Yarn Spinner

Dec 2025

We released Yarn Spinner 3.1

We released Yarn Spinner 3.1 on December 3, 2025, introducing several significant improvements to our dialogue system framework. This update …

Aug 2025

CommBank's AI boyfriend

CBA has been naughty, and too reliant on their AI boyfriend. Here’s what happened: A CBA customer contacted bank requesting contact details for …

May 2025

Don't use Wise

Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it. We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were …

Apr 2025

Mass Effect 2 for Yarn Spinner

You’ve been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner… 🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn …

Mar 2025

Constraints are the Point

I get it. I disagree with it, but I get it. The tech industry is throwing obscene amounts of money at LLMs. VCs are salivating over AI startups. The …

Mar 2025

Beyond Bad Output

The Deeper Problems with AI in Creative Work “But AI will get better at writing stories, won’t it?” This response to my rant about …

Mar 2025

The Empty Promise of AI-Generated Creativity

“Are you going to add AI writing to Yarn Spinner?” It’s a question I hear almost weekly these days. Whether at game development …

Feb 2025

Yarn Spinner at GDC 2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Jon, from the Secret Lab and Yarn Spinner team will be presenting a talk at the GDC this year in San Francisco: …

Feb 2025

SAGE 2025

Today, I got back from the South Australian Game Exhibition 2025 (SAGE). It was an expo and mini-conference with a showcase, and an awards night, run …

Feb 2025

TasICT Creative Technologies Event

Update: This event is now passed, and it went great! I’m incredibly excited to be speaking at the upcoming TasICT event in Hobart, alongside the …

Jan 2025

Tas Game Makers 2025

We just had AGM for Tasmanian Game Makers, Inc. (TasGM), and for the third year in a row I was pleasantly surprised to be elected President. I’m …

Sep 2024

Level Up Tasmania 2024

I’m thrilled to share that we’ll be part of Level Up Tasmania 2024, a fantastic celebration of our local game development industry. This …