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!

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1. Yarn Spinner
   A language for writing dialogue trees
   

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2. I'm from Secret Lab!
   

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4. Current writing tools
   Usually game specific
   Frequently visual
   

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7. Current writing tools could be better
   

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8. Yarn Spinner!
   

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9. Yarn Spinner
   • An interpreter for the Yarn dialogue
   language
   • Open source
   • p great imo
   

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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
    

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14. It's Better
    • No importing, no laborious visual
    construction
    • Extremely rapid editing
    

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17. More Info
    • lab.to/yarnspinner
    • @desplesda
    • @thesecretlab
    

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