godot-ink VS inkgd

There's an Ink integration for Godot that works fairly well: https://github.com/paulloz/godot-ink

Haven't used it but this ink plugin exists if you're looking to stay within what you know.

It can be found on a dedicated branch on GitHub. Feel free to try it, break it and reach out to me.

Did you use ink (via godot-ink or similar) to author the visual novel? Or some other interactive fiction tool? Or something entirely custom?

Godot Ink

There's also a plugin for ink https://github.com/paulloz/godot-ink.

You could have a look at ink integration in Godot. Here is a repository for example: https://github.com/paulloz/godot-ink

I would say something like Inkle's Ink could do this easily, though it can be overwhelming to look at from the start. There are a couple of Godot integrations with Ink, both a C# one here and a pure GDScript one (though they warn it might be slow on large games). InkGD has a couple examples that use simpler Ink stories, so you might just look through that for the examples to start.

This series of videos is a step-by-step tutorial showing how to create a visual-novel-like games using Godot and Ink. This project uses the inkgd plug-in developed by Frédéric Maquin: https://github.com/ephread/inkgd Visual assets are made by puppetbomb: https://puppetbomb.itch.io/college-students-sprite-pack

There are other tools like that, if you're interested. Inkle (maker of 80 Days and Overboard) make another text based language called Ink, and there's an online hosting tool for making stories with it. Godot can even integrate with Ink-written stories, but it requires a bit of programming knowledge to get it to hang together

I would say something like Inkle's Ink could do this easily, though it can be overwhelming to look at from the start. There are a couple of Godot integrations with Ink, both a C# one here and a pure GDScript one (though they warn it might be slow on large games). InkGD has a couple examples that use simpler Ink stories, so you might just look through that for the examples to start.

https://github.com/ephread/inkgd -- Implementation of inkle's Ink in pure GDScript, with editor support. (ink scripts are used in our dialogue system)

Hey, looks great! I wonder what did you use for dialogue system. Do you have any recommendations? There are many repositories for this for Godot (some just UI, some using graphs, but most are abandoned), but it's hard for me to decide. All I know is I don't want to build yet another system from scratch, just plug it into my UI. From what I have researched Ink with Inkgd (https://github.com/ephread/inkgd) seems the most maintained and robust solution. Any opinions on that?