Tom Kail (@tomkail) | Aguea

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Tom Kail retweeted

inkle is EXPELLED!@inkleStudios

1 Feb 2024

.... 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 🖼️ goo.gle/foreverlabyrinth

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Tom Kail retweeted

Game Anglia @gameanglia

30 Oct 2023

🎮 #GameJam Announcement! 🎮 A 48 hour in-person Game Jam hosted by Cambridge Game Makers at Thrive! 📅 18th-19th November 📍 Thrive, Cambridge RSVP now! 🔗: eventbrite.co.uk/e/game-jam-…

Game Jam @ Thrive

A 48 hour in-person Game Jam hosted by Cambridge Game Makers at Thrive!

eventbrite.co.uk

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Tom Kail @tomkail

21 Sep 2023

Been waiting to play Goodbye Volcano High for YEARS! Most excite.

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Tom Kail @tomkail

28 Apr 2023

Ooooh my NorDevCon talk on Ink is on Youtube! youtube.com/watch?v=ybr5TPu0… It's...basically impossible to hear the audio 😅 We never tested audio input worked

Using Ink to develop interactive narratives

An interactive introduction to Ink, an (open source) tool for writi...

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Tom Kail @tomkail

30 Mar 2023

Finally got around to building out the horrible but necessary systems for my incest game (which I'll explain another time). The key was ditching the very hard layout system and forcing the player to untangle weird relationships - which is 100% GAMEPLAY.

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Tom Kail retweeted

Aureus @MoralAnxiety

30 Mar 2023

5 years ago I released a game. It had many flaws. I couldn't pull it off - yet. Now I'm going to make it right. Windy Meadow - tales of 3 young people facing difficult choices, set in a village from the fantasy world of Roadwarden. Coming soon. #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #vn

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Tom Kail @tomkail

3 Mar 2023

Last night I dreamt that @unity fixed the bug in Unity Answers that swaps all instances of the string "is" with "$$anonymous$$"

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Tom Kail @tomkail

27 Feb 2023

Replying to @trevermock

@trevermock's Ink Unity tutorials are fantastic; here's a new one he just released on External functions! youtube.com/shorts/3rno6Eo2z…

Ink External Functions explained in 60 Seconds | Calling C# code from...

This short covers how to call C# code in Unity directly from an Ink...

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Tom Kail @tomkail

27 Feb 2023

To my shame, these are better than the actual docs 😅

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Tom Kail @tomkail

25 Feb 2023

Phew! Talk at #nordevcon is DONE! Lots of fun. Thanks to @n3rdybirdy for the pic!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

20 Jan 2023

Are there any game designers who know games that have made improvements to Clash Royale's chest system? I've always thought of it as a very fair and well considered F2P system but it's quite old now, and I'd be interested to know if it's been bettered!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

17 Jan 2023

Happy Monday! Here's a nice song that reminds me rather a lot of a layered version of the Outer Wilds theme. open.spotify.com/track/0fVK2…

Sunshowers

Yasmin Williams · Urban Driftwood · Song · 2021

open.spotify.com

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Tom Kail @tomkail

11 Jan 2023

Oh wow Unity's spline system is fantastic! It's the first time in quite a while that I've been impressed by their output.

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Tom Kail @tomkail

3 Jan 2023

Sadly moving away from @git_fork because it's impossible to google "how to do X in git using fork" because fork is itself a git keyword :( Such a weird problem to have! Back to Sourcetree, I suppose. Hope they've fixed all the bugs since 2015!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

31 Dec 2022

I'll be giving an Ink 101 talk at the @NorfolkDev conference this Feb! More info closer to the time, but it'll be my first time doing anything professional in the city I grew up in, which feels lovely.

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Tom Kail @tomkail

20 Dec 2022

Sharing some code that converts between local and anchored positions in Unity RectTransform. gist.github.com/tomkail/b28a… In a regular inspector, anchored position is shown for RectTransform; local position for Transform. In a RectTransform, localPosition is always the visual center.

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Tom Kail @tomkail

20 Dec 2022

Quite why this isn't standard is another thing entirely. Been working on UI heavy projects for YEARS and this stuff still regularly confuses the bejesus about of me.

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Tom Kail @tomkail

27 Nov 2022

If you like text-y adventure-y games I really, REALLY recommend you play Roadwarden store.steampowered.com/app/1…

Roadwarden on Steam

Roadwarden is an illustrated text-based RPG that uses isometric pixel art and combines mechanics borrowed from RPGs, Visual Novels, adventure games and interactive fiction.

store.steampowered.com

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Tom Kail @tomkail

5 Nov 2022

I’m behind the Ink booth at @AdvXConf this weekend; come say hi if want to learn ink or would like help with your ink projects!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

3 Nov 2022

Sharing a little macro that creates seamless looping audio with Audacity! gist.github.com/tomkail/ead7…

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Tom Kail @tomkail

23 Oct 2022

I set up a phone-based eye tracker, Eyewearbeam, for some playtesting. Here's me attempting to play Hyper Demon with it!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

23 Oct 2022

Software is good; not great. I've found it works best if you don't move your head at all. Not wearing glasses may help but I also needed to see. Definitely worth a go if you're doing playtesting on a lack-of/shoestring budget!

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Tom Kail @tomkail

23 Oct 2022

Hyper Demon turned out not to be the best game to use as a showcase - it's a game that deliberately focuses your attention on the center of the screen to an insane degree - super mesmerizing.

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