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.

🔔 FREE MINI INKLE WEB GAME 🔔

Holiday coma leaving you sluggish? Why not try to figure out the release date for our next game by joining things up with bits of red string. www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

It’s a Christmas miracle! I had randomly been selling a few extra copies of Substage on Christmas Day and just assumed it was because people were enjoying their Christmas by spending money on a Mac productivity tool. Turned out, MacRumors had featured it, yay! www.macrumors.com/2025/12/24/1...

Blog post: Live Activities Are Usually Half Asleep. I've been wrestling to make iOS's Live Activities do something useful in Hour by Hour, and I got there, but it required an iOS 26 specific feature, which feels crazy. This post features my cat Fanta, enjoy 😽 👉👉 joethephish.me/blog/live-ac...

Relieved to have found out that a developer for Apple platforms, you can add multiple secondary/work Apple accounts to your Mac/iPhone for the sake of 2-step verification codes, without logging out of a personal account. (Niche, but if this helps one person, it was worth it!)

"An attempted-murder mystery set in an a 1920s all-girls private school reveals itself to also be an eviscerating takedown of British class politics. Witty and beautifully drawn... it has the feel of a really excellent graphic novel."

ICYMI: We made a fun little free puzzle you can play in your browser, in the run up to the release of TR-49 (which is coming shockingly soon) 👇👇👇

I enjoyed putting together this web-based exploration of the material Jon found in his great uncle’s attic! Can you figure out the code?

Jeeeez @anastasiawyatt.bsky.social has decided to end the year on a couple of strong pieces!

Fourth and final book is coming soon. The title is “aliti”. In Ancient, anyway.

On @strasser.bsky.social’s recommendation I just tried my first coffee with “freeze distilled milk” at Nostos in London. The barista said it would taste like raspberry ripple ice cream and… it actually did 🤯 Best coffee of my life so far! Incredible.

Looking for a programmer with lots of experience of Godot, C# and ink? Here’s your man.

hello! could use about 5 more playtesters for our new thing, which is basically at final. iOS or Deck; please DM if interested and let me know which!

- we cooked - we’re cooked …are opposites? I feel old.

Watched the first episode of Pluribus knowing nothing about it beforehand. Crikey!

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I'm available to hire as an iOS dev! 👋 I'm open to remote, in-person, or hybrid. Either in the US or Europe. Looking for full time, something new and exciting I'm ready for a new adventure! Reposts appreciated and DM's are open

FINALLY finished the "new" Substage trailer I started... a few months ago 😳 Quite happy with how it turned out!

Stopped by Bletchley Park earlier this year with @jon.inkle.co. Took a few snaps of the old machines. I love how the mechanisms work, but even after building TR-49 around Pemberton’s circuit diagrams, nothing quite lines up, even though the logic is mathematically sound and matches the Godot code.

⭐️ Godot’s Scene System Is Just Brilliant ⭐️ I wanted to draw attention to a few of my favourite features in @godotengine.org. What do I love about Godot's scene system? Read all about it: joethephish.me/blog/godot-s...

We had a wonderful, exhausting time at #AdventureX this weekend! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to play the demos, buy the books and games, listen to the talk, bend our ears about ink and generally say hello.

Analogue version of TR-49 playable on a wall at Adventure X today! #adventureX

Welcome to AdventureX! If you’re coming this weekend check out your swag bag for an @inkle.co curio!

Today I’ve been working on a lot of clunk clunk tucka tucka tucka tucka zzzt zzt pssshssh rrbbrbrblllll Beeeeep. KerCHUNK

I’ve been sooo happy with how things have been going for our first game in @godotengine.org! I’ve been wondering about sharing my thoughts on my top 5-10 Godot features. Does that sound of interest to anyone?

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.

Here goes…

Announcing an announcement of an announcement

The project I have been working on now has a name and a Steam page. :)

Amazingly, the books I ordered far too late for Adventure X have been printed in time - so if you want a copy of the Heaven's Vault novels, we'll be selling them at our desk! Not all of these copies though, as I can't carry this many.

Say hello to Art of Flora 🌱 Available now for Pre-order! This sibling of Art of Fauna is all about the beautiful world of plants 🌸 What stays the same? 👀 - Relaxing puzzle game based on historical art - 20% are donated - Very accessible apps.apple.com/at/app/art-o... A thread 🧵 1/7 #gamedev

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Tired: doom scrolling freesound.org to find the right mechanical sound for your game project Wired: realising you have the PERFECT foley equipment at home already

This is what game development looks like for me right now

Trying something different for Hour by Hour's paywall (under the expectation that the user will be pleasantly surprised with where the pricing will land!)

Why am I lusting after the Steam Machine so much when I know I’d almost never use it 😭 Also, love the vibe of this wood faceplate 😙👌

New article: one thing from every inkle game that we failed to explain clearly enough, and how often we've been made to regret it.

Apple’s on-device LLM when asked for an SF Symbol: chaos. Apple’s on-device LLM when asked for one emoji: extremely competent. So Hour by Hour now uses emoji as a middle layer for icon picking. Welcome to modern computing. Details in my blog post: joethephish.me/blog/apple-f...

Dug up my ~25 year old Casio graphing calculator yesterday. It still worked (after putting new batteries), and the little games I surreptitiously made during maths class were still on it!

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

How has it been 14 years already 😳

14 years old and there are 14 games in the image. How many can you name?

The most exhausting thing about game dev is proudly polishing off a feature (for me at inkle usually that’s UI), and then realising that some subtle issue means you have to rebuild or rework it again. For every bloody feature. Like five times each. 😮‍💨

How I felt at the start of this week

Been working on my own take on iOS 26’s swipe actions, it’s satisfying getting these little interactions working! SwiftUI only provides the .swipeActions modifier on List views (which I’m not using).

Installed Duolingo on my 5 year old son’s iPad because it has age appropriate arithmetic games. I’m absolutely FUMING at the shitty malware it turned out to be, targeted at children

Two great storyworlds in one neat package

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...

Adorable!