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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 Thursday, February. 21st. Nickm, adri, jmac, zarf, dan, and anjchang (not pictured) interacted with various feelies and viewed a translated demoscene piece. 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
Narrascope will be awesome. June 14-16, 2019 on MIT’s campus. Rooms confirmed.
Zarf- Python drag and drop engine / Verbs discussion
Adri going to narrative summit gdc
Adri playing Night in the woods
Zarf Nebula nominees category for narrative with 3 Choice of Games titles incl Bandersnatch Black Mirror and 3 more…
Nick will lead the discussion of the Black Mirror Viewing Party & Discussion Group May 2 5-7pm in room e15-341
Nick literary seminar, literary translation. 4/26 at 1pm
He’ll be talking about the translation project from polish demoscene
Taper 3 call is extended until Mar. 1st. Make a 3kB or less HTML5/Vanilla JS digital literary work. Challenge to try to fit an interactive narrative in 3KB or less. Code golfing welcome.
Nod to Adam Thornton and Twitter hacking feats
We played Pippin barr let’s play ancient Greek punishment (also see type version)
If workshop talks by jmac and anj yesterday went well. anj’s takeaway was play more talk less. Kids at the library started playing Snack Time, A Sleeping Princess, Tales of The Traveling Swordsman, Bronze. anj played 9:05 and Dreamhold independently.
V and A games exhibit mentioned. Recommendation to go see it for:
Robin Baumgarten’s Line wobbler
Robert Yang, Clara Fernandez video interviews
Recent Trope Tank Visitor Ed Fries, Halo 2600 inventor, porting and game choices discussion
Restoring pre microprocessor games
Next we played a Polish translation by .habib joulo. Hellboj h-prg, hypertext style piece
Pouet.net/prod.php?which=77198
Spring thing reg deadline by Mar 1
Oral poetics at the trope tank
Crazy chain (played at dinner)
Mornington crescent… Absurdist game
It me three #metoi
Bangbangcon May 11-12, 2019 in NYC
b0rk, recode group, Julia Evans