What is NarraScope?

NarraScope is an event that supports interactive narrative, adventure games, and interactive fiction by bringing together writers, developers, and players.

NarraScope 2025 will be hosted at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. All talks will be streamed live via Discord. We will make recordings available on our YouTube channel as soon as possible!

Subjects vary from interactive fiction tools to writing best practices and everything in between. Previous talks had titles like “Choosing Your Happily Ever After”, “Shaping Your Story with Emotional Intelligence” and “Adapting Film’s Techniques for Nonlinear Stories”, to give you a bit of an idea.

Our conference aims to be a place for everyone interested in narrative games to hang out, exchange ideas and get inspired. We do this through a broad selection of talks, keynote speakers, discussions and workshops.

NarraScope celebrates the diverse voices of game design. We aim to create a safe, welcoming, and accountable space for all participants.

View our Code of Conduct View our COVID-19 Policies Look at NarraScope's history over the years

Narrascope 2025 Committee

Conference Chair:

• Matt Griffin

Conference Co-Chair, Showcase Director:

• John Domenico Calvelli

Finance Chair:

• Colette Zinna

Communications Chair:

• Nat Mesnard

Programming Director (Talks and Panels), Local Host Committee:

• Darya Ramezani

Website Chair:

• Reid (Ferkung) Thomas

Producer, Local Host Committee:

• Alexus Aiken

Workshops Director:

• Judith Pintar

Communications Committee:

• Hexe Fey
• Helene Lupa
• Ann-Marie Henderson

Website Committee:

• Travis Moy
• Andrew Plotkin

Showcase Committee:

• Brandon Celentano
• Bee Wertheimer
• Camron Gonzalez
• Jacob Long

Additional Thanks

• Justin Bortnick
• Cidney Hamilton

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation

NarraScope is hosted by the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation. It is funded by the donations of IF supporters like you.

Questions, comments, suggestions about how NarraScope is running? Feel free to contact narrascope@narrascope.org. Thank you for any feedback.

For upcoming details and announcements, please join our mailing list! Or follow @narrascope on Twitter or Mastodon.

Join the NarraScope Discord! This is a chat forum for NarraScope attendees and those interested in our events. We intend to keep the Discord running all year.

Sponsors

You may donate to NarraScope directly via PayPal:

Donations beyond the cost of membership will go to subsidize speaker honoraria and low-budget attendees.

(For other ways to donate, visit the IFTF donation page.)

Organization and Corporate Sponsorships

Interested in supporting NarraScope? Please contact us.

Thank you to those who supported Narrascope 2024, NarraScope 2023, NarraScope 2022, NarraScope 2020, and NarraScope 2019!