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Yarn Spinner
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Your friendly tool for dialogue! Plugins for Unity, Godot, Unreal (Beta) + more! Made by best mates who have worked on beloved titles from Night in the Woods to Demonschool πŸ’š
https://yarnspinner.dev β€’ http://discord.gg/yarnspinner
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Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev Β· Jun 10
Belated intro:

We're four best mates living way down south in Australia. We make cool tools because we love games! We post a lot about games, and also our tiny office dogs.

You can support us by buying a copy of Yarn Spinner, telling us about a YS game, or contracting us to help you develop one πŸ’š
A selfie shows four caucasian people - three men and one woman - all wearing Star Trek garb and gesturing, pointing, or gawking at the thing behind them. Visible over their shoulder is the receiver of the famous Arecibo Radio Telescope. They have the overall vibe of corny Aussie tourists. A picture of the globe from Google Earth has been positioned such that the centre of the frame is on Australia. An arrow has been drawn to the tiny island state hanging off the bottom of Australia, which is labelled Tasmania. A composed asset advertises "Yarn Spinner: the friendly dialogue tool for Unity" and features screenshots of a bunch of cool games which have used it - Frog Detective, Balladins, A Short Hike, Night in the Woods, and Lost in Random. Two tiny shorthair chihuahuas are curled up in a fluffy circular bed. One is black and one is cream, and they are laying top-to-tail, so the overall impression is of a Yin Yang. It is extremely cute.
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more good ex-US confs moving to Canada. you love to see it πŸ’š 2026.fossy.ca
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February 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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SNEAK PEEK πŸ‘€

Nothing official yet but us overhauling the slow old VSCode extension and graph preview has slowly turned into making a whole new Yarn Spinner editor experience...

(will be backported into VScode, plus be in browser, plus electron standalone may allow it on iPad ??? πŸ€”)
A screenshot of an application window is open on a desktop. The app shows the welcome screen for the "Yarn Spinner Playground" app, where you can either create a new project or open an existing one. Projects can be opened from or created in either the local machine storage or GitHub version control. Other controls link to utilities like the Yarn Spinner website, documentation, social media profiles, GitHub, privacy policy, and more. The Yarn Spinner Playground app is open now, showing a file hierarchy and a text editor where a Yarn script is open and a variable is being hovered over to show a tooltip describing its value and use. Yarn Spinner Playground is showing the same Yarn project and script, but now in play mode where a view has popped out the side to allow playing through the conversation. A dropdown at the top shows this view has different style options and can be played forward or rewound backwards, line by line. Yarn Spinner Playground is open to the Insights tab, showing a breakdown of the properties of the open project. It includes details like which other nodes each node jumps to, and the estimated reading level of the script dialogue, as well as the number of nodes, lines, choices, and more.
January 20, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Phonopolis Demo is OUT NOW on Steam!! πŸ“£
store.steampowered.com/app/4109130/...

Take a look at how we built the cardboard city by hand.
February 11, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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That is so freakin' cool. And the end result looks so gooood!
February 11, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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"...we don't live in Chairman Mamdani’s Titoist cycling utopia just yet. Ppl who voluntarily drive in New York City are often NYPost-addled reactionaries who treat driving like the movie Death Race 2K + face no consequences for it bc killing a cyclist is functionally legal if you say 'I’m sowwyyy.'"
papapishu.bsky.social Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social Β· 5h
It took me months, about 495 rides, recovering from a shattered right foot and hacking a folding scooter, but I finally own a Nintendo Switch 2 using points obtained from Citi Bike. Afterwards, it left me questioning the very nature of work. For @aftermath.site.

aftermath.site/switch-2-cit...
February 11, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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Jon gets the last laugh today, as all the Murdoch newspapers he drew cartoons for had to post his obituary asking people to donate to the Bob Brown Foundation πŸ’š
yarnspinner.dev Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev Β· 1d
Our state lost an icon yesterday. Jon Kudelka was a cutting political cartoonist, talented illustrator, and a unique personality. He loved lutruwita/Tasmania, and he never hesitated to stand up for our environment and people on topics big or small.

Rest in Peace, legend ✍️
A recent cartoon by Kudelka about climate change. It portrays across four frames of images and progressive text segments "Everyone has the right to feel safe in their own home". The first shows a home being torn apart by cyclone gusts, the second shows it burned and surrounded by bushfire flames, the third shows the same home in floodwaters so high that its occupants sit on its roof awaiting rescue, the fourth zooms out to show the earth hanging in space, on fire. It punctuates the contrast between the principle of everyone having the right to feel safe in their own home - as underpins many laws in our society - and the fact that in a changing climate, nobody will be safe from the effects even in their homes.
February 11, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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Get to call myself an Inventor though, so that's neat.
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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No joke! I made something during an internship once that the company patented. I had to meet the lawyer to explain it. Never have I been in such an expensive office or building, and yet he spent a bunch of time making smug remarks about how easy his job is.

I was offered $10. Never paid.
February 11, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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DGTO is keeping Australia's lights on for medium to large businesses.

With it entering review following the revive policy concluding, it's important the local industry really makes it loud and clear how massive an accelerant it is for our country's industry.
February 11, 2026 at 6:47 AM
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We all had a good laugh, told him to fuck off, and made lots of great avo toast memes
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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This exact discourse happened in Australia 10 years ago. Time is a circle. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Millionaire tells millennials: if you want a house, stop buying avocado toast
Australian real estate mogul Tim Gurner advised young people to solve their housing woes by putting their β€˜$22 a pop’ toast toward a deposit instead
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:54 AM
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yarnspinner.dev Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev Β· 18h
Me released a study that says nope
The image from the original quoted skeet that contains a list of 40 jobs that Microsoft has apparently decided are most at risk of AI displacement. Every entry has been annotated with a sassy retort, so this is going to get long. Interpreters and Translators: nope. Historians: double fucking nope. Passenger attendants: with what? Robot hands? how will they serve drinks? Sales reps: probably already have. Writers and authors: if you want complete illiterates. Customer service reps: probably already have. CNC tool programmers: do you need machines that work? I feel like you want machines that work. Phone operators: probably already have. Ticket agents and travel clerks: probably already have. Broadcast announcers and radio DJs: nope. Brokerage clerks: nope. Farm/home management educators: doubt it. Telemarketers: probably already have. Concierges: that's what people want, some anime waifu who when you ask what good restaurants are nearby it tells you to (cuts off in rage). Political scientists, news analysts, reporters, journalists, technical writers, proofreaders, copy markers, editors, PR specialists, Data Scientists, Archivists, and Library science teachers: you'll need them more than ever. Mathematicians: fuck off. Hosts and hostesses: robot hands again. Business teachers: what's with these fuckers and teachers? Demonstrators and product promoters: like the infomercial channel? New accounts, counter and rental clerks: old blokes hand-shaking'll never go out of fashion, sadly. Statistics assistants: you know what we need less of in the numerical model future? People who understand numbers! Go f- (cuts off). Personal finance advisors: there are more of these every day. Buddy, if we could make them die out don't you think that we would (cuts off). Web developers: maybe the shits ones. Geographers: Y'all do know it's not just maps, right? Models: "I'll buy this outfit based on how it sits on this imaginary person" said no-one ever. Public safety: just what we need.
February 11, 2026 at 6:38 AM
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February 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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Me released a study that says nope
The image from the original quoted skeet that contains a list of 40 jobs that Microsoft has apparently decided are most at risk of AI displacement. Every entry has been annotated with a sassy retort, so this is going to get long. Interpreters and Translators: nope. Historians: double fucking nope. Passenger attendants: with what? Robot hands? how will they serve drinks? Sales reps: probably already have. Writers and authors: if you want complete illiterates. Customer service reps: probably already have. CNC tool programmers: do you need machines that work? I feel like you want machines that work. Phone operators: probably already have. Ticket agents and travel clerks: probably already have. Broadcast announcers and radio DJs: nope. Brokerage clerks: nope. Farm/home management educators: doubt it. Telemarketers: probably already have. Concierges: that's what people want, some anime waifu who when you ask what good restaurants are nearby it tells you to (cuts off in rage). Political scientists, news analysts, reporters, journalists, technical writers, proofreaders, copy markers, editors, PR specialists, Data Scientists, Archivists, and Library science teachers: you'll need them more than ever. Mathematicians: fuck off. Hosts and hostesses: robot hands again. Business teachers: what's with these fuckers and teachers? Demonstrators and product promoters: like the infomercial channel? New accounts, counter and rental clerks: old blokes hand-shaking'll never go out of fashion, sadly. Statistics assistants: you know what we need less of in the numerical model future? People who understand numbers! Go f- (cuts off). Personal finance advisors: there are more of these every day. Buddy, if we could make them die out don't you think that we would (cuts off). Web developers: maybe the shits ones. Geographers: Y'all do know it's not just maps, right? Models: "I'll buy this outfit based on how it sits on this imaginary person" said no-one ever. Public safety: just what we need.
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 AM
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omg the logo changes every time you load it ❀️
February 11, 2026 at 4:56 AM
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Shit yeah. That's so nice. I say this as #1 Space Mono font hater, so you know I mean it.
February 11, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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I have been immediately informed that this thing was vibe coded. Why can't we ever have anything nice
February 11, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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business in the front, party in the back
Screenshot of that BlueSky map tool which clusters accounts based on following overlap and guesses at your profession/demographics. In this, the user The Martian Life dot com has been highlighted, located at the edge of the "Professional Astronomers & Astrophysicists" cluster. Her bio notes her day job is radio telescope instrumentation but her side hustle is Yarn Spinner and sheeting as the Yarn Spinner account. That same tool, this time highlighting the Yarn Spinner account itself, which is positioned solidly in the very large and dense and bright "Video game industry professionals" cluster.
February 11, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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We always hear cardiovascular disease is a top killer worldwide. In our lifetime, significant progress was made to address lifestyle/healthcare barriers and bring rates down. But then COVID happens, and we're back on the rise; especially among young people.

We've never needed heart research more ❀️
bengelinas.bsky.social Ben Gelinas @bengelinas.bsky.social Β· 1d
From now until the 17th, every penny I get from Speed Dating for Ghosts on Steam goes directly to the dang @americanheart.bsky.social as part of their rad @wholesomegames.com collab. Lots of great games here. <33333 Give that punk who ghosted you some ghosts! store.steampowered.com/curator/4590...
Games With Heart
Share the love this Valentine's Day, and help raise money for the American Heart Association!
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February 11, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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It's a good sign that it's so easy and automatic that they had to write a whole section of their website for if someone was automatically made a citizen by this and _doesn't want to be_.
Captain America meme where he is looking sympathetically at the camera, leaning on one knee. The added caption reads "So you find yourself Canadian..."
February 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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We at Red Rabbit Games are overjoyed to announce that TONIGHT Feb 9th, the Reel Tiny Demo goes LIVE!!

Wishlist TODAY & get the Demo TONIGHT at: store.steampowered.com/app/4194890/...

#reeltiny #indiedev #fishing
February 9, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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β€œPlease enjoy the museum”:

Relooted is OUT NOW!

Please share!
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Another Mackenzie Crook show; another delight. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Small Prophets review – Mackenzie Crook’s magical new comedy is pure, pure pleasure
Wonder lies below the surface of this truly fantastic sitcom from the creator of Detectorists. It’s an impossible marvel of TV making
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February 10, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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(SPOILERS: game story)

I do appreciate a game that has so little subtlety that the main creep character literally has an anus for a face.
Another screenshot from the game Dead Pets. The demon punk bandmates stand around in their practice studio space looking angrily at their assface manager as Brian the drummer tells him to "Get the Fuck Out".
February 9, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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I'm glad people like the idea. It was pitched as a "microgame" with like a 2-month deadline so we did a heck of a lotta late nights designing maps/systems/everything for games which would never exist! But it's a real fun part of gaming history, I think.
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 AM