Jan31

Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class at MIT Trip Report

by Angela Chang on January 31st, 2019 at 6:21 pm
Posted In: Events, Post Mortem
Students with instructor Nick Montfort

On Dec. 11, 2018,15 projects were presented for the Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class taught by Nick Montfort. The projects were varied in aesthetic and depth, but here are some themes that were covered:

  • Nightmares
  • Different ways of dying
  • Blood
  • A dragon piece that asked the protagonist to retell their story and used metalepsis
  • Alerts and Alarms
  • Murder & Suicide
  • Weird memories
  • Tentacled aliens
  • Space Aliens and Space Travel
  • Escape Rooms 
  • Chess pieces in love
  • A satiric piece about generic game art 
  • Gender Identity
  • Fraud and Deception
  • False Imprisonment
  • Cross platform media (Instagram, Web, Twitter) stalking and perspectives on social media
  • Unread Emails (!!!)
  • Computer viruses and Tech Support Hell

Well played! Students demonstrated very interesting pieces that explored narrative variations in interesting ways.  We hope these students will continue their interaction fiction journeys to submit to IntroComp or ELO or IFcomp next year.

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Dec20

December meetup: Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on December 20th, 2018 at 3:19 pm
Posted In: Meetings, Post Mortem

IF or bust!

Zarf and Doug (not pictured anjchang and nickm)

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, Dec. 5th. Zarf, doug, nickm and anjchang interacted with various feelies and viewed a C64 piece.  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:

Review of IFComp results.  JJ Guest won with Alias ‘The Magpie.’ We played a little of that, and it was fun.

Doug played EctoComp 2018 short winner moon goon by Caleb Wilson.

Ctagne manor almost done, so Zarf gave us a preview. It was awesome, the first 15 minutes we got to play. We had a good time.

Mentions of

Nick showed off some feelies from the NY Zine fair  hosted by the School for Poetic Computation. Check out the pictures here! His final interactive fiction class is Dec. 12, I’ll post my recap soon.@party for synchrony.nyc will be happening January 11-12. Ride the train from NYC to Montreal, create and socialize until demos.

Looking forward to seeing you at the next PR-IF meeting on Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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Dec16

January meetup

by zarf on December 16th, 2018 at 12:32 pm
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for January will be Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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Nov21

December meetup

by zarf on November 21st, 2018 at 4:54 pm
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for December will be Wednesday, December 5, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

We’ll probably look at the IFComp winner, Alias ‘The Magpie’.

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Nov21

November meetup: Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on November 21st, 2018 at 5:13 am
Posted In: Meetings, Post Mortem

PR-IF meetup on November 13 2918

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, Nov. 13th. Adri, daniel (from Yale), feneric, R, sebb, zarf, nickm, and anjchang interacted with various feelies and viewed a C64 piece.  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:

Seeing interactive fiction feelies from Nick’s class

Feelie from Nick’s Interactive Narrative Class Fall 2018

Feelie from Nick’s Interactive Narrative Class 2018

C64 creative computation work

Stanley parable mentioned
Zarf working on game and platform
zarf visited the If Exhibit in London V&A they had vdeo was with Frank Lantz and other game development works curated.
R’s reviews from introcomp is done, great to get feedback. Checkout her game:  “Space Ferrets”

http://introcomp.org/introcomp2018/Space%20Ferrets/space-ferrets.html

Feneric talked about the annual halloween ghost story contest on Saugus.net.  Monthly comp no IF entries,  just prose. Note to submit an IF entry next year!

“Minima” release by feneric. It’s a homage to the 8-bit Ultima games and was written within the PICO-8 environment.

It can be downloaded from:

https://feneric.itch.io/minima

It can be played online at:

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=31831

Its source code is available at:

https://github.com/Feneric/Minima

feneric recommended game firewatch

zarf mentioned that Wordplay and Adventure happened.

Mark your calendars Boston-area IF convention will be in 
June 14-16, 2019.

zarf shared enthusiasm for work release almost being done

Zarf is writing a game, working on dialog

Nick presenting multi-sequential narratives  from his interactive Narratives class.  He invited us to join in the final projects presentation Dec 12, 2-5PM in room 66-160.

Nick Opened a storefront for bad.quer.to

R is writing a new work called “Space Pirates”

Return of the Obra Dinn. Apple style graphics

Interpreter discussion

Interpreter news about compiling tads to web browser on newsgroups
There is a c64 interpreter that runs well on browser
ScumVm mentioned by zarf
Myst / riven series offered for anniversary is on steam

Daniel writing rule file to MS Basic
Nick c64 one line programs
Talk about teaching prisoners to program python, but javascript is more accessible
Note check out  trinket.io if ease of use is desired.

Sebbb/Nick- talk about a virtual console for the web for creating short literary pieces

IBNIZ. Ideally bare numeric impression giZmo–Demoscene VM
Like bytebeat
Dwitter
Pico8 3d console in development

Zarf talked about python interpreter with rule based parsing that spits our data structures

Mystery hunt season is almost here!

Regional sci-fi conference drama

School for Poetic Computation showcase happened
Synchrony will be Jan 11th and 12th

More pictures

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

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