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@inkle.co

Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink; home of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope podcast.. Games: TR-49, A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Expelled, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery, and Pendragon.

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ICYMI we announced a call for submissions for a new short fiction Heaven's Vault anthology. We've got one *other* Heaven's Vault related announcement coming ~this week. ... and it's approaching inkle's fifteenth birthday. Let's cook!

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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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ICYMI we announced a call for submissions for a new short fiction Heaven's Vault anthology. We've got one *other* Heaven's Vault related announcement coming ~this week. ... and it's approaching inkle's fifteenth birthday. Let's cook!

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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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NEW OPPORTUNITY: Short fiction writer? Love the world of Heaven's Vault? ... then come play in the waters. We're looking to commission 20 short stories set in the Nebula for a new anthology. Paid, obvs. Full details and a link to the form on the blog: www.inklestudios.com/2026/10/24/t...

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AdventureX
@adventurex.bsky.social

Only 10 regular Sunday-only tickets left! Saturday-only is SOLD OUT. Full-weekend tickets are available but our inventory is LOW. Don't miss your chance! www.tickettailor.com/events/adven...

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3 weeks to go until #AdvX26! 😱 Only 15% of tickets left! AdventureX, the UK’s narrative & adventure games convention, takes place in London on 7-8 November! Secure your tickets before they’re gone! 🎟️💨 Tickets: buytickets.at/adventurexco... Info and FAQ: adventurexpo.org #AdventureX

buytickets.atBuy tickets – AdventureX 2026: The narrative games convention, London – LSBU HubAdventureX 2026: The narrative games convention, London – LSBU Hub, Sat 7 Nov 2026 - Sun 8 Nov 2026 - AdventureX, the narrative games conference, is back & bigger than ever on Saturday 7 and Sunda...

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AdventureX
@adventurex.bsky.social

#AdvX is made possible each year by generous sponsors. We’re thrilled to thank our #AdvX26 sponsored game exhibits: 𝙏𝙍-𝟦𝟫 (𝗜𝗻𝗸𝗹𝗲) 𝘼 𝙋𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙢𝙖𝙣’𝙨 𝙅𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙮 (𝗗𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲) 𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙉𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙇𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙡 (𝗥𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲) 𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙒𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙐𝙥 (𝗘𝘆𝗲 𝗕𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗧𝘄𝗶𝗰𝗲)

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.chantal//RYAN
@thoughtrise.bsky.social

you should listen to this. @sevakhusid.bsky.social’s brain is next level

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New Kaleidoscope! **Simulations, Questions, Dialogues** @sevakhusid.bsky.social talks to us about simulations. How do we encourage our players to find a balance between understanding the systems -- and being in them? www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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Seva Khusid
@sevakhusid.bsky.social

i got jumpscared by this

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New Kaleidoscope! **Simulations, Questions, Dialogues** @sevakhusid.bsky.social talks to us about simulations. How do we encourage our players to find a balance between understanding the systems -- and being in them? www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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jmac
@jmac.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy

#Fogknife: TR-49 is good https://fogknife.com/2026-10-20-tr-49-is-good.html #videogames

fogknife.comTR-49 is goodI played the database game TR-49, by Jon Ingold et al, during a micro-convalescence brought about through my annual double-jab of flu and covid vaccine boosters. After putting close to ten hours into it, I knew I was nearly done, finding the bad and okay endings while falling short of the best one. And so I stepped away to take a shower, then returned to plug in the solution that came to me during the shower, with satisfactory results. And this is how I can confidently state that TR-49 is an exemplar of its genre.

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Dave Gilbert
@wadjeteyegames.com

Attention Scottish voice actors! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎤 We’re gearing up to cast an upcoming project, which will require an (almost) all Scottish cast! So watch this space, if it’s nae bother.

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Dalek Epscream.
@alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social

I had a grand time talking dirty [narrative] with Jon Ingold and Sagar Beroshi. NPCs should lie and contradict each other! You get no traction without friction

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New Kaleidoscope! **Translucent Lies and other "Dirty Narrative" Techniques** @alexmakesstuffup.bsky.social teaches us the tricks to lie, cheat and fool a player making the world more real. -> www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 AdventureX
@baroness.bsky.social

It's meeee! It's so worth looking at other playful arts and see how they tackle the same issues. We had a lovely discussion about different approaches to character creation and player agency and immersion, in digital and physical play

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New Kaleidoscope! Biographies: The Quick and Dirty Way @baroness.bsky.social (Old Skies, Stellaris) discusses using biographies to help players in LARPs. Can we use a similar technique to encourage videogame players to roleplay more intensively? www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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(and it wouldn't Monday without a discount code - BOOKBAG10 - for 10% off the print edition)

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"... I have... questions." "Answers will come. In time."

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Josh
@joshmlabelle.bsky.social

I had an amazing time chatting about the things you learn about storyteller creating a quest a week for Kim Kardashian.

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New Kaleidoscope episode! Set-ups, Attempts, Complications and Pay-Offs @joshmlabelle.bsky.social talks us through the process of managing expectations so that we start off strong, and end with a bang. www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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And you can check out Josh's writing in action in this Choice of Games novel released just last week!

Josh@joshmlabelle.bsky.social

Like text adventures? Like killing vamps, werewolves, fae? (Or siding with them - your call.) Check out Hunter: The Reckoning - Day for Night, set in the World of Darkness. Below, I'll outline some of the Hollywood references and inspiration throughout. www.choiceofgames.com/2026/09/hunt...

choiceofgames.comHunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night is out now! In Hollywood, everyone is dying to be famous!In partnership with World of Darkness and Paradox Interactive, Choice of Games is proud to announce the release of Hunter: The Reckoning — Day for Night by Josh Labelle, now available on Steam, iOS…
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Today is the ten year anniversary of the completion of the Sorcery! series! What began as a pitch for a "Discworld companion app" to a publisher grew - thanks to Steve Jackson's trust! - into a massive, sprawling, open-world interactive fiction adventure. If you came for the ride - thank you!

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Nowadays, prose-heavy text adventures have never been stronger - think Duskpunk, Citizen Sleeper... - and today, Nighthawks, which was written in ink, the scripting language whose features were built and battle-tested as Sorcery! grew into the free-roaming monstrosity it became.

store.steampowered.comNighthawks on SteamThe secret is out. Vampires have been exposed to the world… and you’re one of them. Seize the night as a modern monster, stepping out of the shadows to build a thriving nightclub empire through fear, ...
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So here's to at least ten more years of great stories where you get to MESS things up as you go along!

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Today is the ten year anniversary of the completion of the Sorcery! series! What began as a pitch for a "Discworld companion app" to a publisher grew - thanks to Steve Jackson's trust! - into a massive, sprawling, open-world interactive fiction adventure. If you came for the ride - thank you!

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One curious design detail is we saw Sorcery! as an RPG without the need for dice, which isn't the direction that the current bumper crop of text-based RPGs have gone in. Our feeling was that dice were arbitrary but so were choices -- we wanted players to be in charge of their own fails and successes

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We wanted players to get their Analander into trouble - kidnapped, brainwashed, mutilated, penniless, starving, caged, turned into a pig, whatever - and then choose to roll forward, instead of rewinding to get a "better" outcome. We saw it as a comedy, almost - coming from that Discworld root.

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New Kaleidoscope! Can you believe we're up to thirty episodes already? @jigu.com.br joins us to talk about drawing on broader cultural sources while working in a worldwide market. (Also; get 10% of the book this week with the code BACKLIST10.)

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🎙️ Call for voice actors! 🎭 We're looking for two lead voices for our next game. - One male and one female, vocal age 40 to 60 - Cornish / Welsh / South-West England accent If that's you, please send an acting sample to info@inklestudios.com, marked “casting call”. (Paid, ofc) <3 RTs!

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Adriana X Jacobs
@axjacobs.bsky.social

I had the best time talking to @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social about poems, video games, environmental storytelling and more. And after listening to this episode, be sure to check out the other conversations in this brilliant series!

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New Kaleidoscope! A magical episode where poet and professor @axjacobs.bsky.social discusses the uses of poetry and spoken performance in game writing to deepen the world of the game, and to draw the player in. Listen here - www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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another little shiny little button available to read

Greg R. Buchanan@gregbuchananwriter.com

As the inaugural article in the brand new version of my de-Substacked de-paywalled blog on game writing and narrative, this piece from @inkle.co 's Game Narrative Kaleidoscope. Nervous about leaving substack, so shares/subscribes appreciated! gregbuchanan.co.uk/articles/twi...

gregbuchanan.co.uktwists, tricks, and empathy in game narrative · Greg Buchanansometimes, I think, I actually want to be a piece of food spat out from a throat. an article on how plot twists in game writing can delight or feel like cheating, and the easily breakable bond between...