ink is inkle studios' open-source scripting language for choice-driven narrative — the language behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, and Sorcery!. wilds.ai runs it natively: the same classic-recreations engine that plays Z-machine and Scott Adams adventures executes compiled .ink.jsonstories through inkjs — hosted in-app, with cross-device save. The optional AI layer hooks straight into ink's own inline tags, so a story author lights up wilds enhancements without leaving ink.
ink is inkle studios' open-source language for choice-driven narrative — the engine behind 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, and Sorcery!. On wilds.ai it runs natively, hosted in-app, no download, with an optional AI layer that hooks straight into your own ink tags.
Upload a compiled .ink.json — or paste raw ink and we compile it in-browser with inkjs. Knots, stitches, diverts, and variables run exactly as written.
Tag scenes, audio, and characters in your own ink. wilds generates scene art, ambient sound, and per-character voices from those tags. Skip it entirely for a pure-text run.
Get a shareable page that plays in the browser with cross-device save and a clean choice-first reader. Your source stays yours — export your file anytime.
=== foyer ===
You stand in a spacious foyer, splendidly
decorated in red and gold. # scene: opera house foyer
A cloak of black velvet hangs heavy on your shoulders.
+ [Go west, into the cloakroom] -> cloakroom
+ [Go south, into the bar] -> bar
=== cloakroom ===
"You'll want somewhere to leave that." # CHAR: Attendant
-> ENDThe choices and prose play exactly as written. The inline tags are the only thing the AI layer reads:
# scene: paints generated scene art for the passage.# audio: drives the ambient + music overlay.# CHAR: binds a per-character AI voice to the line.Turn the whole layer off for a pure-text run. The canonical story never changes.
Compiled .ink.json plays directly in the wilds engine via inkjs — the same runtime that plays the Z-machine and Scott Adams classics. No plugins, no conversion, no rewrite. Knots, stitches, diverts, and variables run as authored.
Bring your ink story into wilds and we host it: a shareable page, no download, cross-device save, and a clean choice-first reader. Your story stays yours — keep your source, export your file anytime.
ink's inline tags do the wiring. # scene: lights up generated scene art, # audio: drives the ambient + music overlay, and # CHAR: binds a per-character AI voice. Every enhancement is optional and reads straight from the story you already wrote.
Opt in to an AI character that reads along and reacts in the sidebar, plus full voice narration in a voice you pick. The canonical story text always plays unchanged underneath.
Work your ink in the interactive-fiction studio: a graph map of knots and choices, a live playtest, and a variable inspector — so you can see the whole branch structure at a glance.
ink and Twine are sub-engines of the same Stories family on wilds, sharing the runtime, the reader, and the AI-enhancement layer. Author in the tool you love; play it here.
| Feature | wilds.ai | inkjs, self-hosted | itch.io | Twinery export |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plays in the browser, no download | Yes | If you build + deploy it | Yes | Yes |
| Zero-setup hosting + shareable page | Yes | You host it yourself | Yes | Export, host elsewhere |
| Cross-device save | Yes | No | No | No |
| Optional AI layer (art / audio / voices) | Yes, from your tags | No | No | No |
| Keep + export your source file | Yes | Yes (it is your file) | Yes | Yes |
Prefer passages and links? wilds.ai also supports Twine → · Browse all stories →
