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The Boston IF meetup for September will be Wednesday, September 23, 6:30 pm Eastern time.
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Aug20
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Zarf, kay & carrington (Eaten by a Grue), anjchang ,Richard Lamb, Mark Pilgrim attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Carrington finishing Lurking Horror
Kay read a heartwarming letter from Clayton about Wishbringer. Using “grab.”
anjchang played Narrascope 2020 Game Jam games The Harold, Sohoek Ekalmoe.
Mysterium convention 2 weekends ago.
Myst documentary kickstarter! Talked about versions of Myst.
Myst demake for Apple II
Version DMAKE for the Apple2 Announced at Kansas Fest.
Mark P doing project on walkthrough of graphical BASIC games e.g. Cranston Manor, Scott Adams Games, and other games with Peter. To be released in 2025. Mark shares a preview of Meth Manor: a fully automated solution of Cranston Manor for the Apple ][, in 37 seconds
https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/1295836881184264192
Underlying game drawing mechanics discussion.
Mentioned: Escape from Rungastan.
Recent work in disassembling Scott Adams format. Don’t know if it handles graphics.
Zarf updated Lectrote to support dark theme. Current Lectrote interpreter release: https://github.com/erkyrath/lectrote/releases/tag/lectrote-1.3.7
Remgl library update. Autosave functionality. Make it easier for online games.
Ion
Online runescape convention
RogueLike Celebration in October
IFComp spinning up. Reg dedline in Sept. Games happen in October. Need to promote other conferences too. IFComp has a lot of attention.
Discussion: Understanding the difference between the different types of IF venues. IF Comp history. 1995, Kevin Wilson launched for short Inform games (“a game you can finish in two hours). Adam Cadre started Spring Thing for showing off ideas rather than popularity, welcomes long games. IntroComp, only for first chapters of games, get early feedback.
XYZZY awards, intended to be an oscar style retrospective on the best of the year, regarding games from the previous year. All competitions are open to parser based things.
https://www.springthing.net/2020/
zarf is into Inform7. Interest in storylit design.
Italo Calvino game jam still open on itch.io!
Aug20
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday July 27 , 2020. Zarf, nickm, kaysavetz (Eaten By A Grue), nickm, Mark Pilgrim, anjchang, feneric, Jason Scott, Dave Thompson, Richard Lamb (StrandGames), welcomed first-timer Mitch. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Discussion of Infocom the name
Kansas Fest
C64 Cannabolt
Myst fan event
Zarf shared an awesome view of his library
Kay finished StationFall
Kay has finished Wishbringer (good times were remembered by all here)
The Lurking Horror is the last text-only Infocom game left
ELO Conference happened, good stuff.
Adventure/Zork language coopting discussion; parallels between the two games
Deadline for Taper, minimalist HTML5 E-Poetry on the Theme “Pent-Up”
Italo Calvino literary game jam on itch.io
NanoGenmo 2017 walkthrough every library branch with project gutenberg
Narrascope games review coming from Feneric
Discussion: What fonts have the best unicode coverage?
Richard mentioned BabelMap
Extend unzip and play coming to parchment games
Last month, we talked about minimalist basic games BASIC10Liner Contest
ROM basic discussion
AppleSoft programming- typewriter bell sound as you get close to end of line limit
Prisoner Game escape key knowledge
Arcadia review
Aug01
zarf, bdesilets, hilborn, nickm, kaysavetz (Eaten By A Grue), kgagne, Mark Pilgrim, anjchang, JP Tuttle, dan, Bill Maya attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Kay Savage shared Scavange – a text adventure for the Atari 8-bit
Darkcode1 https://mirrors.apple2.org.za/ground.icaen.uiowa.edu/MiscInfo/Hardware/a2memory
Ken asked if “Lantern” crossed this group’s radar? The author, Evan Wright, wrote about it for Juiced.GS, a hardcopy magazine.
Feneric has played the bulk of the NarraScope Game Jam games. (There are a few he can’t play because they’re MS-Win only.) anjchang has played some too. Mention of the massive itch.io social justice bundle
anjchang asks if anyone has played The Infections Madness of Doctor Dekker
Kay’s baby name generator for the 100DaysOfCode https://twitter.com/KaySavetz/status/1275803895852199936/photo/1
Kay mentions the BASIC 10 line contest https://gkanold.wixsite.com/homeputerium
Check out the ANTIC Interview 385 – Software Automatic Mouth: Mark Barton https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-interview-385-software-automatic-mouth-mark-barton
Mention of Weird Al’s “Word Crimes” music video? https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
feneric notes that one of the NarraScope Game Jam entries was something like that. It’s time-based and emits lines of text on its own schedule.
anjchang is reading a kinetic poetry thesis by Álvaro Seiça http://bora.uib.no/handle/1956/17267 in preparation for the upcoming Taper zine deadline.
Ken suggested GIANT QR CODE
J.P. Tuttle mentioned Blender things: https://imgur.com/a/S6qX2 @Party reference https://files.scene.org/view/parties/2019/atparty19/real_wild/jpt9_wild_gfx.tar.gz