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You can now (also) buy Yarn Spinner
a day ago
- Yarn Spinner is now available for purchase on the Unity Asset Store and Itch Store.
- Yarn Spinner will always remain free and open source.
- Purchasing provides access to extra features and support.
- A Beginner's Guide is available to help new users get started.
Yarn Spinner for Books
a day ago
- Yarn Spinner is a powerful tool for writing interactive stories for various engines and platforms.
- Yarn Spinner for Books allows writers to use Yarn syntax to create beautifully-typeset PDFs for printed interactive narratives.
- This innovation merges traditional bookmaking with interactive storytelling, supporting features like branching options, variables, and control flow.
- Yarn Spinner for Books is available at books.yarnspinner.dev, while legacy platforms continue to be supported.
Yarn Spinner will be at GCAP 2024
a day ago
- Announcing a presentation at the GCAP conference in Melbourne, Australia.
- Showing off their latest work and projects.
- Discussing how to use Yarn Spinner for game development.
- Available throughout the conference to chat with attendees.
Yarn Spinner at GDC 2025
a day ago
- Jon from Secret Lab and Yarn Spinner team will present at GDC 2024 in San Francisco.
- The talk, titled 'DREDGE and Yarn Spinner: Building Narrative with Open Source', focuses on how DREDGE uses Yarn Spinner for narrative development.
- Attendees can learn how to apply similar open-source narrative techniques.
- Meeting requests can be sent via email to paris AT yarnspinner.dev.
- Support the project by purchasing Yarn Spinner and add-ons on Itch or Unity Asset Store.
- Stay updated via Bluesky, Mastodon, and join the Discord community.
Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner
a day ago
- Announcement of a new product: Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner.
- Enables access to all player actions from Mass Effect 2 directly through Yarn.
- Get started by visiting yarnspinner.dev/mesaves.
- Available for resharing on Bluesky.
We released Yarn Spinner 3.1
a day ago
- Yarn Spinner 3.1 introduces async dialogue runner methods (StartDialogue and Stop) to ensure presenters initialize before scene changes.
- Option fallthrough prevents soft-locks by skipping unavailable options and continuing the narrative when conditions fail.
- LocalizedLine now includes a Source property for identifying which dialogue runner generated content in multi-runner setups.
- Enhanced cancellation tokens provide separate 'hurry up' and cancellation signals for options, matching line functionality.
- The typewriter system is rebuilt around the IAsyncTypewriter interface, allowing customization via ActionMarkupHandler subclasses.
- Legacy DialogueView classes are removed, requiring migration to the newer DialoguePresenter model.
- Text Animator integration is now available only in commercial versions, marking the first free/paid feature divergence.
- Tim's blog on Saliency Systems and State Mutation explores how state-checking functions can mutate state during saliency selection.
- Plans for 2026 include a Visual Novel Kit, rebuilt VS Code extension, native Unreal Engine support, continued Godot development, and the Story Solver debugging tool.
- Yarn Spinner remains free and open source, funded by paid add-ons, web services, and client work, with no plans for AI integration or acquisition.
The New Try Yarn Spinner
a day ago
- A new version of Try Yarn Spinner was released, written by the author.
- A new demo story was also written and released alongside it.
- A technical post about the new Try Yarn Spinner is coming soon.

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yarn spinner

You can now (also) buy Yarn Spinner

Yarn Spinner for Books

Yarn Spinner will be at GCAP 2024

Yarn Spinner at GDC 2025

Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner

We released Yarn Spinner 3.1

The New Try Yarn Spinner