NarraScope 2025 - Submit a Talk or Panel Discussion by Friday, February 7th, 2025

NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th to 22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA.

Our call for proposals is currently open!

A few key details:

  • February 7th - Deadline for proposals
  • February 21st - Submitters notified if proposals are accepted or declined
  • March 14th - Deadline for submitters to confirm accepted proposals

Visit our “Call for Talks” page for details → Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games
For more information, visit → https://narrascope.org/

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Reminder: NarraScope 2025 is still accepting talks proposals! The deadline is Friday, February 7th.

We have gathered a few suggestions below to help clarify the kind of proposals this year’s programming team are looking for. Subjects vary from interactive fiction tools to writing best practices and everything in between. Previous talks had titles like “How the West Was Many,” “Choosing Your Happily Ever After,” and “Adapting Film’s Techniques for Nonlinear Stories” to give you a bit of an idea.

  • We want in-depth discussions about specific fields or styles of IF, narrative writing, and game design.
  • No basic-level “What is IF?” Everybody already knows what it is and why narrative games are important. What’s the next question?
  • Specifics are better than overviews. Your personal story is more interesting than your theories about how everybody else should work.
  • Talk about a problem you solved or a problem you didn’t solve.
  • Tell us something that your players and fellow authors don’t know about your workflow.
  • Find the sweet spot between “so obscure that I can’t make use of it” and “so well-known that I learned it in school.”
  • Tell us something that makes us want to run off and start a new project just to try it out.
  • Reveal a wonderful secret.

For details on format and important deadlines, and to submit proposals, go here: Narrascope 2025 | Celebrating Narrative Games

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Thanks Matt, would you please make sure that this information is reviewed and updated within the timeframe for submissions.

I would like to note that there is slightly less than a week before the above deadline is reached. I highly encourage people to submit if you have not already (or submit again - why not)!

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Deadline Extended You can submit your talk or panel by February 21st to be considered for NarraScope 2025!

This year’s talk selection process will feature a two-cycle review system. This is a new way for us to organize our talk review process which will provide extended opportunities for submitters across the world of narrative game design to send in their proposals.

We encouraged anyone planning to submit a proposal to send it in by February 7th — and had a nice turnout. However, we were still sending out the word to a number of platforms and programs out in the world too soon before the deadline, and we wanted to make it possible for these audiences to submit.

If you need extra time, we will continue to accept proposals until February 21st. Proposals submitted on or before February 7th will receive first consideration from reviewers, and first-cycle submitters receive notification of acceptance before the end of February.

  • February 7th, 2025: First Cycle Submission Deadline
  • February 21st, 2025: Second Cycle Submission Deadline & First Cycle Results Notification
  • March 7th, 2025: Second Cycle Results Notification
  • March 14th, 2025: Confirmation Deadline for Accepted Proposals
  • June 20th-22nd, 2025: Narrascope 2025 Conference Dates

We cannot wait to see your submissions!

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