Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language

Bring your stories to life by combining the narrative scripting language, ink, with a plugin to build dialogue, quest, and procedural storytelling systems for Unity projects
Key Features

Learn how to translate stories into ink code to create interactive projects

Gain valuable insight into the ink story API to create engaging stories using the Unity plugin

Develop drop-in solutions to common narrative problems for Unity projects

Book Description
ink is a narrative scripting language designed for use with game engines such as Unity through a plugin that provides an application programming interface (API) to help you to move between the branches of a story and access the values within it.
Hands-On Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language begins by showing you how ink understands stories and how to write some simple branching projects. You'll then move on to advanced usage with looping structures, discovering how to use variables to set up dynamic events in a story and defining simple rules to create complex narratives for use with larger Unity projects. As you advance, you'll learn how the Unity plugin allows access to a running story through its API and explore the ways in which this can be used to move data in and out of an ink story to adapt to different interactions and forms of user input. You'll also work with three specific use cases of ink with Unity by writing a dialogue system and creating quest structures and other branching narrative patterns. Finally, this will help you to find out how ink can be used to generate procedural storytelling patterns for Unity projects using different forms of data input.
By the end of this book, you will be able to move from a simple story to an intricate Unity project using ink to power complex narrative structures.
What you will learn

Discover how ink understands stories and their parts

Examine ink patterns for making branching narratives

Develop code in Unity using the ink plugin to manipulate stories

Design advanced projects combining ink stories with C# code

Compare common use cases for ink and Unity, such as dialogue systems

Determine how ink can best fit into future narrative projects

Who this book is for
This book is for Unity developers looking for a solution for narrative-driven projects and authors who want to create interactive story projects in Unity. Basic knowledge of Unity game engine development and related concepts is needed to get the most out of this book.
Table of Contents

Text, Flow, Choices, and Weaves

Knots, Diverts, and Looping Patterns

Sequences, Cycles, and Shuffling Text

Variables, Lists, and Functions

Tunnels and Threads

Adding and Working with the ink-Unity Integration Plugin

Unity API – Making Choices and Story Progression

Story API - Accessing ink Variables and Functions

Story API - Observing and Reacting to Story Events

Dialogue Systems with ink

Quest Tracking and Branching Narratives

Procedural Storytelling with ink