If you're new to Yarn Spinner, or want a refresher on getting started or navigating the documentation, then this is the place to be.
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.
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
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.
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!
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!
... use it to power your game too!
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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
Yarn Spinner 3 came out on 16 May 2025! Celebrate!
Yarn Spinner 3 is out! It's the culmination of 10 years of Yarn Spinner development, taking inspiration from how people use Yarn Spinner in wildly successful and amazing games like DREDGE, Lil' Guardsman, A Short Hike, and Demonschool.
For the development of Yarn Spinner 3, stewardship of Yarn Spinner moved from our original game development studio, Secret Lab, to a whole new entity focused solely on Yarn Spinner development. It's now our primary job!
Yarn Spinner is developed in the open on GitHub, and can be purchased from the Yarn Spinner Itch.io Store or the Unity Asset Store.
Yarn Spinner 3 introduces so many improvements and new things, and makes writing complex interactive narratives easier than ever.
Get started with Yarn Spinner 3 via the Beginner's Guide!
... use it to power your game too!
