inkle
@inkle.co
Independent developer of narrative games; creators of ink.
A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery! and Pendragon. EXPELLED! launches March 12th
🔗 inkle.co
A Highland Song, Forever Labyrinth, Overboard, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Sorcery! and Pendragon. EXPELLED! launches March 12th
🔗 inkle.co
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ANNOUNCEMENT: It's time to get EXPELLED!
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
⭐ "Corker" - The Guardian
⭐ "Delightful" - Polygon
⭐ "A cause for celebration!" - Eurogamer
🖥️ store.steampowered.com/app/2963890/...
📱 apps.apple.com/app/expelled
🎮 www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
(+ Overboard/Expelled bundles for each platform!)
Upcoming inkle-shaped things:
- Adventure X! We'll be there with a talk about stories, and a demo of Expelled!
- A new game! More info on that VERY soon
- A book about narrative design by over a hundred narrative designers and writers! Sort-of an accident. Coming early next year
- Adventure X! We'll be there with a talk about stories, and a demo of Expelled!
- A new game! More info on that VERY soon
- A book about narrative design by over a hundred narrative designers and writers! Sort-of an accident. Coming early next year
November 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Upcoming inkle-shaped things:
- Adventure X! We'll be there with a talk about stories, and a demo of Expelled!
- A new game! More info on that VERY soon
- A book about narrative design by over a hundred narrative designers and writers! Sort-of an accident. Coming early next year
- Adventure X! We'll be there with a talk about stories, and a demo of Expelled!
- A new game! More info on that VERY soon
- A book about narrative design by over a hundred narrative designers and writers! Sort-of an accident. Coming early next year
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I was waiting to talk about Expelled to see if it shakes onto my top 10 list but I might as well say: it’s incredibly bold in its theme of “if a woman conforms to repressive Christian patriarchal standards of 1922 she will be invariably punished, so you might as well figure out how to save yourself”
Overboard was… good enough, I’d say—the mechanic was the draw but the story didn’t really keep me engaged with wanting to push things forward. Expelled! has the same problem of a little slack in the middle ~every deduction game has but its thematic is really strong, as is how the game reinforces it
November 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I was waiting to talk about Expelled to see if it shakes onto my top 10 list but I might as well say: it’s incredibly bold in its theme of “if a woman conforms to repressive Christian patriarchal standards of 1922 she will be invariably punished, so you might as well figure out how to save yourself”
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A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):
A brief defence of dialogue choices
In games, the player needs to have something to do.
medium.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A brief defence of dialogue choices (286 words):
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Our feature artist/reference for today is this wonderful RUN CYCLE by the talented @floramus! Lovely movement in the SECONDARY elements here especially - the HAIR SWOOSH stages in the single frames are so useful! #gamedev #aninationdev #manga #anime #animation #drawing
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Our feature artist/reference for today is this wonderful RUN CYCLE by the talented @floramus! Lovely movement in the SECONDARY elements here especially - the HAIR SWOOSH stages in the single frames are so useful! #gamedev #aninationdev #manga #anime #animation #drawing
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A Highland Song (2023)
October 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A Highland Song (2023)
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Jackson & Livingstone pioneered #gamebooks with series like #Sorcery, #FabledLands kicked off the #openworld #gamebook genre, and that in turn inspired the digital adaptation of Sorcery. And now @steampowered.com has both series in a special-offer bundle.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
Saga of Ink and Paper on Steam
store.steampowered.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Jackson & Livingstone pioneered #gamebooks with series like #Sorcery, #FabledLands kicked off the #openworld #gamebook genre, and that in turn inspired the digital adaptation of Sorcery. And now @steampowered.com has both series in a special-offer bundle.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
Two great storyworlds in one neat package
Jackson & Livingstone pioneered #gamebooks with series like #Sorcery, #FabledLands kicked off the #openworld #gamebook genre, and that in turn inspired the digital adaptation of Sorcery. And now @steampowered.com has both series in a special-offer bundle.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
store.steampowered.com/bundle/61017...
Saga of Ink and Paper on Steam
store.steampowered.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Two great storyworlds in one neat package
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Had the pleasure of voicing Blake Manor's groundskeeper in @spookydoorway.bsky.social 's striking new detective game! Demo's out now, and the game's out on Monday: store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
October 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Had the pleasure of voicing Blake Manor's groundskeeper in @spookydoorway.bsky.social 's striking new detective game! Demo's out now, and the game's out on Monday: store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...
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Join @konstantinosd.bsky.social for a live discussion of texty virtual cities, a presentation of the "Build An Interactive City In Text using @inkle.co's ink" course, and a quick city concept generation workshop.
Today, 17:00 CET ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
Today, 17:00 CET ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
October 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Join @konstantinosd.bsky.social for a live discussion of texty virtual cities, a presentation of the "Build An Interactive City In Text using @inkle.co's ink" course, and a quick city concept generation workshop.
Today, 17:00 CET ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
Today, 17:00 CET ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
But 80 Days, Heavens Vault and A Highland Song aren’t! So play one of those instead
Roblox and Fortnite are down, and so are many of the world's most popular games www.eurogamer.net/roblox-and-f...
October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
But 80 Days, Heavens Vault and A Highland Song aren’t! So play one of those instead
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we've been fairly cool on voice acting because it limits the complexity of the script, and the word count, and anyway, it can slow things right down. BUT, I love actors and what they bring! So for the next thing we've designed what I think is a BRILLIANT SOLUTION, for the one genre anyway
I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing
I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO.
How many design justifications we can come up with?
Join me
I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO.
How many design justifications we can come up with?
Join me
October 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
we've been fairly cool on voice acting because it limits the complexity of the script, and the word count, and anyway, it can slow things right down. BUT, I love actors and what they bring! So for the next thing we've designed what I think is a BRILLIANT SOLUTION, for the one genre anyway
Adorable!
All achievements unlocked !! - A Highland Song #AHighlandSong
October 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Adorable!
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next @inkle.co game in godot confirmed?!?! #godotengine
I… think I might have fallen in love with Godot 💖
October 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
next @inkle.co game in godot confirmed?!?! #godotengine
Great web-template for ink stories; nicely designed with a lot of out of the box features!
I have a big backlog project written in Ink, which stalled a while back as I couldn't quite get everything I wanted working. I was looking through the InkJam resources list and this web template was listed.
Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template
Does pretty much everything I need!
remy-vim.itch.io/ink-template
Ink IF Story Template by Rémy Vim
A free template for Ink stories
remy-vim.itch.io
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Great web-template for ink stories; nicely designed with a lot of out of the box features!
How the Colossus machine that cracked the Reich’s most sophisticated code wasn’t built by Turing - but by a Post Officer worker unknown to history, his colleagues and a barber.
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
How the Colossus machine that cracked the Reich’s most sophisticated code wasn’t built by Turing - but by a Post Officer worker unknown to history, his colleagues and a barber.
There's a really good curation of 2025 games up on the Ars Festival page on Steam right now.
Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!
Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!
Ars Independent Festival 2025
Ars Independent Festival is an annual cultural event held in Katowice, celebrating independent video games and more.
store.steampowered.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
There's a really good curation of 2025 games up on the Ars Festival page on Steam right now.
Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!
Some discounts, but mostly just a *great* selection!
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I just published a new game for the Ink Game Jam!
You had to use @inkle.co's scripting language, Ink, with the theme "The Big Switch," which was perfect, since I was wanting to do a game about being #transmasc!
Let me know what you think!
#ambrolengame
ambrolen.itch.io/pick-your-ge...
You had to use @inkle.co's scripting language, Ink, with the theme "The Big Switch," which was perfect, since I was wanting to do a game about being #transmasc!
Let me know what you think!
#ambrolengame
ambrolen.itch.io/pick-your-ge...
Pick Your Gender by ambrolen
It shouldn't be hard to check the girl box. So why are you hesitating?
ambrolen.itch.io
October 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I just published a new game for the Ink Game Jam!
You had to use @inkle.co's scripting language, Ink, with the theme "The Big Switch," which was perfect, since I was wanting to do a game about being #transmasc!
Let me know what you think!
#ambrolengame
ambrolen.itch.io/pick-your-ge...
You had to use @inkle.co's scripting language, Ink, with the theme "The Big Switch," which was perfect, since I was wanting to do a game about being #transmasc!
Let me know what you think!
#ambrolengame
ambrolen.itch.io/pick-your-ge...
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Talking publicly about game cities, @inkle.co's ink, and interactive text is a temptation I can rarely resist.
Find out *everything* about our forthcoming "Build An Interactive City In Text using ink" #gamedev & #worldbuilding course, in our live course presentation and intro to textual cities event!
🎯 22 October, 17:00 CET
🎫 Reserve your free ticket ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
🎯 22 October, 17:00 CET
🎫 Reserve your free ticket ⇢ www.eventbrite.com/e/build-an-i...
October 6, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Talking publicly about game cities, @inkle.co's ink, and interactive text is a temptation I can rarely resist.
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Heaven’s Vault also involves uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilization, but is a language deciphering game with a rich story and intricate worldbuilding.
thinkygames.com/game...
8/15
thinkygames.com/game...
8/15
Heaven's Vault · Thinky Games
Decipher an ancient language to discover the fate of a lost civilization.
thinkygames.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Heaven’s Vault also involves uncovering the mysteries of a lost civilization, but is a language deciphering game with a rich story and intricate worldbuilding.
thinkygames.com/game...
8/15
thinkygames.com/game...
8/15
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The Steam Autumn Sale is on now!
As usual, grab some @inkle.co games at up to 80% off! 😳😎
All under £9, some less than £2!
Grab some bargains asap! Gift them to family or friends! ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/in...
As usual, grab some @inkle.co games at up to 80% off! 😳😎
All under £9, some less than £2!
Grab some bargains asap! Gift them to family or friends! ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/in...
Steam Developer: inkle
Interactive adventures that span the world, cross the wilderness, and dig deep into the past. Every action will shape your story.
store.steampowered.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The Steam Autumn Sale is on now!
As usual, grab some @inkle.co games at up to 80% off! 😳😎
All under £9, some less than £2!
Grab some bargains asap! Gift them to family or friends! ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/in...
As usual, grab some @inkle.co games at up to 80% off! 😳😎
All under £9, some less than £2!
Grab some bargains asap! Gift them to family or friends! ☺️
store.steampowered.com/developer/in...
#inkjam25 has begun! This year, it's a generous 8-day jam, and the theme is
THE BIG SWITCH
If you want to join, you still can:
THE BIG SWITCH
If you want to join, you still can:
inkJam 2025
A game jam from 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-12 hosted by Jon Keevy. Welcome to the 8th edition of inkJam ! This is an annual community-organized jam all about ink, a versatile scripting language for narrati...
itch.io
September 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#inkjam25 has begun! This year, it's a generous 8-day jam, and the theme is
THE BIG SWITCH
If you want to join, you still can:
THE BIG SWITCH
If you want to join, you still can: