Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language: Create dialogue and procedural storytelling systems for Unity projects

Daniel Cox

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eBook Nov 2021 272 pages 1st Edition

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Daniel Cox

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eBook Nov 2021 272 pages 1st Edition

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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

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.

Who is this book 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.

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

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Publication date : Nov 12, 2021

Length: 272 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781801818476

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Unity Technologies

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Game Development

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Game Scripting

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Unity

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Nancy Vendrell Nov 17, 2021

I really loved everything about this book. I was surprised by a colleague who asked me to look into it. It gave me a fresh outlook on understanding branching narratives as a flow, creating choices, and making weaves with ease. I tend to be a very visual person and this pieced things together nicely so I could see it as a whole. Really appreciate what I learned and recommend any developer to look into this to broaden their unity prowess!

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Joseph Dec 08, 2021

The author walks the reader through every aspect of the Ink scripting language from principles to variables and commands, all the while giving cohesive practical examples of how to utilize the language. The book includes code examples, however, I wish there were more visual illustrations and perhaps some color coding to highlight the differences between command types. More Unity-specific examples would help tie some of the more esoteric use-cases together but the book delivers a thorough understanding of Ink, and narrative scripting, to the reader.

C Beck Mar 08, 2022

I have been interested in Ink as a narrative scripting language for quite a while, but as a relative newcomer to Unity I couldn't ever quite get my head around how to make the two things talk to each other. So I was very happy to come across this book which explains both the fine details of Ink and its integration with Unity very thoroughly. If you are looking to use Ink for narrative in your Unity project, this is a must buy.

Christopher West Nov 12, 2021

The author really presents how to use the ink scripting language in an easy to understand manner. This book is super to up my native game in my Unity projects! I highly recommend it!Having built a few "choose your own path" style games during my learning in Unity, the idea of having a markup language that could be reused from project to project and shared with other members of my potential teams for better narrative scripting was really enticing and I'm glad that I've gotten a chance to learn about the ink Scripting Language. I'm looking forward to using it in some future projects!The first section of this book covers using the ink Scripting language in general, covering things like Flow, Knots, looping, and making dynamic story cycles. The second section deals with integrating ink into Unity via the ink-Unity plugin and allowing Unity to interact with ink properties and functions. The third section covers deeper topics on narrative scripting like Dialog systems, Quest systems and tracking, and procedural story telling.I definitely recommend this book for Unity developers that want to create deep and comprehensive story driven games or really games with any kind of integrated dialog and story systems.

Thomas Nov 12, 2021

This well written and thought out book is a great starting point for learning and understand the story scripting tool the is ink.The book will definitely be open when I start work on my next Narrative Story in Unity.

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