Yarn Spinner for Unity

Yarn Spinner is the narrative tool used in award winning and amaznig games like DREDGE, Rift of the Necrodancer, Demonschool, Lost in Random, Night in the Woods, A Short Hike, Dredge, Frog Detective Trilogy, Button City, and many more.

"Yarn Spinner transforms interactive storytelling from a chore to a joy." - Ryan North ("MARVEL's Unbeatable Squirrel Girl", "Adventure Time", "Romeo And/Or Juliet", "Destiny 2")

Try Yarn Spinner in your browser, right now, and see how easy it is to write a branching dialogue!

Yarn Spinner makes it easy to create, localise, and integrate interactive and branching narrative, dialogue, and conversations into your games. With Yarn Spinner, writers can focus on their writing while still being able to direct control over characters, trigger game events, and manage your entire story (and all of its state). Yarn Spinner allows for incredible flexibility at every stage of your game!

Yarn Spinner provides a complete solution, including UIs, localisation, voice-over, and save and load support. You'll receive the full (and fully documented) C# source code.

Yarn Spinner is designed to be highly customised and extended to meet the needs of your game.

Yarn Spinner 3 is the latest and greatest, building on a decade of game tooling support, and includes new features like the once command, for you to indicate lines that should only ever run once (it's a clever name, right?), detours, allowing you to jump to different nodes then return to the original node, smart variables to store values that are based on other variables, enumerations and more. Yarn Spinner 3 also includes powerful features for storylets and saliency, including node groups and line groups!

We also include a large number of sample projects, which show off the different aspects and features of Yarn Spinner, including custom UI for dialogue, building a phone chat-style view, background chatter, conversation options that time out, saliency and storylets, text stying, and more!.

Yarn Spinner is the ideal dialogue solution for every member of your team:

For writers:

• create branching stories
• minimal syntax screenplay-alike format
• easy interaction via options
• graph view for visualising flow
• use commands for controlling the game
• easy line metadata via tags

For programmers:

• full C# source code included
• full API docs
• automatic linking of commands to method calls
• text based story format for easy version control
• overridable behaviours for customisation

For the team:

• localisation-first workflow
• voice-over support
• import and export of recording voice sheets
• automatic line tagging

Welcome to Yarn Spinner. We can't wait to see what you've made.

For more details check out the documentation site.

For help and to hang out with fellow Yarn Spinner users please join our Discord.

Yarn Spinner includes certain third-party components licensed under the MIT, Apache 2.0, and BSD licenses. See the file Third-Party Notices.txt in the package for details.