Life and Education
Jon Ingold was educated at Parrs Wood High School and Sixth Form Centre and then studied mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge from 1999 to 2002. After graduation he became a mathematics teacher at Highgate School, London.
From 2007 to 2011 he worked at SCE Cambridge Studio, where he was lead designer on the Move-enabled party game TV Superstars.
He is co-founder of inkle, a creative design and software company specialising in interactive narrative for mobile devices. Their first project, Frankenstein, is being written by gamebook authors Dave Morris and Jamie Thomson, and will be released in conjunction with Profile Books in April, and it will rewrite Mary Shelley's classic novel using interactivity to bring out multiple paths, perspectives and storylines.
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