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Jon, from Videogames
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words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 @YarnSpinner.dev, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 @SecretLab.games.
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)
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
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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
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
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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
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
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
I mean everyone already working in the industry already knows the answer is “nevermore”, ho ho ho ho #NZGDC
September 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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
“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
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
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
#NZGDC, home of “we literally have Taika Waititi at home”
September 26, 2025 at 1:11 AM
“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
Hey, #NZGDC! This is TODAY! Come see me yell about DREDGE and Yarn Spinner, at 2:25 in Tāwhirimātea E!!
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!
September 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Hey, #NZGDC! This is tomorrow!! Come see me yell about the neat things that DREDGE did with @yarnspinner.dev!
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!
September 25, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Team @yarnspinner.dev (well, this bit of it, anyway) is off to #NZGDC!
September 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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!
September 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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...
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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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!
Three of us are off to Melbourne to attend the launch of the @acmimuseum.bsky.social Game Worlds exhibition, for which we built “Hint Line ‘93”, a game about a fictional console’s hint line, exploring a lost bit of game culture….

Check it out! www.acmi.net.au/about/media/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Ticket sales for /dev/world and XWorld close TODAY! Come along to the best little developer and admin conferences in Australia! devworld.au
/dev/world/2025
/dev/world/2025 is Australia's longest running conference for macOS and iOS developers and designers.
devworld.au
August 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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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?...
The Rogue Prince of Persia 1.0 Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Evil Empire
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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/...
August 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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...
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 ...
assetstore.unity.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
/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
/dev/world/2025
/dev/world/2025 is Australia's longest running conference for macOS and iOS developers and designers.
devworld.au
August 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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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/...
ACMI’S Next Level Exhibition, Game Worlds, Coming September 2025
The epic realms of videogames are the focus of Game Worlds, a major new playable exhibition premiering 18 September 2025 to 8 February 2026 at Australia’s national museum of screen culture, ACMI.
www.acmi.net.au
July 31, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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(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
August 7, 2023 at 6:38 AM