Hey all!
Ink, the open-source choice-game authoring script used for 80 Days, is now available open source - and it now has an IDE, Inky, for Windows / Mac, with syntax and error highlighting, and an Inform 7-style play/replay window, and a few nifty shortcuts (ctrl+click on a word in the play window and it’ll take you to that line of the source code, for instance; great for fixing typos!)
Inky also has an “export for web” option, which saves off a mini-site you can publish. The default is very lightly styled, but it’s structured to be easily hackable - both in terms of the styling of the game, and the actual game system itself.
Here’s an example of the default skin running out demo story, The Intercept. (inklestudios.com/misc/The_Intercept_Inky/)
Speaking personally, the IDE has slightly transformed my ability to write in ink, and I’ve been using the language for four years or so.
The repo is here (github.com/inkle/inky/releases).
cheers!
jon