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Jan07

January meetup (online)

by zarf on January 7th, 2021 at 1:57 pm
Posted In: Meetings

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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Dec22

November Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on December 22nd, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Posted In: Post Mortem
PR-IF November 2020 meetup, Photo Courtesy of Kay Savetz

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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Dec14

December meetup (online)

by zarf on December 14th, 2020 at 2:13 pm
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The Boston IF meetup for December will be Tuesday, December 22, 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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Nov12

November meetup (online)

by zarf on November 12th, 2020 at 11:24 am
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The Boston IF meetup for October will be Tuesday, November 24, 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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Oct27

October Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on October 27th, 2020 at 11:48 pm
Posted In: Post Mortem
PR-IF October 2020 Meeting

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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Next PR-IF Meeting

Tuesday, April 13

6:30 pm Eastern, online

(The Republic gathers monthly. In these plague times, we meet online. Note our Event Policy.)

Other Upcoming Dates

Apr 7: Text Adventure Literacy Jam submission deadline

Apr 17-18: Flights of Foundry (online writer’s conference with a game/IF track)

May 1: ParserComp submission begins

May 2: PunyInform Jam submission deadline

May 7: Spring Thing voting deadline

Jun 30: ParserComp submission deadline

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