Unofficial ink Cookbook

The Unofficial ink Cookbook began as a collaboration between Dan Cox and Taylor Howard to create an open textbook on GitHub for students and hobbyists alike to learn ink. It was originally shared online in early 2020.

In 2021, Dan Cox worked on the first textbook on ink, Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language (2021), and Taylor Howard finished his dissertation using ink named Critical Modding: A Design Framework for Exploring Representation in Games (2021).

In 2025, work was done to help update the materials for a 2.0 version with interactive examples and notes on advanced patterns.

View Online

Visit the textbook online at: https://videlais.github.io/Unofficial-Ink-Cookbook/

Local Development

This project uses Jekyll with a custom opentextbook-theme.

To run locally:

bundle install
bundle exec jekyll serve

Table of Contents

Version

2.0 (October 2025) - Jekyll Edition

Contributions and Code of Conduct

Be sure to review the Code of Conduct before submitting an issue or pull-request.

This project emphatically supports inclusivity and rejects unacceptable behaviors.

ink, its logo, and other associated branding are copyright inkle studios.

The text and screenshots of the book are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Share and remix this work, but please attribute us.

All code examples are public domain.