Feb19

January Meetup: Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on February 19th, 2019 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: Post Mortem
January 2019 PR-IF meetup

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

Next PR-IF Meeting is Thursday, February 21, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. See you there!

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Feb05

February meetup

by zarf on February 5th, 2019 at 1:30 pm
Posted In: Meetings

The Boston IF meetup for February will be Thursday, February 21, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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Jan31

Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class at MIT Trip Report

by Angela Chang on January 31st, 2019 at 6:21 pm
Posted In: Events, Post Mortem
Students with instructor Nick Montfort

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:

  • Nightmares
  • Different ways of dying
  • Blood
  • A dragon piece that asked the protagonist to retell their story and used metalepsis
  • Alerts and Alarms
  • Murder & Suicide
  • Weird memories
  • Tentacled aliens
  • Space Aliens and Space Travel
  • Escape Rooms 
  • Chess pieces in love
  • A satiric piece about generic game art 
  • Gender Identity
  • Fraud and Deception
  • False Imprisonment
  • Cross platform media (Instagram, Web, Twitter) stalking and perspectives on social media
  • Unread Emails (!!!)
  • Computer viruses and Tech Support Hell

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.

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Dec20

December meetup: Post Mortem

by Angela Chang on December 20th, 2018 at 3:19 pm
Posted In: Meetings, Post Mortem

IF or bust!

Zarf and Doug (not pictured anjchang and nickm)

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, Dec. 5th. Zarf, doug, 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:

Review of IFComp results.  JJ Guest won with Alias ‘The Magpie.’ We played a little of that, and it was fun.

Doug played EctoComp 2018 short winner moon goon by Caleb Wilson.

Ctagne manor almost done, so Zarf gave us a preview. It was awesome, the first 15 minutes we got to play. We had a good time.

Mentions of

Nick showed off some feelies from the NY Zine fair  hosted by the School for Poetic Computation. Check out the pictures here! His final interactive fiction class is Dec. 12, I’ll post my recap soon.@party for synchrony.nyc will be happening January 11-12. Ride the train from NYC to Montreal, create and socialize until demos.

Looking forward to seeing you at the next PR-IF meeting on Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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Dec16

January meetup

by zarf on December 16th, 2018 at 12:32 pm
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The Boston IF meetup for January will be Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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