We are delighted to announce our sixth conference – NarraScope 2025!
NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th to 22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We are anticipating record numbers of attendees, and we hope to see you there! We know not everybody can make the trek to join us physically, so, just like the last two years, we intend to stream all of our talks live to welcome the rest of you!
This year we are adding a juried academic papers track, made possible by the local host team at Drexel University. The accepted papers will be published via our papers page, and two of the submissions will be selected for inclusion in the conference within a dedicated papers session. https://narrascope.org/papers
Want to help out? We welcome volunteers in a number of roles, from those helping on one of the conference committees ahead of the event to those who will help onsite or online during the conference week. https://narrascope.org/volunteers
The team is actively updating the website, so keep checking back as we are able to announce more conference details, keynotes, how to register, and local hotel suggestions!
Hi! That’s a great question. The Local Host Team at Drexel for NarraScope have arranged for this, and are recruiting in additional faculty to participate. They are drawing up the process details and deadlines and should share them soon.
The rough details are these:
There will be an abstract submission deadline and separate intake form.
Those submissions will be reviewed by a team of academics working in the game development and digital design space from Drexel.
Those selected by this team, will be invited to submit their full papers by a deadline for the jurying process.
Two of those papers will be selected for an hour long academic papers block during the conference (30min each, is the plan) as highlighted papers, but other papers may also be selected for inclusion in the NarraScope papers section.
A section of the website will host the papers, with an archive-minded plan for how to make sure these remain visible and accessible into the future.
Depending on the amount of interest and quality of submissions, we may also invite a series of these papers to be included as posters, which will be positioned where they can be enjoyed by all conference participants. This process hasn’t been nailed down, but Drexel has offered generously to support the printing of these posters to make this a manageable process for all of those who participate in the Papers part.
Again, there will be more soon – and the Programming Chair for Papers is very passionate about this subject and academic culture within games in general. So likely we’ll find other ways to make this activity really valuable to participants!
I submitted a talk proposal on January 5. According to the website, notifications were supposed to go out yesterday, but I haven’t received anything. Should I have?
Also, what departments at Drexel are the review committee drawn from? I have some novel results on getting LLMs to solve TextWorld games. I’m starting to draft a paper on this, and trying to decide if Narrascope is an appropriate submission venue. The paper will be accessible and won’t require any deep domain knowledge to evaluate, but I want to make sure I’m not submitting it to a committee composed entirely of lit-crit types who weren’t expecting to deal with anything that has p-values in it.
There hasn’t been much clarification on this. I asked a couple of times about the academic track, but it’s still as clear as mud. So i have given up the idea.
Hello to everyone who submitted a talk proposal to NarraScope so far!
First, I would like to apologize if anyone who submitted a talk by February 7th didn’t hear back on the 21st. We were still processing into the night, and we think about 6 or 7 didn’t get their messages in time, and some sets of responses didn’t activate to post until the 22nd.
Everyone who submitted should have received their updates by the next business day (tomorrow, on Monday), but if ANYONE is uncertain about the state of their submission RIGHT NOW, you can DM me here and I’ll check in on programming and make sure to get your response without delay. (This may also help us recognize any issues with email addresses in our system for you.)
We take our response commitments very seriously, and I honestly think it was me trying to help with the delivery of the reviewers results that introduced response issues on Friday! So, I’m apologizing to the reviewers team as well as to the submitters.
We’ll make sure that those looking to hear from us by March 7th hear on that calendar date, or receive a notice in the unlikely case that we require a small amount of additional time.
We don’t anticipate any issues (especially those caused by me), and we will take extra steps to make sure we respond promptly.
On a separate note re: the papers — the Drexel team who are running our first ever papers track for NarraScope would be happy to follow up with any of your questions. The feedback we received today (we meet as a team on Sundays) is that they are planning to make a best effort to match faculty within Drexel to help them evaluate each paper submitted appropriately, including reaching beyond their immediate departments.
The faculty who they have already asked are within the games program, I believe, but they have relationships well beyond it for topics that will be welcomed by this community, but need further expertise to be considered in terms of the academic conversation from another discipline.
If you have a very specific question, let’s connect here on Intfict and I’d be happy to put you into direct contact with the Programming Chair for Papers from Drexel!
The papers track is new and being facilitated by our collaborators at Drexel. They needed more time to get their details together, but would love to connect to you. Let me know via DM if you need to talk with them directly!
Not sure if it’s worse to ask here or bump a very old thread, but will the talks from NarraScope 2024 be uploaded to YouTube at some point and (to be a bit more on topic) is the plan to archive the talks from 2025 too?
