Oct27

October Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on October 27th, 2020 at 11:48 pm
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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

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

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

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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Oct27

September Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on October 27th, 2020 at 6:52 pm
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Sept 2020 PR-IF Meeting

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, September 23, 2020. Zarf, kay  (Eaten by a Grue), nickm, Kyle Aulerich, joshua grams, anjchang ,Richard Lamb, David C Thompsen attended. Note: These notes were compiled by Josh Grams. 

Zarf mentioned a PDP-10 emulation project that can now run Zork and the Crowther Adventure and Crowther/Woods Adventure, shared his screen for a bit of that.

Also that the PDP-10 Zork (?) that we have is a binary version, not
compiled from any of the MDL sources: there’s a project to get an MDL
compiler working.

Nick talked about his class and the challenges of virtual teaching: it’s
harder to play interactive things together and takes longer. 9:05, rat
chaos (https://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=7wip22dpvlzil83), something
else I can’t remember?

There’s an Italo Calvino jam (“If on a summer’s night a game designer”)
that ends September 30th, Zarf showed a little of his entry, a 360-view
explorable of his newly-unpacked library with some interactive text and
inventory bits.

Nick’s mind chained to Robin Camille’s 2016 NaNoGenMo project _If on a
winter’s night a library cardholder_

Kyle Aulerich is one of the founders of Mythion Adventures (Nick shared
details on the mailing list). He’s been talking with Nick but this is
his first time checking out a PR-IF meeting.

Eric talked about the Saugus Ghost Stories thing briefly.

Richard Lamb talked about the challenges of trying to procedurally
generate dungeons on old hardware with very limited resources.

Inkle Studios’ new game Pendragon (board game/strategy game inspired
thing with narrative intertwined, of course?) came out maybe yesterday?

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Oct15

October meetup (online)

by zarf on October 15th, 2020 at 12:34 am
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The Boston IF meetup for October will be Tuesday, October 27, 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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Sep06

September meetup (online)

by zarf on September 6th, 2020 at 8:50 pm
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The Boston IF meetup for September will be Wednesday, September 23, 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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Aug20

August Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on August 20th, 2020 at 1:23 am
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PR-IF August 2020 meeting
PRIF August 2020 meeting

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Zarf, kay & carrington (Eaten by a Grue), anjchang ,Richard Lamb, Mark Pilgrim attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:

Carrington finishing Lurking Horror

Kay read a heartwarming letter from Clayton about Wishbringer. Using “grab.”

anjchang played Narrascope 2020 Game Jam games The Harold, Sohoek Ekalmoe.

Mysterium convention 2 weekends ago.

Myst documentary kickstarter! Talked about versions of Myst.
Myst demake for Apple II

Version DMAKE for the Apple2 Announced at Kansas Fest.

Mark P doing project on walkthrough of graphical BASIC games e.g. Cranston Manor, Scott Adams Games, and other games with Peter. To be released in 2025. Mark shares a preview of Meth Manor: a fully automated solution of Cranston Manor for the Apple ][, in 37 seconds

https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/1295836881184264192

Underlying game drawing mechanics discussion.
Mentioned: Escape from Rungastan.
Recent work in disassembling Scott Adams format. Don’t know if it handles graphics.
Zarf updated Lectrote to support dark theme. Current Lectrote interpreter release: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases/tag/lectrote-1.3.7


Remgl library update. Autosave functionality. Make it easier for online games.
Ion
Online runescape convention

RogueLike Celebration in October

IFComp spinning up. Reg dedline in Sept. Games happen in October. Need to promote other conferences too. IFComp has a lot of attention.

Discussion: Understanding the difference between the different types of IF venues. IF Comp history. 1995, Kevin Wilson launched for short Inform games (“a game you can finish in two hours). Adam Cadre started Spring Thing for showing off ideas rather than popularity, welcomes long games. IntroComp, only for first chapters of games, get early feedback.
XYZZY awards, intended to be an oscar style retrospective on the best of the year, regarding games from the previous year. All competitions are open to parser based things.

https://www.springthing.net/2020/

zarf is into Inform7. Interest in storylit design.

Italo Calvino game jam still open on itch.io!

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