we think this is a separate issue, possibly a low-level Godot bug. While we investigate, we've discovered (as you have) that double-tapping the home button fixes it immediately.

This game is wonderful and you should play it on any platform ⌨️

update: patch will land within the hour

patch will land within the hour

TR-49 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Buy TR-49 and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

Good news for Switch owners picking up TR-49: Cecil has written a new description of how the machine *should* behave. He's feeding it in as we speak.

The revision process will take an hour, tops? Put the kettle on. One sugar.

Episode 56: The Vault: I Can't Believe It's Not Been Vaulted Already - Indieventure Thanks for bearing with us listeners! After various real life events necessitated we take a month-long hiatus, we’re happy to be back with a new episode, and what better way to kick off season whateve...

✨NEW EPISODE!✨

We once again open the Indieventure Vault and chuck in three new games!

Which games have made the cut? You gotta listen to find out! Available wherever you get podcasts.

indieventurepodcast.co.uk/podcast/epis...

Guys sitting on sofa looking bored: it’s a silver sextant! It looks like it dates from The age of sail Guy cheering in excitement: it looks like there’s an inscription

Playing a lot of Heavens Vault at the moment

A greyscale image with two sketched portraits of a masculine and feminine face, both with serious expressions on their faces, and the words TR-49 between them. A box with four blue stars and the Eurogamer logo is in the corner.

Inkle's eerie codebreaking narrative game TR-49 is now available on Switch. We gave it four stars in our PC review and said: "Inkle mixes archive-surfing and audio drama to create a surprisingly powerful story of obsession and a machine." www.eurogamer.net/tr-49-review

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast:

Veteran narrative designer @wildwinter.bsky.social takes us on a wild tour of the boundaries of story design and LARPs. One for all, and all for one!

Check it out here:

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

... or any-podcast-place!

if you drop us an email with your order number, we can follow up for you

We’re hoping it’ll be out in a few days; we’ll post here when it’s live

Np. It’s very likely the same issue; we’re fairly confident that the patch will be what you need. Apologies for the wait!

As we say, the issue is serious, but we’ve fixed it and the patch should be live in a few days

The year’s best puzzle game just landed on Switch, so you have no excuse to skip it TR-49's code-cracking deduction will keep you up at night

TR-49's code-cracking deduction will keep you up at night

The year’s best puzzle game just landed on Switch, so you have no excuse to skip it TR-49's code-cracking deduction will keep you up at night

Otherwise, over on @polygon.com they're calling it "the year's best puzzle game" -- they also say "If you love dissecting game design, anything with Inkle’s name on it should be appointment playing."

TR-49 for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site Buy TR-49 and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

Our acclaimed narrative deduction / audio drama, TR-49, is out now on Nintendo Switch!

Sadly, some performance issues have been found in the later part of the game that weren't evident on the dev hardware we used for testing. We've submitted an expedited patch to fix it. Blasted vacuum tubes!

"Suck my toes, my darling" - Inkle's book of essays by game writers reveals the secrets behind the worlds we play in Have you ever wondered what game writers think about games, or about how game writers think about games? When a story d…

Are you a game writer or narrative nerd or just interested in how game writers interact with their craft? There's a book about it called The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope and it's out now from Inkle. A neat review with a bunch of info:

So many smart snippets in our chat about dialogue writing with @hownottodraw.bsky.social last week, but here's one: on how we have to define how defined our character is to design choices that make sense.

Check out the full conversation here:

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

A photo of a paragraph in a book about worlds in games being hostile to the player - in a good way.

That is a good point! (From Inkle's book on game writing)

It’s traditional for us to announce our projects on April Fools day, so we’d like to announce that our next game is about a pirate solving cold cases in order to win entrance into Heaven

This week on the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope Podcast:

We talk to @hownottodraw.bsky.social about micro-branching: choices that don't have big story impacts, but give value in the moment. How do we use them well?

Check it out here:

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

... or any-podcast-place!

Screenshots of Hour by Hour, the logo, and the words "Sketch a plan. Stick to it".

Build your day with Natural Language "Coffee with Mark at 2" "Lunch 2 hours before" "3-4pm Pancakes!" "20 min break at 3" With a screenshot next to it showing text entry.

Track events on your Lock Screen. Seamless integration with Live Activities - along with a screenshot of an iOS Lock Screen showing an example live activity.

AI-powered Photo import - showing an example of a photo of a schedule hand written on a blackboard a farm park, and a screenshot of the schedule imported into the app.

I finally released my iOS app!!

🕙 Hour by Hour 🕒

A day planner that lets you sketch out your schedule with natural language. Just write stuff like:

• Flight departs at 3:30pm
• Set off 2 hours before

➡️ Download for free: apps.apple.com/app/hour-by-...

TR-49 A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Heaven's Vault.

www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/...

Lovely spelunk into the Kaleidoscope!

What a headline

Sometimes, in narrative design, you have to embrace the chaos - that's how you know you're doing something ambitious.

Check out the full conversation with @starkholborn.bsky.social here:

www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...

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For a game about rivers - no fish

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I finally got to listen to this episode yesterday and I found Mary’s advice about working through moments of harassment by touching grass *so* accurate.

I wanted to share some of my grass touching activities, and maybe hear about other people’s grass touching activities too… SO: