This is McSlinky, Chance Agency's customized version of Inky!
We made this to help us write Neo Cab, and so a lot of our changes from the original Inky may not be beneficial for the game you're making. But take a look around and borrow freely if something seems helpful!
McSlinky is just a small set of extensions on top of Inkle's fantastic Inky editor. Contributors include: @robinsloan, @hoverbird, @amc, @gingeranyhow and @notbrunoagain
You'll probably want to refer to the original Inky README here.
Inky is built using:
- Electron, a framework by GitHub to build cross-platform Desktop app using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Ace, a full-featured code editor built for the web.
- Photon, for some of the components. However, the dependency could probably be removed, since its only used for small portions of the CSS.
Inky includes a copy of inklecate, the command line ink compiler.
Take a look at the issues page for an issue with a "help wanted" label. We try to provide some basic instructions on how to get started with the development of the feature whenever we add the label.
To build the project:
- Install node.js if you don't already have it
- Clone the repo
- On Mac, double-click the
INSTALL_AND_RUN.commandscript. On Windows, open Powershell, cd into the app directory, and typenpm install, thennpm start. - For subsequent runs, if no npm packages have changed, you can run the
RUN.commandscript on Mac, or typenpm startin the shell (on Windows).
Tested on a fresh Ubuntu 16.04 LTS VM installation (equivalent processes should work for other distributions)
- Install build tools
sudo apt-get install -y dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r)
- Pre-requisites
sudo apt install git
sudo apt install curl
- Install node and npm
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
- Install mono as per http://www.mono-project.com/download/stable/#download-lin
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 3FA7E0328081BFF6A14DA29AA6A19B38D3D831EF
echo "deb http://download.mono-project.com/repo/ubuntu stable-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mono-official-stable.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mono-complete
- Clone the inky repo
git clone https://github.com/chanceagency/mcslinky.git
- Test inklecate_win with mono (should output usage info)
mono app/main-process/ink/inklecate_win.exe
- Install and run inky
./INSTALL_AND_RUN.command
- For subsequent runs, if no npm packages have changed, launch inky as below (otherwise re-run previous step):
./RUN.command
McSlinky, like Inky, is released under the MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2016 inkle Ltd.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Inky is named after a black cat based in Cambridge, UK.
Soy Inky was named after soy ink, which is made from soy beans. It's the kind of ink Robin uses with his Risograph.
McSlinky is named, well, for vanity.