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Yarn Spinner is a set of friendly tools for writing interactive narratives and games.

Yarn Spinner is easy for writers to use, but also has powerful features for programmers, game designers, narrative directors, producers, and more.

Yarn Spinner is used in thousands of amazing games, including Rift of the Necrodancer, Night in the Woods, A Short Hike, Lost in Random, Dredge, Frog Detective, Button City, Escape Academy, Baladins, and Unbeatable.

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Scripting Fundamentals

Advanced Scripting

Yarn Spinner for Unity

Unity Add-Ons

Community Discord

Show us your game

Crediting Yarn Spinner

FAQ

Story Solver

Yarn Spinner for Godot

Yarn Spinner for Unreal

What to do next

1

Join the Yarn Spinner Discord

Join our friendly community Discord before you start working with Yarn Spinner. It's the best place to keep up to date, get support and advice, and share what you're working on

2

Read the Beginner's Guide

Yarn Spinner includes a narrative scripting language, Yarn, that allows you to write your game narratives, quests, and logic in a friendly format. The Beginner's Guide will start you off on your path to learning Yarn Spinner.

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Use Yarn Spinner in Unity, Godot, or Unreal

Once you're comfortable writing Yarn Scripts, you can integrate Yarn Scripts with a game engine, such as Unity, Godot, or Unreal. Buy one of our useful add-ons, too, if you need it!

4

Build a Game

Simply draw the rest of the owl.

5

Tell us about your game and Credit Yarn Spinner

We'd love to hear about your game, and show it off when we talk about awesome Yarn Spinner-powered games. And please, don't forget to include a credit for Yarn Spinner!

Yarn Spinner powers amazing games, including:

DREDGE

A Short Hike

Lil' Guardsman

Demonschool

Little Kitty Big City

Rift of the Necrodancer

Venba

Unbeatable

Luma Island

NORCO

Night in the Woods

ENA: Dream BBQ

... use it to power your game too!