TR-49

Today I am talking with John Ingold, the co-founder of Inkle Studios.

They've made some brilliant games including 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, TR-49, Expelled, Overboard.

These brilliant, beautiful games are very story driven.

The cornerstone of all their work is great writing, great characters, really immersive content with as simple an interface as possible to immerse you within this moving forward story.

It's like, is it supernatural? Is it not? what's actually going on here, this kind of gothic element of like, is it a curse or what's actually happening here? And I will say, you know, you maybe don't get everything all laid out to you really clearly.

I think if you play something like TR-49, you'll kind of recognize the idea of the codes and inputting all of those I found this one a bit clearer just in terms of the story.

It's not clear and it does take a while to get into it.

Vicky's looking at me there.

You need to be looking at the scenes with the numbers because that's the only way you're going to progress.

But yeah.

And you also mentioned the Obra Dinn and TR-49.

I was a bit scared of playing Galley House because I knew it had to do with the codes and figuring it out.

Third act, any other thoughts on the third act?

It escapes one of the, to not, to lightly talk about plot of TR-49, but not specifics.

TR-49 has a menace mechanic, like something will happen if you don't do X.

And I enjoyed this version where there is no ticking time bomb, but you think there might be one.

Again, this game takes all the thread and puts it in your brain.