Yarn Spinner makes tools for planning, writing, managing and delivering your game's dialogue and narrative.
It makes the fiddly bits simple:
Free and paid versions for Unity, Godot (C# and GDScript) and Unreal Engine, with customisable components that fit into any workflow.
See every node in your story and how they connect, in Yarn Spinner for VS Code's graph view. Play any of them without leaving the editor.
Using VSCodium, or another editor that gets its extensions from Open VSX? Yarn Spinner works there too.
Rosa's waiting for a ferry. This is the whole script: press Run, choose what to say to her, and see where it goes.
Play ittitle: Start
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Rosa: Oh, you made it. The ferry's late again.
-> Again?
Rosa: Third time this week. I've started bringing a book.
-> I'll wait with you.
Rosa: Good. The gulls get bold when you're on your own.
Rosa: There it is. Finally.
===Yarn Spinner has official integrations for Unity, Godot and Unreal, each made to work the way that engine does.
Requires Unity 2022.3.x or later.
Requires Godot 4.6 or later.
Requires Unreal Engine 5.7 or later. Using Unreal Engine 4? Contact us at hello@yarnspinner.dev.
Every version of Yarn Spinner comes with free built-in presenters. Classic RPG and Snaaake are included when you buy Yarn Spinner+, and Speech Bubbles and Dialogue Wheel are add-ons for Unity, sold separately.
Built-in presenters
Free
Speech Bubbles
Paid add-on
Dialogue Wheel
Paid add-on
Classic RPG
Included in Yarn Spinner+
Snaaake
Included in Yarn Spinner+
Phone Chat
Free
Visual Novel Kit
Coming soon
For writers
Yarn reads like a screenplay. Add choices, remember what the player did with variables, and play your story as you write it in Yarn Spinner for VS Code.
For writersRosa: Are you here about the lamp?
-> Yes, I heard it went out.
<<set $knows_about_lamp to true>>
-> Just passing through.For programmers
When a script says <<play_sound door_creak>>, Yarn Spinner calls your code. You decide how dialogue looks, and you get the full source.
For programmers[YarnCommand("play_sound")]
public static void PlaySound(string name)
{
AudioManager.Play(name);
}func _yarn_command_play_sound(sound):
AudioManager.play(sound)UFUNCTION(meta=(YarnCommand="play_sound"))
void PlaySound(const TArray<FString>& Args);For localisation and voice
Every line gets an ID. Send translators a spreadsheet, and Yarn Spinner brings their work back in and matches each voice actor's recording to its line.
| Line ID | English | Français |
|---|---|---|
line:ferry_late | Oh, you made it. | Ah, te voilà. |
line:ferry_here | There it is. Finally. | Le voilà. Enfin. |
"Yarn Spinner is the perfect tool for a team like ours, where not only was it easy for developers to integrate, but intuitive for the artist and designer to make large content changes by themselves. Yarn Spinner's versatile command system allowed us to create dynamic cutscenes in Venba that are fully animated with sound and music cues which were run through Yarn Spinner itself. We love it so much that it was one of the first tools we started with in our second game, and we look forward to using even more of it as it continues to grow and evolve!"
"Yarn Spinner has saved me so much time and made dialogue a breeze to add to my games!"
"Letters to Arralla wouldn't be what it is today without Yarn Spinner. Its versatility and customisability was instrumental for so many aspects of our game. While text display is a key feature (and the primary reason we started off with it in the first place), the ability to set up custom commands for Yarn Spinner allowed us to integrate cinematics, UI effects, character emotes/reactions, and a multitude of gameplay systems directly into our yarn files. Our saving system even integrates Yarn Spinner's built in Variable Storage as the primary way to store and load information!"
"We thought to ourselves, "someone must have surely solved dialogues in games by now" and we were right. Yarn Spinner was everything we needed!"
"Yarn Spinner has greatly improved how we tell stories and weave narrative into our game, helping us share something truly heartfelt."
"Acrobatic Chirimenjako used Yarn Spinner to control the narrative throughout the entire story. Without Yarn Spinner, Schrödinger's Call —which earned a MUST-PLAY certification on Metacritic—would never have been possible. For today's indie games, this tool is absolutely indispensable."
Story Solver checks the logic of your story before your players do. It finds soft locks, nodes nobody can reach, and quests that can end up in a state you didn't plan for.
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We love seeing what people make with Yarn Spinner, big or small, shipped or in progress. Tell us about your game and we might feature it here.
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Studios and organisations bring us in to build games, features, and tools. We have capacity for new projects in 2026 and 2027.
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