In-person tickets for NarraScope 2025 close Friday, May 23rd, at 11:59pm! Lock in your in-person ticket so you can join our amazing speakers in Philadelphia next month!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope-2025-tickets-1257528263889
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The Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation supports the tools and services behind interactive fiction.
We know there are plenty of good reasons not to travel to Philadelphia right now for NarraScope 2025. That's why all the talks will be streamed live, and you can register for the online-only version of the conference for as little as $5.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope-2025-tickets-1257528263889
NarraScope 2025 registration is live! Philadelphia is the place to be June 20-22 to talk games & narrative. Register before April 11 for the early bird rate!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope-2025-tickets-1257528263889
We are pleased to announce the creation of our new Institutional Relations committee!
The intent behind this committee is to help support IFTF in establishing and nurturing relationships with institutions that align with our vision.
Read more here: http://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-02-28-new-iftf-committee-institutional-relations-.html
For the first time, NarraScope is hosting a game Showcase! 🎮 Submit narrative-based digital games in any format and genre by May 1st: https://itch.io/jam/narrascope-showcase-2025
IFTechFoundation boosted:
Zarf was both treasurer and effective tech lead of @IFTF for nearly ten years! As IFTF’s former president, may I lead an aptly text-based clap-out as he hands these roles off to new leadership. 👏👏👏 (emojis are text, dang it) @zarfeblong
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@zarfeblong/114050427046998463
@zarfeblong Thank you very much for all your work with us!!
IFTechFoundation boosted:
Today was my last day as IFTF Treasurer and Tech Person Who Knows All The Tech Stuff. (That last wasn't a formal role when I started, but it is now.)
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/my-last-day-as-treasurer
Please welcome my replacements, Colette Zinna and Doug Valenta (https://hachyderm.io/@dougv).
Whew! I'm still helping IFTF in a bunch of ways, but I can now say I've handed those two jobs off.
The February 21 deadline for proposing a Narrascope talk is fast approaching.
Whether it’s an all-new analysis of an old classic, a groundbreaking design paradigm, or a profound realization from your last narrative project, we want to hear about it!
We are pleased the announce the 4 projects that have been awarded an IFTF microgrant this year!
https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2025-02-10-announcing-the-2025-iftf-grant-recipients.html
We saw even more applications and diversity this year; the grants program is thriving! 🙂
But it can only come back year over year thanks to your donations - donate to IFTF today (you can specifically select 'grants' on our Paypal page if you'd like) to allow us to continue funding cool projects like these ones!
New blog post: the last report on a 2023 microgrant project is up! Felicity Banks travelled to Indonesia and gave a series of IF-focused workshops to authors, plant the seeds of IF in Indonesia!
Propose talks for NarraScope 2025 by February 21st, and join the conference as a speaker at Drexel University in June this year.
Gamers, writers, academics, and aficionados are invited to submit talks to NarraScope 2025. Subjects vary from interactive fiction tools to writing best practices and everything in between.
For more details, and to submit proposals, go here: https://narrascope.org/talks/
Our call for proposals is now open! Proposals are due on February 7th.
More info on juried papers, volunteers, and web site updates:
NarraScope 2025 will take place June 20th to 22nd at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. We are anticipating record numbers of attendees, and we hope to see you there! We know not everybody can make the trek to join us physically, so, just like the last two years, we intend to stream all of our talks live to welcome the rest of you!
IFTechFoundation boosted:
The Twine Cookbook now has a print edition! It contains the same content as the web site, but is fun to leaf through and otherwise enjoy when you're not on the internet. Proceeds from sale go to @IFTF, and an EPUB version is also available on the web site for download for free.
Get the print edition for a mere $16 through the end of December: https://twinery.org/cookbookprintdec24
@nanook Yes! And choice-based games, Hypercard-style games, digital CYOAs, etc.!
We have closed the application form for our microgrants program!
Thanks everyone for your interest - we have doubled the number of applications compared to our trial last year! Very happy about the results 🙂
We'll pass it on to our advisors and will announce funded projects in the new year!
In the meantime, if you appreciate the grants program and want to help make it sustainable, don't forget you can make a donation to IFTF specifically earmarked for the grants program!
https://iftechfoundation.org/give/
Some great news from Felicity Banks, who was a recipient of one of our microgrants last year, for the purpose of mentoring Indonesian writers through their first encounters with the #InteractiveFiction world!
One more week to submit your application to one of our microgrants!
Get up to $1000 for an #InteractiveFiction project that benefits the community!
Details and application form here: https://blog.iftechfoundation.org/2024-10-05-the-iftf-microgrant-program-is-back.html
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