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Hire Us

We’re a small, senior game development team in Hobart, Tasmania. Studios and organisations bring us in to build games, features, and tools, either alongside their own team or on our own.

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Now booking We have capacity for new projects in 2026 and 2027.

How We Work With You

Join your team, or take a piece of the project off your hands.

Co-development

We work inside your team: your repository, your engine, your task tracker and your meetings. Good for adding experienced hands to a project that's already moving.

External development

You give us a defined piece of work, like a feature, a system, a port, a prototype, or a whole game, and we build and deliver it, with regular check-ins along the way.

Short engagements

Technical reviews, architecture advice, feasibility prototypes, and training for your team. Useful when you need an answer before committing to a plan.

What We Build

Narrative is what we're known for, but it's only part of what we do.

Gameplay and features

Gameplay systems, UI, save systems, and the rest of the features a game needs to ship.

Tools and pipelines

Editor extensions, content pipelines, and the tools your designers and writers use every day.

Porting and engine work

Moving code and systems between Unity, Godot, and Unreal, and building engine-level features and plugins.

Performance

Profiling and optimisation when your game or tool needs to run faster or use less memory.

Testing and automation

Automated tests, build pipelines, and end-to-end testing of built games.

Narrative systems

Dialogue systems, Yarn Spinner integration and custom features, and narrative design and writing.

Unity and C# Godot, GDScript and C# Unreal Engine, C++ and Blueprints Swift and Apple platforms Custom engines

Smaller project? Try Mates' Rates

A month of co-dev on your game from the Yarn Spinner team, for a flat US$5,000.

Got a smaller project?

Mates' Rates gets you a month of co-dev on your game from the Yarn Spinner team, for a flat US$5,000. Places are limited, so apply early.

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Offered Mates' Rates A month of co-dev on your game from the Yarn Spinner team. US$5,000 flat, for the month, plus any relevant taxes

Our Work

Some of the games we've worked on, for clients and for ourselves.

Client project

Big Plans

A financial literacy game for kids, built for Bank of us. Winner of the Social Innovation Technology Award at the TasICT 2026 Excellence Awards.

Play Big Plans → Client project

Demonschool

A tactics RPG by Necrosoft Games. We helped out with gameplay programming.

See Demonschool →

Night in the Woods

Infinite Fall's narrative adventure, and the game Yarn Spinner was first built for.

See Night in the Woods →

I Feel Fine

Our narrative adventure, written by Ryan North and built in Unity.

See it on Steam →

Tell Us About Your Project

Send us an email with whatever you know so far. It helps to include:

  • What you're making, and the engine and platforms
  • The work you'd like help with
  • Your timeline, and roughly how much time you need from us
  • Your budget, if you have one in mind
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