NarrativeCraft

NarrativeCraft is a Minecraft mod to create your own narrative games in Minecraft. If you don't want to learn a game engine to create stories with branching patterns, this mod does all the work for you.

How does this work

NarrativeCraft works thanks to the amazing open source project Ink, a narrative scripting language to write dialogs and create branching patterns. Text first, logic later.

Features

NarrativeCraft is an all-in-one system, meaning that you have everything by default.

Compatibility with other mods requires installing addons.

• Cutscenes
• Player recording
• Dialogs rendering (on screen or a character speaking)
• Camera angles for character dialog focus
• Interactions with trigger zones and clickable points
• Characters and NPCs
• Full management of your story
• Choices
• Saves
• Main screen (new game, continue...)
• Multiplayer

About Multiplayer

NarrativeCraft is singleplayer first, meaning that it is mainly developed for singleplayer. However, multiplayer is supported, but it does not mean co-op, it means that you can play a story, show cutscenes, display characters or NPCs to a single player, so you can create more immersion for your server.

Getting started

If you want to start learning NarrativeCraft, take a look at the documentation; you'll be guided there to start your first story and learn the fundamentals of the mod.

API

An API is available for use if you want to create comptability for other mod or if you want to take your story a step further.

There's an documentation for the API.

Gradle

maven {
    name "loudo"
    url "https://maven.loudo.dev"
}

compileOnly 'fr.loudo.narrativecraft:narrativecraft-api:2.0.3+mc{minecraft_version}'

Maven

<repository>
    <id>loudo</id>
    <url>https://maven.loudo.dev</url>
</repository>

<dependency>
    <groupId>fr.loudo.narrativecraft</groupId>
    <artifactId>narrativecraft-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.3+mc{minecraft_version}</version>
</dependency>

Current minecraft versions available: 26.2 and 1.21.1

Contributing

Thank you for your interest in the project and for helping to make it better, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.MD before making a pull request.

Credits

• ink - Scripting language
• blade-ink-java - Java adaptation of ink