Become a sponsor to Yarn Spinner
Yarn Spinner is a spinoff company from award-winning game development studio, Secret Lab.
Secret Lab originally built Yarn Spinner while working on BAFTA- and IGF-winning hit, Night in the Woods. The Yarn Spinner company was funded by Secret Lab, and spun-off to allow Secret Lab to focus on its core activities (making games), and Yarn Spinner to focus on its (making tools).
Yarn Spinner is based in beautiful Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and is led by Dr Jon Manning, Dr Tim Nugent, and Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison, with help from Mars Buttfield-Addison.
The Yarn Spinner team is happy to consult on narrative, Yarn Spinner technologies, or integrate with your team to implement features, narrative systems, and Yarn Spinner.
Your sponsorship helps to support us to keep building and adding features and making the core of Yarn Spinner free and open source.
You can download Yarn Spinner from the various GitHub repositories, or purchase it from Itch.io or the Unity Asset Store.
Find us on Bluesky at @yarnspinner.dev and join the Yarn Spinner Community Discord!
Meet the team
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Jon Manning desplesdaI'm the Narrative Technologies Lead at @YarnSpinnerTool, where we build the best tools for storytelling that the world has ever seen.
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Tim Nugent McJonesDevelopment lead @YarnSpinnerTool Has a PhD in mobile HCI. Herds the small gremlins that live in computers.
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Paris Stelios Efthimiadis Buttfield-Addison parisbaMaking games @thesecretlab, building @YarnSpinnerTool. Writer of many @oreillymedia books. Husband of @TheMartianLife. Chihuahua butler.
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Mars Buttfield-Addison TheMartianLifePhD Candidate (Computer Engineering) at University of Tasmania in radio telescope processing. Freelancer in app + gamedev. Helper at @YarnSpinnerTool 💚
Featured work
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YarnSpinnerTool/YarnSpinner
Yarn Spinner is a tool for building interactive dialogue in games!
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YarnSpinnerTool/YarnSpinner-Unity
The official Unity integration for Yarn Spinner, the friendly dialogue tool.
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YarnSpinnerTool/VSCodeExtension
The Visual Studio Code extension for Yarn Spinner.
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