Indie games label Fellow Traveller today announced the full lineup of over 40 exhibiting games for LudoNarraCon 2020, the global digital festival held on Steam celebrating narrative video games. LudoNarraCon 2020 will run from April 24-27 and is available for free to everyone via Steam. More than 850,000 people attended the 2019 event and the organizers are aiming to achieve more than double this number in 2020.
LudoNarraCon 2020 has been months in the making, and despite the current pandemic of COVID-19 sweeping the world, Fellow Traveller is proud to be able to offer this unique opportunity for indie developers to have their moment to shine. Following the cancellation of GDC and other gaming conventions, Fellow Traveller reopened applications for the event, doubling the size to over 40 exhibiting games. Along with the exhibitor lineup, the initial list of panels has been revealed, with more panels to be confirmed before the event begins.
“With a COVID-19 vaccine 12-18 months away, we need to accept as an industry that it will be a very long time before we get back to large physical conventions and it’s almost unimaginable that any will happen this year,” said Chris Wright, Managing Director at Fellow Traveller. “With LudoNarraCon we hope to bring a convention experience to your home, wherever you are and provide an opportunity for indie developers to shine. We’re also keen to help others create similar festivals in the coming months and happy to share what we’ve learned. ”
Organized by Fellow Traveller, an independent games label focused on innovative narrative games, the first LudoNarraCon debuted in 2019 as a pioneering event, replicating many of the aspects of conventions like PAX or Eurogamer Expo but through a digital format and hosted on the Steam platform.
- Developers exhibit by streaming behind the scenes content to their Steam store pages and many will provide a demo, downloadable only for the duration of the event.
- A series of panel discussions will be streamed on the central “theatre” stream.
- More than 50 narrative games will be on sale in a special LudoNarraCon sale
- Media are able to apply for a press pass, get early access to media-only demos, press assets and contacts for each participating exhibitor.
- The entire event is tied together on a special LudoNarraCon page on Steam and will also use Steam’s new events functionality.
- It’s free to attend and free to exhibit with Fellow Traveller picking up the costs of organizing the event.
