Ian Thomas
@wildwinter.bsky.social
Games, books, larp, films, rats, and shoggoths. Narrative Director @ The Chinese Room. Brit in Stockholm. He/him.
Narrative Articles: https://wildwinter.medium.com/
Narrative Tools: https://github.com/wildwinter
Narrative Articles: https://wildwinter.medium.com/
Narrative Tools: https://github.com/wildwinter
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Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work.
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Dinky: An Editor for Dialogue-Heavy Ink Games
TL;DR: I wrote an editor for Dink, my expanded Ink syntax. It’s called Dinky and you can find it here: https://github.com/wildwinter/dinky/
wildwinter.medium.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work.
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
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Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work.
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
Dinky: An Editor for Dialogue-Heavy Ink Games
TL;DR: I wrote an editor for Dink, my expanded Ink syntax. It’s called Dinky and you can find it here: https://github.com/wildwinter/dinky/
wildwinter.medium.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Hello. I built another thing. Remember Dink, my extensions to Ink to add a bit more support for dialogue? This is Dinky an editor/IDE for writing in Dink, mostly written to make my life easier. Yes, my naming conventions need work.
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
wildwinter.medium.com/dinky-an-edi...
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The IndieCade Festival continues! Get ROSEWATER for 25% off.
"A game that plays with you as much as you play with it." - @pordeciralgo.bsky.social
IndieCade nominated for Best Performance, and winner of the @agotyawards.bsky.social for Best Art & Animation!
store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
"A game that plays with you as much as you play with it." - @pordeciralgo.bsky.social
IndieCade nominated for Best Performance, and winner of the @agotyawards.bsky.social for Best Art & Animation!
store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
Save 25% on Rosewater on Steam
A thrilling Western adventure in the alternate 19th century world of Lamplight City! Embark on a harrowing journey across the frontier with Harley Leger and her ragtag posse, encountering bandits, reb...
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January 19, 2026 at 7:00 PM
The IndieCade Festival continues! Get ROSEWATER for 25% off.
"A game that plays with you as much as you play with it." - @pordeciralgo.bsky.social
IndieCade nominated for Best Performance, and winner of the @agotyawards.bsky.social for Best Art & Animation!
store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
"A game that plays with you as much as you play with it." - @pordeciralgo.bsky.social
IndieCade nominated for Best Performance, and winner of the @agotyawards.bsky.social for Best Art & Animation!
store.steampowered.com/app/1226670/...
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Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools
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A nobel peace pryze doth not worke lyke the One Ring. It ys not about who ys physicallye holdinge it.
January 16, 2026 at 9:11 PM
A nobel peace pryze doth not worke lyke the One Ring. It ys not about who ys physicallye holdinge it.
Is the thing that Obelix carries around a Gaul stone?
January 17, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Is the thing that Obelix carries around a Gaul stone?
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David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
January 16, 2026 at 6:47 PM
David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.
100%. One of the best ways to figure out if the dialogue flows, and also whether you've laid impossible-to-say traps for your voice actors.
We don't have polls on this site yet but game writers, I need to know: when you read your scripts aloud during the revision process DO YOU DO VOICES
January 13, 2026 at 7:08 PM
100%. One of the best ways to figure out if the dialogue flows, and also whether you've laid impossible-to-say traps for your voice actors.
Recording a musical!
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Recording a musical!
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It's Bowie's birthday, which means it's time for the annual repost of my drawing of a bunch of dancing Daves in the style of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Happy Birthday, Mr Jones.
January 8, 2026 at 4:31 PM
It's Bowie's birthday, which means it's time for the annual repost of my drawing of a bunch of dancing Daves in the style of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts. Happy Birthday, Mr Jones.
I updated my open source Fountain screenplay parsing and writing libraries to also read and write Final Draft. Might be useful for someone!
github.com/wildwinter/s...
github.com/wildwinter/s...
GitHub - wildwinter/screenplay-tools: Multi-language utils for representing a screenplay, including parsing and writing the Fountain scriptwriting format and the Final Draft (FDX) format.
Multi-language utils for representing a screenplay, including parsing and writing the Fountain scriptwriting format and the Final Draft (FDX) format. - wildwinter/screenplay-tools
github.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I updated my open source Fountain screenplay parsing and writing libraries to also read and write Final Draft. Might be useful for someone!
github.com/wildwinter/s...
github.com/wildwinter/s...
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This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
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The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 55% off during the Steam Winter Sale!
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
January 4, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The Excavation of Hob's Barrow by Clock and Dagger is 55% off during the Steam Winter Sale!
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
Explore the moors of rural Victorian England as you uncover the mysteries of Hob's Barrow.
What lies beneath the soil?
Find out here: store.steampowered.com/app/1182310/...
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January 2, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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Due to feedback from our testers, we have decided to patch "Happy New Year" to "Acceptable New Year" to avoid disappointment and better match the realities of the market.
January 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Due to feedback from our testers, we have decided to patch "Happy New Year" to "Acceptable New Year" to avoid disappointment and better match the realities of the market.
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
"If I only could, I'd make a deal with cod, and I'd get him to swap our plaices..."
Skate Bush
Skate Bush
December 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"If I only could, I'd make a deal with cod, and I'd get him to swap our plaices..."
Skate Bush
Skate Bush
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This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
December 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)
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And Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, crawled on under the glare of the dying sun
December 24, 2025 at 10:56 AM
And Tiny Tim, WHO COULD NOT DIE, crawled on under the glare of the dying sun
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The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Winter sale!
Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on.
Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...
Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on.
Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...
December 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Winter sale!
Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on.
Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...
Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on.
Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...
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Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Winter Sale!
Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York.
It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer.
store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...
Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York.
It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer.
store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...
December 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Unavowed is 70% off during the Steam Winter Sale!
Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York.
It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer.
store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...
Embark on a party-based, multi-branching urban fantasy game about magic and monsters in New York.
It was also an IGF nominee and was called "one of the best adventure games ever made" by PC Gamer.
store.steampowered.com/app/336140/U...
As a followup to this, it now does things like produce movie-script-ish PDFs, Word docs, and a nice packaged searchable HTML file.
(Answers the question "can you send me the script to read?" when you know you only have fine-for-you-but-too-convoluted-for-laypeople Ink syntax)
(Answers the question "can you send me the script to read?" when you know you only have fine-for-you-but-too-convoluted-for-laypeople Ink syntax)
I published a hopefully helpful tool for you if you're working with Ink and dialogue lines.
It uses Ink + some extra markup and helps with production stats, recording scripts, localisation, line statuses and those bits and pieces of production.
wildwinter.medium.com/dink-a-dialo...
It uses Ink + some extra markup and helps with production stats, recording scripts, localisation, line statuses and those bits and pieces of production.
wildwinter.medium.com/dink-a-dialo...
Dink: A Dialogue Pipeline for Ink
One way to use Inkle’s narrative engine for a voice-over production pipeline.
wildwinter.medium.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:10 PM
As a followup to this, it now does things like produce movie-script-ish PDFs, Word docs, and a nice packaged searchable HTML file.
(Answers the question "can you send me the script to read?" when you know you only have fine-for-you-but-too-convoluted-for-laypeople Ink syntax)
(Answers the question "can you send me the script to read?" when you know you only have fine-for-you-but-too-convoluted-for-laypeople Ink syntax)
Wow I am completely failing my *use Bluesky* roll today.
December 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wow I am completely failing my *use Bluesky* roll today.