| Session Name: | Ink: The Narrative Scripting Language Behind '80 Days' and 'Sorcery!' |
| Speaker(s): | Joseph Humfrey |
| Company Name(s): | inkle, Ltd. |
| Track / Format: | Design |
| Overview: |
All Inkle's games have been authored using an in-house text-based scripting language designed for rapidly authoring branching text-based content in a writer-friendly environment. This talk will outline how the language works, and how it can be used to drive a game's content, facilitate branching, and even allows complexity that approaches procedural narrative in some scenes. Additonally, Joseph Humfrey will detail the problems and how they led to the development of a new iteration of the language with an eye to bringing the benefits of high-branching narrative to other non-text-based games. "Ink2", Inkles second version language, is now ready and will be going open-source alongside a Unity runtime API. |
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