Yarn Spinner Reviews and details

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• Dialogue system with scriptable objects

  Another option if you don't want to implement it yourself though is to use an already built library. I've been playing with YarnSpinner a little bit recently and I'm liking it so far. I can't give much more details than that, but it's maybe worth a look. At least for some reference. Source: 11 months ago

• Dialogue System Implementations

  I looked into other solutions, but haven't tested them yet: (Ink)[https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/] (Yarn)[https://yarnspinner.dev/]. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to make a Visual Novel 2D and 3D Hybrid, solo?

  I am currently working on a 3d Unity game that uses a classic visual novel interface for conversations with NPCs. I am using Yarnspinner for the VN parts. It's a very powerful and flexible middleware that allows you to write your dialogue trees in a very simple domain-specific language. Source: about 1 year ago

• How to allow replies in dialogue system (unity + C#)

  After writing several own dialogue solutions, I decided to use Yarnspinner as a dialogue scripting solution for my latest project. It's really powerful, flexible and easy to use. I see no reason why I would ever want to invent my own again. It comes with a sample dialogue UI, but the website has a guide for how to create your own. Source: about 1 year ago

• Game dev as a person who enjoys writing stories?

  Find ways to tell those stories without complex mechanics. Visual novels and text adventures are a great example. If you have a budget, hire a good artist and maybe look into voice over actors. If you're short on budget, look into AI to generate images and even to do voice over. As for tools you have Twine, Ink and YarnSpinner, to name s few and, in terms of game engine, don't lose too much time picking one.... Source: over 1 year ago

• I'm trying to redo my dialogue box -- feedback wanted! (left is new, right is old)

  It’s a package for Unity. It handles all the dialogue stuff for you, and gives you software to write dialogue too. You can check it out on their website https://yarnspinner.dev. Source: over 1 year ago

• How to Write Video Game Scripts

  One example of such a markup language is yarnspinner. Another is the language used by Ren'Py. But it is very well possible that whatever project you work on uses something completely different. So a minimum of technical comprehension is required in the business. The only way you can expect a tech guy who translates your writing into whatever markup syntax the game engine requires is if you are some super-celebrity... Source: over 1 year ago

• After 3 years of gamedevelopment & 4 years of researching the subject, we finally uploaded a demo of our Text-Based RPG about Refugees on Steam. The game has a huge 1,200-page script, branched narratives, thousands of dialogue choices and multiple endings. And it's based on real stories of refugees.

  Additionally, we've used the Yarn Spinner tool to script the story, which later was imported into the game engine. Source: over 1 year ago

• After 3 years of developing a game in Godot and 4 years of researching the subject, we finally uploaded a demo of our Text-Based RPG about Refugee 'Ticket to Europe' on Steam. The game has a huge 1,200-page script, branched narratives, thousands of dialogue choices and multiple endings.

  We've used Yarn Spinner for scripting the story. A couple of our developers were already pretty familiar with Twine, which has a very similar interface, so it was the most intuitive option. Source: over 1 year ago

• After 3 years of developing a game in Godot and 4 years of researching the subject, we finally uploaded a demo of our Text-Based RPG about Refugee 'Ticket to Europe' on Steam. The game has a huge 1,200-page script, branched narratives, thousands of dialogue choices and multiple endings.

  We've used the standalone version of Yarn Spinner (it's basically Twine but made specifically for scripting) to script the game and then imported the files into Godot. Worked out pretty good despite the humongous amounts of text the game has. Source: over 1 year ago

• Story Games.

  P.S. Another alternative is to make an interactive story using something like Yarn Spinner or Ink. It would allow you to tell your story in a "choose your own text adventure" format. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there some kind of dialogue\graph editor similar to Twine or Articy:Draft that I can actually export into a JSON to use from inside my engine?

  Https://yarnspinner.dev/ is my go-to, and does all the compiling/localization stuff for you. It's open source so there are some Twine-like tools for node-based script editing, a VS Code plugin. Hope that helps! Source: almost 2 years ago

• Is there a tool for text-based games that is a little more advanced and programming-y than Twine?

  GDC just uploaded a video about Yarn Spinner. Take a look at how it handles variables, and it may be what you're looking for. Its backend is Unity. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's a good android engine for an old-school writer?

  Godot also has addons for Ink or Yarn language support (which is a popular language for writing game dialogue) Godot Yarn Spinner Godot Ink. Source: about 2 years ago

• YarnBound - Dialogue Trees for JavaScript (and bonus React component!)

  Yarn is a simple, writer-friendly language used to describe dialogue trees (think choose-your-own-adventure, or videogame dialogue boxes). Source: over 2 years ago

• Electron vs Unity vs RenPy for Visual Novel

  We used yarn with Unity when making a VN for a game jam. It worked well--it has a decent level of support for Unity already, and as /u/ziptofaf has said having the ability to do things other than pure VN is useful. The extra work was not much--took a few hours to get the basic text components and UI designs set up, and then you just made a prefab and swapped your yarn scripts in and out. Yarn also natively... Source: over 2 years ago

• Game translation annoying things

  I am using Yarn Spinner as a source, and it uses own approach to localization. And I do not follow it in full. So I will do some highlights:. Source: over 2 years ago

• i wanna combine my work with twine and unity, is it possible and how?

  Only if you write an importer that will then require a parser and what not. But yarn spinner seems to be becoming the new thing. I haven't tried it myself but they do have an importer for Unity. Here is the link: https://yarnspinner.dev/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Devs of games heavy on dialog, do you save your dialog in any type of format?

  Last game I worked on we used Yarn to handle dialog. We had about 375 scripts for around 200 unique characters. Yarn files were sorted by locations in the game, and we actually converted them all to plaintext and uploaded them to google drive so that writers could edit them without having to download the repo. We would pull them down and convert them back to Yarn scripts every week to test them in game. Source: over 2 years ago

• Devs of games heavy on dialog, do you save your dialog in any type of format?

  We're using two own systems inspired by https://yarnspinner.dev/. Source: over 2 years ago