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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 The following information has been superseded.)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 …

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 …

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 …