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Jon Ingold: Works, Interactive fiction & Biography

Jon Ingold (born 1981) is a British author of interactive fiction and co-founder of inkle, where he co-directed and co-wrote 80 Days, and wrote Heaven's Vault and Overboard!. His interactive fiction has frequently been nominated for XYZZY Awards and has won on multiple occasions, including Best Game, Best Story and Best Setting awards for All Roads in…

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Jon Ingold topic overview

The analysis highlights Works, Interactive fiction and Biography as prominent areas in the source structure around Jon Ingold.

Related topics: 41
Source areas: 3
Connected nodes: 52
Extracted relationships: 18
Concept neighborhoods: 20
Bridge connections: 52

What this topic covers Research coverage

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Interactive fiction · 23 topics

Biography · 10 topics

Overview · 8 topics

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Key facts & relationships

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Occupation: Writer
Born: 1981 (age 44–45) England
Notable works: Overboard!, Over the Alps, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days

Suggested research paths

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Interactive fiction

Game Deadline Destructoid Electronic Literature Organization Emily Short

Biography

Gamasutra IGF Infocom Inform Inkle

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Overview

Interactive fiction
Inkle Inkle (video game company)
80 Days 80 Days (2014 video game)
Heaven's Vault
XYZZY Awards
All Roads All Roads (game)
Player Player (game)
Player character

Biography

Interactive fiction

Saving progress Saved game
Jay Is Games
Renaissance Italy Italian Renaissance
Interactive Fiction Competition
XYZZY Awards XYZZY Award
Electronic Literature Organization
H. P. Lovecraft
Maison d'Ailleurs
Yverdon-les-Bains
Switzerland
Emily Short
Destructoid
Deadline Deadline (1982 video game)
Non-player characters Non-player character
Steampunk
GameSetWatch
Worldbuilding
Game Computer game
Best Game XYZZY Award for Best Game
Best Setting XYZZY Award for Best Setting
Best Story XYZZY Award for Best Story
Best Individual Puzzle XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle
Best Writing XYZZY Award for Best Writing

Bibliography

Advanced semantic analysis

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How Jon Ingold connects Entity context

The extracted context around Jon Ingold shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Jon Ingold → All Roads, Best Game, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Setting, Best Story, Best Writing, Interactive Fiction Competition, It, The, XYZZY Awards Another extracted example is Jon Ingold → 1981 (age 44–45) England. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Jon Ingold

Top relations

related to All Roads · 10

Jon Ingold → All Roads, Best Game, Best Individual Puzzle, Best Setting, Best Story, Best Writing, Interactive Fiction Competition, It, The, XYZZY Awards

Born · 1

Jon Ingold → 1981 (age 44–45) England

Notable works · 1

Jon Ingold → Overboard!, Over the Alps, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days

Occupation · 1

Jon Ingold → Writer

Website · 1

Jon Ingold → www.inklestudios.com

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Important terminology

game best interactive fiction awards xyzzy story ingold z-code writer writing narrative nominated 2001 roads player director winner also puzzle

Jon Ingold relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 18 structured relationships around Jon Ingold. Examples in this analysis include Jon Ingold → Born → 1981 (age 44–45) England and Jon Ingold → Notable works → Overboard!, Over the Alps, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
Jon Ingold	Born	1981 (age 44–45) England	1.00	infobox
Jon Ingold	Notable works	Overboard!, Over the Alps, Heaven's Vault, 80 Days	1.00	infobox
Jon Ingold	Occupation	Writer	1.00	infobox
Jon Ingold	Website	www.inklestudios.com	1.00	infobox
saving progress are disabled	instance of	Out-of-story actions	0.80	text
little text is displayed to the player apart from the survivor's dialogue	instance of	Out-of-story actions	0.80	text
features which Jay Is Games reviewer John Bardinelli praised as contributing to the game's immersiveness.In All Roads	instance of	Out-of-story actions	0.80	text
Deadline	instance of	Reviewers considered that this premise was inspired by Infocom's mysteries	0.80	text
Jon Ingold	related to All Roads	All Roads	0.60	section
Jon Ingold	related to All Roads	Interactive Fiction Competition	0.60	section
Jon Ingold	related to All Roads	It	0.60	section
Jon Ingold	related to All Roads	XYZZY Awards	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Jon Ingold bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Vault, Fiction and Interactive. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

interactive fiction
- Interactive
- Ingold
- Inkle
- Vault
- Roads
- Game
- Days
- Overboard
- First
- Heaven's
- Including
- Won
interactive fiction competition
- Interactive
- Ingold
- Inkle
- Vault
- Roads
- Game
- Days
- Overboard
- First
- Heaven's
- Including
- Won
game
- Xyzzy
- Puzzle
- Story
- Nominated
- Setting
- Director
- Individual
- Writer
- Including
- Interactive
- Also
- Finalist
best game
- Xyzzy
- Story
- Writing
- Finalist
- Individual
- Game
- Nominated
- Puzzle
- Winner
- Award
- Setting
- Also
best story
- Xyzzy
- Setting
- Story
- Also
- Finalist
- Individual
- Puzzle
- Writing
- Game
- Nominated
- Winner
- Award
xyzzy awards
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- Best
- Finalist
- Individual
- Story
- Nominated
- Setting
- Also
- Puzzle
- Game
- Including
- Writing
best setting
- Xyzzy
- Also
- Story
- Writing
- Finalist
- Individual
- Game
- Puzzle
- Nominated
- Winner
- Won
- Award
best individual puzzle
- Finalist
- Xyzzy
- Individual
- Puzzle
- Story
- Writing
- Game
- Setting
- Nominated
- Winner
- Award
- Also

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Jon Ingold, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Jon Ingold with Interactive fiction. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

Jon Ingold — Interactive fiction · splits 29 ⟂ 24

Jon Ingold — Biography · splits 42 ⟂ 11

Jon Ingold — Overview · splits 44 ⟂ 9

Jon Ingold — Bibliography · splits 45 ⟂ 8

Map overview Semantic statistics

Jon Ingold

Nodes53

Edges52

Triples18

Avg. degree1.96

Density0.037736

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Jon Ingold to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Works, Interactive fiction & Biography, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Jon Ingold · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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