Jon, from Videogames
@desplesda.net
words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 @YarnSpinner.dev, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 @SecretLab.games.
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ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about
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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.
December 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
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Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
December 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Mass Effect style dialogue wheel except the only dialogue options ever offered are "No, yeah, for sure." and "Damn, that's crazy"
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Whether they exist already or not, what features do you most want/need in a @yarnspinner.dev writing environment?
December 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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...
Yarn Spinner for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool | Behavior AI | Unity Asset Store
Get the Yarn Spinner for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool package from Yarn Spinner and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Behavior AI options on the Unity Asset Store.
assetstore.unity.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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...
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help us populate the Showcase of Yarn Spinner Games?!
yarnspinner.dev/showcase/
Submit your game here: yarnspinner.dev/tell-us/
yarnspinner.dev/showcase/
Submit your game here: yarnspinner.dev/tell-us/
Yarn Spinner Showcase
Explore games built with Yarn Spinner—from indie darlings to major studio releases.
yarnspinner.dev
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
help us populate the Showcase of Yarn Spinner Games?!
yarnspinner.dev/showcase/
Submit your game here: yarnspinner.dev/tell-us/
yarnspinner.dev/showcase/
Submit your game here: yarnspinner.dev/tell-us/
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The @itch.io “Winter” Sale is live! I think this is the biggest discount we’ve done?!
itch.io/s/174298/win...
itch.io/s/174298/win...
Winter Sale 2025 by Yarn Spinner
A bundle by Yarn Spinner, $55.00 for Yarn Spinner for Unity, Speech Bubbles for Yarn Spinner, Dialogue Wheel for Yarn Spinner
itch.io
December 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The @itch.io “Winter” Sale is live! I think this is the biggest discount we’ve done?!
itch.io/s/174298/win...
itch.io/s/174298/win...
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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.
December 17, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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.
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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
we're about to clock off for 2025!
www.yarnspinner.dev
#gamedev #indiedev #narrativetools
Yarn Spinner
Yarn Spinner creates narrative game tools for writers, programmers, and everyone in between.
www.yarnspinner.dev
December 17, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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
we're about to clock off for 2025!
www.yarnspinner.dev
#gamedev #indiedev #narrativetools
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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...
Had to write it up lest it haunt me: www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/salienc...
Saliency Systems and State Mutation | Yarn Spinner
Recently we had a question about saliency systems, and I wrote up a quick example about a quirk that might not be immediately obvious about Yarn Spinner’s story saliency from the outside.
In the end, ...
www.yarnspinner.dev
December 17, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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...
Had to write it up lest it haunt me: www.yarnspinner.dev/blog/salienc...
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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...
we're pretty happy with this one
yarnspinner.dev/blog/yarn-sp...
Yarn Spinner 3.1 is Here | Yarn Spinner
Yarn Spinner 3.1 is out now. This release brings async dialogue runner methods, option fallthrough for graceful branching, a completely reworked typewriter system, and our first included paid add-on: ...
yarnspinner.dev
December 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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...
we're pretty happy with this one
yarnspinner.dev/blog/yarn-sp...
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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/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
store.playstation.com/en-us/concep...
www.nintendo.com/us/store/pro...
November 19, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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)
(it's spooky because we get less money from you)
Halloween Sale 2025 by Yarn Spinner
A bundle by Yarn Spinner, $75.00 for Yarn Spinner for Unity, Speech Bubbles for Yarn Spinner, Dialogue Wheel for Yarn Spinner
itch.io
November 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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)
(it's spooky because we get less money from you)
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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
25% off each item, or $75 for all three of our products!
itch.io/s/164876/hal...
#sale #gamedev
Halloween Sale 2025 by Yarn Spinner
A bundle by Yarn Spinner, $75.00 for Yarn Spinner for Unity, Speech Bubbles for Yarn Spinner, Dialogue Wheel for Yarn Spinner
itch.io
October 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
25% off each item, or $75 for all three of our products!
itch.io/s/164876/hal...
#sale #gamedev
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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!
October 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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...
October 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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
September 27, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Awesome shout-out from @balancingmonkeygames.com about how they’re using Yarn Spinner in their upcoming title Beyond These Stars ❤️ #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.
September 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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.
September 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“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!
September 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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!
September 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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!
“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
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“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