Ink – Scripting language for interactive stories
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
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HN comment orderJon Ingold (inkle's narrative director) has a great talk on game dialogue [1] -- he implements a scene from Blade Runner in Ink. Super insightful and entertaining. I've been using Ink a lot lately and really appreciate the work the community has put into it! Our team released a suite of interactive songs [2] last year -- we used Ink (and its handy Unity integration) to implement the core mechanic of two-player lyric choices in real-time, and even used it…
Also great for scripting chat bots! Used to as part of Air New Zealand's chatbot Oscar. 390 topics, multiple regions, 60K words of content so it helps keep us sane :)
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 267
- Total comments
- 37
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-09 | Ink – inkle's narrative scripting language | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2018-04-25 | Ink – inkle's narrative scripting languageFirst breakout | Tomte | 103 | 22 |
| 2021-01-24 | Ink – inkle's narrative scripting language | Tomte | 2 | 0 |
| 2021-02-15 | Ink – Scripting language for interactive storiesBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | josefslerka | 147 | 15 |
| 2022-12-21 | Ink – inkle's narrative scripting language | Tomte | 11 | 0 |
| 2024-08-22 | Ink – Inkle's narrative scripting language | brentjanderson | 2 | 0 |