Make Rock, Paper, Scissor game with Ink "Game Engine"

Ioannis Gyftakis — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:55:30 +0000

Recently I discovered Ink narrative language by INKLE that has the Inky editor and it is an alternative to Twine.

You can make interactive text based games easily but you can also insert media like images etc. It could also be useful to teach concepts more interactively, especially on the early steps of programming concepts to beginners.

So here is a simple Rock, Paper, Scissor game that uses basic building blocks of INK language like Choices, Knots, Conditionals, Variables, Lists.

Welcome to Rock, Paper, Scissor game

VAR choice = ""
LIST options = (Rock),(Paper),(Scissor)
VAR result = ""

-> main
=== main ===
Wanna play a round of «Rock, Paper, Scissor»?
    + [Yes]
        -> round
    + [No]
        -> DONE

=== round ===
What do you choose?
 + [Rock]
    ~ choice = "Rock"
 + [Paper]
    ~ choice = "Paper"
 + [Scissor]
    ~ choice = "Scissor"

- You chose {choice} 
~ result = LIST_RANDOM(options)
and I chose {result}.
{
    - choice == "Rock" && result == Scissor:
        You won!
    - choice == "Rock" && result == Paper:
        You lost!
    - choice == "Scissor" && result == Rock:
        You lost!
    - choice == "Scissor" && result == Paper:
        You won!
    - choice == "Paper" && result == Rock:
        You won!
    - choice == "Paper" && result == Scissor:
        You lost!
    - else:
        Draw!
}
-> main

-> END

for more try watching this tutorial which is great.

Br, John

DEV Community: Ioannis Gyftakis

Make Rock, Paper, Scissor game with Ink "Game Engine"