inkle / the-intercept

A small demo game by inkle written in ink, and built with Unity

The Intercept

Bletchley Park, 1942. A component from the Bombe machine, used to decode intercepted German messages, has gone missing. One of the cryptographers is waiting to be interviewed, under direst suspicion. Is he stupid enough to have attempted treason? Or is he clever enough to get away?

The Intercept is a small demo game written in ink and Unity that we built to demonstrate how to author a simple project. See how we like to structure our own ink files, and how easy it is to use the Unity plugin within a real game. We built The Intercept in a couple days for a game jam!

Download the game for Mac and Windows on our website

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Read the The Intercept script

The Intercept and ink are released under the MIT license. Although we don't require attribution, we'd love to know if you decide to use ink a project! Let us know on Twitter or by email.

Newtonsoft's Json.NET is included, and also has the MIT License.

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 inkle Ltd.

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the-intercept's Issues

HTML source is visible until typed text is well-formed

Nice game!

I think I noticed a bug when the game was displaying the following passage:

I sit back, startled by the force of his outburst. His carefully sculpted
expression has curled to angry disgust. <i>He really does hate
me</i>, I think. <i>He'll have my blood for the taste of it.</i>

While the typewriter is typing out these words, when it's in the middle of "He really does hate me", the <i> is visible and the text is not in italics, e.g. it displays like so:

I sit back, startled by the force of his outburst. His carefully sculpted
expression has curled to angry disgust. <i>He really does hate

Once the typewriter has finished the phrase, though, the markup disappears and the phrase turns into italics as intended, e.g.:

I sit back, startled by the force of his outburst. His carefully sculpted
expression has curled to angry disgust. He really does hate me, I think.

Related: Scrolling Text with Richtext Tags on Unity Answers. No viable solutions posted, though.

Porting to newer Unity

How difficult would it be to port this game to a recent version of Unity, say, 2019.1 or later? For the modified accessible version of this game that I demoed at my NarraScope talk, we kept using Unity 5.3.4f1. But we'd like to focus our work on newer versions of Unity, while still being able to demo with a real (if minimal) game, i.e. not something that my colleague or I put together just for the sake of demoing accessibility.

Add a basic "getting started" guide

Hello again!

I'm a newcomer to Unity, and I found it a little bit confusing to get The Intercept up-and-running in the Unity editor. At first I was worried that I might have imported the wrong folder, or that I was using the wrong version of Unity, or that something else had gone amiss. I did eventually figure things out, though!

Anyhow, I'm not sure how many people who are interested in Ink but unfamiliar with Unity will be looking at this project, but if you think it'd be helpful, I could try writing a very basic "getting started" guide--either as a markdown file in this repository or perhaps a wiki page.

The stitch "harrumphs" in the knot "claim_hooper_took_component" is broken

This stitch is diverted into from a few places and most of those do not work as intended. In the Inky editor it throws a runtime error, but in the actual app it just ends. I believe this is because the comparison { putmein } is used for both [Wait] choices.

One of those should be { not putmein }

Please comment the code?

I would like to thank the developers for sharing ink, the integration toolkit, and this fantastic example.

The Intercept is a very tantalizing example project, but it's very confusing for newbies such as myself to learn from because there's a lot of parts to it! Any chance for a commented version? Or a written tutorial that can talk us through the logic?

Alternatively, a more basic wrapper would be very welcome, without animations, shaders, and such
-- just clean text display with panels and nicely arranged buttons, and a place to display illustrations would be a nice start.

Typo "nothing to be" should be "nothing to me"

the-intercept/Assets/Ink/TheIntercept.ink

Line 529 in 2a816b5

* (nope) { not drugged } [No] "The boy was a pretty simpleton. Quite inferior. His good opinion meant nothing to be. Harris, do not misunderstand. I was simply after his body."

The choices are not working properly

Hi, guys
The choice is not clickable, so the story cannot continue.
:d

too old format?

hi!

updating the Ink engine inside this project with latest from ink-unity-integration we get a nice:

Exception: Version of ink used to build story is too old to be loaded by this verison of the engine
Ink.Runtime.Story..ctor (System.String jsonString) (at Assets/Plugins/Ink/InkRuntime/Story.cs:124)

is there any hint/guide about upgrading?

The Intercept is not compatible with macOS Catalina

I downloaded The Intercept but when I try to install it I get an error message stating that "The developer of this app needs to update it to work with this version of macOS. Contact the developer for more information." Please update the app. Thanks!