Dynamic story scripting with the ink scripting language / Daniel Cox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cox, Daniel.

Contributor:

O'Reilly for Higher Education (Firm), distributor.

Safari Books Online (Firm)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Authorship.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

[Birmingham, UK] : Packt Publishing, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Section 1. ink language basics ; Text, flow, choices and weaves

Knots, diverts, and looping patterns

Sequences, cycles, and shuffling text

Variables, lists, and functions

Tunnels and threads

Section 2. ink unity API ; 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

Section 3. Narrative scripting with ink ; Dialogue systems with ink

Quest tracking and branching narratives

Procedural storytelling with ink

Assessments.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9781801819329

1801819327

OCLC:

1286844944

Publisher Number:

9781801819329