The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, Feb 5, 2025 over zoom. Kirill, Hugh,  Mike Stage, anjchang, Josh Grams, Michael Hilborn, Pinkunz, Matt Griffin, and Stephen attended. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories.

Narrascope conference discussion — Matt gave an update on deadlines. Narrasccope Talk proposal deadline extended to Feb. 21st
Narrascope showcase announced curated games showcase
Prospective attendee brought up that they are not sure if they can travel to give a talk (visa and politics). Narrascope will attempt to preference in-person talks, but there will be some that will have to be remote. There will be two phases this year, a review with a smaller group, and the first round is blind and the second is anonymous.

Matt reading Game Poems book
https://www.gamepoemsbook.com/

Last month we had trouble with the zoom account. Potential for zoom account that is sponsored by IFTF?

On the topic of other groups… there’s a Seattle/Tacoma group that meets monthly online: just a few people – they meet on their Discord voice/video chat usually on a Sunday 2-4 PM Pacific:

https://intfiction.org/t/seattle-tacoma-if-meetup-february-2025/73463

We talked about Zarf’s Visible Zorker project

https://blog.zarfhome.com/2025/01/the-visible-zorker

Looking for something to play? The  2018 XYZZY Awards Innovation winner, IAG Alpha Game was mentioned and recommended
https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=erj212utudi2kltv.

Other resources for newcomers that are useful

https://planet-if.com/ A one-stop resource for IF

https://elo25.org/ Electronic Literature Organization