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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20h

(more 8yo than 16yo by some margin tho)

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20h

idk if the Diary of an 8-Bit Warrior books are what you'd call good, but my kid completely loved them

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inkle @inkle.co · 20h

New Kaleidiscope Episode! WHY I LOVE TEXT PARSERS Creativity, craft, and designing for text parsers, with the Crimson Diamond's creator @juliaminamata.bsky.social www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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🔥 Napalm ErAnn🔥 @annlemay.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Question (please share)! What games industry speaker and/or what topic (games or not!) would make you consider travel to attend a conference/convention? Or as a games industry person, what speaker from outside of games would like to see at a con? Or topics that are not games specific?

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 29/09/2026

Worldbuilding and particularly world “look” designers from TV, esp costume, feels underused to me

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Stark Holborn @starkholborn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nivalis Nights is out... today! Come watch us (3/4 of the writers room) play it and talk about how some of the weird and wild stories came to life. TONIGHT 8pm BST 👇 m.twitch.tv/calmdowntom/... @karlpoyzer.bsky.social @calmdowntom.bsky.social

Poster for a stream of Nivalis Nights, 8pm BST on twitch.tv/calmdowntom, with Thomas Welsh, Stark Holborn and Karl Poyzer

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 29/09/2026

The entire of Heaven Vault’s spoken language was built this way. Eg “Maersi” has a translation which shares syllables with “Elasra”, Aliya’s surname, enabling the decipherment of the true meaning of “Heavens Vault” in Book 4. Maersi is “Mars with a few more vowels”. (Iox is Io with an X on it)

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 28/09/2026

In big personal news, I’ve resigned and will be leaving Canelo at the end of this year.

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inkle @inkle.co · 24/09/2026

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

A Heaven's Vault robot, with a damaged chassis and a somewhat rounded, sleeker face. This definitely isn't Six.

As a little bonus for reading this, here's a quick fable from the Nebula. Skip it if you like.

Once there was a fisherman whose sole possession was a tiny, flat-bottomed boat. He would row out into the middle of the vast watery lake on whose shores he lived, and then ship the oars and peer out over the side, gazing down through the layers and layers of the clear water below.
He would watch the strange creatures that crawled across the deepest rocks. He would follow the fish that swam above them, birds through a liquid sky. And then, when a fish swam close enough to shadow of his boat, he would raise a sharp-pointed metal spear and plunge it into the water, skewering his prey from above.

The fisherman was patient and precise, but also vain: he considered himself to be like a God to the creatures beneath: unrelenting in his observation, ruthless in his judgement. He saw himself, not as hunter, but as a guardian, keeping the lower world firmly in its proper place.

After many years of patient hunting the fisherman began to grow angry. First at his boat - it rocked! - then at the water - so cold! - and finally at the fish themselves. Why did they not respect him? Why did they wait so long before rising up to greet his shadow? Why did they not flock to him, turning sideways to expose their delicate gills to his spear? He decided, eventually, to punish them: he would watch over them no more. He would leave them to attend to themselves. He did not even push his boat out into the water: instead he shattered it, and threw the pieces away. Then he sat on the sloping shore by the lapping lake and waited for the fish to come to him.

When finally he died of hunger, his body slid down into the water, and there was skewered from below by a thousand tiny, beautiful teeth.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

You’re very welcome and please buy the next game under our adhoc “subscription model”

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

Yeah. The golf thing was supposed to convince us their strategy works. The incentive was like 2% of the final sale if it happened. No idea why they were picking on *us* for this shit tho

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

my exit strategy involves a box

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

i heard someone say "compost the rich" the other day, which I thought was good. I think they were vegan

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

i suppose if one had started a company that one didn't care about at all, making idk low-grade toilet brushes or something, then it'd be fair enough

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

anyway, being publicly traded is a bit different, i suppose, in that you can keep selling the company over and over without losing it, until someone you can't stop buys it off you

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

Entirely logical and completely, utterly useless

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

1) their boss barely works & mostly plays golf 2) they buy ten companies at a time 3) they buy a nice office with a sign and crew up to a few hundred people 4) they sell the companies to someone bigger for 20-30x the amount paid 5) they shutter the ones that don't sell

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 23/09/2026

we were once approached by a company that wanted to buy inkle and i couldn't understand *why*: our back catalogue isn't especially valuable and our future projects aren't likely to be either. They explained quite cheerfully the following points:

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inkle @inkle.co · 23/09/2026

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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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 22/09/2026

Ten year anniversary of a major professional milestone, completion of my first fiction tetralogy, the one that at the time I was pretty sure would kill me dead.

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 22/09/2026

I often feel that games have managed flashes of moments like this - really profound connection - but I don’t know if any have bottled and sustained it across a run, which gives me hope that future games may yet still be more compelling and meaningful

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Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 22/09/2026

Cling away! And I don’t want to subtweet you either. Just Got Me Thinking is all

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litotic (elise) @litotic.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting thread! part of my PhD research-creation project was about how to bring more emotional weight (or range) to small interactions in games, especially without using quantitative systems (hence ‘non-mechanical‘ in that sense) (it’ll be soon-ish available via an open access platform)