Inklewriter

Inklewriter is a free tool by inkle, designed to allow anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It’s perfect for writers who want to try out interactivity, but also for teachers and students looking to mix computer skills and creative writing.

The inklewriter lets you write as you play, branching the story with choices, and then linking those stories back together again. It keeps track of which paths you’ve finished, and which still need to be written.

There’s no set-up, no programming, no drawing diagrams – so there’s nothing between you and the empty page. Oh, and it’s free to use. And once written, you can share your stories with whomever you like using its own unique web-page.

Main Page: https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/ Tool Page: https://www.inklewriter.com/

Features • add images, logic, hyperlinks, • contents panel • branching paths • online publishing • separate write & read mode • registration optional

What's the difference between inklewriter and ink? • inklewriter is an easy-to-use online tool to write basic interactive stories. • ink by comparison is a more powerful narrative scripting language that is primarily designed for professional game development, though it can also be used to write and share choice-based interactive fiction. It is also surprisingly easy to learn, though for ease of use it's hard to beat inklewriter!

Ink, Inky, inkle, inklewriter • Ink is the core narrative engine itself, written in C#. It includes the code for the compiler. If you're not technical, you don't need to worry about this. • Inky is our ink editor, which is a text editor with support for playing as you write. If you're just starting out with ink, this is all you need. • inkle is the game development studio that created ink • inklewriter is an unrelated interactive story creation tool that designed to be easy to use, but is far less powerful. It's possible to export inklewriter stories to ink, but not vice versa.

For game developers inklewriter is a strong tool for roughing out and testing interactive content. inklewriter is already being used by several projects, including Stoic Studio’s The Banner Saga. You can export story data in an easy-to-parse JSON format for use directly in a game. For those with Unity projects, however, we recommend ink, our fully open-sourced scripting language, which comes with a C# runtime and full documentation.

Convert inklewriter stories to ink • If you'd like to convert your inklewriter story into an ink, you can use our online tool: https://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/to-ink/ • source: https://github.com/inkle/inklewriter-to-ink