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The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Thursday, February. 21st. Nickm, adri, jmac, zarf, dan, and anjchang (not pictured) interacted with various feelies and viewed a translated demoscene piece. 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
Narrascope will be awesome. June 14-16, 2019 on MIT’s campus. Rooms confirmed.
Zarf- Python drag and drop engine / Verbs discussion
Adri going to narrative summit gdc
Adri playing Night in the woods
Zarf Nebula nominees category for narrative with 3 Choice of Games titles incl Bandersnatch Black Mirror and 3 more…
Nick will lead the discussion of the Black Mirror Viewing Party & Discussion Group May 2 5-7pm in room e15-341
Nick literary seminar, literary translation. 4/26 at 1pm
He’ll be talking about the translation project from polish demoscene
Taper 3 call is extended until Mar. 1st. Make a 3kB or less HTML5/Vanilla JS digital literary work. Challenge to try to fit an interactive narrative in 3KB or less. Code golfing welcome.
Nod to Adam Thornton and Twitter hacking feats
We played Pippin barr let’s play ancient Greek punishment (also see type version)
If workshop talks by jmac and anj yesterday went well. anj’s takeaway was play more talk less. Kids at the library started playing Snack Time, A Sleeping Princess, Tales of The Traveling Swordsman, Bronze. anj played 9:05 and Dreamhold independently.
V and A games exhibit mentioned. Recommendation to go see it for:
Robin Baumgarten’s Line wobbler
Robert Yang, Clara Fernandez video interviews
Recent Trope Tank Visitor Ed Fries, Halo 2600 inventor, porting and game choices discussion
Restoring pre microprocessor games
Next we played a Polish translation by .habib joulo. Hellboj h-prg, hypertext style piece
Pouet.net/prod.php?which=77198
Spring thing reg deadline by Mar 1
Oral poetics at the trope tank
Crazy chain (played at dinner)
Mornington crescent… Absurdist game
It me three #metoi
Bangbangcon May 11-12, 2019 in NYC
b0rk, recode group, Julia Evans
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, January. 16th. Zarf, adri, heflin, nickm, dan, noah, jake, 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: See more pictures here.
Reality of interactive fiction story f Train by Brenda rpmero
Mystery hunt
Tunnel by sofian audry
Baba is you beta testing by Jake
Zarf Judy Dan Noah nickm Jake anj Cynthia adri dominique Luna
Adri on a panel this Saturday
Dominic Inform 7 on flathub pull request
Nick at demo party, 64 byte configure alphabit written with shifty. X reg for color and frwq Check out his blog
Proposal for narrascope closes in two days
Noah wants to know contacts for event spaces in Berlin
Early February Boston FIG talks, fig learns is more educational
Topics of discussion:
anjchang played minima pico 8 by feneric
Zarf played some games for a IGF festival
Watch me jump, a small Japanese style interface from play to interactive piece. Minimal conversation steering reads like a dynamic play. Good character tension.
Nick’s last Spring IF class happened
Tech support themed games discussed
Bandersnatch. Was prototyped in Twine
Sam Borovs Board game
Get lamp choices spin access court
Scumvm now includes a z machine interpreter
Mystery 3 or Myst 4 in ScummVM
Nintendo Wii emulators on ScummVM
Tipped off Robbie Barrat’s code AI used somebody else’s code, signed by Shirin
Taper #3 Due Feb. 18th: Seeking Minimal Literary Artworks
We have an If Fiction visitor from Berkley Public library, for a workshop in February
Banksy reference to self shedding art
Meanwhile
My secret hideout
Aaron Reed’s table top role playing games
Game Feb businesses
Jake idea game about sheep hands-on training be automation
Mother three industrialization
Dwarf Fortress
Origin
Authenticity
anjchang will be giving a Intro to IF workshop at the Berkley public library for the local community on Feb 20.
Also a shout-out to Jmac, who will be speaking for the IFTF on Feb 20
Reminder that I’m gonna give a short talk about @IFTFoundation at @AS220 in downtown Providence tomorrow at 6:30. We’ll demo some games starting at 5:30ish, and we’ll have some IFTF and @narrascope stickers and stuff for you too. Come on by! https://t.co/oil5MXiT50
— Jason McIntosh (@JmacDotOrg) February 19, 2019
Next PR-IF Meeting is Thursday, February 21, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. See you there!
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:
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.