I’m working on a small project that requires branching dialogue. I’m somewhat familiar with Ink and Inky so I was very happy there was an extension for it available. I tried Narrator, but it just didn’t click and Defold-Ink seemed like it might be easier to work with.
So far, I have managed to make it display the ink story and options on a gui (shown in the image)
but I can’t seem to wrap my head around how to make it select and display the options a player chooses. The template project that is available is massive (for me); a few hundred lines of code that also showcase widgets and other features. It’s a bit overwhelming!
Does anyone have any experience, or can give me some insight on how to change the story after a choice is made? This is the code I used to get to this point:
local ink = require "ink.story"
local shrink_node = vmath.vector3(0.9)
local normal_node = vmath.vector3(1)
function init(self)
msg.post(".", "acquire_input_focus")
self.choice_set= false
-- Parse a story from the JSON file. Make sure it's UTF8!
local res = sys.load_resource("/assets/new_test.json")
local story = ink.create(res)
-- Begin the story
local paragraphs, answers = story.continue()
-- Output text to the player
for _, p in ipairs (paragraphs) do
local node = gui.get_node("title")
gui.set_text(node, p.text)
pprint(p.text)
end
if #answers > 0 then
for i, a in ipairs (answers) do
pprint("[" .. i .. "] " .. a.text)
local current_option_node = gui.get_node("option" .. i)
gui.set_text(current_option_node, a.text)
-- gui.set_text(gui.get_node("option2"), i .. a.text)
end
end
-- Send answer #1 to the story to generate new paragraphs
paragraphs, answers = story.continue(1)
end
function on_input(self, action_id, action)
for i = 1, 3 do
local current_option_node = gui.get_node("option" .. i)
if gui.pick_node(current_option_node, action.x, action.y) then
if action.pressed then
gui.set_scale(current_option_node, shrink_node)
elseif action.released then
gui.set_scale(current_option_node, normal_node)
end
end
end
end