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Playing an ink story from JavaScript with inkjs
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What this guide covers
For developers who want to run ink interactive-narrative scripts in Node or a web page. You end with a short script that loads a compiled story, prints its text and takes one choice. It is based on the inkjs documentation and typings and was not run.
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Playing an ink story from JavaScript with inkjs
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For developers who want to run ink interactive-narrative scripts in Node or a web page. You end with a short script that loads a compiled story, prints its text and takes one choice. It is based on the inkjs documentation and typings and was not run.
Example
Hypothetical and not run: install inkjs, compile a story file to JSON, load it in Node, print the first passage, list the choices and pick one.
Useful starting points
- If Node throws a JSON parse error on the compiled story, the file may start with a byte-order mark that must be removed before parsing.
- A browser cannot load the story file by opening it directly from disk; serve it from a web server.
- If playback differs from your ink editor, compare compiler and runtime versions; the published compatibility table has no row for the newest release.
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