Nov21
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
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
Happy Thanksgiving!
Oct18
October 2018 Pr-if meetup
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Thursday, Oct 11th. As Hurricane Michael struck the panhandle, adri, zarf, and anjchang welcomed Lucian P. Smith (author of The Edifice from IFComp 1st Place 1997) from UW and newcomer Lee Kilpatrick (@leegrandk), Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Lucian talked about how IF helped him get his job. He was in town for a Systems Biology Markup Language conference. Welcome Lucian, all the way from Washington!
Welcome Lucian!
Sidereal confluence
Zarf talked about his parser game development
He”ll be attending the Different Games conference. Memory blocks will be shown
Lucian showing off his Pitfall skills. Go left!
Zarf shows off his Pitfall prowess.
Pitfall mastery discussion, left vs right strategy (left was always easier)
Discussion from Racing the Beam about the graphics, zarf looked it up. Top of vine is green is re-positioned ball, cool background graphics hacks, mirroring graphics and sprites where graphics cross over.
Playing Re:Dragon together
IfComp games discussion. We talked about judging– ends Nov 15th. Play at least 5 games to vote. Ifcomp.org, week 2 of 6 judging
Mouse and Christmas
Re:Dragon by jack welch
We then decided to play Re:Dragon. Lolz reading the text that George MacBraeburn alias for jmac. Lucian and zarf did an excellent job of reading. Makes people want to play the original Dragon game.
Discussed using pseudonym for entering game competition
Cragne manor in beta testing – everyone’s eager to play it!
Michael Gentry mention
Oct02
(This photo was taken before the room opened, before anybody was there.)
There we were for another year of IF outreach. We had Hollywood Hijinx (original 1980s hardware!) and The Wizard Sniffer out. People played both of them.
Thanks to Naomi Hinchen for helping at the table, and Nick Montfort for lending the Apple //c.
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