Who’s going to Narrascope 2024? I am! I will be very visible as I have pink hair! Would love to meet up with people!
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Virtual!
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I’ll be there in person! 
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I will be watching.
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Virtual!
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I am loving that something this cool is in Rochester. 
I wish I could have made it back, but it didn’t line up. I hope you all have a great time!
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Oops, I’m rather behind on reading this forum so I didn’t see this post before Narrascope, but, I was there!
I was actually thinking about how relatively few intfiction forum denizens I saw there, and I wonder why that is. Maybe it’s just that travel and accomodations are expensive. But are there other reasons that made people here not interested in attending Narrascope? Or, to put it more positively, what would you like to see at the next one that would entice you to attend in person?
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My main reason I’d like to go to Narrascope is just to put names to faces.
The main reason I haven’t been interested in attending virtually or in person (besides money) is that most of the talks the first two years seemed oriented towards the professional game design industry, which wasn’t of interest. I didn’t look at the talks this year, so it might be different, but that was my main reason. Now I feel bad and will go see what they were about!
Edit: it looks like there were some cool ones, I hope there’s video of them. I’d love to try to go next year!
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Video will happen but I’m not sure how long it will take.
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Yeah, it does seem to be weighted a bit towards industry talks, with a fair smattering of talks by academics. I mostly enjoy both of these categories, but I would love to see more talks from hobbyists and critics/fans. But I’m part of the problem because I have no intention of proposing a talk myself…
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If I go next year I could do ‘a whirlwind tour of 30 years of ifcomp winners’ and spend 60 seconds talking about each winner…
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I did a talk as a hobbyist, and damn did I have imposter syndrome but I’m really glad I did it!
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Faces.
Edit following the blockage of this post:
This was an honest answer to an honest question. Very sorry to see that the ‘community’ cannot tolerate brief, simple, authentic replies.
Perhaps a better approach to flagging my comment would have been a discussion which acknowledges the practised reality of public gatherings in 2024.
Your talk was one of the ones that looked interesting and made me want to go! I clicked on the slides though, so I appreciate you providing them. Zed’s talk and Mar Ferreri’s look cool, too, but I’m still looking through stuff.
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Sorry I missed it! The three parallel tracks gave me a weekend-long case of FOMO.
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I hate doing talks where I’m just saying what’s on the slides, so I cunningly avoid that by making my slides so terse and image-centric that they’re not worth much on their own. But I’m writing up something that’ll have real info, including a bunch of stuff I wanted to get to, but didn’t.
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Your position on presentation slides is spot on.
I can remember having to sit through presentations when I worked for the DoD where the presenter read their own slides to us. “Just send me the slide deck. I can read!” → Death by powerpoint…,
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