If you love narrative-driven games and learning how they're made, you're going to want to check out this event. Fellow Traveller's LudoNarraCon is back for its seventh year, and with some familiar names joining them.
Remedy's Creative Director, Sam Lake, will be taking part in a fireside chat alongside games journalist, Lucy James. At present, the final schedule has yet to be confirmed, but their conversation will be broadcast on their “main stage” via Steam. While this isn't the only fireside chat that Sam will be taking part in this year, entry for LudoNarraCon is free and entirely virtual, making it the most accessible listed.
Sam isn't the only familiar name listed. There are a number of other developers taking part who also have worked on Remedy titles!
Other speakers include Camerin Wild, a writer and inclusion consultant at Sweet Baby Inc, who worked on Alan Wake 2 and is now focused on a yet unannounced Remedy project. Camerin is part of the panel “The Secret Handshake: How Writers and Players Build Game Worlds Together” with Maxine Sophia Wolff, Pelo Brisson-Tsavoussis, and James Wright.
In a third listing, Richard Rouse III (Studio Creative Director at FarBridge) and Deborah Hendersen (Studio Lead for Microsoft Global Publishing) both worked on Quantum Break, and joins Jesse Schell on the panel, “Very Different Tales - How Game Stories Change By Genre & Medium”.
As for the timings, we'll let you know when they're revealed closer to the event.
LudoNarraCon is set to take place between May 1st - 5th 2025 on Steam. Learn more about the event on their official website, HERE.
Psst, you're looking for something to watch in the meantime, there's a certain talk from the 2021 event you might be interested in. Check out Brooke Maggs' (then-Narrative Designer at Remedy) fireside chat with Greg Kasavin. In their conversation, they discuss how they got started, the importance of the team having the same vision, awareness of the genres, and a lot more. You can watch it, HERE.
