I promise this is absolutely not what my talk was about
Matt FarrowThanks to @jon.inkle.co for his interesting talk at Develop, which spurred me to consider doing this, for better or quite possibly for worse.
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Jon Ingold
Профиль VivelyNarrative @inkle.co he/him Writer: TR-49 / EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator.
The first version of ink contained no randomising at all, and my thought was that we could instead tie results to arbitrary flags - so if you picked the yellow tie, you’ll get a 7 in combat later, etc - to make scumming impossible.
Seva Khusid🔜gamescomBut I don’t think it’s a randomness problem. Even a deterministic, progress-by-winning game should be fun to fail at; otherwise why are you including the option to fail?
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lol that’s exactly it
Sam Barlow 🔥If a team makes a game that gets great reviews and doesn't sell, that's a biz failing but the silver lining is you caught lighting in a bottle -- protect that team! It's worth its weight in gold. If you jettison the team but keep the biz people, I don't know what to tell you
Nessa is very smart, and this is a great one especially for people looking to get started in their careers
inkleNew Kaleidoscope ep! This week, @nessathewriter.bsky.social (Borderlands 4) talks about how writing fast, scrappy Twine games can build your skills and your portfolio at the same time. Turn to www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... for the ep, or subscribe in your favourite podcast app!
(The article is fantastic, and you can hear Darby talk in more detail about it on the associated podcast - Episode 2 - www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...)
Darby McDevitt"Flawless Victory (And How to Avoid It" In honor of Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced's release, here's a brief essay about how I approached the writing of its main narrative, 13 years ago. darbymcdevitt.substack.com/p/flawless-v... Big thanks to @jon.inkle.co for nudging me to write this one.
Niche post but i have to make it: i just realised "Babbie" is Scottish, and is a kind of Pig, and Pig talked to Mucor who is both on the Whorl and the Rock, and Horn arrived at the instant of Silk's death, which is not likely to be the same instant as that of Horn's death. Does this matter? Not sure