Yarn Spinner
Narrative game tools for writers, programmers, and everyone in between.
Yarn Spinner is an open-source toolkit for creating dialogue and branching narratives in video games. It provides a scripting language, editor integrations (VS Code), and official engine plugins for Unity, Godot, and Unreal Engine. The toolset covers the full narrative workflow from writing and localization to UI presentation and animation.
Developers write dialogue in the Yarn scripting language using VS Code, then import it into their game engine via official integrations that connect narrative directly to game logic.
game developers, writers, and game designers building narrative games
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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