Inkling

Limited implementation of the Ink markup/scripting language for game dialog.

Ink is a creation of Inkle. For more information about the language, see their website.

Features

Currently and likely for the foreseeable future the feature set is very limited compared to Inkle's own implementation. Available features are:

• Knots, glue and diverts, ie. basic story structure
• Choices, of sticky and non-sticky kinds
• Nesting choices
• Simple conditionals for which choices are presented, but only for checking against how many times knots have been visited
• Tagging of lines and choices

Likely candidates for further development:

• Fallback choices
• Stitches
• Line text variations: sequences, cycles, variables, conditionals
• Includes of other files
• De/serialization of finished stories through serde

Difficult features for which I doubt my skill level to implement:

• Advanced flow control: tunnels and threads
• Verifying that all story branches are complete
• Mathematics and heavy logic

Usage

See the documentation or the provided example for a minimum viable story processor.

Contributions

Writing this has mostly been for fun and to create a simple game, hence the lack of features. Contributions are welcome!