Learning Ink

• Part 1: Installing Inky and Common Terms
• Part 2: Choices and Knots
• Part 3: Sticky and Advanced Choices
• Part 4: Includes and Stitches
• Part 5: Alternatives, Sequences, Cycles, and Shuffles
• Part 6: Gather Points and Labelled Options
• Part 7: Global, Temporary, and Constant Variables
• Part 8: Knot Parameters and Functions
• Part 9: Tunnels and Threads
• Part 10: Lists

Ink is a scripting language for creating interactive fiction like choose-you-own-adventures and other vast, branching stories.

Alternatives

In Ink, Alternatives are text within curly brackets, {}. They have already been introduced as part of determining if a knot (or stitch) has been visited. When used with text strings, they can be used to introduce “alternative” text.

Sequences

By default, the values within the curly brackets will move in sequence from one to another until it reaches the end. It will then stop at the last value and repeat it.

Cycles

To have the text strings repeat, create a “cycle” of values using the “&” symbol within the curly brackets.

Using cycles, values can be repeat within loops.

Shuffles

Within alternatives, entries can also be selected at random. This is called a shuffle. It uses the tilde, ~.

For each run of the shuffle, a new value will be chosen.

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