• In English

  • Online Only
  • 2 Weeks / 3 Sessions

Build An Interactive City In Text using ink

Learn how to build living, breathing, interactive urban worlds using the ink narrative scripting language. Discover the fundamentals of worldbuilding, game writing, and game urbanism, and combine them to create your own textual world in three sessions.
Min students: 6 | Max students: 18

What you will learn

  • The fundamentals of Game Urbanism
  • Using the ink narrative scripting language
  • How to design interactive Game Cities
  • Ways of adding life and variation to Virtual Cities
  • How to approach the design of text-only Games
  • The mapping tools of Interactive Fiction 
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Start Date
November 3, 2025
End Date
November 13, 2025
Mondays, Thursdays

17:00 CET, 16:00 UK, 11:00 EST

Konstantinos Dimopoulos

Your Instructor:
Konstantinos Dimopoulos is an engineer, educator, game urbanist and designer with a PhD in urbanism. He is the author of the Virtual Cities atlas, and has contributed chapters and articles to publications such as Retro Gamer magazine and books like Game Writing: 2nd Edition. He has been working professionally in video games since 2010, and has been teaching about them since 2017.  [full bio]

Learn how to create complex, reactive urban worlds without graphics.

The Course Includes:

  • 3 Live Sessions
  • Lecture Recordings
  • 1 Homework Project
  • Lecture Notes in PDF
  • 'Of Cities and Games' ebook
  • Class Discord
  • 20€ discount coupon for the 'Designing Cities for Video Games' course

Requirements:

No prior knowledge of urbanism, game design, ink or world building is required. Access to Zoom is required.

This course is ideal for:

  • Level Designers & Game Designers
  • Video Game Creatives & World Builders
  • Narrative Designers & Writers
  • Creators working on imaginary, historical or contemporary cities
  • Interactive fiction authors
  • AAA, AA, and Indie video game devs
Text remains one of the oldest and most powerful expressive means of humanity, and a driving force behind classics such as A Mind Forever Voyaging and contemporary hits like Disco Elysium.

This short course aims to teach you how to use inkle's powerful ink narrative scripting language to build an interactive, intriguing, and fully explorable text-only virtual city.

To do so, you will learn the fundamentals of game urbanism, scripting in ink, narrative design, and worldbuilding. At the end of the course you will have created your own city of text ready to be posted online for everyone to experience or, perhaps more excitingly, ready to be used within a game engine as the basis of a larger project. 

🎓 The first lecture will introduce you to cities of text and the basics of game city design, and will also teach you how to use the ink scripting language. The lecture will be followed by a collaborative city building workshop where we will build, flesh out, script and playtest a city together. The final session will be dedicated to showcasing your interactive cities, and providing you with the required feedback. 

By the end of the course you will have imagined, created and scripted a fully interactive city. You will be able to combine worldbuilding, creative writing, game urbanism and ink scripting to create rich, memorable cities. 

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Why ink? Because ink is a powerful, easy to use, constantly evolving, free and open-source narrative scripting language, that is widely used within both the gaming industry and the interactive fiction community. Games powered by ink include 80 Days, Heaven's Vault, Neo Cab, Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, Sorcery! and Sable. 

Skills developed: World Building, Game Urbanism, Game Cities Design,  ink Scripting, Creative Writing 

Lectures Schedule

Times in Central European Time (CET)

Syllabus

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to have Zoom installed?

Yes. All online lessons are taught via Zoom.

What's the refund policy?

A 100% refund -no questions asked- if you cancel up to 24 hours before the first live session.

Can I pay in instalments?

Yes, instalment payment options are available in most cases. Please reach out to us at info@d6learning.com to discuss the best plan for you.

More questions?

Please contact us directly here. We will respond within 1 to 2 days.
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