Season 1 · Episode 306
#306 A Highland Song with Jon Ingold
The Game Design Round Table · Dirk Knemeyer, Jon Ingold, David V. Heron
December 19, 202357m 30s
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Show Notes
Dirk and David are joined by Jon Ingold, narrative designer and co-founder of Inkle Studios. They discuss Inkle's newly released video game A Highland Song, centered around exploration, discovery, and engaging the human form within nature. They discuss the mechanics around rewarding and incentivizing players in an exploration game, ways to hide the quantum ogre, and how to utilize elements of randomness within a story-driven experience.