Inkle (video game company)
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| Privately held | |
| Industry | Video game |
| Founded | November 2011 |
| Founder | Jon Ingold, Joseph Humfrey |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Products | 80 Days |
| Website | inklestudios.com |
Inkle is a game company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom that specialises in interactive narrative. They are notable for games such as 80 Days, which was Time Magazine's Game of the Year in 2014, and Sorcery!, a well-received adaptation of on Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! series.
Inkle has also created inklewriter, an online tool for creating interactive fiction.
Inkle was founded in November 2011 by Jon Ingold and Joseph Humfrey. Their first project was an interactive, choice-based version of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, written by successful gamebook author Dave Morris and published by Profile Books. It received mixed reactions, earning a Kirkus Reviews "Best of 2012" star, despite The Guardian describing it as "digital butchery". noting it's "Bewiledring" format and the fact that, despite being billed as "interactive" users can not change how the base story plays out.
In May 2013 they released the first in an ongoing fantasy series, Sorcery! (video game), based on gamebooks by famous UK games designer Steve Jackson. The adaptation was widely praised, with IGN calling it "a prime example of what can happen when traditional storytelling gets along with contemporary game design" The sequel followed in November 2013 and was substantially larger in scope.
They have collaborated with Penguin Books on two apps. 2013's "Poems By Heart" is a memorisation game intended to help readers learn poetry and was chosen as one of Kirkus' Best Books of 2013. In the same year they also worked with New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong on "The Cainsville Files", a visual-novel style interactive prequel to her Cainsville book series.
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