Game Narrative Kaleidoscope book

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Inkle has curated an almost 800-page book of short essays (requested to be 1000 words or less, I gather?) from a whole boatload of game writers and narrative designers of various levels of experience. Print-on-demand through Lulu. They were initially saying it was too complicated to work out the rights for an ebook edition (or something like that?) but it looks like they just caved to audience pressure and added it.

Very reasonably priced: looks like the US prices are $9 for the ebook, $18 for the paperback, and $50 for the hardcover.

https://www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/

Also they’re doing a podcast where they invite the authors on to talk about what they wrote about and why, and wherever that discussion goes to. Looks like they’re doing about 45-minute episodes: there’s a short intro and two interviews up so far.

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This looks great! I have massive respect for Jon Ingold and Inkle. His many YouTube talks and interviews are well worth a watch too (mostly on the GDC and AdventureX channels). I’ll definitely be getting a copy of this.

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Thanks for this! Snap bought it!

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OK, this is very clever.

(screenshot of the ebook HTML source showing a phrase broken up into 12 links to different random-seeming starting articles: “Or open at a ran dom pla ce and read from there!” going to articles 16, 85, 105, 39, 27, 42, 48, 81, 76, 95, 101, and 125)

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