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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 21h

We're soon travelling to events in 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia (GCAP) 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand (gamescom) 🇩🇪 Munich, Germany (GodotFest) 🇬🇧 London, UK (AdventureX) We love meeting new people and talking narrative games + tools, no matter your toolchain. Book a chat! 👉 yarnspinner.dev/events/

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Events | Yarn Spinner

Events the Yarn Spinner team is going to, and has been to.

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 21h

If you're a publisher of studios using YS that you'd love to support better, we can help. If you're a studio in need of some co-dev extras - particularly in game systems or dev tools - we can help. If you just want to make the connection and don't have a specific ask, we love that too! 💚

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 21h

You use Yarn Spinner? Great! We'd love to know how, and anything we can do to make it better for you. You would like to use YS in the future? Great! Tell us what you need to make the switch possible. You're devoted to some other tool? Great! We always want to know more about what people look for.

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GodotFest - GodotCon Europe 26 @godotfest.com · 27/09/2026

Tickets for GodotFest 2026 are still 30% off until 1 October. After Wednesday, only Late Bird tickets are available. Two days in Munich, 3 and 4 November. Talks and panels, time to meet other developers, food and drinks included. Secure yours today: godotfest.com #godotengine #conference #munich

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 29/09/2026

🗣️ this weekend!

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 28/09/2026

SUPER EXCITED to say that I'll be speaking at @roguelike.club about making HINT LINE '93, the silly game that @yarnspinner.dev, @themartianlife.com, and @firkraags.bsky.social made with talented Tasmanian actors' photos as callers for @acmimuseum.bsky.social! www.roguelike.club/event2026.ht...

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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 28/09/2026

genuinely beginning to feel like the folks who are pro data centres in tasmania must be collectively subject to some kind of gas leak that impacts their cognition #politas

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 28/09/2026

Has Microsoft broken something about VSCode's JS debugger or is it just broken for me?

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 27/09/2026

Why has nobody made a Frasier game using Yarn Spinner?

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 27/09/2026

my wife, @themartianlife.com, in the distance, in our kitchen: "sosig" me: "Did you just say sosig?" mars: "humans need sosig"

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"Food" Thoyd @spaceplans.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

All the women are just out of frame, laughing too

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 26/09/2026

Any guides on turning all this Apple Intelligence crap off?

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 25/09/2026

Today a Federal Senator is playing Fortnite from our office studio. Life is weird.

A white man playing a PS5 game in a office chair on a green screen with a boom mic above him

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 24/09/2026

What's the best way to run a windows vm on Linux these days?

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 24/09/2026

spent way too long today making a hugo shortcode/layout that lets me render a Godot scene tree for our docs great success!

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 24/09/2026

Why the hell is macOS suggesting filenames with AI now? What fresh hell is this?

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 23/09/2026

Some great games, including many Yarn Spinner games such as Middle Management, Slumbering Woods, Canvas City, Apothecurse! Go check them out at ACMI during Games Week!

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 21/09/2026

why would i ever want to ask gemini anything

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 20/09/2026

Don't forget to come talk to us at #GCAP26! Keep us company! yarnspinner.dev/events/gcap-2...

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 20/09/2026

There's regularly been a guy at my gym lately, at 6AM, eating a supermarket roast chicken out of the bag.

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Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) @gcapconf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Writers and Narrative designers - kick off GCAP by meeting your fellow writers at the writers room networking hour, and forge some friendships to lead you through the rest of the conference! In the lead up to GCAP, we're bringing you a new itinerary each day. ow.ly/M35S50ZPrcN

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 20/09/2026

He is 13.5, and is the most loving old fellow. He was the silliest puppy and he is a sensible old man now.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 20/09/2026

Considering fully shaving my head. Sick of thinking about hair.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 18/09/2026

fortunately we have a property manager who is on the ball and responsive Ahahahahah

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 18/09/2026

what a cool free water feature 🙃

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 18/09/2026

Second time this week our office has flooded after the building was recently bought by Property Investment Influencers. I wish I was joking.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 18/09/2026

I deeply covet the iPhone Duo, but it’s a first gen and I’ll probably just break it, and it’s so so expensive. Alas.

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 17/09/2026

it's a great time to tell us about your Yarn Spinner game! yarnspinner.dev/tell-us

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Tell Us About Your Project | Yarn Spinner

Share your Yarn Spinner project with us

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 17/09/2026

Been doing a bit of Swift+SwiftUI again, and dang is it fast to get somewhere.

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 16/09/2026

Examples of good reasons to book a meeting with us during #GCAP26: • you've used Yarn Spinner • you want to use Yarn Spinner • you don't use Yarn Spinner + would like to tell us why • you haven't seen us in a while and would like to • you just like Tasmanians, game devs, coffee, or sharing dog pics

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 16/09/2026

It's 1995, and you're one of the last employees at a video game hint line. And the calls have started getting weird. Hint Line '95, the sequel to the smash-hit art installation we made on a whim, just got funded by @screentasmania.bsky.social! www.screen.tas.gov.au/funding/appr...

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No one will ever know that we were here @theneogrotesque.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Everyone loves the Happiest Tram Driver in Melbourne. Ahhh wait I am receiving new information... The tram driver is racist.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/09/2026

A bloke walks out of Woolworths with a trolley of meat. In court he explains that the meat wasn’t chained to the shelf, that aisle four had no security gate, and that he checked the door for a sign reading “please do not take the meat” and couldn’t find one. All good, I guess?

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/09/2026

ah well, time to stop outputting creatively if they do this, I guess.

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 16/09/2026

spineless shits "deputy prime minister Richard Marles, said the federal government was “working at a pace” to respond to the issue of copyright, and maintained that the opportunity to work with US tech giants was a “significant moment for the country”." #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Labor accused of throwing creatives ‘under the bus’ with proposal to ease copyright protections for AI giants

Compromise revealed as senior personnel from OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, meets Albanese ministers

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Yarn Spinner 🔜 #MIGW26 @yarnspinner.dev · 16/09/2026

We're on sale (for Unity!) Grab Yarn Spinner+ at 50% off. assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

A purple pill-shaped character replicating the old meme where the businessman on the phone has "Ha ha! Business!" around him.

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I wrote it in here, but lol, here's the neon sign: I'm OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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