Guide

How to play, and how to build your own characters and scenarios. If you just want to play, start with How to play; if you want to build something, start with How to create. You can also jump straight to what you need from the list below.

How to play

Using the chat screen, and writing that draws out the reactions you want

Play from Explore

Start by playing a scenario someone else has published

Playing a chat

The screen, OOC, perspective switch, and free talk

Playing stories

Long-form play with chapters and a full cast

How Ink works

What Ink is spent on, your balance, and buying more

Set up your persona

How you are addressed changes the reply

Play with dice

Let the roll decide what happens next

How to create

A guide to building your own characters and scenarios

A worked example

One finished scenario end to end. Get the whole picture first

Creating a character

Deciding the core of who you talk to

Creating a scenario

When, where, and in what relationship you meet

Inline images: illustrations in the chat

Drop images into the chat body

Moving the story with phases

Split the story into phases and steer it where you want

Emotion parameters for personality

Design how easily a character wavers, and how hard they are to break

Feed world facts on demand

Send setting only when it comes up

Building a TRPG

Use state, skills, clocks, and scene transitions to build a story that plays like a tabletop session

Make images and video

Portraits, scene variants, short clips

Publish your work

Getting listed, and what to set

Getting better

Write so the AI understands and get what you intended

Writing so the AI understands

Match conditions and prompts to what the AI sees right now

What do you want to do?

Jump straight from what you want to do to the part of the guide that covers it.