Building a Community for Game Developers
summary
Yarn Spinner is an open source narrative tool that powers choice-driven dialogue and cutscenes and ships the scripting language and node editor used in Night in the Woods, Frog Detective 2 and A Short Hike. Community growth relies on GitHub, Twitter, Slack plus a documentation-first website and regular livestreams; licensing education and readable examples solve frequent no-license releases. Project team accepts imperfect pull requests, gave contributors admin access to scale, responds quickly to issues, and currently runs roughly two full‑time days of maintenance weekly.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:45Game Development and Open Source
- 9:08Marketing
- 14:32Social Media
- 19:26Running the Project
- 21:01Questions
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