ATTENTION JAMMERS If you made something with Yarn Spinner for Global Game Jam, show it to me bc I wanna play it! Big or small, rough or fancy, I'll love them all. Hit me! @globalgamejam.bsky.social / #GlobalGameJam / #GGJ26 / #GGJ / #GGJ2026 / #GameJam 🎉💚

Following on from our 2026 goals roadmap, we're starting monthly updates about Yarn Spinner. We've got loads on the go at the moment - Unreal, Unity, Godot, new Editors, new Add-Ons, more - so there's loads to report on. Check it out! 💚 yarnspinner.dev/blog/monthly...

Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.

not something I’d ever thought I’d say and this is possibly the most LinkedIn-ass post I’ve made so far but hot dang these legal policies are pretty great and I’m proud of @hey.paris for doing a good job on them

We put up a big post about Hint Line ‘93, the game we made for the ACMI museum! yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...

Aurora australis over nipaluna/Hobart tonight. Photos by me and my dad in the backyard.

We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI. TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...

We backed this on Kickstarter so I've already been playing it for days and can tell you it's super fun and polished. And you can also get it in a bundle with some other Yarn Spinner hits if for some reason you don't own them already: bsky.app/profile/luck...

[chanting, pounding a controller] big hops, Big Hops, BIG HOPS!-

desert mitosis, 2024

One of our tiny dogs has been nauseous lately and the vet thinks it's an allergy. As with a human, this means adopting a strict diet of non-allergenic foods + novel proteins to isolate the issue (prescription special-order food). So that's how I ended up buying 2kg of CROCODILE MEAT for my 2kg dog.

Some of our plans for 2026. www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/yarn-sp...

ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about

have you shipped a game with dialogue where, during dev, you also had a big wiki/notion/document/google doc/something full of lore and information about your characters/settings/tone/style/reference for writing/game design, etc? Can I see it? DM me.

Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"

Whether they exist already or not, what features do you most want/need in a @yarnspinner.dev writing environment?

The way that sales on the Asset Store work is that the better you do, the longer you’re on sale for! We’re still on sale, so I can only conclude that Yarn Spinner is the greatest asset of all time and you should buy it immediately and get cool exclusive features: assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

help us populate the Showcase of Yarn Spinner Games?! yarnspinner.dev/showcase/ Submit your game here: yarnspinner.dev/tell-us/

The @itch.io “Winter” Sale is live! I think this is the biggest discount we’ve done?! itch.io/s/174298/win...

I choose to believe that every time you ask a computer to do an AI task, it physically hurts it. Computers don’t like generating prompts, it makes them ill. They like doing times tables and playing Quake 3.

now is the time to contact us if you want us to help you integrate Yarn Spinner, or build custom Yarn Spinner features for your team, or do something else narrative tools-related for you next year! we're about to clock off for 2025! www.yarnspinner.dev #gamedev #indiedev #narrativetools

Recently had a fascinating question from a user and ended up in a rabbit hole of saliency traps. Had to write it up lest it haunt me: www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/salienc...

Yarn Spinner 3.1 just dropped. option fallthrough so your game doesn't stop, async everything, new typewriter system, and if you grab the storefront version you get Text Animator support (huge thanks to @febucci.com!) out of the box. we're pretty happy with this one yarnspinner.dev/blog/yarn-sp...

Don't forget: If you've played and enjoyed Demonschool, please do leave a review on steam! We want to hit that "overwhelmingly positive" threshold. And remember, if we do it by the end of the month (5 days!), Faye gets a pretzel~ store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

ahhh this game rules so much! also it uses yarn spinner and we worked on it a little bit!! now you know three facts about it, what if you bought it and learned even more

Yarn Spinner's 🎃 spooky halloween sale 👻 ends in just over a day! Grab our premium dialogue presenters for cheap (speech bubbles! cool dialogue wheel!) and support awesome narrative tools! itch.io/s/164876/hal... #gamedev #indiedev #unity #unity3d (it's spooky because we get less money from you)

We're on sale as part of @itch.io's Halloween Sale! 25% off each item, or $75 for all three of our products! itch.io/s/164876/hal... #sale #gamedev

Had a wonderful time doing a panel about narrative games and @yarnspinner.dev at #PAXAus at 10PM (!!) last night! Awesome audience and questions. Thanks to @firkraags.bsky.social for joining @desplesda.net, @mcjones.bsky.social, and I!

Also: if you’re at @paxaus.bsky.social, come see us hooting and hollering about interactive narrative at 10PM Friday at the Dropbear Theatre!! aus.paxsite.com/en-us/schedu...

Awesome shout-out from @balancingmonkeygames.com about how they’re using Yarn Spinner in their upcoming title Beyond These Stars ❤️ #NZGDC

I mean everyone already working in the industry already knows the answer is “nevermore”, ho ho ho ho #NZGDC

In which @osaurusstudios.bsky.social pulls a bait-and-switch half way through her talk, “How Do You Playtest Stories”, where it turns out that in order to understand how players react to stories, we need to realise we’re actually playtesting feelings.

“This is an example of real-world late-game loot. This is not a museum. This is someone’s house in Wales.” Carl de Visser talking about loot design.

Checked out KUU by @interactivetragedy.com, a game with an absolutely gorgeous and stark aesthetic and amazing storytelling. Go take a look!

It’s the last day of #NZGDC! Track me down (or book a meeting via yarnspinner.dev/nzgdc) and learn about how @yarnspinner.dev can help make your game’s narrative sing!

#NZGDC, home of “we literally have Taika Waititi at home”

“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