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ink / inklewriter

Open narrative scripting language from inkle for interactive fiction

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ink is inkle's open-source narrative scripting language for games and interactive stories. Writers use it with the free Inky editor to author branching narratives.

Listed under AI/interactive tools because it is a narrative language, not an LLM.

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