Yarn Spinner - Write the Docs Portland 2016 Lightning Talk

Yarn Spinner is a tool for writing interactive dialog trees. This talk is a quick summary of what it is, and what it's good for!

Transcript

1. Yarn Spinner A language for writing dialogue trees
2. I'm from Secret Lab!
4. Current writing tools Usually game specific Frequently visual
7. Current writing tools could be better
8. Yarn Spinner!
9. Yarn Spinner • An interpreter for the Yarn dialogue language • Open source • p great imo
11. Writing Yarn • Yarn is based on Twine, a tool for writing interactive fiction • In Yarn, you write your dialogue and choices in a text file • This file is a script that's directly executed
14. It's Better • No importing, no laborious visual construction • Extremely rapid editing
17. More Info • lab.to/yarnspinner • @desplesda • @thesecretlab