ink (game writing tool)

Created: May 23, 2021Published: Nov 01, 2022Last modified: Apr 24, 2023
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A choice-based writing tool and filetype. Intended to support writing game

dialog, but scales up to completely supporting text-based narrative games, (and

more, depending on the integrations.)

Originally developed by inkle.

There are some great talks showing it off at gdc conferences, etc.

add links to inkle, talks on ink, create list of games that use ink, ink resources, etc

resources

these are crazy! need a full report.


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A game jam for working with ink.

Seems to be somewhat regular, but there's one in August sometime that I'm targetting.

I tend to think more mechanics-driven or systems-driven, or instead tools driven

(like let's make it ink-based! now i can work on ink-things!)

Content-driven is a push back towards writing, towards stories, towards characters.

Let go of the overengineering! Cut corners and write stories again!

One of my favorite game moments is discovering new villages.

I feel compelled to create some virtual spaces that we can hang out in.

I want to fill them with characters you can chat with, maybe powered by some inky dialogue files.

A game jam for making something with ink.

Pretty raw for now.

Game Dev/Design Education

A Godot monorepo full of games, addons, and scripts.

Starting early today (12:01am)

working through clawe.org, pulling in some content, writing some new ideas

garden tending