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New article - on eenk, and moreover, eenky, an inky variant more people should know about. cc @tomgranger.bsky.social

medium.comEenky — an inky variantLast month, I wrote a new short interactive story, PSYPHON, for a somewhat niche audience — owners of the Xteink e-ink device willing to…

1/10/26, 11:03 am9 reposts32 likes

Janet Gilbert

@janetgilbert.bsky.social

I made an ink autoplayer to test Nighthawks but ultimately that game was too complex for testing that way.

inkle

@inkle.co

We’ve had them for most of our games since Heaven’s Vault and it’s true, for big games it gets unwieldy. But the beauty of being built into the IDE is you can use it for subsections - to test a scene, a short sequence - in an adhoc way

Janet Gilbert

@janetgilbert.bsky.social

How do you limit it to one scene rather than spiraling randomly through the script?

inkle

@inkle.co

Usually we define a const and then add a “if this const end” into the script where we want to stop. you don’t check it in, but even if you do, you can turn them all off reliably

Tom Granger

@tomgranger.bsky.social

Making eenky appealing to ink writers was a key part of my secret plot to get people to try eenk. I am very proud that it worked on at least one author I know.