Takashi Tezuka, director of Yoshi's Island and Yoshi's Story, is supervising the development of the new game, which is set in a fanciful world of yarn and textiles.
In the 19th century, the British set up a factory in Dundee, Scotland, to process raw jute into yarn before weaving it into bags for storing coal and other commodities.
This type of programming is based on a set of Java APIs, although new technology in the latest version of Apache Hadoop, called YARN, allows other languages to be used.