We are excited and delighted to announce our keynote speaker this year will be Nat Clayton! Nat is a long-time game designer and former journalist, most recently known for the level design on Inkle's A Highland Song.
We look forward to letting Nat bring us into the NarraScope conversation for …
more ...The schedule page for Saturday and Sunday is now complete. Take a look!
Friday workshops are still being worked out. Like last year, we intend to have a program of remote workshops for online attendees and a (separate) program of on-site workshops. Both sets will be free for registered attendees …
more ...Registration for NarraScope is now open!
Here's more info on the event venue, travel, and hotels. Also our COVID policy, which is pretty much the same as last year.
A couple of things:
First, we are charging for online registration this year. That's just how the finances work for our …
more ...Greetings, narrative-gaming folks, friends, and family! We are delighted to announce the fifth NarraScope conference – at our most appropriate venue yet.
NarraScope 2024 will take place June 21st to 23rd at The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, NY. We hope to see you there, if you can make …
more ...We've posted the schedule for Friday workshops!
Please note that there are two groups of workshops this year. Friday afternoon (US Eastern time) will be a sequence of online workshops:
Assorted news:
The CDC has updated its COVID vaccine guidelines. Nothing much has changed if you’re already up to date. (“Up to date” means you’ve gotten the bivalent booster.) However, if you’re over 65 or are immunocompromised, you are eligible for a second bivalent booster. Booster effectiveness …
more ...Here we are, two months out from the first in-person NarraScope since, well, the first one.
As we said at the beginning, all of NarraScope’s talks will be streamed live and will remain viewable after the conference. We don’t want to disappoint our remote participants.
But -- we also …
more ...We are pleased and delighted to announce our keynote speaker for this year! Brianna Lei will kick off our annual conversation in June.
Brianna is the author of the visual novels Butterfly Soup and Butterfly Soup 2, high school dramas about gay girls playing baseball and falling in love. The …
more ...Registration is now open for NarraScope 2023.
Both online and in-person options are available. Online is free! In-person costs money, because we have to cover space and lunch costs. (But we have low-budget options if you need them.) See the registration form for prices.
Want to know what you're getting …
more ...A quick note that we're still looking for talks for NarraScope 2023! Anything to do with narrative games and interactive fiction. Discussions, analysis, storytelling technology, connections to other storytelling communities – whatever you've got, we want to hear about it.
The submission deadline is the 20th; this is your final-week reminder …
more ...Greetings, narrative-gaming folks, friends, and family! We are delighted to announce the return of NarraScope — now in hybrid form.
NarraScope 2023 will take place June 9th to 11th at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. We hope to see you there, if you can make it! But we know …
more ...Registration for NarraScope is now open!
We're going to be on the Gather platform this year. This means a small fee for registration. Please contact us if this is a problem.
Donations will first go to cover platform costs and other NarraScope event expenses. Of the net revenue above that …
more ...As of March 12, NarraScope 2020 is an online-only conference.
This is sad news but probably no surprise. Many universities in the US have announced that they will switch to online classes for the spring semester, and have cancelled all large on-site events. Yesterday, UIUC announced that decision for their …
more ...Like everyone else on the planet, we're paying close attention to the spread of COVID-19 (aka SARS-CoV-2 or the "novel coronavirus").
UPDATE: As of March 12, NarraScope is an online-only conference. See this post.
(Original post below. The following information has been superseded.)
As of March 7, NarraScope is still …
On Friday evening, GDC announced that their conference is "postponed". They'll try to do an event later in the summer, but everyone's plans for SF in two weeks are drifting smoke right now.
This is a tremendous disruption and disappointment for everybody involved -- attendees, indie devs, speakers, event volunteers, corporate …
more ...We threw a wing-ding, all right!
NarraScope 2019 came out better than we could have dreamed. No, strike that: NarraScope was exactly the conference I dreamed of. But you don't expect your dreams to work out perfectly.
This weekend, mine did. I'm still floating.
I have many thank-yous. Thanks to …
more ...Because I miss you all and want to see you.
Maybe that's not the whole reason. (Maybe it's just 27.5% of the reason.)
I've spent a lot of years in what I used to call "the interactive fiction community". It was never the only such community. A lot of …
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