NarraScope
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NarraScope is a hybrid conference on interactive narrative by @iftechfoundation.org. Join us in 2026 at the University at Albany, June 12-14. https://narrascope.org/
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NarraScope
@narrascope.org
· Jan 2
📣 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)
Check out Strange Play at London Games Week from Voidspace: Deadline Feb 15. Interest form is here:
Strange Play: Expression of Interest
Expression of interest for Strange Play: a London Games week side event supported by Games London
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February 10, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Check out Strange Play at London Games Week from Voidspace: Deadline Feb 15. Interest form is here:
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.
cirqueSaw
cirqueSaw – cirqueSaw explores the intersection of art and technology, co-founded by partners Nathan Leigh and Nicole Orabona in 2020. They...
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February 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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.
NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:08 PM
ALL SUBMISSIONS close end of day tomorrow Saturday January 31st. Submit! And take note: there will be no deadline extensions this year.
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Announcing 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...
January 29, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Announcing 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
NarraScope 2026 | Showcase
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 27, 2026 at 5:45 PM
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/
narrascope.org/talks/
NarraScope 2026 | Call for Talks
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 23, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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/
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...
NarraScope 2026 | Blog | A Guide to Presenting at NarraScope
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 20, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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 😀
Take That! The Multicultural Origins of Ace Attorney-Clara Fernandez-Vara, 2023-The Ace Attorney series is built on rich cultural references that can be traced back to 1980s adventure games, the Western whodunit, Japanese detective novels (honkaku), and Perry Mason youtu.be/O87axeUVWbU?...
NarraScope 2023: Take That! The Multicultural Origins of the Ace Attorney Series
YouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
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January 16, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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 | The Experience
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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)
January 2, 2026 at 5:21 PM
📣 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...
narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
NarraScope 2026 | Blog | Welcome to Albany
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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...
narrascope.org/blog/post/20...
Happy New Years Eve to those who celebrate :D
January 1, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Happy New Years Eve to those who celebrate :D
Happy Winter Solstice!
December 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Happy Winter Solstice!
Congratulations to Narrascope friends @grundislav.games (Rosewater) and Cirque Saw (labRats) for their Indiecade game nominations 🤘🫀🐀🌹
December 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Congratulations to Narrascope friends @grundislav.games (Rosewater) and Cirque Saw (labRats) for their Indiecade game nominations 🤘🫀🐀🌹
Congratulations!!!
BIG NEWS: ROSEWATER has been nominated for Best Performance in the @indiecade.bsky.social Festival 2025!
It's so great to see the amazing cast of this game get the recognition they deserve.
See all the nominated games at www.indiecade.com/festival-202...
It's so great to see the amazing cast of this game get the recognition they deserve.
See all the nominated games at www.indiecade.com/festival-202...
December 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congratulations!!!
Remember the Narrascoop? We might be bringing it back! Stay tuned to find out 😊
Introducing the NarraScoop! Today's mini-interview features NarraScope speaker Wojtek Borowicz (@wojtekborowicz.bsky.social)
Register for an online NarraScope ticket at narrascope.org
Register for an online NarraScope ticket at narrascope.org
December 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Remember the Narrascoop? We might be bringing it back! Stay tuned to find out 😊
The 2026 Narrascope website is live!
narrascope.org
narrascope.org
NarraScope 2026 | A Hybrid Conference on Interactive Narrative
NarraScope is a conference that brings together the writers, developers, scholars, and players of interactive narrative.
narrascope.org
December 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
The 2026 Narrascope website is live!
narrascope.org
narrascope.org
We love Slenderman 👁👄👁
Looking for a second chance? Raise the dead or rewind the tape? Coming for the first time to diskette after its premiere in #S4G2025
Faceless Echoes: A Slenderverse Text Adventure
Download here:
alexhera.itch.io/faceless-ech...
Trailer here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGn-...
Faceless Echoes: A Slenderverse Text Adventure
Download here:
alexhera.itch.io/faceless-ech...
Trailer here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGn-...
Faceless Echoes: A Slenderverse Text Adventure - Trailer
YouTube video by Slender4Gender
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
We love Slenderman 👁👄👁
An interactive ficiton tool that looks super neat from our discord vaults called TilBuci built by Lucas Junqueira:
github.com/lucasjunquei...
github.com/lucasjunquei...
https://github.com/lucasjunqueira-var/tilbuci/releases/tag/v17"
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
An interactive ficiton tool that looks super neat from our discord vaults called TilBuci built by Lucas Junqueira:
github.com/lucasjunquei...
github.com/lucasjunquei...
Community highlight: Call of the Golden Valley is a narrative driven game by @osaurusstudios.bsky.social store.steampowered.com/app/2131660/...
Call of the Golden Valley on Steam
Your friend is missing in the Australian outback and you must find her. Search the Internet for clues, solve mysterious puzzles and uncover the conspiracy of the vanishing hikers of Golden Valley.
store.steampowered.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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
The BDB Project
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November 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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/...
Road Trip to the End of the World on Steam
Road Trip to the End of the World is a visual novel about the death of a friendship. When Andy and her imaginary friend Fishy set off on a road trip to crash their ex-best friend’s wedding, will they ...
store.steampowered.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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 AdventureX Steam sale has begun, and I'm happy to say that _The Beyond_ is part of it (for the second time).
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/advx...
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/advx...
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
The Beyond (and more) in the AdventureX sale
A year ago, I released The Beyond for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Steam Deck. The Beyond, Adventuregame Comics #2, by Jason Shiga The Beyond was also featured in the 2024 AdventureX Steam Festival. I'm h...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The AdventureX Steam sale has begun, and I'm happy to say that _The Beyond_ is part of it (for the second time).
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/advx...
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/advx...
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
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...
Introducing the Game Writing SIG Arcjam | IGDA Game Writing SIG
Join us for a 72-hour narrative design game jam in partnership with Arcweave
www.game-writing.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
Game Design Days
Game Design Days is a NYU Game Center sponsored event series that highlights the underground independent game development communities of NYC.
game-design-days.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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