The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction

April 2025 PR-IF Post-Mortem

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Angela Chang
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April 2025 PR-IF attendees. not pictured: Zarf, Jim and Mike.

The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday, April 28, 2025 over Zoom. Mike Stage, Andrew Stephens, anjchang, Hugh, Josh, , Matt Griffin, Jim Tyhurst and zarf. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories.

  • Josh is playing Moondrop Isle, an IF written by Ryan Veeder with 8 other authors
    Josh will also be playing typehelp with the Seattle/Tacoma group next month. They meet next on Sunday, 5-7PM Pacific, May 18th. Fyi you can learn about Seatac IF group announcements on intfiction.org here.
  • Matt Griffin on Narrascope happening. Registrations open. He has an ELO paper on Choicescript in the ELO conference.
  • Zarf working on ifdb archive and search archive.
  • Mike playing South Park Video Game :The Stick of Truth”
  • Hugh’s been busy debugging and fixing pedestrian bugs in frame rate, writing a character scropt generator, working with scripts making maps in trizbort
  • Jim is taking a class at on IF at Portland State University. Learning to write IF in Twine and Inform.
  • Anj attended Nick Montfort’s Experimental Writing class project presentations. Students might be interested in publishing their work at ELO, Narrascope games showcase, HTML.review.

Meeting platform discussion about using Zoom, Google Meet, Discord. Discord requires an account. Here’s tne Narrascope Discord (invite). We decide to use Google Meet next month and later also try Discord.

Celebrating Narrascope potential for in-person meetup was discussed. Anj can meet in Cambridge or Providence. J

Play Spring Thing! Go here: https://www.springthing.net/2025/ and nominate your favorite 30+ games that are available to play before May 9th. Here are games mentioned: