ink VS xNode

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.

For the former try https://github.com/Siccity/xNode

There's also XNode which is an open-source node-based framework for manufacturing systems in unity which I quite like, but the learning curve is a bit steep. There's no real documentation per se, but there's plenty of tutorials on youtube (incl. mine, plug plug plug) so it is possible to pick up once you've got over the foibles of how it works.

I used https://github.com/Siccity/xNode which has a permissive license. There's also a built in node solution in recent versions of Unity, but it's too volatile for me, so I went with this solution. If you need a dialogue editor for characters and want to use C# scripting that's what this asset is for, if you just need to make a node editor, I would recommend xNode.

For the underlying framework are you using https://github.com/alelievr/NodeGraphProcessor or https://github.com/Siccity/xNode ? (and if not - how why did you choose to roll your own? )

The other day I started looking into this. Discovered xnode for unity https://github.com/Siccity/xNode

Xnode

I’ve just finished implementing something sort of like that, and xNode provides node functionality that I found really useful.

https://github.com/Siccity/xNode check it and its docs