LudoNarraCon 2024 takes place from May 9 to 13
Today, narrative games publisher Fellow Traveller announced the full lineup for LudoNarraCon 2024, its sixth annual festival running between May 9 - 13. A digital convention hosted on Steam, LudoNarraCon celebrates innovation in story-rich games with the developers and communities that drive them, offering hours of content, demos, and sales to showcase the best in the indie narrative scene.
This year, the festival will spotlight over 50 narrative titles as part of the ‘Official Selection’, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller), Wandering Sword (The Swordman Studio/Spiral Up Games), and Stray Gods (Summerfall Studios/Humble Games). Highly anticipated Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall (Brave At Night) and REKA (Emberstorm Entertainment/Fireshine Games) will be launching their first playable Steam demo, amongst over 20 other titles with new or updated demos!
Across 17 hours of panels and fireside chats, some of the talent featured at LudoNarraCon 2024 will be:
Tony Howard from the award-winning studio, Black Tabby Games, known for Scarlet Hollow and Slay the Princess
Meredith Gran, the developer and creator behind Perfect Tides: Station to Station
Xalavier Nelson Jr. from Strange Scaffold, the studio that developed Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Josh Sawyer, the Studio Design Director at Obsidian Entertainment (Fallout: New Vegas & Pillars of Eternity), and Director of Pentiment
Sharna Jackson, independent author, writer on Die Gute Fabrik’s Saltsea Chronicles and curator of ENSEMBLE
Jon Ingold, co-founder and narrative director of inkle, known for A Highland Song
Jenny Windom, member of the Wholesome Games team, who LudoNarraCon collaborated with to curate a subsection of wholesome narrative games for 2024's sales
These developers and more will cover a range of topics including:
Balancing Storytelling in Games With Player Choice
Show your scripts! How narrative design shapes story.
Exploring the Intersection of Story and Music
Magic in the Mundane: How wholesome narratives let us reimagine our world
And more!
For this year’s festival, Fellow Traveller will also be unveiling some exciting news around their upcoming projects, from launching the highly-anticipated sci-fi thriller, 1000xRESIST (sunset visitor), to new title reveals, to brand new demos for Nirvana Noir (Feral Cat Den), Afterlove EP, (PIKSELNESIA), Great God Grove (LimboLane), and Wander Stars, (Paper Castle Games). For those looking to score great deals on Fellow Traveller games, LudoNarraCon 2024 will feature a range of discounts, including up to 90% off select titles. A full list of sales available at LudoNarraCon will be revealed soon.