ink
inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative. (by inkle)
twinejs
Twine, a tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories (by klembot)
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| 0.0 | 8.5 | |
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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ink
Posts with mentions or reviews of ink.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.
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A simple MUD server in Python which can be run on a Raspberry Pi
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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About Text based games,basically
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.
- How to start making video games?
- Text adventure ported to social media
- Free websites for writing branching plot lines?
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Any other devs that have / are making choose your own adventures?
On the technology side, you might want to check out Inkle: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
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How to get into narrative design with no coding/programming experience?
Start writing in ink or twine.
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Narrative Game Design
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.
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Are there any tools for designing the story of a dating sim?
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.
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Help me organize inkJam 2023
Like every year, I'm organizing inkJam: a narrative oriented gamejam around the ink language. You can find last year's edition on itch.io
twinejs
Posts with mentions or reviews of twinejs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-31.
- Show HN: Twine – Gorgeous open source multiplatform RSS app
- Ask HN: Yo wants to build a game, I'm lost. What can I do?
- Ask HN: Software to Develop Interactive Stories?
- Suggestions: A simple human-readable format for suggesting changes to text files
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About Text based games,basically
There's ChoiceScript by Choice Of Games. It's more along the lines of Choose Your Own Adventure. If you're hoping to make something with a fair amount of random events, you might want to check out Twine.
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Harlowe 3.3.7 & Tweego
I'm trying to update tweego with the story format harlowe 3.3.7. I've copied the .json and .icon files for Harlowe 3.3.7 from here : https://github.com/klembot/twinejs/tree/develop/public/story-formats
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cRPG's often have poor writing. Why is that?
Here are 2 interactive story game engines: * https://www.renpy.org/ * https://twinery.org/
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tobyFoxIsWild
You use something like https://twinery.org/ for creating the dialogues, and then write abstract code to handle that.
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I feel like im too dumb to make my own game
The engine here https://twinery.org/
- How to start making video games?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ink and twinejs you can also consider the following projects:
YarnSpinner - Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
RenPy - The Ren'Py Visual Novel Engine
UnrealInk - Integration of the Ink language into Unreal 4 (https://github.com/inkle/ink)
dialogic - 💬 Create Dialogs, Visual Novels, RPGs, and manage Characters with Godot to create your Game!
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
godot-ink - Ink integration for Godot Engine.
gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites
inkgd - Implementation of inkle's Ink in pure GDScript for Godot, with editor support.
PhysicsExamples2D - Examples of various Unity 2D Physics components and features.