Yarn Spinner is the friendly tool for writing dialogue in games. It's easy for writers to use, and has powerful features for programmers.
Yarn Spinner is a dialogue system that lets you write interactive conversations in a simple, screenplay-like format, which can be loaded into your game and run.
When a conversation is running, Yarn Spinner sends your game lines of dialogue to show, options to let the player choose from, and commands to make things happen in your scene.
Yarn Spinner has been used in thousands of amazing games, including Night in the Woods, A Short Hike, Lost in Random, Dredge, Frog Detective, Button City, Escape Academy, Baladins, and Unbeatable.
It's free to download and use for free and commercial games, and is open source under the terms of the MIT License.
This repo contains the Unity integration; you can find the core Yarn Spinner compiler in its own repository.
Installation instructions, documentation, tutorials, plus additional information is available in the Yarn Spinner documentation.
For help, support, discussion, and chill community times, come and join the Yarn Spinner Discord!
Yarn Spinner is developed by Secret Lab, along with a huge community of contributors.
The logo was made by Cecile Richard.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. Yarn Spinner's development is made possible in part by NYU Game Center.
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