Feb05
The Boston IF meetup for February will be Thursday, February 21, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
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The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction
Boston's IF interest group
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Jan31
Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class at MIT Trip Report
on January 31st, 2019 at 6:21 pmPosted In: Events, Post Mortem
On Dec. 11, 2018,15 projects were presented for the Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class taught by Nick Montfort. The projects were varied in aesthetic and depth, but here are some themes that were covered:
- Nightmares
- Different ways of dying
- Blood
- A dragon piece that asked the protagonist to retell their story and used metalepsis
- Alerts and Alarms
- Murder & Suicide
- Weird memories
- Tentacled aliens
- Space Aliens and Space Travel
- Escape Rooms
- Chess pieces in love
- A satiric piece about generic game art
- Gender Identity
- Fraud and Deception
- False Imprisonment
- Cross platform media (Instagram, Web, Twitter) stalking and perspectives on social media
- Unread Emails (!!!)
- Computer viruses and Tech Support Hell
Well played! Students demonstrated very interesting pieces that explored narrative variations in interesting ways. We hope these students will continue their interaction fiction journeys to submit to IntroComp or ELO or IFcomp next year.
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Dec20
Zarf and Doug (not pictured anjchang and nickm)
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, Dec. 5th. Zarf, doug, nickm and anjchang interacted with various feelies and viewed a C64 piece. Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Review of IFComp results. JJ Guest won with Alias ‘The Magpie.’ We played a little of that, and it was fun.
Doug played EctoComp 2018 short winner moon goon by Caleb Wilson.
Ctagne manor almost done, so Zarf gave us a preview. It was awesome, the first 15 minutes we got to play. We had a good time.
Mentions of
- Lost in New York.
- Under milkweed by Dylan Thomas (can’t remember this reference)
- Screens objects recognizable in Apple Is (nor this, sorry!)
Nick showed off some feelies from the NY Zine fair hosted by the School for Poetic Computation. Check out the pictures here! His final interactive fiction class is Dec. 12, I’ll post my recap soon.@party for synchrony.nyc will be happening January 11-12. Ride the train from NYC to Montreal, create and socialize until demos.
Looking forward to seeing you at the next PR-IF meeting on Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
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