Local folks Fellow Traveller have announced that LudoNarraCon is back for a sixth year along the line up of what games and speakers are on board for it.

The show itself is entirely digital and completely free, as it takes place on Steam. The show will run from May 10 to May 14, with panels filled with various game makers across the 4 days. The show officially starts at 10am Los Angeles time on May 9, but for us down under that makes it 3am on May 10, so adjust your clocks accordingly.

Of course, there is going to be a lot of games included in the show as well, some of them have been announced, here are just a few call outs.

• Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (Jump Over the Age/Fellow Traveller)

• Wandering Sword (The Swordman Studio/Spiral Up Games)

• Stray Gods (Summerfall Studios/Humble Games)

• Yes, Your Grace: Snowfall (Brave At Night)

• REKA (Emberstorm Entertainment/Fireshine Games)

The last two of the games above will be launching their first demos during the event and another 40 or so will either get their debut demo or release an updated demo. In fact, you can check out the official selection below and you can visit the official site to get a complete breakdown of all of the games.

Of course, it isn’t all just playing games, as LudoNarraCon is a digital convention about narrative games, which means stories and stories are best told by the folks who make them happen. In fact across the 4 days there will be 17 hours of panels, with a host of talent from all sorts of studios, from one person to many. Here are some that the organisers have called out:

• 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

The topics they are going to talk about are diverse, just like the makers, some of them are:

• 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

The full panel line up will be revealed ahead of the show, you can always follow on the official page and even sign up to notified when they do go live.