Read and play: Ink Console, an unusual portable gadget for running text-based games, has been announced
The Singular 9 team has announced an unusual device that will interest fans of retro games.
Here's What We Know
Ink Console is a gaming gadget on electronic ink. In fact, it is a hybrid of an e-book and a game console, but the main nuance is that the novelty will run exclusively text games, which in fact began the mass gaming industry and the RPG genre was born.
The device looks like a regular e-book with a 7.5-inch E-Ink screen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels. It has two analogue sticks for control, supports SD cards, has 2-channel stereo output, a 3.5mm audio jack and a built-in mono speaker.
Ink Console will get a 2-core ESP32 processor with 4MB of flash memory, 8MB of PSRAM and 520KB of SRAM. Wi-Fi 4, Bluetooth 4.2 and LE support is provided.
The creator of the gadget plans to develop games for Ink Console, but in addition he will provide open source code and all necessary tools to everyone and enthusiasts will be able to produce their own text adventures.
Important! On the 1st of March a fundraising campaign will start on the crowdfunding platform CrowdSupply and everyone interested will be able to support the project.
You can read more about the idea on the official Ink Console website.
Source: @inkconsole.bsky.social, Ink Console website, CrowdSupply
