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Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language

You're reading from   Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language Create dialogue and procedural storytelling systems for Unity projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819329
Length 272 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Section 1: ink Language Basics
2. Chapter 1: Text, Flow, Choices, and Weaves FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Knots, Diverts, and Looping Patterns 4. Chapter 3: Sequences, Cycles, and Shuffling Text 5. Chapter 4: Variables, Lists, and Functions 6. Chapter 5: Tunnels and Threads 7. Section 2: ink Unity API
8. Chapter 6: Adding and Working with the ink-Unity Integration Plugin 9. Chapter 7: Unity API – Making Choices and Story Progression 10. Chapter 8: Story API – Accessing ink Variables and Functions 11. Chapter 9: Story API – Observing and Reacting to Story Events 12. Section 3: Narrative Scripting with ink
13. Chapter 10: Dialogue Systems with ink 14. Chapter 11: Quest Tracking and Branching Narratives 15. Chapter 12: Procedural Storytelling with ink 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Nesting alternatives

Sequences, cycles, and shuffles can all be nested inside each other. When this happens, the combined form is what is known as a nested alternative, where one alternative appears as the element of another.

Combining cycles and shuffles

Within a looping structure, a cycle can be very useful to repeat content after a certain number of loops. When combined with a shuffle, random content can be selected from the shuffle and then repeated within the larger cycle. For example, to generate a new random number for each loop, a cycle with a single element using multiple shuffles would produce this effect using only one line of code:

Her hands were sweating, and her head hurt. She just needed to enter the correct digits into the controls and the vault would open. Once she got in and away with the treasure inside, she could be done with this job and leave this life behind. She had sworn there would only be one more job like this one job ago. This was...
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