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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May 30, 2019 by IanWe’re delighted to say that Michelle Clough has joined us as an associate partner. We’ve worked with Michelle on a number of projects since Talespinners started; she’s our resident expert on romance and sexuality in games, and it’s great to have her on board! Find out more about our team here.
0 0 Read moreTalespinners: State of the Nation May 2019
May 13, 2019 by Matt GibbsTalespinners is celebrating its third birthday this month! Three years have flown by since Ian Thomas and Giles Armstrong co-founded the company, but this last year has seen the greatest changes so far. We’re still providing Story for Games, whether that is directly via games writing and narrative design, or more indirectly via consultancy and [...]
0 0 Read moreMy Child Lebensborn wins BAFTA
March 14, 2019 by IanCongratulations to all the BAFTA Games Awards nominees, and in particular to Sarepta Studio on winning the BAFTA Game Beyond Entertainment for My Child Lebensborn – we helped out with editing and found it harrowing and rewarding to work on. Well done all!
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March 6, 2019 by Matt GibbsInteractive Fiction & Choosing Green We’re delighted to announce that we’re collaborating with the University of Southampton on the Interactive Fiction strand of their Green Stories Writing Competitions. The main values behind the Green Stories Writing Competitions are to raise awareness of sustainability issues, practices, policies, and technologies via story. In so doing, the […]
0 0 Read moreMentorship: Kelly’s Story
March 3, 2019 by IanCongratulations to Kelly Hornung, who - like Maja - has completed her mentorship programme with us! Here Kelly discusses the piece she developed as part of the programme, The Dinner Party. During my first conversation with Ian and Giles, I pitched to them a fully-imagined story that combined my deep interest in environmental economics and [...]
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February 28, 2019 by IanMeet Avo, the world’s first mystery-solving, action-loving, crime-fighting avocado! We’re so pleased to have been involved with this – Playdeo have done amazing work in bringing live-action and interactive animation together. We helped out in the early days of the project by running one of our Story Workshops for the company to explore the core […]
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February 22, 2019 by IanHuge congratulations to Maja Bäckvall, who has completed her mentorship programme with us! Here, she talks about the production of her piece Pilgrimage. Like most people I know, I have a redacted number of half-empty notebooks in my home, dedicated to various unfinished or migrated projects. Before my first mentor talk with Ian for the […]
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January 30, 2019 by IanHere’s our second mentorship piece! It’s by Maja Bäckvall, a medieval scholar based in Uppsala in Sweden, who has previously worked on runes and translations for God of War and Civilisation VI. Pilgrimage is a sample interactive chapter from a sci-fi story inspired by a medieval pilgrimage, written by Maja in Ink, and developed as […]
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January 23, 2019 by IanWe’re very pleased to say that Kelly Hornung has released her interactive short story The Dinner Party. Kelly developed this as part of our Mentorship Programme, and it’s been fantastic to see it grow from an initial idea into a full playable piece of work. Kelly will be writing more here about the development process, […]
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