The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Thursday, March 20, 2019. Dan, doug,zarf, nickm, mike, and anjchang (not pictured) welcomed Kevin (@KevinSavetz from Eaten By A Grue Podcast of Portland, Oregon), Jaroslav Švelch (@raguklemenso, from Prague) , Martin Roberts (@martin_vm303, Emerson College) and Paul Hagstrom (@yesterbits).  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories: Check out the photos

Storyspace
Forking paths
Oulipo
Antic Atari 8 bit podcast
Zarf essay on if in IF Theory Reader
GDC narrative talks overview
Different models of IF
Alternative modelsm not a branching tree

Doug. Galactic puzzle hunt, started Friday, 3 teams done so far
At least one gblorb game in there
Mystery hunt text adventures
Steven Lavelle on writing team

Baba is You has finally shipped
Text arrangements windows
Kevin has been taking part in Annual ten line basic programming contest
So we all started talking about codegolfing experiences:
Twifcomp Twitter if comp
Recreation of Jasper John flag painting 1 liner
Wastes by nick
Demoscene mentioned
Haiku by nick. The group then takes a look at feelies of Basho and Computer Games an dPoetry, including the Burma shave haiku. See the photos here!

Nick mentions that Steve Meretsky is trying to put together a genealogy about puzzle games in narrative games. The group starts throwing out mentions:
Wander
Dog star adventure trs80 first type iin
Adventures in videoland…first live action video game,David Lee bard
Night trap…Rob fullop Atari 2600
The first vs. the last
Fools errand …first meta puzzle narrative?
The prisoner….mishmash of ideas..uncaregorizable
Aaron Reed, hypertext part blends,
Robin Johnson
Afternoon, typein storyspace
Dan mentions…Autocinokete
Kings quest
The Hobbit
Mystery house first graphic
Reconstruction 1988 game First activist…1989 activistism
A mind forever voyaging… Political
Deja Vu (point and click)
E-men first expandable
Portal. Activision first database exploration
Sherlock Holmes
Curses. First non infoxom. Z Machine
Mindwheel
Thomas dish amnexia
Cragne Manor. First 80 author work.
Flexible survival.. furry multiauthor?
Aisle… One move have
Trapped in a …One room game
+ equals 3
Lurking horror
Ditch day drifter
1984 Yugo high school
Hacker …
Wishbringer… Transforming map
Eliza… First computer character
Shirdlu
Ractor. Conversational character
Masquerade…. Real world prize
Softtalk apple 2 magazine
First non puzzle if? Pictures an exhibition IF art show
Bill Maya Storytron project
.Chris Crawford’s .erasmatron

Spring thing intents for the end of the month

Zarf cranking away at implementing python in javascript
Dan parser libraries mention
Haskell…parsec

anjchang recently gave a “intro to IF” to 12 computer science high school students at the Lexington Christian Academy. In 2 hours, they played Snack Time! together and then Shade and 9:05 in pairs. They also asked questions about how IF is written, some of them having played and created IF before this. saw Inform and Twine.

IFTF financial report and fundraising
Jaroslav mentions a project… Czech institute of contemporary history looking to make Czech interactive fiction works accessible
..Zarf suggests at Inform 6 nonenglish parsers
..Diacritics
Sinclair spectrum. emulator
Keep content with modern platform
Videogames for humans
Immemory Chris Marker. First CD ROM project

Next meeting April will be Tuesday, April 16, 6:30 pm,

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, January. 16th. Zarf, adri, heflin, nickm, dan, noah, jake, 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: See more pictures here.

Reality of interactive fiction story f Train by Brenda rpmero
Mystery hunt
Tunnel by sofian audry
Baba is you beta testing by Jake
Zarf Judy Dan Noah nickm Jake anj Cynthia adri dominique Luna
Adri on a panel this Saturday
Dominic Inform 7 on flathub pull request
Nick at demo party, 64 byte configure alphabit written with shifty. X reg for color and frwq Check out his blog
Proposal for narrascope closes in two days
Noah wants to know contacts for event spaces in Berlin
Early February Boston FIG talks, fig learns is more educational

Topics of discussion:
anjchang played minima pico 8 by feneric
Zarf played some games for a IGF festival
Watch me jump, a small Japanese style interface from play to interactive piece. Minimal conversation steering reads like a dynamic play. Good character tension.
Nick’s last Spring IF class happened
Tech support themed games discussed
Bandersnatch. Was prototyped in Twine
Sam Borovs Board game
Get lamp choices spin access court
Scumvm now includes a z machine interpreter
Mystery 3 or Myst 4 in ScummVM
Nintendo Wii emulators on ScummVM
Tipped off Robbie Barrat’s code AI used somebody else’s code, signed by Shirin
Taper #3 Due Feb. 18th: Seeking Minimal Literary Artworks
We have an If Fiction visitor from Berkley Public library, for a workshop in February
Banksy reference to self shedding art
Meanwhile
My secret hideout
Aaron Reed’s table top role playing games
Game Feb businesses
Jake idea game about sheep hands-on training be automation
Mother three industrialization
Dwarf Fortress
Origin
Authenticity

anjchang will be giving a Intro to IF workshop at the Berkley public library for the local community on Feb 20.

Also a shout-out to Jmac, who will be speaking for the IFTF on Feb 20

Reminder that I’m gonna give a short talk about @IFTFoundation at @AS220 in downtown Providence tomorrow at 6:30. We’ll demo some games starting at 5:30ish, and we’ll have some IFTF and @narrascope stickers and stuff for you too. Come on by! https://t.co/oil5MXiT50

— Jason McIntosh (@JmacDotOrg) February 19, 2019

Next PR-IF Meeting is Thursday, February 21, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. See you there!