Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
unity
16
Posts
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Incrementing Our Way To Glory
What we learned rewriting Yarn Spinner's source generator as an incremental source generator: no reflection, arbitrary parameter types in commands and functions, and a lot of lessons about Roslyn.
Monthly Update: Jun '26
We automated our release packaging, rewrote our source generator, moved Yarn Spinner for Godot towards beta, built most of Story Solver's backend, kept working on VO tooling, and won an award.
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
Monthly Update: Apr '26
New Yarn Spinner work across Unity, Godot and Unreal, a diagnostics rewrite, a shipped client game, and running our biggest local industry event ever.
Monthly Update: Mar '26
Continuing our monthly updates as we work towards our highly ambitious goals for 2026, this …
Yarn Spinner for Unity 3.2
Version 3.2 of Yarn Spinner for Unity is out now! This release brings mostly small bugfixes and …
Monthly Update: Feb '26
We have a huge amount of work planned for 2026, with more ongoing projects and ambitious goals …
Monthly Update: Jan '26
We recently posted a huge list of goals for Yarn Spinner in 2026 (read the roadmap here) and …
Yarn Spinner in 2026
We’ve been making Yarn Spinner for a decade now. Night in the Woods, DREDGE, A Short …
Yarn Spinner 3.1 is Here
Yarn Spinner 3.1 is out now. This release brings async dialogue runner methods, option …
Yarn Spinner 3 Beta 1
Yarn Spinner 3 Beta 1 introduces significant language features and Unity integration improvements for the narrative scripting tool.
Buy Yarn Spinner
Yarn Spinner is now available for purchase! We’ve been working hard to make it easier for …
Yarn Spinner 3.0: What To Expect
A preview of the major features coming in Yarn Spinner 3.0, including storylets, line groups, smart variables, and enhanced engine integrations.
godot
12
Posts
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Incrementing Our Way To Glory
What we learned rewriting Yarn Spinner's source generator as an incremental source generator: no reflection, arbitrary parameter types in commands and functions, and a lot of lessons about Roslyn.
Monthly Update: Jun '26
We automated our release packaging, rewrote our source generator, moved Yarn Spinner for Godot towards beta, built most of Story Solver's backend, kept working on VO tooling, and won an award.
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
Monthly Update: Apr '26
New Yarn Spinner work across Unity, Godot and Unreal, a diagnostics rewrite, a shipped client game, and running our biggest local industry event ever.
GodotCon 2026
We were really hoping to make the journey from Tasmania to GodotCon Amsterdam 2026 this year, …
Monthly Update: Mar '26
Continuing our monthly updates as we work towards our highly ambitious goals for 2026, this …
Monthly Update: Feb '26
We have a huge amount of work planned for 2026, with more ongoing projects and ambitious goals …
Monthly Update: Jan '26
We recently posted a huge list of goals for Yarn Spinner in 2026 (read the roadmap here) and …
Yarn Spinner in 2026
We’ve been making Yarn Spinner for a decade now. Night in the Woods, DREDGE, A Short …
update
10
Posts
A Strange Day to Win the Adam Lancman Award
Or "all the people I would have thanked in my speech if my dog wasn't dying that day".
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Monthly Update: Jun '26
We automated our release packaging, rewrote our source generator, moved Yarn Spinner for Godot towards beta, built most of Story Solver's backend, kept working on VO tooling, and won an award.
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
Monthly Update: Apr '26
New Yarn Spinner work across Unity, Godot and Unreal, a diagnostics rewrite, a shipped client game, and running our biggest local industry event ever.
Monthly Update: Mar '26
Continuing our monthly updates as we work towards our highly ambitious goals for 2026, this …
Monthly Update: Feb '26
We have a huge amount of work planned for 2026, with more ongoing projects and ambitious goals …
Monthly Update: Jan '26
We recently posted a huge list of goals for Yarn Spinner in 2026 (read the roadmap here) and …
editor
9
Posts
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
Monthly Update: Apr '26
New Yarn Spinner work across Unity, Godot and Unreal, a diagnostics rewrite, a shipped client game, and running our biggest local industry event ever.
Monthly Update: Mar '26
Continuing our monthly updates as we work towards our highly ambitious goals for 2026, this …
Monthly Update: Feb '26
We have a huge amount of work planned for 2026, with more ongoing projects and ambitious goals …
Monthly Update: Jan '26
We recently posted a huge list of goals for Yarn Spinner in 2026 (read the roadmap here) and …
Yarn Spinner in 2026
We’ve been making Yarn Spinner for a decade now. Night in the Woods, DREDGE, A Short …
unreal
9
Posts
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
Monthly Update: Apr '26
New Yarn Spinner work across Unity, Godot and Unreal, a diagnostics rewrite, a shipped client game, and running our biggest local industry event ever.
Monthly Update: Mar '26
Continuing our monthly updates as we work towards our highly ambitious goals for 2026, this …
Monthly Update: Feb '26
We have a huge amount of work planned for 2026, with more ongoing projects and ambitious goals …
Monthly Update: Jan '26
We recently posted a huge list of goals for Yarn Spinner in 2026 (read the roadmap here) and …
Yarn Spinner in 2026
We’ve been making Yarn Spinner for a decade now. Night in the Woods, DREDGE, A Short …
core
6
Posts
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Incrementing Our Way To Glory
What we learned rewriting Yarn Spinner's source generator as an incremental source generator: no reflection, arbitrary parameter types in commands and functions, and a lot of lessons about Roslyn.
Monthly Update: Jun '26
We automated our release packaging, rewrote our source generator, moved Yarn Spinner for Godot towards beta, built most of Story Solver's backend, kept working on VO tooling, and won an award.
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
story-solver
5
Posts
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
Monthly Update: Aug '26
Lots of events. We also fixed some build failures, built a way to test Yarn Spinner, kept rewriting action dispatch, did more work on Story Solver, and won a debate.
Monthly Update: Jul '26
We rebuilt how Yarn Spinner understands commands and functions, finished porting samples to Godot, shipped a pile of editor features, and more...
Monthly Update: Jun '26
We automated our release packaging, rewrote our source generator, moved Yarn Spinner for Godot towards beta, built most of Story Solver's backend, kept working on VO tooling, and won an award.
Monthly Update: May '26
April was eaten almost entirely by running Level Up Tasmania (worth it! It’s fantastic to …
games
3
Posts
Hine Line '93 for ACMI
We pitched ACMI a 1993 game hint line simulator with a 300-page physical binder. They said yes.
2025 Indie Game Awards
We were thrilled to see the Finalists for this year’s Indie Game Awards announced a few …
I Feel Fine
We’re thrilled to announce that our next game, I Feel Fine, is nearly finished! I Feel …
aprilfools
2
Posts
Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner
Watch the announcement video →
You’ve been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an …
Yarn Spinner for Books
You already know that Yarn Spinner is one of the most powerful, flexible and innovative tools …
awards
2
Posts
A Strange Day to Win the Adam Lancman Award
Or "all the people I would have thanked in my speech if my dog wasn't dying that day".
2025 Indie Game Awards
We were thrilled to see the Finalists for this year’s Indie Game Awards announced a few …
addons
1
Post
Monthly Update: Sep '26
Beta updates, Unity progress, new Add-Ons, and more. We're also unveiling the first look at our new docs site, and are ready to show off Story Solver at upcoming events.
ethics
1
Post
Why We Don't Use AI
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we …
guide
1
Post
Saliency and State Mutation
Recently we had a question about saliency systems, and I wrote up a quick example about a quirk …
preview
1
Post
Yarn Spinner 3.0: What To Expect
A preview of the major features coming in Yarn Spinner 3.0, including storylets, line groups, smart variables, and enhanced engine integrations.
roadmap
1
Post
Yarn Spinner in 2026
We’ve been making Yarn Spinner for a decade now. Night in the Woods, DREDGE, A Short …