The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday, September 20, 2021 over zoom. KaySavetz (Eaten By A Grue), Zarf, Hugh, Stephen Eric Jablonski, Dana, NickM, Hilborn, welcomed newcomer Steve Washington (@esaevian). Thank you Zarf for providing the chat transcript below:
EctoComp 2021 has been announced: https://itch.io/jam/ectocomp-2021-english
Trope Tank is still hoping to get set up this month. MIT has set up a “Tim Ticket” system for campus visitors, so it might be possible to have an on-campus meeting in Nov or Dec. We’ll see.
(Footnote from Zarf: Even if this is possible, I am thinking we should stay with zoom meetings through the end of the semester. We can re-evaluate for January.)
NM is working on a new Curveship (JS) release — focusing on narrative style rather than parser-style IF.
Nick Montfort to Everyone: Curveship-js 0.4 coming soon!
Hopefully some version will be fun to develop & create stuff with before long
Adam Sommerfield posted about an abandoned attempt to work on a Deadline sequel with Dave Lebling and Marc Blank.
Hugh set up a repository and did some very quick map sketches for this:
https://gitlab.com/jkj/39years
Talked a bit about different detective game models.
Kay Savetz to Everyone:
Puny Inform v3.0 is out — https://twitter.com/FRamsberg/status/1440011822313185280
https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform/releases
Experimental work adding WebAssembly output to the Inform 6 compiler:
https://intfiction.org/t/inform-6-says-hello-webassembly/52399/12
This is very preliminary; not much of the I6 class system is implemented yet.
Emily Short ran a Seltani jam: https://emshort.blog/2021/08/22/seltani-jam/
Zarf was the only person who contributed anything, but we had about a dozen people show up for a Seltani tour.
Zarf’s post about the new experiment:
https://blog.zarfhome.com/2021/09/a-plenitude-of-alchemical-domains.html
Andy Baio posted about a lesser-known Jason Shiga interactive comic, Hello World:
This uses a split-page system to track game state and permit a “menu” of different choices in each state.
Also mentioned Knock Knock (Zarf showed off his copy).
Zarf also showed Adventure Games: Playing the Outsider(Aaron Reed, Anastasia Salter, John T. Murray).
Ryan Veeder’s Mud Warriors has been ported to GameBoy:
https://intfiction.org/t/the-release-of-ryan-veeders-mud-warriors-on-gameboy/52534
Screenshots:
Gameboy emulator: