Grim @ GDC IFTF @ GDC Commons Need a writer or narrative designer? Let's talk!
I'm going to GDC this year with the IFTF!
I'll be at our setup in the GDC Commons on Wed+Thurs. Stop by and try our Twine activity!
Looking forward to catching up with friends & making new ones. I'm also open to new projects and would love to chat with anyone looking to hire a writer.
We'll be at @officialgdc.bsky.social next week! Here's everywhere you can find us, plus more exciting history content happening throughout the week:
A game daily leaderboard riffing on the style of a 90s computer. “erkyrath” (my handle) is listed first, at 1112 points and six cups of coffee. The next best score is johannes2704 at 1094 points and five cups, so I’m significantly ahead.
Not gonna say this was my *proudest* moment, but I felt good about it. (Yesterday, March 5th.)
Was knocked down to fifth place by the end of the day. Still good.
(Friedemann Friese’s _Finished!_)
So, uh, this is why I'll be at PAX East.
I'm giving the keynote!!
I'm proud to have been a part of this fun & charming project. My topic was about narrative opportunities in attract screens and the present day equivalent, the Steam Trailer. Thanks to @jon.inkle.co for including me; every one I have read so far has given me something to consider and made me smile.
Check out this terrific new collection of essays on #GameNarrative by some of the brightest lights in the #GameDev industry.
Our own @ironiciconic.bsky.social has contributed an essay on writing mysteries for games based on his own work writing for Nancy Drew and Agatha Christie's Poirot.
my little essay in this is called “I Would Like to Be Included in this Narrative” and it’s about casting as a technique in procedural storytelling to create granular, personalized moments
I have one too but it's current-limited compared to a "direct" USB-C cable. I forget the exact numbers but there was some level of fast charging which did not work.
Game Developer posted up the foreword to the new book:
I've got an essay in this one!
The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope is out! A hundred and more micro-essays about narrative game writing, by a huge list of writers and designers. I’m one of them.
Compiled and printed by Jon “Inkle" Ingold.
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/03/the-...
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/
BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.
Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.
More info:
Narrascope is a conference (June 12th-14th this year in Albany) which gathers "writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative."
I can now announce I am giving a talk:
*The First Year of Japanese Adventure Games*
a history of 12 months
narrascope.org
No, cornstarch is called cornstarch.
I figure "corn flour" is the same as "fine cornmeal", which I use in cornbread.
I think 3D printing is kind of cool and amazing for prototyping or small runs of bespoke parts. But I never got how it could possibly compete with injection molding or a dozen other more straightforward processes. At scale, anyway.
Wish we could admit when tech is niche. Cool, but niche.
Argh
I admit that I'm doing something borderline nonsensical with it...
Oh yay!
I'll be around.
Did I want to know that Safari and Chrome/Firefox disagree about what happens when you apply “filter: invert(100%)” to an SVG <g> element?
No, but here we are.
Looking at Infocom's “Learning ZIL" document in context.
blog.zarfhome.com/2026/02/1989...
Our volunteer Hélène Lupa wrote a blog post about the history of NarraScope! Did you know NarraScope started in 2019? And in 2023 there were NarraScope Pogs? narrascope.org/blog/post/20... .
I tell you, back in the day, we all agreed that S1E4 Emancipation just didn't exist.
Otherwise, yes.
the GDC and IFTF logos with an x between them, indicating a crossover
Just a few weeks until IFTF lands at @officialgdc.bsky.social. We'll be set up in the Indie Arcade at GDC Commons, so please stop by, say hello, and try out the GDC Festival of Gaming Twine Adventure project! Looking forward to seeing you there!
If you want to know what the future of the game industry is, look at iicon, the ESA's new industry event. Lots of talk about cross-industry synergy, e-commerce, and leveraging IP. Nothing about game development
Dug into this absolutely wild thing happening to Finji. The deeper I read into their increasingly baffling conversations with TikTok "support" the more I felt like I was on something.
www.ign.com/articles/tun...
Sorry! If you enjoy match-3 stuff, you should check it out.
I played a bunch of the Titanium Court demo last night and I can report that all the narrative gimcrackery was received with great glee -- top-notch stage business -- and all of the actual gameplay was an airless slog and I don't really want to play any more of it.
I felt sort of bad as I wrote that because I am a guy with a spreadsheet! Lots of people use spreadsheets!
But you understood what I meant by the shorthand.
It's great that they offer that. But it's one manager decision away from being a profit center. Cloudflare could enshittify a huge swathe of the web overnight, and somebody with a spreadsheet knows that.
I am nervous about CloudFlare's free-tier bot-blocking service, which is rapidly becoming a requirement to host *any* kind of free forum/wiki/service on the web.
Bundle of Holding: Downcrawl-Skycrawl
Downcrawl and Skycrawl, twin toolkits from designer Aaron A. Reed that help you create spontaneous tabletop roleplaying adventures in the Deep, Deep Down and the Azure Etern.
bundleofholding.com/presents/Dow...
#ttrpg
