Joseph Humfrey

@joe.inkle.co

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Co-founder of @inkle.co, narrative game studio. ⛰️ A Highland Song 🤖 TR-49 🚢 Overboard! & Expelled! 🕌 Heaven’s Vault 🌍 80 Days 🖋️ ink 📱 Apps @ https://Selkie.Design 🦭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪

Sunset in Fife, Scotland
Little app called Vent Till Late that tells me when to open and close windows when the weather is very hot to cool the house best
Flipping through a virtual bible, turning to Luke 8:17: “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest…”
Screenshot of the Ideas & Actions panel in Substage, focused on the video and audio category, suggesting commands that convert, get information about media, transcribe, and more.
Screenshot of the new Rules settings page showing an example that specifies YouTube's recommended video format when a user types "YouTube" or "yt".
Demo video of Substage, showing various file conversions and interactions with the Finder.
Screenshot of my little app used to help decide when to open windows when it’s hot
Screenshot of the new version of Substage showing a new Ideas & Actions panel
Selfie with me and Jimmy Wales
Node graph showing section numbers from a book
Grumpy
Screen recording of Apple Maps in iOS 27 Beta
Security dog at WWDC with “EXPLOSIVES DOG DO NOT PET” label on her side
Screenshot
View down a path through some trees
Grid of app icons including TR-49 on a big screen.
Photo from Apple Park of WWDC presentation slide with Hour by Hour half cropped off the edge of the slide
Pin of Lil Finder Guy with Apple’s Infinite Loop Campus in the background
Fanta the cat
Example schedule exported as a JPEG as shown in the video
Video demonstrating copying a URL from a Meetup link, pasting into Hour by Hour, then exporting as a PDF
Screenshot of an app that tells you when to open your window on hot days
Young Fanta peeking out of a basket
"Which was nice." gif from The Fast Show
View of the horizon with what looks like a sunset but it’s actually the moon coming up (higher exposure)
TikTok showing me opening a copy of Edge magazine with a review of A Highland Song and finding it scored 9/10
Website design for inkle showing wooden shelves, paper, ink and even a pencil.
A photo of a canal in Amsterdam
Photo of exterior of Dak coffee showrooms
Selfie of Joe
Viva piñata pocket paradise screenshot
Opening loading screen from Escape Velocity
Photo from Artemis 2 of the sun being eclipse by the moon.
Photo of my Switch showing TR-49, A Highland Song, Overboard, Heaven’s Vault and 80 Days on dashboard
Hour by Hour's icon, resembling a clock with colourful segments going around the edge.
Screenshots of Hour by Hour, the logo, and the words "Sketch a plan. Stick to it".
Signed framed art commemorating the release of Viva Piñata Pocket Paradise and the game box
Photo of the hardback edition of The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
Dumb general question - anyone know what techniques are used for “reasonably high res” 2d frame by frame character animation? We just used sprite sheets on A Highland Song, but somehow it felt annoying and fussy, though perhaps that was just a tools issue. Lots of massive texture sheets to support decent resolution character anims, most stay loaded all the time, takes up a lot of memory, and requires a bit of annoying book keeping to keep track of. Like, when I think of something like Broken Sword, which includes lots of high res character anims, many bespoke for certain interactions… could they be using a compressed video format with an alpha channel…? But presumably something like that doesn't work well for random access / seeking back and forth? Is this something that a game-centric video format like bink supports? I'm struggling to think of other good examples… maybe Ori? Or Cuphead? Presumably one of you fine folks might have worked on a good example I'm forgetting!
Espresso machine from Rocket
7 different bags of coffee, coffee scale, coffee in a cup. Coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee and did I say coffee? Coffee.