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🎉 YARN SPINNER 3 IS OUT NOW 🎉 for Unity, Godot, VSCode + try.yarnspinner.dev Including: - Storylets, enums, simple "run this bit only once" syntax - Better variables, easier-to-customise views - Bugfixes + QoL improvements galore - All-new docs + guides Check it out at yarnspinner.dev/v3 💚

David Dunham

@radiofreelunch.bsky.social

16 May 2025

Looks cool! If this had been available 5 years ago I wouldn’t have had to write my own.

Yarn Spinner Tool

@yarnspinner.dev

16 May 2025

We’ve actually been working on this for nearly 10 years now. Our first public version released on GitHub even before the first Yarn Spinner game it was made for (Night in the Woods) released. It just takes time to get the word out! 😆

David Dunham

@radiofreelunch.bsky.social

17 May 2025

I think I asked about storylet support 5 years ago, and ended up modeling a bit of my language on Yarn. Version 3 looks like a huge jump. And I wish I had your support for tooling!

Yarn Spinner Tool

@yarnspinner.dev

Oh gosh, I think 5 years ago we were still rewriting our compiler to get out away from the complete fragility of 1.x 😆 We’re lucky now we’ve really strengthened the internals and the modularised different components now we get to concentrate on the fun stuff! 🎉

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Yarn Spinner Tool

@yarnspinner.dev

17 May 2025

We’d love to hear about your tool, too. I keep an eye on all the Yarn derivatives, promote their stuff and often get inspired by their additions.

David Dunham

@radiofreelunch.bsky.social

18 May 2025

It’s a very domain specific DSL, and the game hasn’t been announced yet. I really liked the “like a screenplay” approach (though I relaxed this slightly in the interest of implementation speed), compared to my previous DSL which was more like a programming language.