaming

Spoilers, we suppose

Goooooood morning, Bluesky! CD PROJEKT RED is hiring two more writers for Cyberpunk 2. Come tell razor-sharp stories with my talented crew! #games #writing We need an Expert Writer jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED... And a Senior Writer jobs.smartrecruiters.com/CDPROJEKTRED...

Another incredible project from the community: ink now has an integration with... Minecraft

My new @d6learning.bsky.social course will be all about learning how to create cities of text, using @inkle.co's amazing ink narrative scripting language. ▶️ Find out more here: www.d6learning.com/course/text-...

I spend a lot of time talking about all the things historical games do wrong when representing (or, mostly, not representing) women in the past - for a change, here I wrote about some games which I think do something better and more interesting in their depictions of historical women & girls!

New on the HGN blog: Gender panel guest speaker @katexe.bsky.social explores the widespread lack of engagement with “women’s histories” in historical video games, & discusses some examples that do represent women’s stories more meaningfully: www.historicalgames.net/womens-histo...

I just finished Heaven's Vault and I'm absolutely reeling at how a bunch of things all snapped into place at once. Insanely good game.

Day 21 of a history of gamebooks on Reddit has reached Sorcery!

La bonne nouvelle, c'est pas tant l'acting (pourquoi pas, si ça les excite, moi ça me va) que la perspective de leur prochain titre. - Inkle, l'un des studios les plus réjouissants du jeu vidéo !

Our next game will have more actors, doing more acting, than we’ve ever worked with before, and we couldn’t be more excited.

I am playing a goshdanged ~video game~ and I am having an extremely good time! Thumbs up for Expelled! by @inkle.co! www.inklestudios.com/expelled/

Fresh reminder for June: I'm still looking for work! I'm a level and game designer who's build sick worlds for incredible games. Having now escaped from the Grid, I'm looking for the next challenge to take on. TRON: Catalyst launches June 17th - this month! More of my work is at natclayton.uk