Aug20

July Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on August 20th, 2020 at 1:22 am
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PR-IF July Meeting 20202
July Meeting 2020

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday July 27 , 2020. Zarf, nickm, kaysavetz  (Eaten By A Grue), nickm, Mark Pilgrim, anjchang, feneric, Jason Scott, Dave Thompson, Richard Lamb (StrandGames), welcomed first-timer Mitch. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Discussion of Infocom the name
Kansas Fest
C64 Cannabolt
Myst fan event
Zarf shared an awesome view of his library
Kay finished StationFall
Kay has finished Wishbringer (good times were remembered by all here)
The Lurking Horror is the last text-only Infocom game left
ELO Conference happened, good stuff.
Adventure/Zork language coopting discussion; parallels between the two games
Deadline for Taper, minimalist HTML5 E-Poetry on the Theme “Pent-Up”
Italo Calvino literary game jam on itch.io
NanoGenmo 2017 walkthrough every library branch with project gutenberg
Narrascope games review coming from Feneric
Discussion: What fonts have the best unicode coverage?
Richard mentioned BabelMap
Extend unzip and play coming to parchment games
Last month, we talked about minimalist basic games BASIC10Liner Contest
ROM basic discussion
AppleSoft programming- typewriter bell sound as you get close to end of line limit
Prisoner Game escape key knowledge
Arcadia review

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Aug15

August meetup (online)

by zarf on August 15th, 2020 at 6:18 pm
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for August will be Tuesday, August 18, 6:30 pm Eastern time.

We will post the Zoom link to the mailing list on the day of the meeting. Please try to join the meeting on time.

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Aug01

June Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on August 1st, 2020 at 2:20 am
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Pr-IF June 24, 2020

zarf, bdesilets,  hilborn, nickm, kaysavetz  (Eaten By A Grue), kgagne, Mark Pilgrim, anjchang, JP Tuttle, dan, Bill Maya attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Kay Savage shared Scavange – a text adventure for the Atari 8-bit

Darkcode1 https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Hardware/a2memory

Ken asked if “Lantern” crossed this group’s radar? The author, Evan Wright, wrote about it for Juiced.GS, a hardcopy magazine.

https://www.floppydisk.com

Feneric has played the bulk of the NarraScope Game Jam games. (There are a few he can’t play because they’re MS-Win only.) anjchang has played some too. Mention of the massive itch.io social justice bundle

anjchang asks if anyone has played The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker

Kay’s baby name generator for the 100DaysOfCode https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1275803895852199936/photo/1

Kay mentions the BASIC 10 line contest https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium

Check out the ANTIC Interview 385 – Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-385-software-automatic-mouth-mark-barton

Mention of Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” music video? https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc

feneric notes that one of the NarraScope Game Jam entries was something like that. It’s time-based and emits lines of text on its own schedule.

anjchang is reading a kinetic poetry thesis by Álvaro Seiça http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/17267 in preparation for the upcoming Taper zine deadline.

Ken suggested GIANT QR CODE

J.P. Tuttle mentioned Blender things: https://imgur.com/a/S6qX2 @Party reference https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2019/atparty19/real_wild/jpt9_wild_gfx.tar.gz

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Jul22

April Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on July 22nd, 2020 at 5:59 pm
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Zarf, Brendan,  hilborn, nickm, kaysavetz  (Eaten By A Grue), kgagme, Mark Pilgrim, anjchang, dan, and jmac. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:

APRIL 24-27 • 40+ GAMES, 10+ PANELS, 50 SALES
https://www.ludonarracon.com/

Talked about Narrascope planning, twitch streaming

Ken (kaysavetz) finished Beyond Zork with Carrington for Eaten By A Grue
-recommendation to listen to it by Brendan

Mark Pilgrim says Ken found a bug that only manifests itself in pitch dark in Virtual2 emulator PitchDark, trying to play PlanetFall

Zarf, picked up old interpreter todo items
goal for this weekend autosave functionality
Good to hear about interpreters being updated
Spatterlight is now a supported interpreter again

Brendan’s Library IF Club Expanding the size of the group. might play Deadline

Nick Montfort will be teaching IF course and considering CYOA gamebooks that are worth studying.
Sherlock Holmes Escape Book by Orman Desacker
Lost in Austen
http://aaronareed.net/subcutanean-book/

Tenth anniversary of MeanWhile
CYOA books
if by nicolas bourbaki

Spring thing is going on until the end of the month

Kay – bunch of solutions to adventure games,
Kids maps and solutions by Compute books
Return to Zork adventurers guide
Conquering adventure games by Carl Townsend
Zork Nemesis unauthorized
Keys to the Kingdoms
Book of adventure games Kim Schuette
Book of adventure games Volume 2
Quest for Clues, Book of Orcs
Quest for Clues, manual of
The greatest games, 93 best computer games of all time
Questboxers the Book of Clues

Zarf got another book on solving strategies book

jmac Recommendation of https://bluerenga.blog/ Jason Dyer’s blog rediscovering all these inventive old game mechanics.

nickm Basic 10 liner contest https://vintageisthenewold.com/2020-basic-10-liner-contest-is-live-and-celebrating-the-10th-anniversary/

Petscii Jetski
https://nickm.com/montfort_juul/petscii_jetski/https://www.jesperjuul.net/ludologist/2020/04/03/petscii-jetski-a-c64-game-in-basic/

Kay did a game called cabbage for that competition 2016. Wolf, Goat and Cabbage problems. 2 rooms, 3 items, 1 puzzle for Atari 8 bit.

Jason MacIntosh recommendation for Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing https://rcveeder.net/flyfishing/

Zarf played a text adventure “in other waters” on Steam. graphical game with map, UI of the suit https://store.steampowered.com/app/890720/In_Other_Waters/

Zarf also mentions “Still There” most of it is dialogue with space station. parser based.

Pitch Dark coming out emulator

Taper 4 is out. Submissions for the next issue is due July 31st.

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Jul22

March Meeting Post-Mortem

by Angela Chang on July 22nd, 2020 at 4:08 pm
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The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened over Zoom. On Wednesday, March 24, 2020 Zarf, Brendan, nickm, kaysavetz and carrington (Eaten By A Grue), kgagme, Mark Pilgrim, hilborn, @48kRAM (Josh Malone), @JoshuaIGrams, and Mark Schmelzenbach were present. 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 links below.

Spring thing starting apt 2
Virtual Narrascope planning discussion
Xoom, gargoyle, yasmin discussions
kaysavetz and carrington doing Eaten By A Grue podcast
They just played “A Mind Forever Voyaging”
Infocom source code mixed in pdp assembly program for assembling a pdp 1 Code games
Anyone have a pdp assembler at the moment?
Maybe linden games might have one in Seattle Paul Allen

Links:
https://nickm.com/poems/sonnet_corona.html
https://nickm.com/poems/sonnet_corona.html
https://nickm.com/montfort_juul/petscii_jetski/

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