Get Ready for Digital Conventions with Steam's new LudoNarraCon
Normally cons are held at locations that can accommodate hundreds to thousands of people. But, a convention held entirely online would accommodate anyone who'd want to go. Click the jump for more info on this.
A lot of large and popular conventions exist out there these days, and all the popular and well visited ones are held in physical locations that require people to fly out to a different place, and usually require them purchasing passes and holding spots in line. But, a new and more modern version of convention will be held online via the Steam store. The event is called the LudoNarraCon and will feature several popular indie developers such as Warm Lamp, Kitfox, Inkle, and Failbetter. It will have one dedicated stream that will feature all of the big panels, other live-streams and chat rooms on the various store pages, as well as hands on demos.
The managing director, Chris Wright, at indie publishing label 'Fellow Traveler', had some light to shed on the upcoming event and what caused them to go down the path of a digital convention for indie publishers.
"We love conventions like PAX and there are some elements of physical cons that are irreplaceable, but it’s a challenge for indie narrative games to compete on the convention circuit. Small teams can’t afford the time or money to be at all the amazing events around the world and it can be hard for narrative games to show well at a busy physical event.
As a narrative games label we’ve been thinking a lot about this challenge. When we saw what Steam was doing with streaming we realised it provided an incredible opportunity to do something different. This is very much a first go but we expect to learn a lot and hope to build this into an ongoing platform to help narrative games punch above their weight."
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