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Ink Testing Tool

Another spare time project! This one to make it easier to test Ink stories.

Jul 25

Ink Testing Tool

Jul 25

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What does a Narrative Department do?

“You write the story, right?”

Jan 17

What does a Narrative Department do?

Jan 17

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Communicating Characters

Or: “How do you get the rest of your team to understand the cool character you made up?”

Jun 14, 2023

Communicating Characters

Jun 14, 2023

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Job Functions in Game Narrative

Or: What does that pesky Narrative Designer title actually mean?

Jun 30, 2022

Job Functions in Game Narrative

Jun 30, 2022

Fountain Movie Script Parser — JavaScript, Python, C#, C++

I’ve released the open-source library fountain-tools, parsing utilities for the Fountain movie script format. It’s available in multiple…

Dec 1

Fountain Movie Script Parser — JavaScript, Python, C#, C++

Dec 1

A Fact-Based Story Design

TL;DR — Use a single source of truth for tracking the player’s journey across the game and make it easy to query!

Oct 27

A Fact-Based Story Design

Oct 27

Clay and the Art of Games Writing

This is really another take on this article — sparked this time by the fact that I’ve seen some people who write for games putting in lots…

Oct 24

Clay and the Art of Games Writing

Oct 24

Crafted Reality Podcast – Larp Design

My partner and I were sat down by Allie and Julian for yello brick’s Crafted Reality podcast and asked to ramble about designing larps.

Jun 7

Jun 7

Ink Localisation Tool

Developer utility: export text strings from Ink files.

May 14

Ink Localisation Tool

May 14

Writing a Game Script Is Not a Project Step

Let’s talk about writing for — well, anything really, but in this case for games.

Apr 19

Writing a Game Script Is Not a Project Step

Apr 19

Ian Thomas

Ian Thomas

Ian is narrative director, coder, and writer of video games, films, larp, books, live events, and VR/AR experiences. Find him on Bluesky or LinkedIn.

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