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Category: Meetings

  • January meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for January will be Monday, January 23, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Remember that our first IF reading will be Wednesday, January 11, 2:00 pm, MIT room 14E-310: Stone Harbor by Liza Daly.  

  • December meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for December will be Wednesday, December 14, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. We will look at the IFComp winners (that we haven’t looked at already). We can also discuss plans for MIT IAP.

  • November meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for November will be Wednesday, November 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. (Coincidentally, the last day of IFComp voting!) EDIT: Of course IFComp voting ends on the *15th*, not the 16th. I don’t know why I had that wrong on the calendar. If results are out on the 16th, we’ll play…

  • October meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for October will be Wednesday, October 19, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. We will play some IFComp games!

  • September meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for September will be Wednesday, September 28, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Between now and then: Boston FIG, Sept 10th. As far as we know, PR-IF will have a table there! So say hi.

  • August meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for August will be Monday, August 8, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. The monthly topic (not that we’ve been leaning very hard on the monthly topic) will be maps and graphs. Are they the same thing? Maybe!

  • July meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for July will be Wednesday, July 13, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Topic: the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation! Go ahead, try to shut me up about it. 🙂

  • June meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for June will be Wednesday, June 15, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Discussion topic of the season: what is the plot? Specifically comparing the player’s view of “the plot” with the author’s view. (Inspired by this post by Emily Short, this post by Juhana Leinonen, and various other things that have…

  • May meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for May will be Wednesday, May 11, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Special of the month: Starting at 7:00, we will sit in on the final meeting of Nick Montfort’s Interactive Narrative class. Students will present their final IF projects. (Meet in the Trope Tank as usual at 6:30. We will…

  • April meetup

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    The Boston IF meetup for April will be Wednesday, April 13, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. This month we’re trying something new: a topic! We always talk about whatever is up in IF-land, and that will still be true. But we’ll also spend some time looking at Ink, the new open-source IF tool from Inkle…