International Conference on Games and Narrative 2025

Important Dates:

The 2025 International Conference on Games and Narrative presents:

Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Adaptation, Storytelling and Simulation

HYBRID - Hosted by the Games Institute, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Monday, March 3rd - Thursday, March 6th, 2025

Decisions on papers, panels, and workshops: early December

Proceedings published (extended abstracts): April 2025

Abstract decisions have now been released! We thank everyone for their submissions and interests!

Link to conference registration will be released in early January after the Holiday shut down.

Registration Information

Registration Prices for both presenters and attendees are as follow:
NB: Waterloo and Melbourne locations both count as in-person attendance.

In-Person Tenured Professor and/or Industry Professional	$200.00 CAD
In-Person Non-Tenured Professor, Students, and/or Independent Scholars	$100.00 CAD
Virtual Presenters and/or Attendees	$50.00

Registration closes on Thursday, February 27, 2025. We will not be offering refunds for conference registration after February 1, 2025.

Discounted Pricing:

Discount for Indigenous (Innuit, First Nations, and Métis), Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander people.

This conference takes place at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and the University of Melbourne, Australia. To actively participate in and respectfully continue the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and the Australian Declaration Towards Reconciliation, we seek to make space for underrepresented voices within academia, games industry, and game creation and study within the public realm, among others.

As such, we offer free conference registration for those who self-identify as Indigenous (Innuit, First Nations, and Métis) or as Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander . Please contact us for a discount code when registration is opened.

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is co-ordinated within the Office of Indigenous Relations.

The University of Melbourne is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples (Burnley, Fishermans Bend, Parkville, Southbank and Werribee campuses), the Yorta Yorta Nation (Dookie and Shepparton campuses), and the Dja Dja Wurrung people (Creswick campus). We pay respect to Elders past, present and future, and acknowledge the importance of Indigenous knowledge in the Academy. As a community of researchers, teachers, professional staff and students we are privileged to work and learn every day with Indigenous colleagues and partners.

Discount for GI and MAGPIE Members.

To GI and MAGBIE Members who have joined the Games Institute or the MAGPIE Network no later than December 1, 2024 we offer a 50% off your chosen registration type. Please email us at icgan.submissions@uwaterloo.ca for a discount code when registration is open in January, 2025.