Independent developer of narrative games and interactive stories.
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Our new game, EXPELLED! , launches on iOS , Switch , and PC and Mac today! You play as Verity Amersham, a scholarship girl at a top boarding school in England, 1922. A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming you. You have one day to clear your name, find the true culprit - or find someone else to take the blame for you. Building off 2021's Overboard! , Expelled!…
Announced today -- a bold new venture for inkle studios: a girl's boarding school, opening soon in 1922. Created using a combination of ink script and time travel, we're pleased to announce that the school will be opening its doors a hundred years ago to teach the very best in Latin, Mathematics and Field Sports to Britain's finest girls. There is also one scholarship place available. You can…
Newly released via the inkle bookshop : the official user's guide to the ink scripting language. Consisting of three parts, the guide covers everything from installing the software, to integrating it with Unity, through to using more complex patterns and tricks to push the limits of what's possible in your interactive stories. Suitable for beginners, but with something to offer the expert, the…
When we released Heaven's Vault in 2019, it was the biggest storytelling task we'd ever undertaken - a whole world, with 4,000 years of history, and a language or two besides. Since then, it's gone on to win awards and gain a loyal community of fans , writing in Ancient, creating new words, and piecing together the hidden corners of the Nebula's turbulent history. And here at inkle we haven't been…
We're proud to announce that ink , our open-source scripting language for interactive narrative, has now officially reached version 1.0 ! What's new in Version 1.0? Version 1.0 is a stable release of "the story so far". The core features are well-tested and well-used, and the current integration has powered two full inkle releases: 2019's 3D adventure game, Heaven's Vault , and 2020's procedurally…
Two weeks ago, we announced a writing competition for our upcoming narrative strategy game, Pendragon . As you gather the knights of the Round Table to cross England, they will sit beside the campfire and tell stories. We opened a call for submissions of tales - courtly romances, ghost stories, adventures. We hoped we'd get some good ones - and we received over four hundred, amazing tales. We've…
We're hugely delighted to announce that inklewriter, our free, write-as-you-go tool for sketching interactive fiction, is BACK - stable, free to use, and now open-source ! Read the interactive press release! (For existing users: this is a new version with a new database . You'll need a new account; and you'll need to import any story data from the previous version manually. Details on how to do…
Interested in ink ? Been meaning to have a go at learning it, but never had the motivation? Or are you a skilled inkist, looking to show off your skills? Either way, if you want a chance to take ink for a spin, we've got a great opportunity coming up. In collaboration with The Pixel Hunt , the studio behind the multi-award-winning Bury Me, My Love , we're launching ink Jam - a 3 day game jam for…
Welcome to the first post of 2018, which is going to be a huge year for us. The reason is, of course, this: The summit is in sight... Heaven's Vault has now been in development for over two years; and when it comes out it will be squarely three. That's as long as it took to make the entire Sorcery! series (if you take out the year we spent on 80 Days .) The result? We're thrilled - and terrified -…
Last weekend was the return of Adventure X , London's indie adventure game festival, which has been going from strength to strength over the last five years. While there, we checked out a lot of great games (including two ink titles, the excellent iPhone game Bury Me, My Love and gorgeous Kickstarter-in-progress Du Lac and Fey ) - and we presented a talk detailing the journey so far of Heaven's…
