Tom Kail
Unity Developer at BetterUp
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTom Kail is a Unity developer with 10+ years of experience crafting award-winning narrative games and experimental interactive experiences, currently building new modalities for human transformation at BetterUp Studios. Previously a senior developer/designer at Inkle, he contributed to multiaward-winning titles including the Apple Design Award winner and BAFTA-nominated Overboard!, and has deep hands-on experience extending the Ink narrative runtime. Equally at home prototyping weird indie ideas and shipping polished commercial products, Tom combines gameplay design, narrative scripting and core engine-level work. Based in Cambridge, he also freelances, speaks and runs workshops on game design and Ink, and quietly maintains open-source contributions that fix edge-case bugs and improve runtime functionality.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bournemouth University
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Github contributions (5)
inkle/ink
Oct 2015 - Jan 2023
inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributed to the ink-engine-runtime component of the project, focusing on core functionality. Their work included adding and modifying functions within the Story.cs file, such as `FunctionExists` and `EvaluateFunction`. They also introduced an event for when a state is loaded (`onDidLoadState`) and implemented list helper functions, demonstrating an understanding of the project's core logic and data structures. Additionally, they addressed bugs by adding missing semicolons and fixed issues related to bool type arguments.
scriptinginklescripting-languagedialogue-systemscompiler
inkle/the-intercept
Apr 2016 - May 2016
A small demo game by inkle written in ink, and built with Unity
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 month
inkleinkunitydemo-game
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