Jon Ingold

Author Credits

• Break-In (1999; Z-code). Finalist at XYZZY Awards 1999 for Best Individual Puzzle.
• The Mulldoon Legacy (1999; Z-code). Winner at XYZZY Awards 1999 for Best Puzzles; also, a finalist for Best Individual Puzzle, Best NPCs, Best Setting, Best Story, and Best Game.
• Fail-Safe (2000; Z-code). Finalist at XYZZY Awards 2000 for Best Individual NPC.
• My Angel (2000; Z-code). IF Comp 2000: 6th place. Winner at XYZZY Awards 2000 for Best Story; also a finalist for Best Writing and Best Individual NPC.
• Large Machine (2001; Z-code).
• All Roads (2001; Z-code). IF Comp 2001: 1st place; Winner of the Miss Congeniality award. Winner at XYZZY Awards 2001 for Best Setting, Best Story, and Best Game; also a finalist for Best Individual Puzzle and Best Writing.
• The Mulldoon Murders (2002; Z-code).
• Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! (with Mike Sousa; 2002; TADS 2). IF Comp 2002: 2nd place; Winner of the Miss Congeniality award. Finalist at XYZZY Awards 2002 for Best Individual Puzzle, Best Story, Best Writing, and Best Game.
• Insight (2003; Z-code).
• Dead Cities (19-Jun-2007; Z-code 8). HP Lovecraft: The Commonplace Book Project 2007: Awarded Best in Show. XYZZY Awards 2007: Finalist for Best Story.
• Make It Good (13-Apr-2009; Z-code 8). XYZZY Awards 2009: Finalist in six categories: Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Puzzles, Best NPCs, and Best Individual PC (the detective).
• Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (with Ian Finley, publisher: Textfyre; 06-Nov-2009; FyreVM). XYZZY Awards 2009: Finalist in five categories: Best Game, Best Writing, Best Story, Best Setting, and Best Use of Medium.

Tech Credits

• Creator of Adventure Book, which is an authoring system for CYOA games.

Review and Article Credits

• IF Art Show reviews: 2001, 2003, 2004 and 2007.
• Review of The Mage Wars: Statue (from IntroComp 2003).
• Reviews of EnvComp.

Organizational Credits

• With Joseph Humfrey the Co-founder of inkle.
• One of the editors of IF Theory Book.
• Was an official judge for EnvComp.
• On the advisory board for the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.

Links

• Jon Ingold's Web Page.
• Jon Ingold (archived) - at Baf's Guide.
• Author Highlights by Mathbrush (13-May-2018).

Interviews

• Jon Ingold, author of "All Roads" - SPAG #27, January 4, 2002.
• Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa, authors of "Till Death Makes a Monk-fish Out Of Me!" - SPAG #31, January 3, 2003.
• Interview with Jon Ingold - By Roberto Grassi (English) (archive), (Italian) (archive) - Terra d'IF Numero 3, June 2004.
• Roundtable: The Interactive Fiction Renaissance - interview by Leigh Alexander, Gamasutra, March 14, 2013.
• I is for Inkle - interview by Stuart Lloyd, Lloyd of Gamebooks, April 10, 2013.
• Interview with Jon Ingold, Co-Founder of Inkle - Villagelearning.org, May 16, 2013.
• Wordplay: Jon Ingold - interview by Joe Köller, Haywire Magazine, October 27, 2013.
• Jon Ingold: «Coming up with a world, and a setting, which people will relate to and like is hard work» - interview by Rubber Eaglenest, indie-o-rama, September 17, 2014.
• From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction. Anna Washenko interviewed Andrew Plotkin, Graham Nelson, Emily Short, Chris Klimas, Jason McIntosh, Jon Ingold, Kevin Wilson, and Liza Daly for Ars Technica. June 20, 2024.