Unofficial Ink Cookbook

Interested in using Ink to make narrative games and other interactive projects? You’ve come to the right place!

The Unofficial Ink Cookbook is a collaboration between Dan Cox and Taylor Howard to create a open textbook on GitHub for students and hobbyists alike to learn Ink.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Interactive Fiction and Narrative Games
• Chapter 2: Installing and Using the Inky Editor
• Chapter 3: Common Terms
• Chapter 4: Understanding Choices
• Chapter 5: Managing Project Files
• Chapter 6: Alternatives
• Chapter 7: Gather Points
• Chapter 8: It’s All Variable
• Chapter 9: Knot and Function Parameters
• Chapter 10: Tunnels and Threads
• Chapter 11: LIST-ing to a Side
• Chapter 12: Ink for the Web
• Chapter 13: JavaScript Story API
• Examples

Version

1.0 (May 2020)

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.

Copyright

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.