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The Boston IF meetup for February will be Thursday, February 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
Also, our final IF reading for the IAP period will be Wednesday, February 1, 2:00 pm, MIT room 14E-310: Detectiveland by Robin Johnson.
The Boston IF meetup for January will be Monday, January 23, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
Remember that our first IF reading will be Wednesday, January 11, 2:00 pm, MIT room 14E-310: Stone Harbor by Liza Daly.
PR-IF is pleased to announce an interactive fiction reading series for MIT’s IAP (January).
We will get together to play one IF game each week. We’ll play group-style: one player will read the story as it unfolds, but the group will decide what to do every turn. Each session will be 90 minutes of play time and 30 minutes for discussion.
We will play the top four entries of the recent Interactive Fiction competition. Two fantasy stories and two mysteries, each in a different IF format.
Wed, Jan 11, 2pm-4pm: Stone Harbor (Liza Daly) — an urban fantasy story constructed as hypertext.
Wed, Jan 18, 2pm-4pm: Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady) — a Twine-based ghost story on the road.
Wed, Jan 25, 2pm-4pm: Color the Truth (Brian Rushton) — a parser-based police procedural.
Wed, Feb 1, 2pm-4pm: Detectiveland (Robin Johnson) — a noir detective story built in a parser-like point-and-click interface.
These readings are free and open to the public. The location is MIT building 14 (Hayden Library), east wing, room 14E-310. (Note: building 14E is not the same as building E14! That’s the Media Lab. Different place entirely.)
The Boston IF meetup for December will be Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.
We will look at the IFComp winners (that we haven’t looked at already). We can also discuss plans for MIT IAP.
The Boston IF meetup for November will be Wednesday, November 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. (Coincidentally, the last day of IFComp voting!)
EDIT: Of course IFComp voting ends on the *15th*, not the 16th. I don’t know why I had that wrong on the calendar. If results are out on the 16th, we’ll play the winner; otherwise, we’ll speculate furiously.
6:30 pm, MIT 14N-233
(The Republic gathers monthly in the Trope Tank. Note our Event Policy.)
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