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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

🇯🇵 ❤️ 🇯🇵 ありがとう！

inkle

@inkleStudios

10 months

A Highland Song is at #38 in top grossing games on Steam in Japan right now. We're in the top 40 in Japan. We're like a good UK band from the 90s!

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@joethephish

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

Woah biggest tweet on Twitter about @AHighlandSong is Japanese! I think we have finally found our market?!

ロッズ

@rods_skyfish

10 months

うわうわうわこれはやばい！　気持ち良すぎる！

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

How do you explain your game to someone? Whether a friend, member of the press or just.. anyone? While working on @HeavensVault and showing it to people, this approach has slowly evolved and emerged. Here's my PITCH PYRAMID! THREAD:

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

9 years

Can't stop staring at this chart

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

This is a pretty personal one for me, hugely excited to be announcing our next game, set in the Scottish Highlands!

inkle

@inkleStudios

3 years

Announcing: the next inkle game: 🏔️🎶A HIGHLAND SONG 🎶🏔️ Teenager Moira McKinnon is running away to reach the sea. But the Highlands are wild and cruel. Can she find a way across the hills? ⭐️WISHLIST NOW: Coming to PC & Switch. 🔄Please RT!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

9 months

And so ends the year in which we finally brought A Highland Song into the world. It’s been a deeply personal project for me and has been a long time coming so feels like the end of an era. Can’t wait to open a new chapter at inkle! 🥂 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Happy Hogmanay! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🥂

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 years

Love final tweet “ @pyratejack : So this happened last night and it is amazing. http://t.co/YScrjAlRve”

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Just built a major new feature for ink that lets you have multiple simultaneous “flows” running in parallel simultaneously. Eg two conversations running simultaneously in the same story. Guess we should do a new release soon! (And a release of Inky, it’s been a while!)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

WE MADE A NEW GAME!! 🚢 OVERBOARD 🌊 And it didn’t exist in any form before 2021. This Switch home screen makes me very proud

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

WE WON @joningold @anastasia_wyatt @tomkail (It’s heavy, Veronica could make good use of it!)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

The reaction to @AHighlandSong at WASD has been fantastic. You never know *for sure* how good your game is while developing it (not seeing wood for trees etc) but the indications seem good! Phew. We’d better get on and finish it now then.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

Our little game is getting pretty pretty

A Highland Song

@AHighlandSong

2 years

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

Text layout geekery tweetery! I just made a new line break system that I'm really happy with... it's something I've been pondering for years now, but never taken the time to implement. Explanation follows!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

While we’re at it, could we ban homework for kids so we don’t normalise working outside work hours?

Rami Ismail / رامي

@tha_rami

3 years

"Right to rest" should be standard everywhere and always, thanks.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

Literally how it felt opening this issue of EDGE

inkle

@inkleStudios

10 months

TOMORROW IS RELEASE DAY FOR @AHighlandSong ! 🕔 5pm GMT / 9am PST / noon EST 🕔 Review embargoes lift early tomorrow, so keep your eyes peeled and your fingers crossed for us!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

Goodnight!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

Our new game! A self narrating board game, borne from the thought “what if chess told a story?” Except our own board game, not actual chess ♟

inkle

@inkleStudios

5 years

Announcing... 👑⚔️👑 PENDRAGON 👑⚔️👑 Our brand new Narrative Strategy game, coming this summer. Rally the Round Table. 🔁 RT appreciated! Wishlist on steam: #indiedev #indiegames

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

This has been a long time coming! Super excited and I barely slept last night but WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE! Super proud to have been featured in an @IndieWorldNA !

inkle

@inkleStudios

11 months

Release date announcement! 🍃 A HIGHLAND SONG 🍃 ...arrives:📆December 5th, 2023📆 RTs appreciated ❤️ Check out our date reveal trailer, as featured in @Nintendo ’s @IndieWorldNA event:

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

The rhythm action gameplay in @AHighlandSong is super fun to author, so I wanted to write a quick thread showing our process. Featuring the music of the incredible @TaliskMusic ! (this track is called Beyond) 🧵1/7

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

1 year

@mtrc Yeah this statement messed with my brain - it doesn’t sound accurate to me. When I first started using Unity it took me a while to get used to the idea of “you put your little scripts into the 3d engine/editor” rather than “you start with a codebase and load some resources”

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

#NintendoSwitch

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@joethephish

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Finally, our next unannounced game is pretty personal to me, being set in the Scottish highlands where I spent much of my childhood. We’re working with @abigbat on art direction, he and @anastasia_wyatt have already been producing some beautiful concepts behind the scenes!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

Love seeing this: ⁦ @jmechner ⁩ going through exactly the same emotional rollercoaster of doubts as any game dev on the way to creating Prince of Persia

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

Excited to say that I helped @failbettergames prototype some little juicy details of the way the dialogue is presented in Mask of the Rose, and it’s lovely to see them coming through in the gifs on their Steam page! GO WISHLIST IT!

Failbetter Games | www.fallenlondon.com

@failbettergames

3 years

Marvellous romance with a hint of murder: you can now wishlist Mask of the Rose on Steam! Seek love, for yourself or your friends. Help a murdered man find justice. And watch out for the bats. (Steam link in comments!) #indiegames

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

8 years

Inky, an editor for ink, out now! (Alpha, will have bugs, you have been warned!)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

By this metric it’s our most successful game ever!

inkle

@inkleStudios

3 years

The news is in: Veronica Villensey has earned her life insurance payout (within 8 hours)... and Overboard! has earned back its costs (within 3 days). Thank you to everyone who helped both of us. Marvellous!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

I might grumble when I have to make yet more new assets, but it can be satisfying to see them all lined up when done! (These are the capsules for the new Steam Library feature.)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

More on this soon...!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

It's New Mechanic Tuesday™ in @AHighlandSong ! Oh, and coincidentally, it's @inkleStudios 's 11th birthday today. Happy Birthday inkle!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

One last feature for @AHighlandSong , it deserves it.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

How do the rhythm runs in @AHighlandSong work? I made a TikTok!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

Nostalgia pang alert! When we sent out early press copies of 80 Days before its first release, it was the first time we were able to see via our "multiplayer" feature that everyone made different choices. These were all real people making real decisions about which way to go...

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

Chineasy - brilliant book. It inspired some of the symbol design in @HeavensVault . Love it to bits, and it’s a treat of graphic design.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Loving how this world is built. We use a kit of "splats" - chunks of textures with transparency in layers. It gives it a lovely painterly feel as seen in @abigbat 's key art.

inkle

@inkleStudios

4 years

First screenshot (of a scene in @unity3d editor, not in play mode). It's very WIP, but we like where it's going! #UntitledHighlandGame

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

Spring cleaning, and found an old notebook with some early @HeavensVault scribbles! More archaeology game archaeology. 1/ Early hieroglyphic ideas that could use 2d visual structure in language

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

Top things I’m most excited about with @HeavensVault ... thread! 1. Translation mechanic: we call it the “Guitar Hero” of linguistics. It really feels like you’re translating a language, you go through the same steps in your head (which I find astounding). But... somewhat easier!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

7 years

Using Exp to convert “zoom to scale” - one of the most useful techniques I learnt in the past few months #unityTips

Using Mathf.Exp for zooming

Using Mathf.Exp for zooming. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

ink is finally at v1.0!

inkle

@inkleStudios

4 years

After five years of hard thought, iteration and community development, we're proud to announce that ink has now reached version 1.0! Read all about the new release, and a quick "story so far" on our blog 👉

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

7 years

This is an amazing selection of colourised photos..

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

7 years

I’m going to be talking at #GDC18 ! ✒️📖 Designing Text UX for Effortless Reading 📖🖋 Hope you can make it :)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

#TheWitness

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

FINALLY! Heaven’s Vault will be on its ideal platform.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

9 months

I enjoy occasionally cross pollinating game dev Twitter and Scottish hill walking Twitter. Have a highland cow in your feed!

walkhighlands

@walkhighlands

9 months

HAPPY MOO YEAR!! We'd like to wish you all a wonderful 2024 filled with memorable adventures exploring Scotland on foot. Photo from Glen Feshie yesterday.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

Heaven’s Vault is award winning already, and we haven’t even released it yet!

inkle

@inkleStudios

6 years

We’re super honoured to have received the UK Game of the Show ⁦ @Official_GDC ⁩ for ⁦ @HeavensVault ⁩!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

My approach to UI design is probably not at all what @sketch intended, but it works for me! I copy and paste artboards, and go off in different directions 🧭 as I branch into different ideas 💡 Great for tracking back to how far I've come since my first piece of crap design 😉

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

Sod you lot, I’m moving to Japan where I’m appreciated.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

. @HeavensVault was going to be a Doctor Who game.

fabs();

@raspofabs

3 years

Game history nerds: a friend just mentioned a rumor that Starcraft was originally meant to be a Warhammer 40k computer game. I have doubts. But I'm sure I've heard of other famous titles that were IP switched as they were completed. What's the best story you know?

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Quite proud of this! Haven’t done painting in ages, and haven’t really ever done much digital painting ever. Little map/biome concept for our #UntitledHighlandGame

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Oh, hullo! My Heaven’s Vault GDC talk is live - I talk about how we used ink to make a 3d adventure game.

GDC

@Official_GDC

4 years

New on YouTube: Creating Interactive Film Scripts for 3D Adventures with Ink, from @joethephish

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

Updated my profile pic for the first time since 80 Days was released! To help you remember who I am: I’m that 30-something-year-old white game dev guy with brown hair and a beard who enjoys fantasy and sci-fi TV shows.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

11 months

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

These aren’t the droids you’re looking for, but they are the long awaited books I’ve been eager to get my hands on!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Weekend games marketing musings. As an indie dev this stuff literally keeps me awake at night.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

I love that for years I had used the @walkhighlands website to plan walks in the highlands, and then during development of @AHighlandSong I used it loads for reference and inspiration. Worth a follow! Just look at the gorgeous real highlands! 😍

walkhighlands

@walkhighlands

10 months

It's been a gloomy week here, so here's a shot from winters past, of An Ruadh-Stac rising behind Lochcarron.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

1 year

Sometimes I just stand and watch the cloud shadows drift over the hills and let @ComposerChapman 's strings drift into my ear holes

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

1 year

Forget rain, does the WORLD even exist when it's not being observed? @AHighlandSong

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

When we finish a game, I like to do one full proper playthrough that’s mine. My own canonical playthrough. Not testing, just sitting back and playing. I’m doing that right now with @HeavensVault on my own PS4 and... I’m really enjoying it. Eeek.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

Occasionally getting butterflies when I think about what we’ll be showing of our highland project in a few days. This has been an announcement of my announcement butterflies due an upcoming announcement.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

This port was perhaps the most technically challenging thing I’ve ever accomplished. Super happy to see some of the positive reactions we’ve seen for the Switch version. Heaven’s Vault has sailed home!

inkle

@inkleStudios

4 years

*** HEAVEN'S VAULT IS OUT NOW ON SWITCH! *** @NintendoAmerica @NintendoUK 🗺️ Sail the Nebula 📜 Translate a language 🗿 Uncover a forgotten past ⭐️ @igfnews winner / @BAFTAGames , @GoldenJoysticks @developconf finalist 🇬🇧 🇺🇸

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

I am now 37. I think this is officially the age where you stop being embarrassed about being young and start being embarrassed about being old.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Turns out putting "We strongly encourage women, BAME and other minority background candidates to apply." in your job ad is like a secret weapon. You get emails from like, the COOLEST MOST TALENTED PEOPLE EVER

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

My ⁦ @HeavensVault ⁩ mug’s inscription is peeling off due to the wear of time and usage, creating a genuine archaeological challenge to decipher.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

Psst highland song is releasing a 5pm GMT but if you’re playing on Switch and you’re in Europe it’s coming out at 2pm GMT but don’t tell anyone

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

Heaven’s Vault started as an interactive graphic novel. We were going to take one step up the technical ambition ladder after 80 Days, and have like, PICTURES and stuff. Then we made it 3D, so naturally the schedule got extended by 3 years. Good news though, we’re done now!

Heaven's Vault

@HeavensVault

6 years

Want to know more about how we developed the unique hybrid 2d/3D art style of Heaven’s Vault? Check out this post on @imgur : #IndieGameDev #IndieGame

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

GDC 2015, the year of our IGF narrative win for 80 Days! Lookin’ youthful 🐣 with @joningold and @betterthemask

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

#GameDevelopment

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

1 year

Super proud of this! 🥰

inkle

@inkleStudios

1 year

We're absolutely thrilled to announce that... 🌿 @AHighlandSong is being featured in the official selection for @Tribeca games 2023!!🌿 We've produced an exclusive new demo that will be shown in NYC from June 7th-18th. Come if you can make it!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 years

@verge http://t.co/IBBzSojScf

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

Beta testing physical products. Argh!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

In training to be the star of @AHighlandSong

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

10 months

Good morning, release day today! And what a lovely review to wake up to! 🥰

LadiesGamers

@Ladies_Gamers

10 months

A Highland Song is a wee belter of a game and one of the best I've played this year when Moira and I saw the sea. @inkleStudios @AHighlandSong #AHighlandSong #NintendoSwitch

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

We won!!!

inkle

@inkleStudios

5 years

Tonight is the @igfnews awards and we'll be crossing our fingers for the narrative category! (... and @steamgames are running a sale to celebrate, because that's how things are celebrated on Steam.)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

Holy water goddess, batman! It's on #NintendoSwitch !

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

Collaboration

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

3 years

🎂 Happy 10th Birthday @inkleStudios ! 🎂

inkle

@inkleStudios

3 years

10 years. 16 releases. 2.5 million words. 5 BAFTA nominations. 2 IGF Awards. 2 scripting languages. 4 babies.

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@joethephish

6 years

Feedback like this from actual real life archaeologists makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Thank you!!

Florence Smith Nicholls

@florencesn

6 years

Just played the demo for @HeavensVault at #Rezzed2019 and now I'm buzzing with excitement. Its a beautiful, atmospheric and fascinating game which captures the complexity of archaeological interpretation whilst still being accessible #Archaeogaming

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@joethephish

6 years

WE HAVE A RELEASE DATE

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

1 year

Conversations in @HeavensVault are super responsive to the context of specific playthrough, but I sometimes felt like they took movement control away from you too often. With @AHighlandSong we're working hard to keep the player in control to keep the game feeling really fluid.

inkle

@inkleStudios

1 year

New blog post on the making of @AHighlandSong by our narrative director @joningold ! This one is about a powerful new technique we're using in ink - Autocut! 🔗👉

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@joethephish

2 years

Finally it feels like I can see light at the end of the tunnel on this project! It’s been an epic dev schedule, partly because we’ve been doing 4(?!) other projects simultaneously, COVID distractions, me being part time due to family commitments. Excited to be in final straight!

inkle

@inkleStudios

2 years

Exciting news! @AHighlandSong is now filled with an initial version of all its levels, thanks to @its_natclayton fantastic work this year. It won't be long before you can take Moira on her journey across the beautiful Scottish Highlands 🧗‍♀️

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@joethephish

4 years

❤️ ⛰ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

inkle

@inkleStudios

4 years

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go. #UntitledHighlandGame

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@joethephish

8 years

Obligatory pic from a proud dad, before your usual sorta-not-really professional tweets resume

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@joethephish

4 years

My talk on text UI design is finally available on YouTube!

GDC

@Official_GDC

4 years

New on YouTube: Designing Text UX for Effortless Reading, from @inkleStudios ' Joseph Humfrey

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@joethephish

3 years

BAFTA nomination for Overboard!! 🥳🥂

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@joethephish

5 years

Just playing @HeavensVault on my iPhone with an MFi controller...! * using SteamLink ** and crappy WiFi (But hey, it works, and is playable! Wouldn't recommend without an MFi controller though.)

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@joethephish

7 years

@njh @inkleStudios With backlight

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@joethephish

7 years

Also, ICYMI: I’m giving a talk at #GDC18 on how to make games with text that your players actually want to bloody read: Part of that is about having good tools, hence opening sourcing SLayout!

GitHub - inkle/slayout: UI layout and animation component for Unity

UI layout and animation component for Unity. Contribute to inkle/slayout development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

4 years

I enjoyed adding a bunch of new clockworky sound effects to the timeline on the #NintendoSwitch version, feels really satisfying to browse!

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

9 months

Limmy playing A Highland Song? YAAAS

twitch.tv/Limmy

@DaftLimmy

9 months

We might be looking at a new game for tomorrow's stream. Perhaps A Highland Song.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

Delighted to say that @inkleStudios is in @creativeengland ’s list of top 50 companies across film, games and tech!!

Creative UK

@WeAreCreativeUK

6 years

*Announcement* We have released our CE50! Shining a light on the brightest stars across film, games & tech #CE502018 #CELive2018 @guardian_b2b – see the full list here

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@joethephish

11 months

Completed my second full run of @AHighlandSong last night and am increasingly excited about how it’s turned out 🥰 (Of course some testers have completed over 30 runs 🤯)

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

6 years

This is how games get shipped.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

2 years

Please like this post.

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@joethephish

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

5 years

Love this latest issue of @NatGeo . Right now I’m definitely in need of the positive optimist vibes.

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Joseph Humfrey

@joethephish

8 months

We just made ANOTHER game. And this one is 100% free to play in the browser!

inkle

@inkleStudios

8 months

.... There once was a labyrinth at the end of time .... 🚨 ANNOUNCING 🚨 THE FOREVER LABYRINTH An inkle game In collaboration with @googlearts Free to play right now, in browser or the GAC app 🖼️

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