Jan07
The Boston IF meetup for January will be Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 pm Eastern time.
We will post the Zoom link to the mailing list on the day of the meeting.
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The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction
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Dec22
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, November 24, 2020. Zarf, kaysavetz and kgagne (Eaten by a Grue), Richard Lamb, Mark Savage, anjchang , and nickm welcomed newcomers Stephen Jablonski and Dennis Allen (former Editor-in-Chief of Byte Magazine, now at emax). Briefly attending were distinguished pets: Kay’s pugs and Mark’s dog. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Kay playing Shogun after his move (Yay Kay & Ken duo together today!)
NIST tours …atomic clocks. National bureau of standards
2017 Leap Second festival convention – 148 participants and residency.
Leap seconds decided six months on advance
Unpredictability of leap seconds
Biennale.no Works that don’t exist
AppleSoft typing one line program
Kay’s Twitterbot does laundry and needs a tumblr account
Someone entered a compo entry that was all Twitter bots
Applesoft hooks in ROM
One liner program discussion
Complaints by nickm, an error messages program
searching for lice riddle, similarities between proofreading– nitpicking
Academic paper on checking dryer status
IF Comp in the last week, 7 days to play 103 games
Stephen recommends magpie game sequel Magpie Takes the Train:
Clothes changing game.
Zarf working on inform manual proofreading
errata to inform user’s manual
Internet Archive Flash copy protection
RUFL maybe can emulate server
https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
circling butterflies
nanogenmo procrastination
bad words in rap lyrics
Joseph Conrad’s N word of the narcissist book
We can’t say “avoid like the plague” anymore
Zarf’s drag and drop project demo
containers, doors, the sun & supercontainers
Idea of containers George Lakoff in cogsci
and experimental realism as fundamental to understanding of human experience and language
path image scheme
my front door – led to a room that contained everything outside the world inside it
Nick will talk about Amazing Quest in Seattle Area IF Meetup
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Oct27
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, Oct 27, 2020. Zarf, kay (Eaten by a Grue), nickm, Josh Grams, anjchang , hilborn, Hugh Steers and Dave Thompsen attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Infocomp judging happening. Join the fun!
Taper #5 is out, check it out! Entries for the next issue, Taper#6 A Throw of the Dice are now being accepted due Jan 20, 2021.
Allison Parrish posted Inform7 tutorial recently on twitter.
http://catn.decontextualize.com/inform7/
Anjchang has been playing latex typing game
https://texnique.xyz/
Typing of the Dead great for the season!
Halloween Themed Comps
- Ecto Comp happening this week
- SaugusNet Comp and Ghost story contest.
Spring thing announcement
Josh shares Toronto’s hand eye society wordplay festival https://www.handeyesociety.com/wordplay/
Kickstarter of Erotic Interactive fiction has a stretch goal. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/slsl/strange-lusts-strange-loves. Natalia Federov and Anna Antropy in the mix.
Kay created twitter bots that run your code in an emulator and tweet it back. https://atari8bitbot.com/
Zarf took a fieldtrip to Corning Glass and Nervous Systems HQ.
Visionary video A Day Made of Glass
Nifty Gateway Art — People make small art and post on a website with proof of ownership in Etherium/cryptocoin.
Design Fiction Discussion
Reconstructing damaged Beta Disk on Inform game files.
Discussion about conventions of direction and room in games.
Room in caving is a space big enough to stand up in, not referencing architectural convention.Show and Tell with Books
Kay read two books on Sierra Online
- The Sierra Adventure by Shawn Mills
- Not All Tales Have Happy Endings by Ken Williams
Nickm showed Folio Society’s Tristam Shandy by Tom Phillips
Zarf showed BASIC Games book, kay had a link to the atari archive
Eliza discussion, Omnibus project podcast
What to Do After you hit Return
- https://www.amazon.com/What-After-You-Hit-Return/dp/0810454769
- https://www.amazon.com/After-Return-P-C-C-First-Computer/dp/B003MT39PO
- https://archive.org/details/Whattodoafteryouhitreturn
Schmoo?
Dr. Z, a poor man’s Eliza
Moore’s book
How you would write a starship simulator
(c) 1978 dilythium project
But does it cover the Manhattan distance calculations for game elements??
XCHG RAX RAX by xorpd
x86 assembly book
Ligatures and fonts
Prisoner’s Restriction no ascenders or descenders
Allison Parrish’s Beyond Z
Translation of other languages is hard
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