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Yarn Spinner
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Your friendly tool for dialogue! Plugins for Unity, Godot, Unreal (Beta) + more! Made by best mates who have worked on beloved titles from Night in the Woods to Demonschool 💚
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Also, if you show up in our help Discord to complain the Yarn Spinner code ChattieG gave you doesn't work, you get the laser
A meme image often associated with "silence, brand" in response to brand accounts being sassy online (ironic, heh). It depicts a crab with long spindly legs that has been photoshopped to have laser-emitting eyes. The lasers are directed at a smaller crab, which is then exploding. A caption at the top reads "silence," but in this version, no target is given.
January 13, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Box art for the film Gattaca with Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, in which a young man is forced to undergo serious surgeries and steal an identity to circumvent policies of a future government that grant different rights and opportunities based on someone's genetics at birth. In this artwork, the text other than the title have been removed to show a composed image depicting the two main actors' faces beside a planet colliding with a cell.
January 13, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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It was a _small_ shark. Maybe a Leopard Shark not quite fully grown?

(Not my pictures)
A small shark is photographed top-down against a sandy sea floor. It is maybe 1.2 metres long, mostly in long narrow tail. It has softly pointed pins and is a tan brown colour, covered in spots that resemble a Leopard's. The same kind of shark is now pictured in some sort of guided "swim with the sharks" scenario. Some people are in a shallow tank with this shark, seemingly holding things out to it underwater as it swims around them.
January 12, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Today's office lunch is soft tacos in honour of Tim Sweeney
A messy table is covered in devices and cables. A small corner has been cleared to make space for all the pieces required to make soft tacos - a large container of plant-based mince with jalapeños and capsicums and onions, a bag of pre-chopped lettuce, shredded cheese, and multiple salsas. Small plates scattered around show soft tacos in various stages of assembly. Jon from Yarn Spinner is pulling a silly YouTube Thumbnail face as he eats a soft taco.
January 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
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One of our tiny dogs has been nauseous lately and the vet thinks it's an allergy. As with a human, this means adopting a strict diet of non-allergenic foods + novel proteins to isolate the issue (prescription special-order food).

So that's how I ended up buying 2kg of CROCODILE MEAT for my 2kg dog.
A teeny tiny cream-coloured chihuahua sits on a bed, looking up at the camera. In front of her lays a log of dogfood that is bigger than she is. On the plastic wrapping, the label shows it is made of Crocodile meat and tapioca and is a veterinarian-only advanced novel protein for dogs with health issues including diabetes, IBS, and dermatitis. The same photo but now her ears are back and down, like she's nervous. It only makes her look more like a pathetic baby who could never face a crocodile and live.
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 AM
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Working on something.
Jon wears stands against a greenscreen holding a gold Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time cartridge and a grey Nintendo 64 controller. He’s wearing a black Yarn Spinner vest, a white buttoned shirt, and a black baseball cap.
January 3, 2026 at 8:44 AM
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These are of course in addition to existing Formations, which include:

- Yin Yang
- Body Glom
- Reverse Body Glom
- Noses
One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua share a donut-shaped bed. They are both curled up top-to-tail, creating a Yin Yang-like shape. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are curled up asleep on a pile of cushions. But the larger one is kind of curled up on and around the smaller one. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua look guilty almost as they gaze out from inside a fluffy cave bed. The larger one is curled up comfy, but the smaller one is kind of glommed on top of her back end. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are sleep in a fluffy bed, with just their noses visible side-by-side off the end.
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Yarn Spinner Co. is off work until Christmas. So far, we've spent all our time doing YS stuff anyway for fun 😬

The office dogs have used the extra time at home to dream up some new, weirder pair formations to assume, including: non-consensual spooning, the Head Stack, judgemental gazing, and more!
One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are asleep sharing a donut-shaped bed. Their positions give the impression that the smaller one was curled up on the bed and the larger one climbed fully atop her and around, kind of pinning the small one down with a leg over her into an uncomfortable-looking spooning formation. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are asleep on a soft blanket. The smaller one is asleep in a normal position, straight with her feet tucked under. But the larger one is asleep beside her and has bent herself at a weird angle to rest her head fully atop the smaller one's head and has fallen asleep like that. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are awake as if just woken, and looking to the camera from their snuggly spot among blankets. The bigger one is behind the smaller one, with one arm draped over her. They are both laying half-upright on their sides which looks kinda sassy or judgemental to the human wielding the camera. One small black and one smaller cream chihuahua are fast asleep again. The smaller one is curled up normally, but the larger one is bent so that she can rest her head on the side of the other.
December 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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So many Yarn Spinner games in the @indiegameawards.gg finalists this year, three of which won their categories! Congrats y'all 🏆🎉
A composed graphic has been made to emulate the purple-and-gold visual style of the Indie Game Awards promo tiles. This one is titled "Yarn Spinner Finalists" and shows the games using Yarn Spinner that were named finalists across several categories of the Awards. Discounty for Debut Game, After Love EP for Emotional Impact and Southeast Asian Indie Game, Freeride for the Innovation category, Adventure of Samsara and Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo for Latin American Indie Game, Rift of the Necodancer for the Music category - which it won. Tall Trails for Solo Dev, which it won. Mashine and 30 Birds for Visual Design, which 30 Birds won. And Cabernet and Gemporium for Women-Led games.
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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truth
The comic in the quoted post depicts a character progressing along a line. It is titled "The Creative Process". Traversing along the line, the figure starts at normal level, cheerful and saying "I'm just had the best idea". Then, with the ground lowering a bit, "This isn't as simple as I expected". Lowering into a darker low point labelled "the swamp of despair (this part sucks)", the figure is severely troubled, saying "this sucks, I suck, why am I wasting my time?". But a label reads "don't give up" and the ground soon picks up, and with determination the figure is crawling out of the pit "it's not perfect but I'm gonna finish", they say. Then, arriving at the top again "it's done. I lived?" and then as they strut - seemingly forgetting the hardship - they say "this turned out pretty good". In this shitty hand-edit, the title has been changed to "the PhD process". In this version, the swamp is much longer, and in the middle the figure appears to have perished. But upon reaching the much more distant escape of high ground, their strut off after success features an appropriate Tudor bonnet.
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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This game looks great but we're also super busy making memes about that map in the group chat.

Tag yourselves, we're from
The trailer in the main post showed a simplified stylised world map, in which many landmasses are merged, distorted or missing. Here, just the Australia via has been cropped to show it has been simplified in shape and the mainland has been merged with its island state Tasmania, forming a single strange lump. On it has been drawn the silhouette of a kangaroo, presumably to denote Australia. To the East of it is a single lump that is longer than it is wide and is slightly rotated clockwise from the North-South axis. One must assume this is New Zealand?
December 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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same thing
A composite shows four images: on the left is a whole-body shot and a zoomed headshot of the same grimey-looking young man with long black hair and an edgy scowl. Fans might recognise this as the protagonist of the game Dishonored, Corvo Attano. On the right are a similar two shots of the same man but older - Corvo from Dishonored 2. In this version he is much better-dressed and his shorter hair is graying. The short beard he has grown and the scars on his face make him look less edgy and more actually tough.
December 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I'm sorry but from now on if any of y'all game devs are making trailers that start with panning around a mountainous landscape, I'm gonna need you to go ahead and
A screenshot of the online stream of The Game Awards event. It shows a moment when the main screen began showing the trailer for Highguard - beginning with a wide landscape shot centred on a large fantasy-looking mountain on a misty coastline. In this version, a large rubber stamp watermark has been added which reads "Not the Elder Scrolls 6" such that it cannot be missed.
December 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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"Epic Handshake Meme" shows two very muscled arms clasped into a gesture of solidarity and friendship. In this version, captions have been added to each side such that the two parties bonding are "Yarn Spinner Devs" and "Yarn Spinner Devs".
December 11, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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I'm sure most people have these nice co-ordinated spaces, but the Yarn Spinner office is just a nerd nest where us game/science geeks make software for games + science. It's a cluttered shrine to space and games, made up of reference books, merch, and old signed game boxes.
An Ikea cube bookshelf stands in the corner of an office, packed full of books inside and lego models on top. The books span space topics from the golden record and rockets to how earth formed and how we land things on comets, including a number of children's space titles, as well as many reference books on video game design, art, and programming. The LEGO models show a Hubble Space Telescope, a Space Shuttle, a Saturn 5, and a bunch of smaller pieces of the Mars rover Sojourner and its descent casing. A smaller IKEA bookshelf sits in the corner of a similarly-coloured room, covered in a mix of sci-fi and reference books about games, media and space. Atop the shelf is another LEGO model, this time of the Mars Rover Perseverance (including a tiny Ingenuity copter), as well as signed game boxes for Deux Ex and Myst and a bunch of game models from Night in the Woods. An extremely cluttered pair of black bookshelves are stacked with Nintendo Switch games, sci-fi novels, and reference books on every topic from automotive design to qualitative research methods. Between books are many random objects - dog toys, party hats, game figurines, promotional fliers, stationery, game controllers, dice, an air quality monitor, a reusable coffee cup, and N95 mask parts, to name just a few. More signed game boxes, this time from Planetary Annihilation and Broken Age, sit atop, with some Nintendo Labo cardboard models. A pair of industrial metal shelves - the kind people have in their garages - are stacked full of mostly board games and whiskey. On one of the shelves, some space has been cleared to fit a small PC attached to a very old network switch.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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ours is a bit weird-looking, but still good
A photo is taken from the perspective of a person laying in bed with a lap desk on their lap. A laptop sits atop, showing code that can't be read. Beside it is a cup of tea, and a fluffy donut pet bed from which a teeny tiny cream-coloured chihuahua is emerging - suddenly interested in what is happening on the laptop screen.
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Demonschool came out last week. Skate Story yesterday. UNBEATABLE today.

Unity awards happened overnight, with DREDGE winning Best Mobile Game + Tiny Bookshop named runner-up for Best Desktop/Console.

We're going to lose our voices from all the hootin' and hollerin' in the Yarn Spinner office 🎉🥂🍾💚
Screenshot from the livestream of the 17th Unity Awards shows the moment when the animation switches from showing finalists in a category to filling the screen with the word "WINNER" to announce the winner.
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Did you know that Yarn Spinner tests and deploys all our software on some old PCs a friend found in a dumpster? 🗑️🔥

We entered a competition to win $5000 to buy better gear, so we can test and deploy to more storefronts and platforms. Now we need YOUR VOTE 🫵 Help us out? 💚 woobox.com/fw8p3z/galle...
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I was reading about this game the other day and it was creepy so I stopped and kind of forgot about it. Closing tabs today I came across this view and was momentarily very confused and afraid.
The bottom of the Horses game website is shown. Where it is scrolled to, only the last line of the bright red page's text is visible before a creepy picture of a man sneering and a horse with a metal slave collar on. The line reads "please consider stepping away and reaching out to someone you trust".
November 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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The Berlin Apartment, Moonlighter 2 (Early Access) AND Demonschool all released in the last day or two?!

We really are spoiled to have so many talented devs working with our tools and creating such bangers. Cheers, mates 🍻

🪟 @bluebackpack.bsky.social
⚔️ @digitalsungames.com
😈 @necrosoftgames.com
Screenshot of The Berlin Apartment. An older bald man with a beard and moustache looks sadly at himself in the bathroom mirror under a dim red light. He says to only himself "Oh, Josef... you're not getting any younger". Screenshot of Moonlighter 2. The player character Will has run up to a group of characters including Zenon. The others look shocked or annoyed at him, while Zenon turns to say "We were so worried [about you]!". Screenshot of Demonschool. The player character Faye is standing talking to her closest friends Namako, Knute and Destin. She looks thoughtful as she asserts to them "I'm pretty sure [what's going on] is demonic possession".
November 19, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The same text "Yarn Spinner for Narrative Games", now stylised as the campaign materials of Kat Abughazaleh who is running for 2026 Congress in Illinois' 9th District.
November 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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ahem
Mamdani-style branding that says "Yarn Spiner for Narrative Games"
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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A truly excellent panel at Technically Games on the future of the games industry, and how it’s increasingly important to focus on the sustainability not only of your own career, but also of making and selling games. #MIGW
Maize Wallin, Sarah Pavlich, Neil Rennison and Kay-Lynn Cavanagh sit on stage and discuss, while a large audience sits and listens. Anniemay Parker stands holding a microphone while asking a question of the panel.
October 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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We’re at Technically Games, and we’re already impressed with ways they’ve helped to improve the accessibility of the event, including having an Auslan interpreter! #MIGW
Anniemay Parker a woman with medium length brown curly hair and wearing a grey blouse, stands presenting a talk. The slide reads “How I Stay Relevant Through Burnout, Layoffs, and a Never-Ending Job Hunt.” A second woman stands to the side, speaking in Auslan.
October 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM