The People's Republic of Interactive Fiction

  • Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class at MIT Trip Report

    On Dec. 11, 2018,15 projects were presented for the Fall 2018 Interactive Fiction Final Class taught by Nick Montfort. The projects were varied in aesthetic and depth, but here are some themes that were covered: Nightmares Different ways of dying Blood A dragon piece that asked the protagonist to retell their story and used metalepsis Alerts…

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  • December 2018 Meetup: Post Mortem

    The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, Dec. 5th. Zarf, doug, nickm and anjchang interacted with various feelies and viewed a C64 piece.  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories: Review of IFComp results.  JJ Guest won with Alias ‘The Magpie.’…

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  • January meetup

    The Boston IF meetup for January will be Wednesday, January 16, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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  • December meetup

    The Boston IF meetup for December will be Wednesday, December 5, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. We’ll probably look at the IFComp winner, Alias ‘The Magpie’.

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  • November 2018 Meetup: Post Mortem

    The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Tuesday, Nov. 13th. Adri, daniel (from Yale), feneric, R, sebb, zarf, nickm, and anjchang interacted with various feelies and viewed a C64 piece.  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories: Seeing interactive fiction feelies from Nick’s…

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  • October 2018 Meetup Post Mortem

    The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Thursday, Oct 11th.  As Hurricane Michael struck the panhandle, adri, zarf, and anjchang welcomed Lucian P. Smith (author of The Edifice from IFComp 1st Place 1997) from UW and newcomer Lee Kilpatrick (@leegrandk),  Warning: what follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes…

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  • November meetup

    The Boston IF meetup for November will be Tuesday, November 13, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233.

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  • Boston FIG 2018!

    (This photo was taken before the room opened, before anybody was there.) There we were for another year of IF outreach. We had Hollywood Hijinx (original 1980s hardware!) and The Wizard Sniffer out. People played both of them. Thanks to Naomi Hinchen for helping at the table, and Nick Montfort for lending the Apple //c.

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  • October meetup

    The Boston IF meetup for October will be Thursday, October 11, 6:30 pm, MIT room 14N-233. Perhaps we will look at some IFComp games!

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  • September Meeting Post Mortem

    The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday Sept 20th.  doug, zarf,nickm, matt w, adri and anjchang welcomed newcomers Judy Heflin (judyannheflin),  noah (swartzcr) from San Francisco , our long lost founding member Michael Hilborn (biggles2k)  and honored visitors from Adventure Games Studio. AGS folks sported Tricorner hats (from touring the Freedom Trail):  Francisco Gonzalez…

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