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Apr14

April meetup (online)

by zarf on April 14th, 2020 at 3:51 pm
Posted In: Uncategorized

The Boston IF meetup for April will be Thursday, April 23, 6:30 pm.

We will post the Zoom link to the mailing list on the day of the meeting. Please try to join the meeting on time — we may have to lock out new arrivals after the meeting starts to avoid harassers.

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Mar16

Switching to online meetings

by zarf on March 16th, 2020 at 10:08 pm
Posted In: Meetings

For obvious reasons, we will no longer meet on MIT campus or anywhere else in the Boston area.

Instead, our upcoming meetings will be online via Zoom Video. Anyone interested in IF is welcome, so our meetings will probably be larger than usual! (No dinner afterwards, though. Unless you order takeout.)

Our next meeting is still scheduled for Tuesday, March 31st at 6:30 pm (Eastern time). We’ll post the Zoom link on the day of the meeting.

Update: see Zoom link under “Next meeting” to the right!

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Mar09

March meetup

by zarf on March 9th, 2020 at 11:44 am
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for March will be Tuesday, March 31, 6:30 pm.

This month’s meeting will be in room 14E-304 online! It is no longer possible (or wise) to meet on MIT campus. Until further notice, our meetings will be online via Zoom.

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Feb27

February 2020 Meeting Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on February 27th, 2020 at 10:46 am
Posted In: Post Mortem
Feb 2020 PR-IF meetup

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2020. Zarf,, hilborn, and anjchang, met up. 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. 

Zarf brought a copy of Aaron Reed’s procedural novel Subcutanean. Looking forward to getting our own copy.

Narrascope registraton is open. Early-bird price runs through March 31.
Speaker list is finalized, keynote speaker is Xalavier Nelson Jr. author of “Screw You Bear Dad.” Judith Pintar’s logistics in process. Go register!

Gearing up to go to Pax.
Zarf going to GDC in San Francisco next month
Hilborn playing IF at home. We discussed dark themes for youths.

Anj playing Obduction
IF Wrimo hasn’t happened in a while, but maybe it should?
IF Spring thing intent to enter on March 1st

Kentucky Route Zero has been released (started in 2013, polygons and lines). Surreal work draws inspiration from classical Adventure games
Zarf recommends.  We looked at the artwork.

Robert Sawyer Canadian IF author mentioned. Heinlein mentioned too.
The Flame in the Flood mentioned

“Everything we do is games” by Doug Orleans, visited in honor of (@DougOrleans)

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Feb09

February meeting

by zarf on February 9th, 2020 at 7:45 pm
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for February will be Wednesday, February 26, 6:30 pm.

The Trope Tank is undergoing renovation through the spring semester. Therefore, the meeting will be in room 14N-417. Same building, two floors up from the Trope Tank.

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(The Republic gathers monthly. In these plague times, we meet online. Note our Event Policy.)

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