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I recently played around with Ink. [1] I hadn’t heard of Dialog, but it shall be interesting to contrast them. It’s quite elucidating to see how different the constructs of a programming language can be when the constraints are so different. For example, Ink is designed to produce spaghetti code, because a narrative is more spaghetti shaped, so there is no call stack. Another peculiar thing is that by default, a link will only be used once, because in most narratives you don’t want to read the same thing over and over again. 1: https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/Writi...

What's your take on Ink [0]? It seems to be solving the same class of problems as your specific needs for Twine. Would it work better or worse for you? [0] https://github.com/inkle/ink

You can replace the ! with a %21 and the parser will handle it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson%27s_Sorcery%21 Inkle studios did an interesting adaptation for the Sorcery series for mobile. Their games feel a little closer to CYOA than traditional interactive fiction: https://inklestudios.com/sorcery/ They've also open-sourced a markdown format for CYOA games along with a compiler to json and an engine to execute it: https://github.com/inkle/ink