Oct06
The Boston IF meetup for October will be Monday, October 14, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
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Sep20
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on, Tuesday Sept. 17, 2019. Dan, Zarf, Jheflin, Nickm, Aria, Anj, and Yaron welcomed back returning visitor Chad (@waypostsoftware). 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
Nickm showed version of a piece from 2008
Keep talking and nobody explodes
Review of piece from work neutral met Colab
Zart attended Geometry illustration and Art conference and ran across a reference to an IF about grad student trying to get work done. “
Mathematics Odyssey.” Read aloud bits. Cease and desist received from ChooseCo. List of books inside its front cover seem cool. How to avoid Choose Co. legal issues. CYOA is a trademark. This book’s style was too close to original except for latex font. We saw many CYOA-style books that were published.
Judy playing Choice-type mobile games. Hilarious premium upsell choices.
We played GPT2 adventure by Nathan Whitmore and Max Wolf
Transiubstantiate metempsychosis
Reference to Adam cadre ‘s Flowers for Algernon
Text from Adventure, Zork
Discussion on Hidden Markov Models
Noah’s book Talespin, Eliza
Eliza was fun but fleeting
Talespin had a simplistic story but complex engine. Sim City.
Milton Läufer’s A Noise Such as a Man May Make
We took a look at neural.it‘s review of the 8-bit What remains
Smoking
Costume Quest – fun for parents and kids
Pony Island
Else heart dot break
Horsemasn rerun video games for humans
David Cage game (heavy rain)
Detroit become human…
Beyond Two Souls
First Look
Smoking
Else heart dot break
Horsemasn rerun video games for humans
David Cage game (heavy rain)
Detroit become human…
Beyond Two Souls
Heavens Vault -nick
Elsinore good backgrounds move around spaces
American election 2016- Aria
Nick edited a new book that is out on platform studies: The media snatched. about the Neo geo.
Random fact: Neo and switch are names from the matrix named after video game platforms.
Chad was here last time they talked about the NES version of The Great Gatsby
Also the You Are Jeff Bezos game. Good times!
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Sep17
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday, August 26, 2019. Hilborn, 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
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Aug24
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:
- Alias ‘The Magpie’ (J. J. Guest)
- Bogeyman (Elizabeth Smyth)
- Cannery Vale (Hanon Ondricek)
- Cragne Manor (Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, et al.)
- I.A.G. Alpha (Serhii Mozhaiskyi)
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!
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