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ReSharper
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dialogic
💬 Create Dialogs, Visual Novels, RPGs, and manage Characters with Godot to create your Game!
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ratatui
Discontinued Rust library that's all about cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 [Moved to: https://github.com/ratatui/ratatui] (by ratatui-org)
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YarnSpinner
The core compiler and engine-agnostic components for Yarn Spinner, the friendly dialogue tool.
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ideas
:rocket: Ideas for everyone under a CC licence. Feel free to use. I'll send you a postcard if you build anything on this list. (by captn3m0)
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monocle
Universal personal search engine, powered by a full text search algorithm written in pure Ink, indexing Linus's blogs and private note archives, contacts, tweets, and over a decade of journals. (by thesephist)
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Show HN: An interactive fiction game about PR reviews, AI agents, team dynamics
Hi HN,
My friend Alex Repty and I made this story game about pull requests and collaborative software dev. It's meant to be a little absurd while playing on current trends. The theme was inspired by the TV show Scrubs, and the movies Office Space and Dogma.
You play a frontend developer trying to get a reasonable PR merged from your colleague who owns the codebase. There are seven possible endings, and a playthrough takes about 5–10 minutes. No signup required.
Alex came up with the original story idea and I built the game using a JS port of Ink https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ and a custom React frontend based on a template I'd previously created for another project, then added the UI. Writer/editor Erik Barnes then helped polish the story, and then I added multimedia to round it off.
We used a state variable called "tension" that built up with the choices made. In testing though, we recognized we should probably adjust the total tension calculation in the final scene so players would be judged overall on their later choices than earlier ones.
If you give it a try, I'd love to hear which ending you got. Cheers.
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Autism Simulator
Bummer - this has been the hardest code I've ever had to write test coverage for. I'm using https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ for the story routing with inkjs so I'm not surprised that there are some lingering weird-paths.
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How to program a text adventure in C
Inform is the big one for "GET LAMP"-style parser text adventures although I haven't used it for years.
For choice based text games there is Twine and ink (plus many others).
I personally used ink[0] for a project[1] and it was a joy to use. It comes with an IDE of sorts that makes just sitting down and writing your story easy before you add the bells and whistles.
[0] https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
[1] https://sheep.horse/voyage_of_the_marigold/
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Make Rock, Paper, Scissor game with Ink "Game Engine"
Recently I discovered Ink narrative language by INKLE that you has the Inky editor and it is an alternative to Twine.
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Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction
This preceded https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/ by a few years; that's a system of writing narratives based on choice selections and variable tracking, and embeddable into game engines.
- Ink – Inkle's narrative scripting language
- Meaningful Nonsense: How I generate sentences
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Ink for Game Design
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.
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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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[1] https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
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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.
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