We’ve started getting NarraScope videos up on our YouTube channel!

https://www.youtube.com/@interactivefictiontechnolo311/

They’re also linked from the schedule page:

https://2023.narrascope.org/pages/schedule.html

Apologies for the slow pace; we’re chipping away at them. More soon.

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The @IFTF has begun posting #Narrascope 2023 videos to YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@interactivefictiontechnolo311/

Here’s a chart: The results of the question “What is your favorite narrative game? Or ten?”, polled as part of NarraScope registration.

https://narrascope.org/pages/favorites.html

(Comparison from 2019: https://2019.narrascope.org/pages/favorites.html)

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We have wrapped NarraScope! Conference success.

http://narrascope.org

We’ll get videos of the talks posted as soon as possible. Also slides, talk notes, etc as fast as the authors send them to us.

Thanks to everybody who showed up and everybody who joined in remotely.

#NarraScope #InteractiveFiction

We have wrapped NarraScope! Conference success.

http://narrascope.org

We’ll get videos of the talks posted as soon as possible. Also slides, talk notes, etc as fast as the authors send them to us.

Thanks to everybody who showed up and everybody who joined in remotely.

#NarraScope #InteractiveFiction

Excited to see Dr Stacey Mason's #NarraScope talk on Narrative Design in the Age of Twitch, coming up next. She has thought about this stuff so deeply for many years now, this is going to be a great distillation of wisdom about how storygame design intersects with live performance and audience.

Great craft and theory stuff on narrative puzzles that resonate with the story's themes, from Aster Fialla at #NarraScope, with juicy examples from interactive fiction games.

A slightly unusual thing to share for #ScreenshotSaturday: here's a flowchart outlining the method I'm using for the #NarraScope collaborative #Twine jam. This structure - which I'm provisionally calling a "Hypertwine" - allows each contributor's work to be viewed in a random order, with the whole lot bookended by an opening beforehand and an ending afterwards. State-tracking within index.html is provided by the (save-game:) macro. #InteractiveFiction #gamedev

Already learning a lot at the #narrascope conference.

for a twine jam at #narrascope today, i made this tiny piece about newly inhabiting an unfamiliar body

it... went to a weird place

CW for lewdness (humorous?) and dissociation

https://chrisamaphone.itch.io/spin-cycle

I'm excited for #Narrascope this weekend! It begins today, but today is workshop only, so for me it begins tomorrow.

Have fun, workshoppers. "See" you tomorrow, everyone!

https://narrascope.org/pages/schedule.html

We are also looking for new sponsors who are not institutions! Which is to say, you.

https://narrascope.org/pages/sponsors.html

If you are registered as an online attendee, you are getting two days of the best talks and presentations about narrative games -- free.

And, I'm afraid, we could really use your support right now. More on the current situation in this thread: https://intfiction.org/t/narrascope-is-asking-for-your-help/62442

Thanks.

#InteractiveFiction #NarraScope #AdventureGames

We've posted the Friday workshop schedule for NarraScope!

https://narrascope.org/pages/schedule.html

If you're registered for the conference, you can now sign up for specific workshops. The link is on our registration page:

https://narrascope.org/pages/registration.html

(Note that workshop registration is a separate link from conference registration.)

#NarraScope #InteractiveFiction #NarrativeGames

Reminder (again): the deadline for conference registration is May 26th. The deadline for hotel reservations (at the con rate) is May 11th. That’s less than a month away!

https://narrascope.org/pages/registration.html

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Are you looking forward to Colin Post’s talk “Cataloging Narrative Games to Expand the Bibliographic Universe”? If so, you’ll be interested in these followup sessions (online):

> Please join us for an open forum on the issues and challenges of collecting narrative games in libraries! We will be holding two listening and discussion sessions held virtually on Wednesday July 12 from 7-9pm ET and Tuesday July 18 from 12-2pm ET ...

https://intfiction.org/t/lets-talk-about-collecting-narrative-games-in-libraries/61965

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Here we are, two months out from the first in-person NarraScope since, well, the first one.

(...bit of a thread here...)

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.

#InteractiveFiction #NarraScope #Conferences #Pittsburgh

it's a shame that i can't go to pittsburgh this year for #NarraScope, but i've been given assurances from the life boss that i can next year. it really would be nice to meet fellow individuals in the #InteractiveFiction community

Hotel information is posted for NarraScope!

https://narrascope.org/pages/travel.html

We expect to add more hotel options soon.

#NarraScope #InteractiveFiction

We are delighted to announce Brianna Lei as NarraScope's keynote speaker for this year!

Brianna Lei 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 games have become indie hits for their portrayal of Diya, Noelle, Akarsha, and Min-seo – energetic, convincingly-outrageous teenagers trying to figure out their lives in the worst way.

#NarraScope #InteractiveFiction #VisualNovels

Repeating yesterday's news:

IFTF says hello to its new president, Justin Bortnick. Justin has been part of the NarraScope committee since we started that up, so he's no stranger to helping run things around here.

And at the same time, goodbye to Jason McIntosh, founding board member of IFTF and its first (and up until now only) president.

https://intfiction.org/t/a-change-in-iftf-leadership/60976

#InteractiveFiction #IFTF #NarraScope