Yarn Spinner

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The friendly tool for game dialogue! Now in Unity, Godot, Unreal Engine + more! Made by best mates from way down under, who've worked on games from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚🖖🌱 • Human-Made

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Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· 26d

turns out the godot animation system lets you set any blending factors you like

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· 28d

Love to watch new gamedev content and just come across surprise compliments 💚 (KO_OP's talk at NarraScope) youtu.be/NHvPRd9PvxQ

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· 28d

Today is International Non-Binary People's Day and the Nonbinary Coded Games showcase on Steam is running to celebrate! 💛🤍💜 It includes a bunch of Yarn Spinner-powered games (here's just a few!), and there's no time like the present to buy/support/play them! 👇 store.steampowered.com/curator/4610...

A composed tile shows the character artwork from the Nonbinary Coded Games showcase - including a little bunny with a cape, a cat-person, a person dressed like a witch, and a little blue demon - and the dates this showcase runs (July 13th - 20th, 2026). Inset is then a series of nine games from the showcase which use Yarn Spinner. The games are: Burger Bois, S.K.R.U.B. Squad, BIG HOPS, Skate & Date, ShelfLife: Art School Detective, Hyper Typer 200, lily's world XD, Capy Castaway, and Puppergeist.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· 29d

you know yarn spinner is ready for AAA content when we have a special high-poly version of our "you can talk to this character" indicator, Powered By Unreal Engine 5

A screenshot of the Unreal Editor. A large red-and-yellow exclamation mark rests on top of a grey surface. It's extremely rounded and high-poly count.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 10

Implementing the Yarn Spinner sample scenes in Unreal Engine is coming along nicely. Pretty funny to suddenly get these familiar scenes with built-in motion blur, though.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 9

oh hey, Scarlet Deer Inn got a release date (and it's soon!) This husband-and-wife team made REAL EMBROIDERED CHARACTERS for the game, made the music with real traditional instruments, and more. So many little labours of love in this one game 💚 store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/...

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 9

wow unreal engine really does have everything built-in

A screenshot of Unreal Editor. The 'Create New Content' menu is open, showing a very large number of possible categories and assets that can be created. Two kinds of assets are highlighted, with large red question marks and arrows pointing at them: "Beauty", and "Truth".

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 8

Just some features... * sidebar shows nodes, and you can right click things to do things! * you can add line tags! * there are new commands in the command palette! * you can dim line tags or hide them entirely! * you can inspect and edit variables during play! (needs "Experimental Features" on)

The Yarn Spinner sidebar in VSCode, showing a lot of nodes across files in a project.

A yarn project has been right clicked on in the Yarn Spinner sidebar, showing a bunch of things you can do.

Variables inspector while previewing dialogue.

Settings screen showing how you can change Line Tagger settings inside VSCode.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 8

Lots of new features in the "pre-release" channel of our VSCode Extension, on both the VSCode Marketplace and OpenVSX! Take a look and let us know how you get on?

VSCode Marketplace header for the Yarn Spinner extension. A "Switch to Pre-Release Version" button is visible.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 7

Once you've got a recording, drop it back into the tool, and we'll identify the regions of spoken voice. Link regions to your written lines, and export all of your audio at once, all with the right file names, ready for use in-game!

A screenshot of the app from earlier in the thread, showing the audio editing view. The timeline has been zoomed in, revealing that the regions of audio are associated with lines. One is selected: "Dwight: What do you mean, betrayed?". The corresponding line in the table below it is also highlighted.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 7

When you're recording, tell the tool which character's lines you're getting, and we'll highlight the ones your actor should perform. All of the lines are still visible, so your actor has all the context they need.

A screenshot of the app from earlier in the thread, showing the screenplay view. A filter has been set at the top left to limit the character to "Player", and now all lines that aren't spoken by Player are dimmed out. Additionally, the line in the middle of the screen is highlighted to give it focus.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 7

Our voiceover tool (name TBD, give us ideas!) takes your Yarn Spinner project and produces an end-to-end script that's easy for your actors to read through. Add delivery notes to ensure you get the perfect take.

A screenshot of the app from earlier in this thread, showing the screenplay view. Four lines of dialogue are shown, but the first and last are dimmed out.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jul 7

Something we've got cooking behind the scenes: lots of folks use Yarn Spinner for voice-acted games, and we're building tools for managing the entire VO process, from prep to recording to editing.

A screenshot of an app. On the left, a sidebar showing a list of Yarn Spinner nodes: Interruptions, Interruptions_Resume, Start. On the right, a screenplay showing multiple lines of dialogue - a conversation between two characters, Dwight and Player. Each line has a unique line code, and a small note.

Dwight: You gotta move fast, Max Force! (urgent)

Dwight: You need to disable the detonators in order, or the submarine will explode, releasing the poison nano-bots! (tense, urgent)

Player: I'm on it. (cool, confident)

Player: Hey, while I'm down here, saving the world, maybe I'll find clues about how I was betrayed by the Oversight Committee. (max doesn't think he will but perhaps he'll get lucky)

Dwight: The Committee would never betray you! (shocked)

A screenshot of the same app, but with a different view: the right hand side now shows an audio timeline, with coloured regions marked out. Below the timeline, a table of lines appear - the same ones spoke by Dwight from the previous screenshot. Each entry in the table shows a play button, time info, the text of the line, the number of tags, and a line ID. Buttons appear at the top: delete all, detect regions, export audio files.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 25

We're almost there getting all the Yarn Spinner for Unity Samples into Yarn Spinner for Godot!

A screenshot of Godot running on macOS, showing a grid of Samples from Yarn Spinner. The samples all do various different things and show off different aspects of Yarn Spinner. The grid is within the Godot engine.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 23

the Yarn Spinner staff always make sure they eagerly report to work on time

A wooden office door, and a tiny yellow chihuahua dressed smartly for winter in her red coat waits in front of it, looking at the camera. The door says "Staff Only".

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 23

You say that, but she'd just let you do it. You've be trying to make off with the loot, and Ruby would be busy upside-down giving you the "come hither" eyes for a belly rub...

The tiny black-and-tan chihuahua from the original skeet is in this photo too, but this time rolled over on her back and doing coy eyes with her ears down like she desperately wants a tummy rub.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 23

the Yarn Spinner office also features a tiny wolf on security duty, in addition to the small observing wolf

A beautiful tiny black and tan chihuahua sits on a windowsill looking out; a small terrarium is next to her, with a candle on it. There’s trees outside and it’s a bit gloomy.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 16

Steam Next Fest is on, and a bunch of hugely anticipated Yarn Spinner games have demos available! Check them all out! That's an order!

Steam Next Fest: A Celebration of Upcoming Games. Check out the full list of 8,000+ demos at store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest! A grid of logos for games all powered by Yarn Spinner, featuring: Capy Castaway, Escape Academy 2, Penguin Colony, Philosophy, Hull Rupture, Grim Trials, Design & Conjure, Star Trek: Outposts Unknown, Lily's World XD, Janet DeMornay is a Slumlord and a Witch, Trees Hate You, and Flipping is Hard.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 9

Yarn Spinner literally SHOWN in Day of the Devs via "Prove You're Human" by @sunsetvisitor.studio! 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJJ5...

A bunch of lines of Yarn Spinner dialogue, showing commands being used in the script.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 7

A huge number of upcoming games powered by Yarn Spinner are featured in showcases this weekend! Every single one of these has a demo available right now, so go check them out! We'll highlight more over the coming week, too!

"Powered by Yarn Spinner". An illustration showing 15 different game cards featured in game showcases: Shape Sender Deluxe, Penguin Colony, Apothecurse, Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (And A Witch), Signy and Mino: Against All Gods, Palm Sugar: A Village Story, Building Relationships, My Arms Are Longer Now, Wild Blue Skies, The Regreening, Mirth Island, Grim Trials, Design and Conjure, Lily's World XD, and Schrödinger's Call. Green plants frame the scene, and a man wearing safety gear and holding a speech bubble inside an orb hangs from a girder and looks towards the game art.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 5

Our engine survey is always interesting 👀 still time to contribute (on Discord).

A graph showing the results so far of Yarn Spinner’s engine survey for 2026. Mostly Unity, and mostly Unity 6.3 for Unity. And mostly GDScript for Godot. And a little bit of UE and Bevy (Rust).

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Jun 3

In Yarn Spinner+, we’ve added two new dialogue presenters: Snaaake, and Classic RPG! These featureful, ready-to-go presenters are great for adapting into your game, or using as-is! Learn more on the site: yarnspinner.dev/install/#uni...

A screenshot of the Snaaake dialogue presenter. A green monochrome glowing screen shows two pixelated faces on either side of a radio frequency display. The character on the left wears a baseball cap embroidered with YS3 and a science-fiction eyepiece. The character on the right wears an eyepatch. Both are scowling. The caption below the characters reads “The Committee won’t stand for this, Max Force!“

A screenshot of the Classic RPG dialogue presenter. Two capsule characters stand in a field outside of a castle wall. The green character is facing the blue character. A dialogue box appears at the bottom of the scene with the text “Hi! I’m a friendly merchant!” a blue button labelled next and three red heart icons appear along the top of the screen. Two small glowing fairies hover above the two characters.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 23

16 years ago, we wrote our first book of many!

A yellow “For Dummies” book cover, “iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies”.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 20

Thanks for @tanamakes.games and @deadteapot.games for this surprise we found in the mailbox at the Yarn Spinner International Corporate HQ this week!

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 20

We were looking at doing a "let's recreate a dialogue presenter from another game" thing, and we got a bit distracted, because we're huge nerds.

A screenshot of a Codec radio conversation between Campbell and Snake from Metal Gear Solid. Campbell is saying "We're trying to buy some more time." The look of the screenshot is monochrome CRT, with lots of scan-lines and flickering. Overlaid on top of this because it's MUCH more important is a screenshot of a PDF titled "Cathode Ray Tube Phosphors Of Interest To The Experimenter", and contains a detailed list of different phosphors, their colours (both fluorescence AND phosphorescence), peak wavelength, decay time, composition, and notes on how they're used.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 19

did you know the Yarn Spinner editor works whichever way your brain does? sketch out all your dialogue nodes first and write into them later, or write a pile of dialogue and drag it into shape after. both are good. both are very fun. here, look.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 14

I swear Tasmania is real and not a PS1 tech demo.

Photo of generic looking suburbia. The fog is incredibly thick, can barely see 50 metre ahead. In the sky the is a diffused yellow dot, barely breaking through.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 14

Max Force, Secret Agent, doesn't let a brief interruption get in the way of their over-dramatic exposition, and gets right back to what they were saying.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· May 13

We like to put our academic backgrounds to use when designing a cool new feature in Yarn Spinner. (Also: congrats to Gravano and Hirschberg, winners of the 'oh wow you wrote all of the papers on the subject, huh' award)

A screenshot of three PDFs: "Turn-Yielding Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue", "Backchannel-Inviting Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue" and "A Corpus-Based Study of Interruptions in Spoken Dialogue", all by Agustín Gravano and Julia Hirschberg. All three of the PDFs are laid out side-by-side and are very dense with text.

Yarn Spinner@yarnspinner· Apr 29