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Ooo Godot?

Just as I was looking for a solution for my own game! I see Godot support, so I gotta ask, is it a 1:1 C# port of the Unity plugin? If so, is it considered a first class port or will it receive updates a while after Unity? Just wanna make sure since a 1 to 1 YS for Godot is definitely worth 50$.

The Godot version is free. Functionality is _almost_ the same as the Unity one, and uses all the same terminology and even the same DLLs for a lot of it. The port is led by a community member of ours so it tends to be slightly behind but not meaningfully. Maybe slightly less docs/samples.

Ah, that's unfortunate. The title of the original post made it seem like Godot was actually part of the whole package. Thank you for the quick response!

Itch versions have been updated, GitHub tagged + released, Unity Asset Store version will update ... whenever they say so 🤷‍♀️ But this is the culmination of like 2.5 years of work and 9.5 years of experience maintaining Yarn Spinner, and we're so bloody excited to share it with y'all !!!

Looks cool! If this had been available 5 years ago I wouldn’t have had to write my own.

We’ve actually been working on this for nearly 10 years now. Our first public version released on GitHub even before the first Yarn Spinner game it was made for (Night in the Woods) released. It just takes time to get the word out! 😆

I think I asked about storylet support 5 years ago, and ended up modeling a bit of my language on Yarn. Version 3 looks like a huge jump. And I wish I had your support for tooling!

Just heard of this: Can this work with Renpy? Or just for Visual Novels in general?

It’s kind of an alternative to RenPy for a different tech stack. It’s a C#/.NET-based compiler which turns dialogue files written in Yarn into Yarn Programs which can then be read into any game engine that has a Yarn Importer - e.g. Unity, Godot, Unreal, Bevy (Rust), a few others.

Though we are actively working on a Visual Novel Kit which is heavily inspired by the simplicity of RenPy. More on that soon! 💚