“A former boss of mine said that ‘culture is a year 3 problem - focus on success, and then you can fix the culture later.’ Nothing has so succinctly explained the games industry to me as that attitude.” - @liamesler.bsky.social and @davidgaider.bsky.social at NZGDC

Hey, #NZGDC! This is TODAY! Come see me yell about DREDGE and Yarn Spinner, at 2:25 in Tāwhirimātea E!!

Hey, #NZGDC! This is tomorrow!! Come see me yell about the neat things that DREDGE did with @yarnspinner.dev!

Team @yarnspinner.dev (well, this bit of it, anyway) is off to #NZGDC!

Come see me talk about DREDGE and Yarn Spinner at #NZGDC on Friday! Learn about the wild tricks that @blacksaltgames.com did in the dialogue system we make!

I'm at #NZGDC from tomorrow, where I'm talking about how Yarn Spinner was used in a tiny little indie game called DREDGE! I'm also keen to chat to people about Yarn Spinner - you should book a time with me to talk dialogue systems! Yes, you! fantastical.app/desplesda/ya...

This week was Yarn Spinner’s 10th anniversary of our first public release but we were too busy to post because we were making a game (and props and all sorts) for our museum installation 🎉🎉🎉 Opening @ ACMI tonight!

Ticket sales for /dev/world and XWorld close TODAY! Come along to the best little developer and admin conferences in Australia! devworld.au

The new Prince of Persia game made by Dead Cells devs at @evilempirestudio.bsky.social just shadow-dropped 1.0 yesterday onto a bunch of platforms and the mix of this franchise with their flair has made something really special. Congrats on the release, mates! 🎉 youtu.be/MMyp3-wKykQ?...

We got commissioned to make a thing for ACMI, the screen museum! So we’re (@secretlab.games and @yarnspinner.dev) making Hint Line ‘93, a little game about being a game hint line worker! It’ll be on the museum floor from 18 Sep later this year! Learn more from ACMI: www.acmi.net.au/about/media/...

uh whoa so apparently we’ve sold so well in this recent sale that Unity has decided to KEEP us on sale until August 27th! Go grab Yarn Spinner for Unity from the Asset Store for 50% off, and help support Yarn Spinner’s development! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

/dev/world and XWorld, Australia’s longest-running (probably) and best (definitely) Apple developer conferences, have their ticket sales on now, and early bird sales close soon! Get your ticket today! #AppleDev #iosdev #SwiftLang devworld.au

thrilled to have had a microgame commissioned by ACMI for the Game Worlds exhibition! @secretlab.games & @yarnspinner.dev, with lots of help from @themartianlife.com & other amazing folks are making “Hint Line ‘93”, a game about answering phones at a game hint line! www.acmi.net.au/about/media/...

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Unity put Yarn Spinner on a flash sale that’s live for another 2 hours, go get it and support our extremely good dialogue system at 70% off: assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

Support Yarn Spinner’s development by grabbing it from the Unity Asset Store at 70% off for the next few hours, holy moly:

MAEBEA we have a limited number of leftover NITW Physical Editions available in the Finji Shop RIGHT NOW! 👀‼️ Once they're gone, they're gone! shop.finji.co

Submissions for this truly excellent event close today! Get your talk in!!

Hey, Australian dev friends! You should submit your talk to /dev/world, one of Australia’s longest-running developer conferences! The call for presentations closes in 4 days, on July 7th, and we’d love to see you there! devworld.au/cfp/ #AppleDev #iOSdev #SwiftLang

Forever making game tools as an outlet because they won’t let us make Mass Effect 🤯

Second talk is on at #NarraScope in about 20 minutes in URBN-125! Come and learn how to ruin lovely storytelling with MATHEMATICS.

Every April, gamedevs think it's funny to release "our game, but it's a dating sim!" trailers as a happy ahaha April's Fool. As visual novel devs, I think we should take revenge. Ahaha Hatoful Boyfriend is a shooter now. Look at our charming pigeons holding little guns

One of our team - @hey.paris - is in the states for the @narrascope.org conf this weekend, and he’s hitting a few cities on the way in/out. Want to have a chat about what Yarn Spinner can offer your team/project, or even just dish about narrative in games? He’d love to! DMs open 💚

Funny how you just need to break some angles to turn kitchen environment into a spaceship.

so, @hey.paris is in NYC this week until Thursday… if you wanna grab a coffee or a beer, let us know!

"Content" is something to fill an empty vessel: it repositions your view of the world to align with corporations. Art becomes something disposable, fungible, serving a financial interest and nothing more. The word "artist" is right there; I beg you to claim it and leave "content creator" to molder

Developer pals! The CFP for /dev/world, the Apple-focused developer conference I help run, is open, and we’d love to see you give a talk there! devworld.au/cfp/ #AppleDev #iOSDev #SwiftLang

ME: yeah could i get the impossible burger with cheese. THE VIZIER WHO'S BEEN ADVISING ME: ahh, an excellent choice sire. an imitation of the genuine article. there are some "friends" of yours to whom it bears a passing similarity ME: you want anything VIZIER: [chuckles] what i want is of no import

old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand

The modern phenomenon of the Haunted Cereal Bowl has bothered me for years

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.

🎉 YARN SPINNER 3 IS OUT NOW 🎉 for Unity, Godot, VSCode + try.yarnspinner.dev Including: - Storylets, enums, simple "run this bit only once" syntax - Better variables, easier-to-customise views - Bugfixes + QoL improvements galore - All-new docs + guides Check it out at yarnspinner.dev/v3 💚

Yarn Spinner 3: Physical Edition is available now and it’s FREE. All you have to do is head to the link and follow our handy 308-step guide! 🧩 downloads.yarnspinner.dev/get/yarn-spi...

Hey, unboxing fans! We got our hands on this cool new package that literally nobody has seen before! 📦 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDF...

this is beyond sick as hell

doing research for gun models/designs got me thinking about this shit in destiny 2 again genuinely think it's awesome like 20% of scout rifles are like this

When you make aalittle thing with clay be proud

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

It’s the last day of the Unity Asset Store spring sale, which means it’s your last chance to grab Yarn Spinner for Unity from the store for 50% off! This is an incredible way to support our work on narrative tools! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

we put SO MUCH STUFF in yarn spinner v3 and you should absolutely check this the heck outtttt

I think it’s a sign of our strength that in Australia that there is a psephologist with such recognition when he retires not only does he get a 10 minutes segment at the end of election coverage but it includes a shoutout from every living prime minister. Toodles Antony.

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As narrative game nerds, #LudoNarraCon is one of our fave times of year! 2025 is no different, with so many games we look forward to or already love 💚 It's also a great way to sample titles from small teams that span engines, genres + demographics. This year, almost 1 in 5 are using Yarn Spinner 🎉

hey, so the thing we spend much of our time working on, for free, is on sale, and buying it (or contracting us to integrate it/add features/help you/hang out with you) is the best way to support us to make sure it keeps being AMAZING assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #gamedev #unity3d #unity

Yarn Spinner for Unity is 💐🌼 50% off 🌸🌺 during the spring sale! It’s the best possible way you can support our work on making the best dang tools in the world! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

🌼💐 Yarn Spinner is 50% off in the Unity Spring Sale 🌸🌺 Like our work? Chuck us a buck! You’ll get the storefront version of YS that’s compatible with our time-saving Add-Ons*, and we get to keep making YS great. *Current ones + some super neat incoming ones 👀‼️ assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

I'm so used to bar bathrooms with cutesy signs that I had to stop here and ask myself if I was a Mario or a Wario

We received a number of comments and questions last week saying that they were surprised our Mass Effect Save Importer for Yarn Spinner actually exists and works, which it does. We do not mess around when it comes to narrative technology. April Fools without a commitment to the bit is for cowards.