Fellow Traveller’s sixth annual festival spotlights 50+ amazing narrative games, including Pacific Drive, 1000xRESIST, and Slay the Princess
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!
Fellow Traveller is proud to be partnering with Remap, a publication formed by the creators of Waypoint, with Patrick Klepek and Rob Zacny hosting a selection of panels and fireside chats.
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 斜陽過客), 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.
About LudoNarraCon
An initiative of Fellow Traveller, a narrative games publisher known for Citizen Sleeper, The Pale Beyond, Beacon Pines and Paradise Killer, LudoNarraCon celebrates six years of showcasing indie narrative video games. It continues to pioneer the digital gaming festival space, offering an inclusive, community-led environment that engages fans and newcomers who share a love for storytelling through gaming.
- 50+ exhibiting narrative-rich games from talented indie developers
- 17 hours of panels and fireside chats with industry veterans on various fascinating topics on the impact of narrative in video games
- 25+ new and updated demos will be available to download and play during the digital festival, many for the first time ever
- 170+ games on sale during the event
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