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When comparing ink vs Twine, the Slant community recommends Twine for most people. In the question“What are the best game engines for point & click adventure games?” Twine is ranked 4th while ink is ranked 32nd. The most important reason people chose Twine is:
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
Specs
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2DYes
3DNo
Behavior triggerUser selection
Distributed targetsHTML
LanguagesJavaScript
LicenseGPL v3
Logic modelState transition
PlatformsWindows, Linux, Mac, Web
Traditional codeJavaScript
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Pros
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Pro Easy to understand
The basics are very easy to grasp, and you can have a basic story up in minutes.
Pro Free for commercial projects
Twine is based on a GPL licence. You are free to download, modify and publish derivatives - even commercially.
Cons
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Con Limited to interactive fiction
Twine is specialized to decision-based interactive fiction. Under the hood, a Twine game is just a flowchart for page transitions; the only way to add more complex behavior is to code it from scratch in JavaScript.