Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language

Chapter 7: Unity API – Making Choices and Story Progression

This chapter begins with reviewing how to add a script component to a game object in Unity. By creating a script component associated with a C# file, code can be written to load the compiled JSON files created by the ink-Unity Integration plugin from ink source files as part of the Unity scene. Next, we will examine how to load an ink story and start to progress through it. We will see how to programmatically make selections of options presented by ink and then how to continue story progression as a result. We will end with an example of a common approach of presenting multiple user interface elements to a player in Unity. A user will be able to click buttons in Unity and guide story ...