ink VS godot_dialogue_manager

What does this have to do with Inkle's Ink? Well, Ink is a form of engine-agnostic game data creation. At heart, Ink is a narrative scripting language but because it was conceived as middleware, it can be used by many game development stacks. The primary integration is Unity which supports many platforms on its own but Ink scripts can also be run in the browser, Defold, Godot, Unreal and more. You can write Ink once, test it using Inky or Inklecate and deploy it using your desired framework. I can personally attest to running the same Ink script in the browser with ink.js and in the Defold, Godot and Unity game engines.

That's awesome, thanks!

I am aware of Inform 7, I think it is awesome. A few months ago I made a quick demo using Inklescript[1], which I found simpler and more suitable to my project (a Star Trek adventure). Inform 7 remains something I wish to explore in the future when I need something more complex.

Thanks! ;)

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[1] https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

As others have said, Twine is really a great starting point for text or choice-based games. If you'd like to get into the weeds a little more, I'd also shout out Ink, which is incredibly flexible and really fun imo, altho it def requires a bit more coding experience.

On the technology side, you might want to check out Inkle: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/

Start writing in ink or twine.

Otherwise, Inkle is also quite good. (and people have made players for it in Unreal and Unity, so it's not hard to attach to existing game projects.) I don't think it has the nifty visual flowchart though, if that's a piece you care about.

I really like Ink. The developers made tons of games with it like the Sorcery! series, so it has a good foundation, and it's quite easy to write and organize, more than twine in my opinion.

This is the basis for the menu I use in my own game as well as my Dialogue Manager addon.

Dialogue backend powered by Dialogue Manager: https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager

If you are using Unreal, I'd go with https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/not-yet-dialogue-system it's very powerful yet simple. For Godot, I'd use https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager

Nathan Hoad's Dialog Manager is pretty good.

https://github.com/nathanhoad/godot_dialogue_manager https://github.com/coppolaemilio/dialogic

Use something like Dialogic or (personal recommendation) Dialog Manager.

JSON files might not be the best fit for dialogs. Have you considered existing solutions? Godot Dialogue Manager is great and simple to use. You can also check the code to see how it works.

For anyone interested, I'm using myDialogue Manager addon to handle the actual dialogue stuff.

There are two great dialogue systems available for Godot, Godot Dialogue Manager, which is geared more towards writing things in a script, and Dialogic with a nice user interface, that is more artist-friendly (though direct script editing is also available). It also has more features (at least in the new version, which is currently under development for the upcoming Godot 4 and might not be suitable for production).