What is Ink?

Ink is a scripting language created by game developer Inkle to use in their many narrative driven games, including 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault and Pendragon.

It is designed to make it easy to write a script in regular text files, without the need for complicated tools (although Inkle does provide such tools). Since their games are narrative heavy, with dialogue and paths which change as the player moves through them, it has excellent support for branching the story into different parts. All this while still being very easy to read.

More information about the language can be found on Inkle’s web site. This includes several tutorials for getting familiar with both basic and advanced features of the language.