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The Games Institute is proud to announce that the 2025 rendition of the biannual International Conference on Games and Narrative (ICGaN’25) is now open for registration.</div>
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<b>WHEN: March 3-6, 2025, 8:30am-6:30pm</b></div>
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<b>WHERE: The Games Institute, University of Waterloo, EC-1 1237 and Online</b></div>
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ICGaN’25 provides a hybrid interdisciplinary venue for researchers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to explore the impact of video games and interactive storytelling. </div>
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This year’s conference theme “Adapt, Adopt, Adjust: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Adaptation, Storytelling, and Simulation” asks us to consider the power of adapted and adaptive narratives, experiences, genres, and mechanics.</div>
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We invite all academics, researchers, industry professionals, independent scholars, students, like-minded individuals, and enthusiasts to attend!</div>
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Registration for the conference is currently open until February 20 (in person) and February 27 (online). Registrants will have an option of attending either in-person on campus at the Games Institute (East Campus 1) or virtually. </div>
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