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Narrative scripting language for interactive fiction games

Game Servers ★ 4.9k stars Medium setup MIT

ink is the open-source narrative scripting language created by Inkle for writing interactive stories and branching dialogue. It includes a runtime that can be embedded into games and tools for testing story content.

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Key features

  • Branching narrative language
  • Embeddable runtime
  • Inky editor tooling
  • Used in shipped games

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Active community (4.9k GitHub stars)
  • Written in C#
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

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