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inkle's open source scripting language for writing interactive narrative.

17 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 3 stories, 14 comments · first 2016-06-14 · latest 2026-06-17

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  1. I wonder how it compares to https://github.com/inkle/ink of Sorcery! and 80 days fame?
  2. …share more in future. :) ---- footnotes ---- [0] https://github.com/YarnSpinnerTool/YarnSpinner [1] https://github.com/inkle/ink [2] I wanted to generate "scripted dialogue" samples[2a] to demonstrate the 900+ individual Text-To-Speech…
  3. …flow, there's a modern language that has it in the form of features called diverts and tunnels: https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi... It's dedicated for writing narrative games.
  4. Really interesting language with very rich semantics https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi... and flexibility of control flow I haven't seen since Atari BASIC.
  5. …to RTFM if you want to know more about how these concepts work rather than a random HN comment :) https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi...
  6. Blender, Ink (because it's hard to google: https://github.com/inkle/ink ), Libregraphicsworld
  7. There are a few DSLs for this purpose, like Ink [1]. [1]: https://github.com/inkle/ink
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    Writing with ink
    story by tobr · 2020-03-02 · 0 comments
  9. …used once, because in most narratives you don’t want to read the same thing over and over again. 1: https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi...
  10. …same class of problems as your specific needs for Twine. Would it work better or worse for you? [0] https://github.com/inkle/ink
  11. …a markdown format for CYOA games along with a compiler to json and an engine to execute it: https://github.com/inkle/ink
  12. tl,dr; A domain specific language for a Dungeon text-like game, see an overview of the language at https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi...
  13. …now. We use Inkles Ink to script the conversation flows and maintain state. Works very very well. https://github.com/inkle/ink
  14. …my friends at Inkle) for this kind of thing, but it's good to see other solutions to this problem. https://github.com/inkle/ink
  15. The example reminds me a bit of inkle's ink interactive fiction scripting language: https://github.com/inkle/ink
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    Ink – interactive narrative scripting language
    story by talles · 2016-06-28 · 0 comments
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    The Ink Programming Language for Interactive Narrative
    story by radagaisus · 2016-06-14 · 0 comments