Chapter 12 – Procedural Storytelling with ink

1. Procedural storytelling occurs when the story of a project is generated by procedures, or rules, that dynamically plan or shape content for a player.
2. A random table is a set of entries where individual values are chosen at random. Originally created as tables where rows were chosen using dice, the same concept can be used in ink with shuffles.
3. Randomness can be weighted toward certain probabilities. In ink, the RANDOM() function can be used to decide the probability of entries instead of the default equal amounts when using the shuffle functionality.
4. A grammar is a set of rules for a language. A substitution grammar decides the substitution of words or phrases according to a set of rules. Often, substitution grammars are used with random entries or according to conditional rules.
5. Story planning is the ordering of story content based on rules. Story planning is based on using a substitution grammar for deciding...