What is NarraScope?
NarraScope is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.
NarraScope 2025 will be hosted at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. All talks will be streamed live via Discord. We will make recordings available on our YouTube channel as soon as possible!
Subjects vary from interactive fiction tools to writing best practices and everything in between. Previous talks had titles like “Choosing Your Happily Ever After”, “Shaping Your Story with Emotional Intelligence” and “Adapting Film’s Techniques for Nonlinear Stories”, to give you a bit of an idea.
Our conference aims to be a place for everyone interested in narrative games to hang out, exchange ideas and get inspired. We do this through a broad selection of talks, keynote speakers, discussions and workshops.
NarraScope celebrates the diverse voices of game design. We aim to create a safe, welcoming, and accountable space for all participants.
NarraScope History
NarraScope first took place in 2019, live at MIT. In 2020 and 2022, Narrascope was fully online (we skipped 2021). Starting in 2023 we embraced the hybrid lifestyle.
The NarraScope History site lists everything we've done over the past years.
Narrascope 2025 Committee
- Conference Chair: Matt Griffin
- Conference Co-Chair: JD Calvelli
- Finance Chair: Colette Zinna
- Communications Chair: Nat Mesnard
- Website Chair: Reid (Ferkung) Thomas
- Workshops Chair: Judith Pintar
- Andrew Plotkin
- Justin Bortnick
- Cidney Hamilton
- Travis McCoy
The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
NarraScope is hosted by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. It is funded by the donations of IF supporters like you.
Questions, comments, suggestions about how NarraScope is running? Feel free to contact narrascope@narrascope.org. Thank you for any feedback.
For upcoming details and announcements, please join our mailing list! Or follow @narrascope on Twitter or Mastodon.
Join the NarraScope Discord! This is a chat forum for NarraScope attendees and those interested in our events. We intend to keep the Discord running all year.
Sponsors
You may donate to NarraScope directly via PayPal:
Donations beyond the cost of membership will go to subsidize speaker honoraria and low-budget attendees.
(For other ways to donate, visit the IFTF donation page.)
Organization and Corporate Sponsorships
Interested in supporting NarraScope? Please contact us.
Thank you to those who supported Narrascope 2024, NarraScope 2023, NarraScope 2022, NarraScope 2020, and NarraScope 2019!