Overall, however, we grew in ambition, complexity and scope. Not all of our initial promises came to pass: over the course of four years and four games, we iterated, throwing things away and developing in new directions. Then we set about adapting Part 1, which was released in May 2013. We promised him the world: a full adaptation, with graphics and sound a slick, Apple-friendly UI dynamic characterization of the player character strategic combat narrated in natural prose which would write “as well as David Gemmell” a map with day-night cycle effects an intuitive yet powerful gesture-based spellcasting system. The timing was perfect: the Sorcery! license, previously with another developer, had just become available. Steve listened, nodded, and told us to come back when we’d sold ten thousand copies.Ī year later, after the release of Dave Morris’ Frankenstein, we met Steve again. It was a lovely UI for a choice-based game, even in prototype form, and we had a strong scripting language underneath it - the first version of ink. We were showing him our early prototype of an “inklebook” - an iPad-based choice-driven story made of “pages” which stitched together into a single flow via frequent choice points. Lines of Code: Just over 60k significant lines of code (non-whitespace)ĭevelopment Tools: Xcode, Objective-C, inkĭownloads across the series so far: >1.5 millionĪbout five years ago, Joe and I sat down in a West London pub with Steve Jackson, co-founder of Games Workshop and Lionhead, and co-creator of Fighting Fantasy (and a personal game-design hero of mine). Length of Development: 4 games over 4 yearsīudget: ~ £10k / title, not including our own salaries
Number of Developers: 2 core people, 2 additional contributors, and 4 art / music contractors Jon was previously a lead designer at SCEE, and a writer and parser-based interactive fiction author. They’re best known for IGF-winning 80 Days and the open-sourced scripting language ink.
Jon Ingold is the narrative director and co-founder, with Joseph Humfrey, of inkle.
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