Jon, from Videogames

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words in trees, cats in phones, doctorate in jerks online; 🧶 @YarnSpinner.dev, 😿 Night in the Woods, 🚀 I Feel Fine, 🎨 Leonardo, 💼 @SecretLab.games.

A very small black and tan chihuahua wearing a blue knitted jacked and a patterned harness sits on the beach and grins up at the camera. Her mouth is slightly open, revealing very tiny pointy teeth.
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.
A man sits at a lectern, preparing to deliver a talk. The first slide is visible on the projector: “What Edgar Allan Poe Can Teach You About Game Design”
A woman presents a slide, which contains a photo of a group of people at a coffee shop, all looking at a number of laptops. The slide has the title “Isolate the Script: Table Read”
A woman stands at a lectern and presents a title slide: “How do you playtest FEELINGS”?
Carl de Visser stands in front of a projected slide showing a table describing lootable armour, organised by character class and by tier, some of which are empty and ready to be filled in.
A man stands in front of a projected slide showing an opulent collection of looted artefacts from India. The caption reads “Loot - early 19th century (as a verb), from Hindi lūt, from Sanskrit luņțh- ‘rob’”
A photo of a video game called KUU, showing a highly stylised black-and-white illustration of a pyramid against a field of stars.
A man wearing a black beanie, a yellow shirt and a black mask kneels by a sign that reads “NZGDC 2025”
A photograph of two standing banners: the first shows a still of Taika Waititi from “what we do in the shadows” holding a bow and arrow and looking into the camera, with the text “Made it here” alongside the Screen Wellington logo. The second shows the NZGDC branding with sponsor logos.
Two men stand on a dais at a conference, presenting to a large room of seated people. A projector shows their current slide: “Lesson 1: Your team’s culture is YOUR problem”
A man with long brown hair wearing a black beanie and a black hoodie sits on a plane. He wears a black face mask. A small white and silver Yarn Spinner pin is attached to his chest.
NZGDC: Weaving the Net: DREDGE and Yarn Spinner. Fri 26th Sept 2:25pm, Tawhirimãtea E (Level 2). Learn how the indie hit DREDGE used Yarn Spinner, the friendly tool for interactive dialogue!
The words "Hint Line 93" appear in a garish pink font, over a garish 90s Memphis design pattern. Below, eight people stand holding retro cabled phones, with a mixture of expressions: angry, confused, happy, smug. emi doi looks relieved and wears denim overalls on a pink T-shirt; Emesha Rudolf looks exasperated and wears a blue cap sideways over pink, white and black striped jacket; Mick Davies yells into a phone while wearing a plain white T-shirt; Oli Potter looks smug with a hand on his hip, wearing a knitted grey jumper; Harris Sari looks confused and wears a red and black checkered flannel jacket; PJ Madam wears a tartan flannel shirt and looks like she's demanding to speak to your manager; Bryce Tollard-Williams wears a backwards baseball cap and a brightly coloured shirt and is yelling into the air; Scott Lleonart wears circular tinted glasses, a headband and a blue denim jacket, and looks up at the sky, evidently pleased.
Composed tile has a large headline “We’re in the Unity Spring Sale!” Content reads “The Yarn Spinner Package is 50% off. It works with the Yarn Spinner Speech Bubbles and Dialogue Wheel Add-Ons. On sale now, buy on the Unity Asset Store.” Small text at the bottom reads “Yarn Spinner is Open Source. Extras like these save you time and let us keep working on it. Consider supporting our work by buying. Sale ends May 8th.”
Yarn Spinner at GDC Tim: Making Room with Yarn Spinner: “If we want more voices in games we need less barriers to entry. Learn how we're doing that with Yarn Spinner!” 9:30 Monday Jon: 'DREDGE' and Yarn Spinner: Building Narrative with Open Source. “See how the DREDGE team created an accessible, localized dialogue system with deep integration into gameplay systems, and how you can do the same!” 2:30 Thursday
A blue capsule-shape floats in space. Bright blue and orange stars glow behind him, along with blue nebulae and black void. He wears a perfectly spherical space helmet that covers most of his body, and the collar of the helmet is around his waist. A grey antenna with a red tip extends from one side of the helmet. The character is arching his back, looking up at his surroundings. His face is a wide-eyed expression of wonder.
A smiling blue capsule sways from side to side. It wears a spherical glass helmet with a grey antenna and a yellow ring that seals it at the bottom. The helmet covers more than half of its body.
A blue capsule with a cheerful face stands on a grey background swaying from side to side. It wears a brown cowboy hat at a jaunty angle.
Two yellow hand bound books rest on a table surrounded by a needle, a bobbin of thread, an awl, and scissors. A hand is holding them flat. Both of the covers of the books read “My Pirate Adventure: A Yarn Spinner Adventure Book by Cap’n Salty”, with an illustration of a sailing ship.