📖 THE GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ is out NOW!
www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope
100+ essays on writing & narrative design, with articles from the writers of Baldur's Gate 3, Control, Call of Duty, Prince of Persia, Tomb Raider, Sam and Max...
ALSO the Kaleidoscope Podcast with 2 full eps!
It occurred to to me while working on Cuphead that if you don’t have to keep the entire final sprite in a single texture, and instead can composite different layers, you can achieve further savings. E.g., if you keep flat colours on a different layer to shading and to lines, there’s more redundancy.
I hope it was useful! Happy to answer any questions about it, it’s been sitting in my brain for years now!
We explored using this in Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course, though it ended up not making it into the final release.
I developed an improved version of sprite dicing for Night in the Woods, where we 1. diced up the sprites 2. Identified redundant pieces (both within a frame and across frames) - the GDC talk about it is publicly available www.gdcvault.com/play/1025077...
Following on from our 2026 goals roadmap, we've been doing monthly updates about our work on Yarn Spinner.
Our Feb summary is up now, with links to alpha versions of YS for Unreal, YS for Godot (GDScript), the new VSCode extension, and more.
Check it out! 💚 yarnspinner.dev/blog/monthly...
Chapter 1 of Moby Dick, page 1 The phrase ‘Call me Ishmael’, the first sentence of the book, is highlighted in blue, with careful highlighting on the very big C at the start. Above this, written in ballpoint pen ‘His name’
Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
We're so close to releasing our all-new Yarn Spinner VSCode experience (+ v3.2 for Unity which adds new features for it) but it's a huge amount of changes, and we want to get this right.
Are you actively writing a YS 3.x project in Unity right now? Got a moment to try this version for us? DM us! 💌
We're proud to be using @yarnspinner.dev to help drive our dialogue system in Project Lexa! Check out our game as well as tons of other great projects on the Yarn Spinner showcase! yarnspinner.dev/showcase/pro...
This is the very first game I ever made that actually shipped and was sold for money. I legit never expected to see it running again.
Considering gamedevs work on games more often than they breathe, a more challenging game jam premise would be to explicitly disallow game development for a week. The Literally Anything Else Jam.
my "I ❤️ GATEKEEPING" shirt has people asking questions that they frankly would never even understand the answers to
Tasmania folks! Get on this!!
jenna maroney
sorry i missed the virtual meeting on discord, liz. i got hit with the id verification that happens when the app detects youre young
new blog post about: makin' it easier to integrate elaborate (or not) contextual character animation stuff into gameplay in @sleightofhand.game. Like all the best shit, this is not so much technically impressive as workflowily excellent.
www.joewintergreen.com/contextual-a...
ATTENTION JAMMERS
If you made something with Yarn Spinner for Global Game Jam, show it to me bc I wanna play it!
Big or small, rough or fancy, I'll love them all. Hit me!
@globalgamejam.bsky.social / #GlobalGameJam / #GGJ26 / #GGJ / #GGJ2026 / #GameJam 🎉💚
Following on from our 2026 goals roadmap, we're starting monthly updates about Yarn Spinner.
We've got loads on the go at the moment - Unreal, Unity, Godot, new Editors, new Add-Ons, more - so there's loads to report on.
Check it out! 💚 yarnspinner.dev/blog/monthly...
Good for him. Good for him. Good for. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good for. For. For. For him. Him. Him. Good him. Good him. Good for him.
bria
not something I’d ever thought I’d say and this is possibly the most LinkedIn-ass post I’ve made so far but hot dang these legal policies are pretty great and I’m proud of @hey.paris for doing a good job on them
We put up a big post about Hint Line ‘93, the game we made for the ACMI museum!
yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...
Aurora australis over kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The lights are delicate and shimmering, almost rainbow-like in that many streaks have green and purple throughout. The bright lights of nipaluna/Hobart below light the bottom of the frame. The silhouettes of trees and roofs are visible in the foreground.
Aurora australis, seen looking straight up. The lights take on a blue to purple tint, and the streaks seem to converge right in the center of the frame. The effect is like a huge beam of light shooting down on the viewer. Stars pinprick the image throughout. Almost no part of the image is black, aside from a dark patch near the top left corner, and the silhouette of a tree at the bottom of the image.
Aurora australis over kunanyi/Mount Wellington. The lights are calmer and softer now, and look almost like glowing clouds. A faint purple haze surrounds the green structures. A house is silhouetted in the bottom right of the image, with a cozy warm glow peeking through closed curtains. The lights of nipaluna/Hobart reflect off the river.
Aurora australis over nipaluna/Hobart tonight. Photos by me and my dad in the backyard.
We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI.
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
We backed this on Kickstarter so I've already been playing it for days and can tell you it's super fun and polished.
And you can also get it in a bundle with some other Yarn Spinner hits if for some reason you don't own them already: bsky.app/profile/luck...
[chanting, pounding a controller] big hops, Big Hops, BIG HOPS!-
I just read it and oh my god congrats!!
rectangular acrylic painting against a white background. painting depicts red sand desert dunes, floating in the sky above an oval rainbow with 2 faintly connected stars
desert mitosis, 2024
A teeny tiny cream-coloured chihuahua sits on a bed, looking up at the camera. In front of her lays a log of dogfood that is bigger than she is. On the plastic wrapping, the label shows it is made of Crocodile meat and tapioca and is a veterinarian-only advanced novel protein for dogs with health issues including diabetes, IBS, and dermatitis.
The same photo but now her ears are back and down, like she's nervous. It only makes her look more like a pathetic baby who could never face a crocodile and live.
One of our tiny dogs has been nauseous lately and the vet thinks it's an allergy. As with a human, this means adopting a strict diet of non-allergenic foods + novel proteins to isolate the issue (prescription special-order food).
So that's how I ended up buying 2kg of CROCODILE MEAT for my 2kg dog.
ain't this that communist video game no one shuts up about
