📣 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...

Happy New Years Eve to those who celebrate :D

Happy Winter Solstice!

Congratulations to Narrascope friends @grundislav.games (Rosewater) and Cirque Saw (labRats) for their Indiecade game nominations 🤘🫀🐀🌹

Congratulations!!!

Remember the Narrascoop? We might be bringing it back! Stay tuned to find out 😊

The 2026 Narrascope website is live! narrascope.org

We love Slenderman 👁👄👁

An interactive ficiton tool that looks super neat from our discord vaults called TilBuci built by Lucas Junqueira: github.com/lucasjunquei...

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

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/...

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...

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

If you like Narrascope you might also like AdventureX: the UK's only convention dedicated to narrative-driven gaming. Since 2011, AdventureX has been bringing together developers & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling. www.adventurexpo.org

Submissions for the IF Short Games Showcase 2025 begin on November 23rd and close on December 31st! www.ifwiki.org/IF_Short_Gam...

If you like Narrascope you might also like AdventureX: the UK's only convention dedicated to narrative-driven gaming. Since 2011, AdventureX has been bringing together developers & gamers with a passion for interactive storytelling. www.adventurexpo.org

A neat little jam is happening from Nov2-Dec1 if that's your thing: "Feeling nostalgic about the golden age of text adventures? Relive those days by participating in PunyComp 2025! This is a competition where you write a text adventure using PunyInform" itch.io/jam/punycomp...

Narrative Design in the Age of Twitch-Stacey Mason, 2023- It seems that traditional wisdom is that competitive multiplayer games are more streamable than narrative games, yet many narrative games do well on Twitch. How do their narrative structures aid or hinder this? youtu.be/txVdoEL7QQ0?...

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

“Don’t Try To Explain It”-Why Some Things Should Not Make Sense-Bjarke Alexander Larsen, 2023- Why does punching a tree give you planks? How do the champions in a League of Legends match keep being able to fight each other? We want the world to make sense. But should we? youtu.be/wNiYrv1K3oo?...

Narrative Based Games For Sexual Health-KB, 2023- A post-mortem of (val)iant: or, val’s guide to having a broken vag. It’s a game about vaginismus, relationships, and how we as a society learn about sex. youtu.be/Sq82F0RU3f8?...

Finally getting around to sharing the video of the talk @grundislav.games and I gave at this year's @narrascope.org—all about how we prototyped and "telotyped" parts of Rosewater with tabletop RPG scenarios and a fully playable Twine model. (It includes a link to try the model for yourself!)

Cataloging Narrative Games to Expand the Bibliographic Universe-Colin Post, 2023- Librarian Business: catalog record creation, title descriptions, implications for more widespread cataloging of narrative games youtu.be/MjaNDInznws?...

Our microgrants program is back for a third year! This year again, IFTF is looking to disburse $3,000 to cool projects related to interactive fiction that could benefit from a little bit of cash. More details on our blog post!

The 2025 IFComp Awards will stream live on Saturday, Oct 18, at 4 PM Eastern. Please join us to celebrate this year’s authors! Stream: www.twitch.tv/interactivef... Time zone help: everytimezone.com/s/4849cb8d Can’t join live? Results will appear on the IFComp website at 7:00 PM Eastern.

Entering your Villain Era: how to write games by being cringey, selfish and evil - Brianna Lei, 2023 Keynote youtu.be/5DuQeK-XwIc?...

Hellooooooo! We will be posting some talk recordings and stuff regularly and as it gets closer to the conference there will be even more posting!

After an amazing 2025 conference and a well-deserved rest, the NarraScope volunteer team has reassembled and we’re looking for new volunteers! Join the team and help us make 2026 the best NarraScope yet: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you enjoyed NarraScope 2025, here are the folks who made it happen! Our Chair was @mifga.bsky.social, @jdcalvelli.itch.io was the Junior Chair & showcase organizer. @eblong.com & @lordhuffnpuff.allfatherproductions.com served as emeritus advisors and did other varied tasks (food, website). (1/3)

Weekend in Philly: epic cheesesteak, first NarraScope, and a mind-blowing gift—the last spare Twin Peaks ring prop, hand-made by the original craftsman for on-screen use. ✈️🥪💍 NarraScope’s passion was unreal. Pros, academics, and fresh voices all jamming on narrative. Hope to return!

🥳 💜 Find us at @narrascope.org this Friday! We're excited to participate in this interactive fiction conference from @iftechfoundation.org at Drexel University in Philly. We'll be sharing a workshop on how to make narrative games fast in our Turbo game engine⚡ Come say hi!

Get the NarraScoop on Brigitte Winter! @brigittewinter.bsky.social

Here’s the NarraScoop with Jess Erion! @jjerion.bsky.social

Read the NarraScoop on Tony Errichetti!

Today is your 💥 last chance 💥 to purchase online tickets to NarraScope 2025! Join us on Discord for a fully hybrid conference experience. The ticket portal closes at 11:59 ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

I'm super looking forward to my Narrascope talk this weekend!! I hope you'll come check it out!

Read the NarraScoop on Francisco González! @grundislav.games

Read the NarraScoop on Julia Minamata! @juliaminamata.bsky.social

Party with NarraScope in Philadelphia this year! We've got some evening events planned on June 20 and 21 with local orgs to play games, talk shop, and make friends during the conference. 🧵

⌛Time is short to purchase an online NarraScope membership and join us for the 2025 conference this coming weekend! Sales close at 11:59 ET on June 18: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...

I haven't posted to the blog in a minute, but I wanted to share a preview of my upcoming @narrascope.org talk: www.essay-games.com/blog/re-lear... It's about re-learning narrative design techniques to appear impatient readers (inspired by my kiddos!).

One of our team - @hey.paris - is in the states for the @narrascope.org conf this weekend, and he’s hitting a few cities on the way in/out. Want to have a chat about what Yarn Spinner can offer your team/project, or even just dish about narrative in games? He’d love to! DMs open 💚

Read the NarraScoop on Ash Poprik! @ashleypoprik.bsky.social

Read the NarraScoop on Nicholas O’Brien! @essaygames.bsky.social

The NarraScope Showcase 2025 shortlist has been announced! Check the replies to see each award category 🏆

Calling all artists on Bluesky! The IFComp is seeking an artists for our 2025 logo! Check this post for more info! blog.ifcomp.org/post/7855116... #interactivefiction #ifcomp #ifcomp2025 #artist #digitalart

The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation has launched a Patreon! Now there's a new way to support us and all we do (Narrascope, Twine, IFComp, IFDB, IF Wiki, IntFiction, and so much more!)