NarraScope 2022 took place online on Saturday, July 30 to Sunday, July 31.
See the schedule in list form.
All times are shown in US Eastern time.
Friday (July 29)
| 8:00–8:50
(US Eastern) |
Twine in the Classroom – VerBon Cheung, Michelle Jolley, Damon Wakes, and Friends | |
| 9:00–9:50
(US Eastern) |
Introduction to articy:draft 3 – Karsten Feyerabend, Raluca Percec | |
| 10:00–10:50
(US Eastern) |
Inform as a Tool to Teach Narrative Design and Game Writing – Clara Fernandez-Vara | |
| 11:00–11:50
(US Eastern) |
Unlocking Hidden Rules of Office Hours: A Twine Game Jam on First-Generation College Students’ Experiences – Matthew Farber, William Merchant, Tori Beaty | |
| 12:00–12:50
(US Eastern) |
Introduction to Tracery: Make a Twitter Bot! – Joey Jones | |
| 13:00–13:50
(US Eastern) |
Inform Bootcamp Debrief – Alexis Kim, Judith Pintar | |
| 14:00–14:50
(US Eastern) |
Crash Course on ink – Dan Cox, Kenton Taylor Howard | |
| 15:00–15:50
(US Eastern) |
Teaching for Transfer with Interactive Fiction – Brendan Desilets | |
| 16:00–16:50
(US Eastern) |
Intro to Chapbook – Chris Klimas, Stuart Moulthrop | |
| 17:00–19:00
(US Eastern) |
Educator’s Town Hall and Social – Anastasia Salter, Judith Pintar | |
Saturday (July 30)
| 10:00–10:15
(US Eastern) |
Welcome back (Articy Hall) | |
| 10:15–11:15
(US Eastern) |
Keynote: 5 Lessons From 50 Years of Text Games – Aaron A. Reed (Articy Hall) | |
| 11:15–11:30
(US Eastern) |
Social time | |
| 11:30–12:00
(US Eastern) |
Choosing Your Happily Ever After: Choice and Agency in Romance IF
– Rebecca Slitt (Articy Hall)
11:30–12:00
(US Eastern)
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Once A Pawn A Time: Using Chess As A Metaphor in Narrative
– Nessa Cannon (Molasses Hall)
11:30–12:00
(US Eastern)
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| 12:00–13:00
(US Eastern) |
What I’ve Learned From (Attempting) to Play Every Adventure Game Ever Made
– Jason Dyer (Articy Hall)
12:00–13:00
(US Eastern)
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Building an Interactive Documentary
– Jeff Crocker (Molasses Hall)
12:00–12:30
(US Eastern)
Narrative in a Box: Interactive Fiction in the Physical World – Manda Whitney (Molasses Hall)
12:30–13:00
(US Eastern)
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| 13:00–13:30
(US Eastern) |
Lunch | |
| 13:30–14:30
(US Eastern) |
Narrative Instruments in Practice
– Doug Valenta, John Zajac (Articy Hall)
13:30–14:30
(US Eastern)
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A Hollow-Horned Rumination: Affective Storytelling and Ethical Artmaking
– Kathryn Li (Molasses Hall)
13:30–14:00
(US Eastern)
Designing a Pattern for Dialogue Choices in Discriminatory Situations – Hélène Sellier (Molasses Hall)
14:00–14:15
(US Eastern)
Building a Desirable Future is Not an Individual Heroic Effort – Valentin SERRI (Molasses Hall)
14:15–14:30
(US Eastern)
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| 14:30–15:00
(US Eastern) |
Bringing Full Accessibility to Mainstream Narrative Games
– Matt Campbell (Articy Hall)
14:30–15:00
(US Eastern)
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Adaptative and Generative Text for Unity
– Jonathan Lessard (Molasses Hall)
14:30–14:45
(US Eastern)
Morale Is Very Low – Gabriel Murray (Molasses Hall)
14:45–15:00
(US Eastern)
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| 15:00–15:30
(US Eastern) |
Social and demo time | |
| 15:30–16:30
(US Eastern) |
The Futures of Inform
– Graham Nelson (Articy Hall)
15:30–16:30
(US Eastern)
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How We Made a Story-Driven Puzzle Game for a Massive Multinational
– Adam Clare (Molasses Hall)
15:30–16:00
(US Eastern)
Narrative Tools of Boyfriend Dungeon – Tanya X. Short (Molasses Hall)
16:00–16:15
(US Eastern)
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Sunday (July 31)
| 10:00–11:00
(US Eastern) |
Curiosity Multiplied The Cat: Five AI Writing Experiments To Try At Home
– Charlene Putney, Martin Pichlmair (Articy Hall)
10:00–11:00
(US Eastern)
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“Musicologists’ Creed”: Digital Interactive Fiction, Historical Role-Play, and the Pedagogy of Narrative Play
– Christopher J Smith (Molasses Hall)
10:00–10:30
(US Eastern)
My (Mostly) Frustrated Efforts to Collect Narrative Games in an Academic Library – Colin Post (Molasses Hall)
10:30–11:00
(US Eastern)
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| 11:00–11:30
(US Eastern) |
Social and demo time | |
| 11:30–12:00
(US Eastern) |
Plant Patterns, People Patterns: Design Prompts for Agriculture-Driven Narratives
– Josh Grams (Articy Hall)
11:30–12:00
(US Eastern)
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Hawk and Puma: Bringing the “New Chronicle and Good Government” to the Present
– Nico Valdivia Hennig (Molasses Hall)
11:30–12:00
(US Eastern)
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| 12:00–13:00
(US Eastern) |
Now You’re Thinking with Parts: Using Internal Family Systems in Narrative Design
– Anna C. Webster (Articy Hall)
12:00–13:00
(US Eastern)
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Fantasy Filing Systems: Interactive Narratives of the OS
– Lee Tusman (Molasses Hall)
12:00–12:30
(US Eastern)
Inbox Adventure: Email as IF Game Platform – Geoffrey Golden (Molasses Hall)
12:30–13:00
(US Eastern)
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| 13:00–13:30
(US Eastern) |
Lunch | |
| 13:30–14:30
(US Eastern) |
Meet IFTF – IFTF directors and program leads (Articy Hall) | |
| 14:30–15:00
(US Eastern) |
To the beat y’all: Telling a Hip Hop Story Through Games
– Jarory de Jesus (Articy Hall)
14:30–15:00
(US Eastern)
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“If And Only If”: Exploring Variables and Conditional Logic in Interactive Fiction
– G.C. “Grim” Baccaris (Molasses Hall)
14:30–15:00
(US Eastern)
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| 15:00–15:30
(US Eastern) |
Social and demo time | |
| 15:30–16:30
(US Eastern) |
New Stories, Old Interfaces: Playing, Writing, and Designing Immersive Diegetic Narrative Games
– Ian Michael Waddell, Katherine Morayati (Articy Hall)
15:30–16:30
(US Eastern)
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Engaging with Under the Surface at Surface Level or What Happens When Nobody Knows It’s a Game?
– Elian E. Jentoft (eveghost) (Molasses Hall)
15:30–16:00
(US Eastern)
Rapid Research – Josh Unsworth (Molasses Hall)
16:00–16:15
(US Eastern)
Putting Words In My Mouth: The Unsilent Protagonist in VR – Kathryn Yu (Molasses Hall)
16:15–16:30
(US Eastern)
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