The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday, August 26, 2019. Holborn, Zarf, Feneric, Doug, Aria, Anjchang, and Yaron welcomed newcomer Jon Heard.  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

Home ownership
My crappy apartment / money pit
House of leaves
Constructed by fire demons
Zzyxy awards bogeyman Elizabeth ward
First twine game to get award
Erstwhile individual puzzle

Zarf played telling lies like her story.he put on seven hours
her story was the hours. Lots of video. New format of keyword search
One actor in one day vs multiple actors over two year period (telling lies). Lots of fun. Zarf deal of approval.

Aria recommends. Making goof by John unfolds
alcoholic detective assigned to a house. Partner detective. Good five playthroughs before you digit it out.

Doug mentions original mystery games deadline
Zarf witness
Elsinore hamlet game
Eliza visual novel Zach barof
Grow games
Zoobinis…
Anteform. (Get it here) (Intro description by Feneric.) Strange little mystery
look through manual before you pay it… Announced on Ultima codex.
Emphasis on bragging and entering and searching desks.. Pico8.

Through the Moongate review of Kickstarter book. Covers if and Ultima

Digital antiquarian blog recommended
His other serious blog on the history of the world

Mysterium in Spokane, Washington report by Zarf field trip to Cyan office of Myst.
https://mysterium.net/

Zed puzzle game from New Hampshire
Ruben,schism, the dark eye,seventh guest,titanic,neverhood
360 degree view without being full 3d

Opposite the opal
Wizard sniffer

Clash of the type in
Zarf was on it a while back, dream hold and

Inform 7 release expected on October

Ifcomp intent to enter by end if the month

End of introco.p judging
Ectocomp
Crane slack talk about collaborative plamescape advent calendar!!
Sigil
Ascension
Plamescape torment

Cregne manor won implementation
Archive of Yasin won a Hugo award
Times person of the year 2006 You

Feneric talk on ij in antarctica Antarticomf. January . Go Eric!
Winter storm Dr Co

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Thursday, July 25, 2019. Feneric, adri, Doug, Zarf, anjchang, Jake, and Yaron welcomed newcomer aria. Friends of Yerone Check out more photos here.

Everyone’s moving to Davis
Mysterium in Spokane. Tour of cyan’s office. Next adventure game filament coming out next year. 25th anniversary of Myst 
Adri planning for next narrascope
Making games making friends
Feneric Dec.2015 Dr Who’s audio cyoa recommended. ““You Are the Doctor and Other Stories”. Only “You Are the Doctor” is in CYOA form. The “other stories” are linear. It uses CD tracks as choice destinations.” 

Talk on location based gaming working on twine Ironworks area
Minima based mystery
Music profits
Inform 7 open source announcement. Community interest
Release hoped in October
Zarf project discussion
Revisit the Narrascope conference website for updates on media
Jake played Elsinore timeline loop based on Hamlet, interesting solid writing
Adri streaming herself playing adventures fans twitch channel
Angela mentioned YA cyoa and development of baby duck color story
Aria wants to pkay…Patchwork girl how to play? Last version was for Mac osx Sierra
Archive.org has a Mac emulator so you can run old games in a browser
Victor Gijsbers  top 50 poll…on Twitter
Victor’s design notes are uploaded and archived

“outer wilds” little price time loop
The lurking horror
Baphl there were two June and July
Escape room
Puzzle hunts
Miscatonic

Introcomp
Ifcomp next
If advent calendar
Cragne manor object interactions 
Boston FIG is coming out in September
Game loop unconference about game Dec in August
Boston gamedev picnic
Women in games invited speaker August on level design

Aria and Yaron have both
Zarf Hadrian lands among other things
Adri social media and games Feb
Fenwick Halloween ghost story competitive, entries worldwide and from all ages and three continents
Ghosts stealing food
Doug wrote 2011 the last day of summer part of four games linked to each other, IF archive volunteer
Jake mentions Twifcomp,and various compilations
Manifest destiny in scheme by Doug

Make 7 day brough like competition
Michael brough roguelikes. Small grid 7 5 4
Hoplite hexagonal 7drl
8696hack
Segmentation fault by Jake
Arcade python games bizarre dependency on fork oh piglet
Aria mentioned canes of code
Kickstarter cootie catcher with story
Fabrication is the air
Two jed berries
The periwinkle

Notes from email:

Following up on Minima, Feneric has released  Anteform. “Same general control scheme as Minima, but there’s a bigger focus on story. More people have unique dialog (in Minima there were quite a few “standard” responses, but in Anteform they’re all different) and more things are searchable (in Minima there was really only one thing to search for, in Anteform clues can be found all over the place). He tried to make Anteform focus a lot more on the story (or as best as I could within the tiny memory limits). It’s not what it at first appears. If you like Anteform and/or Minima, please do rate it. A single five-star rating makes a huge difference in discoverability.”

Doug Xyzzy awards update. These are the Best Game nominees:

Here are the  2018 XYZZY Award. results.

Brendan Desilets writes “Interactive Fiction Club at the Pollard Memorial Library in Lowell, Massachusetts is now reading “Muggle Studies” by PR-IF member Flourish Klink. In its ten years of operation, the club, which is for middle school and high school students, has also experienced IF games by several other PR-IF stalwarts, including Andrew Plotkin, Jason McIntosh, and Nick Montfort.“

The next Boston Interactive Fiction meeting will be Monday, August 26, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.  Hope to see you there!