Colour isn't just decoration - it's how we communicate with our users. Here's a look at our use of colour in Tarinoi, as part of a carefully considered user experience that encourages exploration, highlights reliability and guides you through the journey. tarinoi-works.com/blog/how-we-...

Every tool has its limits. We want to push Tarinoi's out far enough that you never have to think about them. It should never be the bottleneck. Here's how we got our boards to stay fluid with 10,000 cards – more than we'd expect to see in any real project. #gamedev tarinoi-works.com/blog/ten-tho...

Tarinoi is not only designed to support you when you refactor, we're also there to help you update references and connect alternatives 🔧 Worried you missed something - or want to tackle things manually? Run the Healthcheck to flag and correct mismatches and maintain project coherence.

I know our “industry” is on fire right now, and it feels odd to share positive news. But talented folks like Mike keep creating singular experiences like Vampirium: 1997 - and the only way out of this mess, really, is to continue creating.

We need more weird 🔥

Yeah ok, I’m doing this. Here is some advice for aspiring game writers. Do not come into games wanting to be a game writer with the attitude that all you are going to write are the cinematics. Fact: a game’s story is not about the cinematics. 🧵

A good game writer works cross-discipline to bring an interactive story to life to offer the player an experience. And cinematics are just ONE SMALL PART OF THAT. Ambient conversations, one-liners for banter, barks for combat, weapons descriptions, codex entries, emails, etc.

We're big fans of the General Data Protection Regulation. No, seriously. We are. It protects some really important rights, and we engineered compliance with it deep into Tarinoi. If you're curious, here's a devblog on some of the ways we approached it. #gamedev tarinoi-works.com/blog/built-i...

Lot of talk these days about shipping early, scrappy and half-baked. That's not really our style. Here's how we're building for performance, resilience and scale. #webdev #gamedev tarinoi-works.com/blog/under-p...

Lot of talk these days about shipping early, scrappy and half-baked. That's not really our style. Here's how we're building for performance, resilience and scale. #webdev #gamedev tarinoi-works.com/blog/under-p...

We're working on the plugins that get your content into the game - traverse dialogues, evaluate conditions and trigger logic, bound to in-engine implementations. You can use them as-is, or modify and build on them - we'll be releasing these under a permissive open-source licence. #narrativedesign

+1 to everything Zoe's saying here. Single source of truth and easy editing for non-technical people are the two great cornerstones of a good tool, in my experience. And the two hardest to find.

We know that a lot of our users like to keep their hands on the keyboard while writing. We've been working on a keyboard UI that lets them do just that - navigate the flow, create cards, drill down to write and jump back out. #narrativedesign #gamedev

Back from Nordic Game, where we met teams from around Europe with all kinds of great new games. We also got to chat with other parts of the industry - business advice from fellow founders, tips from investors, and chats with developer schools. Now, back to honing a couple of cool new features!

Had some great chats with developers at Digital Dragons in Kraków! It was interesting that across different genres -adventure, puzzle, even multiplayer -they had lots to say about their stories and the creative ambition of their narrative designers. Meaningful stories aren't just for RPGs! #gamedev

This week we've been polishing up our Playback mode - fire up your dialogue branch right in the graph, toggle conditions, switch outcomes, and feel the pace in real-time! #narrativedesign #gamedev

Tarinoi will be at Digital Dragons in Kraków! Keen to check out the talks, the showcases, and generally chatting all things narrative ✨ #DigitalDragons #gamedev

When we're asked why we do what we do, one answer is 'because spreadsheet' We respect the spreadsheet - it works! It has for many years! Maybe it's the only thing you have access to! - but our goal is to make something with all of that trust and flexibility, yet more user, team and studio friendly.

We're building Tarinoi - an integrated narrative design and production toolkit for game studios of all sizes - intended for anybody making a game where the words matter. Take a look at tarinoi-works.com - if you're a studio or narrative designer interested in helping us develop it, drop us a line!