NarraScope
NarraScope is a hybrid conference on interactive narrative by @iftechfoundation.org. Join us in 2026 at the University at Albany, June 12-14. narrascope.org
- cirqueSaw (creators of labRats) has a new remote show! You Have Already Won is an interactive satirical piece where audiences play as the world’s wealthiest elite deciding the future of humanity from the safety of their climate bunkers. Next performance 2/5.
- ALL SUBMISSIONS close end of day tomorrow Saturday January 31st. Submit! And take note: there will be no deadline extensions this year.
- Reposted by NarraScopeAnnouncing the IFTF x GDC Scholarship Program. We have a small number of passes to distribute amongst our community, so if you are interested, please visit this thread on IntFiction.org for details: intfiction.org/t/iftf-x-gdc...
- Submit your narrative games to the Showcase! We want your cool games! Deadline Jan 31st. #interactivefiction #narrativegames #NarraScope
- Are you a TTRPG developer? Do you want to submit a talk to #NarraScope 2026? You should! And this year Narrascope isn't on the same day as Free RPG Day! narrascope.org/talks/
- Are you curious what might make a good talk proposal for #NarraScope 2026? Our communications volunteer Hélène Lupa made a blog post about it narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
- We've had so many amazing talks like this one at Narrascope 2023! Get your submissions in for #Narrascope2026 and we can have even more 😀
- Submit your multidisciplinary project to Narrascope! Interactive theater, audience controlled experiences, installations, VR opera, holographic circus, give us your weird stuff!!! NO AI please. Submission deadline Jan 31. narrascope.org/experience/
- 📣 NarraScope 2026 submissions are open! This year NarraScope will feature three different areas for submission: our classic talks, the second year of our game Showcase, and the debut of The Experience. 🧵(1/4)
- We are delighted to announce that #NarraScope 2026 will take place this year from June 12th-14th at the University at Albany! We'll be collaborating w/ the @albany.edu #UAlbany Game Center, and its Director @jcorace.bsky.social 🎉 narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
- Happy New Years Eve to those who celebrate :D
- Happy Winter Solstice!
- Congratulations to Narrascope friends @grundislav.games (Rosewater) and Cirque Saw (labRats) for their Indiecade game nominations 🤘🫀🐀🌹
- Congratulations!!!
- Remember the Narrascoop? We might be bringing it back! Stay tuned to find out 😊
- The 2026 Narrascope website is live! narrascope.org
- Talk submissions for Narrasxope 2026 will open soon narrascope.org/talks/
- We love Slenderman 👁👄👁
- An interactive ficiton tool that looks super neat from our discord vaults called TilBuci built by Lucas Junqueira: github.com/lucasjunquei...
- Community highlight: Call of the Golden Valley is a narrative driven game by @osaurusstudios.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/2131660/...
- In the late 1980s, one of the most prolific text adventure authors in the world was Bonaventura Di Bello. His games have been updated and translated into English by Gianluca Girell. A cool piece of IF history: bdb-project.itch.io
- Road Trip To The End Of The World by @sharkandpelican.bsky.social was showcased at Narrascope 2025 and it is in full release now! store.steampowered.com/app/3769330/...
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- The IGDA Game Writing SIG is happening Nov 21-24, 2025. It is a game jam called Arcjam that uses Arcweave! More info and instruction here: www.game-writing.com/posts/arcjam...
- Tomorrow Nov 16 is the TTRPG Writing Workshop at Twenty Sided Store in NYC! It is part of NYU's Game Design Days and is lead by one of our Narrascope volunteers @natmesnard.bsky.social game-design-days.com
- Submissions for the IF Short Games Showcase 2025 begin on November 23rd and close on December 31st! www.ifwiki.org/IF_Short_Gam...
- If you like Narrascope you might also like AdventureX: the UK's only convention dedicated to narrative-driven gaming. Since 2011, AdventureX has been bringing together developers & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling. www.adventurexpo.org
- A neat little jam is happening from Nov2-Dec1 if that's your thing: "Feeling nostalgic about the golden age of text adventures? Relive those days by participating in PunyComp 2025! This is a competition where you write a text adventure using PunyInform" itch.io/jam/punycomp...
- Narrative Design in the Age of Twitch-Stacey Mason, 2023- It seems that traditional wisdom is that competitive multiplayer games are more streamable than narrative games, yet many narrative games do well on Twitch. How do their narrative structures aid or hinder this? youtu.be/txVdoEL7QQ0?...
- Happy Halloween!!!!!!
- “Don’t Try To Explain It”-Why Some Things Should Not Make Sense-Bjarke Alexander Larsen, 2023- Why does punching a tree give you planks? How do the champions in a League of Legends match keep being able to fight each other? We want the world to make sense. But should we? youtu.be/wNiYrv1K3oo?...
- Narrative Based Games For Sexual Health-KB, 2023- A post-mortem of (val)iant: or, val’s guide to having a broken vag. It’s a game about vaginismus, relationships, and how we as a society learn about sex. youtu.be/Sq82F0RU3f8?...
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- Cataloging Narrative Games to Expand the Bibliographic Universe-Colin Post, 2023- Librarian Business: catalog record creation, title descriptions, implications for more widespread cataloging of narrative games youtu.be/MjaNDInznws?...
- Reposted by NarraScopeOur microgrants program is back for a third year! This year again, IFTF is looking to disburse $3,000 to cool projects related to interactive fiction that could benefit from a little bit of cash. More details on our blog post!
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- Entering your Villain Era: how to write games by being cringey, selfish and evil - Brianna Lei, 2023 Keynote youtu.be/5DuQeK-XwIc?...
- Hellooooooo! We will be posting some talk recordings and stuff regularly and as it gets closer to the conference there will be even more posting!
- After an amazing 2025 conference and a well-deserved rest, the NarraScope volunteer team has reassembled and we’re looking for new volunteers! Join the team and help us make 2026 the best NarraScope yet: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
