Genesis Noir News

LudoNarraCon is a free digital festival running April 24 - 27 here on Steam that celebrates narrative games like our’s! Tune in to see behind-the-scenes streams from over 40 narrative games, download and play over 20 demos, and watch live panels from narrative developers. We hope you’ll visit our Steam page during the event: we’re excited to livestream 3-4 hours of behind the scenes content for you. It’ll replay on a loop for the duration of the event, so come anywhere and anytime starting April 24th until the 27th.


We're excited to announce a demo of the game will be available during the event! As part of LudoNarraCon, nearly half of the exhibitors will be offering free demos... Enjoy a taste of these games from the comfort of your home on your schedule.


Developers and publishers will stream live on their games' Steam store pages with behind-the-scenes content, couch chats, and demo gameplay. We’ll be streaming behind the scenes looks at our art direction, developer gameplay, and our music sesssions with Skillbard.



A main theatre stream will feature 12 hours of live panels with game developers, writers, journalists, and other industry influencers. Panels will cover everything from narrative design, game localization, how to create player empathy, and much more.



The LudoNarraCon Sale launches on Steam during the event, with more than 50 story-rich games participating.

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All live streaming content will replay on a loop for the rest of the event, making it easy to check out everything from the comfort of your own home on your schedule!



Excited and don't want to miss out? Visit this Steam page to set a calendar reminder.

THANK YOU for coming the to first #LudoNarraCon! 💖😍



This was a great experience for our team, and we were thrilled to share it with you. We hope you enjoyed it -- we did! And if you didn't get to see any of the panels from the main stage, you can now view them all on YouTube!

LudoNarraCon panels are now live on ludonarracon.com



Topics include:

Games as Storytelling
🎮 Patrick Ewing (creative director of Chance Agency)
🎮 Cassandra Khaw (scriptwriter at Ubisoft Montreal)
🎮 Whitney “Strix” Beltran (narrative director at Hidden Path Entertainment)

Romance in Games
❤️ Tanya X. Short (Captain of Kitfox Games)
❤️ Kate Gray (narrative designer at KO_OP)
❤️ Nina Freeman (game designer at Fullbright)

Writing for Short Games
✏️ Ben Wander (founder of A Wandering Band)
✏️ Bruno Dias (writer and narrative designer)
✏️ Ryan Green (developer, co-founder of Numinous Games)
✏️ Amy Green (writer, co-founder of Numinous Games)

Death in Games
💀 Lottie Bevan (co-founder & COO of Weather Factory)
💀 Alexis Kennedy (co-founder of Weather Factory)
💀 Coyan Cardenas (director of Lambic Studios)
💀 Will O'Neill (founder of WZO Games)

and more!

Tune in when the fun starts, at 10am PDT on Friday May 10!

We’ll be attending LudoNarraCon this weekend, a digital convention for narrative games hosted right here on Steam from 10 - 13 May.

We will be ‘exhibiting’ at the event and streaming right here on the Genesis Noir Steam store page. It’s being put on by indie games label, Fellow Traveller, and we’re really excited to be taking part alongside so many great games like in Other Waters, Where the Waters Tastes Like Wine and Objects in Space!

We’d be thrilled if you can join us this weekend, and be sure to check out the rest of the event for more behind-the-scenes content, demos and really cool panels. More info here: LudoNarraCon

A whole bunch more games are exhibiting during LudoNarraCon!














Check out the full, updated list of games you can see behind-the-scenes content for during LNC, on ludonarracon.com 💖