{"podcast":{"title":"My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin","slug":"my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647","podcast_index_feed_id":5970647,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/63b458521043e00011114396","website_url":"https://shows.acast.com/my-perfect-console","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/63b458521043e00011114396/1777821946817-906809b2-9c93-4b1c-b277-18517c7c67e0.jpeg","author":"Simon Parkin","episode_count":198,"summary":"In My Perfect Console , Simon Parkin, award-winning author video game critic for The Observer invites well-known guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on a fictional games machine. They discuss those five games in chronological order of release, interspersed with biographical chat about the guest’s life and career –– a lens that often leads to new and unexpected insights. \"Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift.\" - NEW YORK'S VULTURE \"Charming, insightful.\" -- THE GUARDIAN TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts VULTURE's Best Podcast of the Year Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T14:20:51.393497+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647"},"episode":{"title":"Jon Ingold, co-founder Inkle (80 Days, Expelled!, TR-49).","slug":"jon-ingold-co-founder-inkle-80-days-expelled-tr-49","published_at":"2026-02-03T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647/jon-ingold-co-founder-inkle-80-days-expelled-tr-49","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647","url":"https://shows.acast.com/my-perfect-console/episodes/jon-ingold-co-founder-inkle-80-days-expelled-tr-49","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/63b458521043e00011114396/e/697c7ae0dd5e887c52d01269/media.mp3","summary":"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.","meta_description":"Jon Ingold is a British game designer and writer whose work has helped redefine how narrative, choice, and player agency function in interactive storytell…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5543,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647/episodes/jon-ingold-co-founder-inkle-80-days-expelled-tr-49/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/my-perfect-console-with-simon-parkin-5970647/jon-ingold-co-founder-inkle-80-days-expelled-tr-49.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}