You find yourself outside on a sunny Friday afternoon. The notification on your phone tells you that it is Friday, June 14th, 2019. Almost 6:30 pm and you’re rushing to make sure you’re early for the first day of Narrascope. You hustle into the Stata, and are greeted by the friendly people at the registration booth:
After much polite greeting, you take the badge, the gender pronoun flag, and the awesome swag.
Attendees at narrascope over 200+ Registration ended on Friday May Zarf recommends Heaven’s vault. the choice based narrative plays well. Recap is smooth and based on what you know. Can you be misled by recap? Mental rewiring in a game Report from systems conference — Bandersnatch discussion What ending doesn’t matter so much as how you get there Anj workshop- played Mrs. Pepper’s Nasty Secret — 5-6 old kids had problem with compass directions Baba is you Zarf making a map for Narrascope Vice wrote up synchrony @party coming up Terminal time by Michael Mateas 9:05 by Adam Cadre Motivation based endings Stanislavian Must tour May 22 expected taper 3 Exapunks. Programming games Astrologaster funny Shakespearean roleplay Dating simulation Interrogation Gargoyle Heavy rain noon narrative elements Need people to link github binaries for infocom games
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Zarf, dougorleans, nickm, anjchang welcomed Kevin Gold, a familiar face resurfacing to talk about volunteering at Narrascope. Yay Kevin! Check out more photos here.
The big topic: Jason Scott does infocom games on GitHub tweet Activision and Infocom walk down memory lane, the disc company history Copyright discussion — Code takedown vs. Monetary damage Piece decode copyright discussion SW is considered a literary work first copytrighted software a was a COBOL program for stopping distances Zil compiler, no code Historical sources is the name of the repository Excited to see what people can do with it — code studies, bug fixes, reintrepretations Myst imagery 25th anniversary coming up 3D No copyright protection for typography presentations Nick mentions Sebastian Bartlett’s work on arcade game ROMs and study of reverse engineering binaries
SW engineering ideas psychonometric complexity Disassembly to machine code Zarf approach graph complexity. Object property grab Can you pet the dog?
Kevin. “Meaningful†complexity is the hard part Kevin mentions Node Al 2013 example Indiana Jones temple of doom. You need the manual. Complexity is in the head Nick Barnstorming exploit in 2600 tool assisted speed run Complexity is how they signify Doug. External knowledge of world require can AI solve that Space Quest 4– knowledge needed to avoid being impregnated by alien kiss by wearing a trash can on head– delayed effect
Spring 2020 Trope tank space changes mentioned Bldg 14 renovation in spring 2020 Openness to the community is important Summer 2020 meetings may move Narrascope tours vs bringing things over discussion Dweblings tour of the tunnels is highly regarded Jason Dyer bringing material to Narrascope Narraascope sponsorship report Emily passed along a link to twine neural net groupings of spring thing entries, style, subject, structure Zack Whalen ELO presentation on nanogenmo computer-generated novels Anonymous games are identifiable, plagiarism! Neural net generation for Hadrian lands foray mentioned Can AI learn to write a program? Tender buttons Gertrude Stein attempt at Inform natural language mentioned Probabilistic-context free grammars Sofian Audrey’s For the sleepers open close quotes — AI can learn to do this
April issue Leonardo mentioned article on Ranking Internet Artists  (pdf) Magic cards text and illustrations Ross Goodwin. Word.Camera Word image Doodle to neural network style mapping No copyright on 3d models
–apologies for the late post. May’s post will follow along shortly.- anj
Note that if you’re local and you want to experience NarraScope for free, you can volunteer at the conference. Volunteers can help out for part of the weekend and get into the rest of the event for free. Yes, this includes lunch.
The Boston IF meetup for May will be Tuesday, May 14, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
Also note: if you still haven’t registered for NarraScope 2019, the deadline for registration is May 17! (The conference itself is June 14-16 on MIT campus.)