Taking a Back Seat
February 8, 2021 by IanHi all – Ian here. I have some news! I’m stepping back from my role as an active Partner at Talespinners, effective the end of February 2021. I’ve accepted a new role at a game studio which will take all of my time, on an exciting project which – of course – I can’t discuss […]
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October 19, 2020 by IanIan has been working as Story Lead for Frictional Games on Amnesia: Rebirth for the last 5 years, and it's finally out, released on the 20th October! We're very grateful to Frictional for letting us be a part of this, and extremely happy with the reviews!
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July 13, 2020 by IanCongratulations to Dev Presbury, who has completed her mentorship programme with us! Here Dev discusses the piece she developed as part of the programme, Best Forgotten. There was a time not so long ago when my life seemed to revolve around schedules. As an executive assistant, I spent a great deal of time managing other [...]
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June 26, 2020 by IanWe’re delighted to announce that Dev Presbury has completed our mentorship programme and her hard work and dedication has culminated in the fantastic interactive story Best Forgotten. Best Forgotten is a sample chapter of a larger work about friendship, small towns, and mysterious powers and how easily deception can take over all aspects of your [...]
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May 4, 2020 by IanTalespinners is celebrating its fourth birthday this month and we've been incredibly busy over the last year! Michelle Clough is now a Partner We invited editor and writer Michelle Clough to work more closely with the team last year as an Associate, and as of this month she is now a full Partner and co-owner [...]
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April 3, 2020 by IanHuge congratulations to everyone at Studio ZA/UM on three BAFTAs! We're so pleased to see one of those was the Narrative Award - well done to the brilliant writing team, including of course our very own Cash DeCuir See the full list of winners here.
0 0 Read moreAmnesia: Rebirth Announced
March 26, 2020 by IanAmnesia: Rebirth, the newest game from narrative horror masters Frictional Games, has been announced for release in autumn 2020. Our own Ian Thomas is the Story Lead for the game - we can't wait for people to be able to play it.
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October 15, 2019 by IanWe're over-the-moon to be able to say that our very own Cash De Cuir has been on the writing team for Disco Elysium for the last year and a half! We're so pleased to see it out in the wild today, and can't wait to see what people make of it.
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September 19, 2019 by IanApple Arcade is out, and with it ustwo Games' latest title, Assemble With Care. It's a lovely game, focusing on repairing old objects and helping other people put themselves back together. We're very pleased to have helped out on the project, running one of our story workshops for the team at ustwo. What we achieved in [...]
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Making Horror: Narrascope 2019
August 6, 2019 by IanIan gave a talk at Narrascope 2019 at MIT, on how to design games and larps to produce horror inside the players' heads. Karsten at Articy:Draft was a skilled enough cameraman to keep Ian in shot even when he kept wandering around the stage!
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