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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 21/09/2026

i suddenly had a great idea for a telltale-style TNG game

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 17/09/2026

"Hi team at inkle Ltd, I'm MHK from United Esports League. We are scouting unique titles like TR-49 for the UEL Winter Championship"

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16/09/2026

Been refreshing my short story collection ready to take a few copies to sell at Adventure X, and added a little bonus story - a short, previously unpublished Tale from the Nebula (like the ones in the novels). 📖 tinyurl.com/joningoldsto...

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 11/09/2026

Whenever I see these two faces I just think of

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 04/08/2026

Pleased that inkle is part of the Choices Matter Festival, with a new chat with @theexaminedgame.bsky.social

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 22/06/2026

Multi ple great observations from @brunodias.bsky.social here but I’ll paste the one that stood out to me azhdarchid.com/you-must-fre...

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 09/06/2026

Wonderfully bonkers bit of ink I just discovered, that let's you insert a collapsible inventory menu with a single tunnel

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 03/06/2026

it's a big day at the office

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 29/05/2026

I hate linked in exhibit #3 billion; could this be the lucrative move away from writing that I’ve been looking for?

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 09/05/2026

Just finished this by Grace Curtis and it was great; well-written and beautifully characterised without being hard work or worthy; charming without being saccharine and delightfully delicately plotted

A copy of the novel Floating Hotel by Grace Curtis

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 24/04/2026

still think word should have died out as a product when this happened

A little snapshot of Word's toolbar on a Mac. On the top row option bar, there's a red circle around the Insert option. In the toolbar, there's a second red circle around the Insert submenu. There are two Insert menus! Why did anyone think that was an elegant design? And where does anything live in either of them? And why does the toolbar hide icons sometimes, depending on the window size? Oh, no, you can't add borders today, sir, because you're looking at on too thin a section of your screen. And why does the toolbar hide labels, when the icons are so random? And why does it give so much space to options no one ever uses, like "make this box entirely orange"? I promise you, in 2003 Word was pretty good and did what it needed to do quickly, except bullet point lists and indents and tabstops, which are presumably relativistic effects

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20/04/2026

Double croissant more like

A yellow box from the supermarket labelled “Boromir” croissants

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 15/04/2026

editing a novel // editing a narrative game

A blurred child removes a jenga block from a tall but intact tower

A bulldozer with a pincer arm sets an enormous jenga block into place on a tower of jenga blocks. It's unclear how the bulldozer pushes piece out of the tower, tho

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 08/04/2026

i'm not very good at linked in

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 11/03/2026

The next book from @inkle.co will be: Heaven's Vault - Book IV: The Rising Light Conclusing a story that began in 2014 as two words (Space Archaeology), grew through a 2019 game into a novel duology, and will finish as a quadrilogy of books. It is the tree, walking. 🖊️ forms.gle/QiVFkackkCNT...

A page of text posted from a WIP book. (Truncated to fit alt text.)

Some day there will be a tree, with its roots planted deep into the fundament, that will grow as tall as the sky.

Many trees will have come before it to allow it to grow so tall. Many lesser trees will have fallen and rotten to a pulp to feed its roots. Many creatures, perhaps all the creatures there are, will live and die and dream amongst its spreading branches. But one day, there will be such a tree — there must — and it will be as wide in canopy as it is in height, and when the strong wind blows the seeds will be carried further and beyond the horizon’s jealous imagination. Most of these seeds will fall on bare stone, or sink into the waters of the Old Sea where nothing can live and time itself does not pass. But should even one seed ever land on true soil it will take root, and should even one sapling grow, it will bud into leaf, and should even one seedpod bear fruit on this new tree then the old tree will live again, in this new place, leagues from where it began. And this new tree will know everything that was known by the old, in its bones, and it will be made from the sum of everything that came and went before and allowed that old tree to grow so tall.
Thus, in this fashion, it can be said that trees can walk: down from the mountain and into the valley, out of the forest and onto the shore, and even, given enough time, across the vast reaches of the Old Sea itself.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 26/02/2026

But the best bit is the list of “side stories” that you would play through between returning to the main time loop story. A season of 90s Classic Who right here:

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 26/02/2026

@joe.inkle.co has been tidying up the server and found a 27-page story doc for the Who game we never made, that’s full of HV crossover:

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16/02/2026

First time I tried it I got this, which I don’t is solveable (putting aside the Accomplice being a role that’s not in the manifest, there’s nothing to separate the governess and the valet)

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 13/02/2026

I use this quote pretty much daily atm

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 11/02/2026

Amazing spam subject line

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 04/02/2026

I’m only in it for the mugs really

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 24/12/2025

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

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 18/12/2025

www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 12/12/2025

The resulting game, which Steve Jackson named "Swindlestones", is super easy and really fun. We tested it with Steve and Joe, and he slaughtered us both at it. I regularly play with my kids

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 01/12/2025

Superb. One edit particularly drops out to me as a bit of truly sparkling dialogue: the left is the first draft, the second the shooting script by Stoppard

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/11/2025

“Writers are fifth dimensional beings who see everything at once — but readers aren’t” - Anthony Johnston

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/11/2025

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

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/11/2025

Love this from @starkholborn.bsky.social ’s talk about Shadow of Doubt - about making sure you‘re putting story absolutely *everywhere*

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20/11/2025

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.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 14/11/2025

There is a philosophical theory that the big bang will be followed by a big crunch - a gathering up of the universe, under gravity, that will result in another big bang. Together, this big-bang-big-crunch -- or "big brunch", if you will -- must repeat endlessly, with variations occurring each time

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 13/11/2025

AI continues to be shit hot

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16/10/2025

men: inside you there are two jareds

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 10/10/2025

bleak. $150/hr to feed a shredder. on the plus side, i really do think stochastic modelling will never produce a good story, ever, no matter how many good stories you throw at it, so if you need the money you should take it. But also -- make sure you put the word aubergine in every story. Teach that

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 10/10/2025

Obvs we get a lot of key beggars running a studio but i just got I think my favourite ever. Tell me that you don’t care why don’t you

I'm writing an article or video about your game |A Highland Song| and I think it would be beneficial to try it out in advance.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 02/10/2025

I’m more interested in the guy behind it who has a camera for a face

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 26/08/2025

I’ll be on a panel at #FTWeekendFestival next weekend in terrifyingly talented company - namely @jmechner.bsky.social and @hollygramazio.bsky.social - talking about games as art. Jeepers

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16/07/2025

Character Name achievement unlocked

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20/06/2025

ah, procedural generation. it never fails

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 17/06/2025

fine but annoyingly I think it needs to be in English alphabetic characters. I can google translate, if the following is acceptable?

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 16/06/2025

On the one hand, all art is educated plagiarism. On the other hand, the current WIP is currently, er, VR5 meets Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott

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