Who We Are
We are a Boston collection of fans, players, and authors of Interactive Fiction. This includes:
- Old-style text adventures: “Twisty little maze of passages, all alike.” “Likely to be eaten by a grue.” Those games.
- Twine and other modern choice-based game systems.
- Visual novels.
- Academic and experimental hypertext.
- Gamebooks, such as the classic Choose Your Own Adventure series.
- Anything else that gets called “interactive fiction”.
Not surprisingly, we play and discuss all things interactive fiction, focusing on recent topics or developments in the community. We also demonstrate our own games or experiments in the area. Some past examples from our agenda include:
- Playing and critiquing various games submitted various interactive fiction competitions.
- Demonstrating a program that can create interactive excerpts from an IF game.
- Learning how an IF game is being used by a student to replicate the logic (or lack thereof) in dreams.
Finally, after all is said and done, we go out to eat and drink and socialize.
Where We Meet
Before the pandemic, we met on MIT campus at the Trope Tank. These days our meetings are online. Join the mailing list for announcements.
When We Meet
Once a month; the day and date varies. It’s a little random, we admit it, so look at the calendar (to the right) or visit our mailing list and look for the announcement.
Code of Conduct
The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction is dedicated to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone. See our Event Policy.
Contact Us
You can email us at info@pr-if.org; or join our mailing list.