The Boston IF meetup for May will be Thursday, May 12, 6:30 pm Eastern time.
The Trope Tank is once again open and operating at MIT! Therefore, we are experimenting with a cautious hybrid meeting format. We will offer a Zoom call as usual on May 12. But if you are in the Boston area and you want to attend in person, you are welcome.
The new Trope Tank is in MIT building 14, east wing, room 14E-316. This is the same building as its old location, but one floor above.
Attendees must be fully vaccinated (including booster if eligible) and not feeling any COVID symptoms. Please see MIT’s visitor policy for more details.
If you plan to attend in person, please RSVP to Angela Chang at anjchang@gmail.com. Please arrive at the northeast door of building 14 (McDermott Court, by the black Calder sculpture) by 6:30 so that Angela can let you in. The building will otherwise be locked.
We hope to see you, either virtually or face-to-face.
David Cage, Quantic Dream, Detroit Become Human. Fahrenehight in Europe and Indigo Prophecy in US, about things getting cold.
Like the Paul Simon song “50 Ways I Met Your Mother”
Closed Hands exploration of terror attack in the UK. You follow story threads fowards and backwards. Small interactivity for dialog decisons. Could have dialogue interacivity that go backwards, are reflective of the past.
IO is sort of like this, what you do in a supermarket you have different pasts leading up to that revealed.
Literary techniques discussed e.e. cummings disputed as a lowercase lover
Nick mentions a game book called Consider the consequences. 47 endings story about women’s ability to make choices. Tree diagram for possibilities about making life choices.
Some interesting literary works that are stacks of cards. e.g. Robert Grenier’s Sentences— index card based poems.
Robert Coover’s Heart Suit, a story told on 13 interchangeable playing cards. You shuffle the middle cards and read the story.
Maybe a Leitner system that gives hints when the user repeats an error. System presents the fundamentals when progress is not being made.
Mike used to make Flash card systems for education, where tutorial questions have different levels of difficulty. It’s a responsive system for adjusting question difficulty based on user input.
The basis for those were existing system of writing:
Daniel Dafoe’s Robinson Caruso took travelogue form further. Fictional work passed off as true based on diaries. E.g. The Fall of the Site of Marsha by Rob Wittig based on diaries.
19th century novel traditions where a mysterious packet arrives and all the reported entries seem true.
Detective stories where they take up a case that was pure fiction, not a true story. Audience had to learn that.
S. Morgenstern’s other book (Princess Bride) is really written by Goldman. The Princess Bride uses a gimmick where the story seems passed on from a grandfather.
Trope Tank Update – supposed to move in starting on Monday.
Arguably one of the original motivations for PCG in games – not much storage space for big level maps, so use processing power instead to generate them. Perhaps Silent Hill was so foggy was because it couldn’t render much more than a few feet out at once.
Taper#8:8-Bit Nostalgia HTML5 2Kb digital poetry works are open. Deadline April 15th. Why 2K? It was Just right (like Goldilocks).
