# Jon Ingold, co-founder Inkle (80 Days, Expelled!, TR-49).

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Published: 2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00
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Jon Ingold is a British game designer and writer whose work has helped redefine how narrative, choice, and player agency function in interactive storytelling. He began making parser-based text adventures and releasing them free on the internet. After studying mathematics at Cambridge University , he moved into professional game development at Sony PlayStation , where he worked as a designer in the concept group on several unreleased titles. In 2011, he co-founded the independent studio Inkle, where he has been a driving force behind a body of critically acclaimed narrative games, including  80 Days ,  Heaven’s Vault ,  Overboard! , and  A Highland Song . Alongside his studio work, he co-created the open-source scripting language Ink, now used widely across the games industry to build reactive, branching narratives. His latest project, TR-49 , is a haunting narrative deduction game built around a mysterious wartime machine, and the urgent act of making meaning from archives before time runs out.  Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Survey 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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