The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Monday, November 29, 2021 over zoom. Zarf, anjchang, Kathryn, Dana, Josh, NickM, Hugh, KaySavetz (Eaten By A Grue), Joe, welcomed Kirill Azernyi. Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
IF Comp discussion- Kidney Kwest
Emily Short and the London/Oxford IF group hosted career seminar on game writing was attended by a few of us
Heavens Vault books by Inkle studios 🙂
Zarf playing Overboard
RadioK in the tradition of people writing novels
NanoGenMo efforts – Leonard Richardson , Zach Whalen Nanogenmo Tutorial
mentioned by Hannah Meades
Nick’s class studying HopScotch
“If you have instructions its probably a multi-sequential novel”
Kirill mentions Nabokov’s Pale Fire the first hypertext
using footnotes to introduce multi-sequentiality
Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker – trip on an escalator wiith footnotes.
House of Leaves Mark Danielewski
Stephane Mellarme’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard (Mallarmé)
Kathryn mentions online collaborative comic –Infinite Comics, like exquisite corpse.
Zarf flashed Jason Shiga‘s upcoming multi-sequential book! Coming out soon!
Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile (book) Discussion:
Is it the #of paths, or the exploration?
Is there an age for Meanwhile. Not really, the protagonist are all drawn the same.
Blue cover is an anniversary edition. Header is the same, everything identical to the Red cover.
Trope Tank website
Nick just did a livecoding poetry thing
Middle of December will be back into the Trope Tank estimates
Jesper Juul visitors ot the Trope Tank
Jesper Juul essay about visual perception (Game of Objects), when we see pixels as objects
Play Doors a playable philosophy about in-game doors
You always put highlights on certain aspects.
Stupid deaths – outrageous actions discussion
- Kirill mentions speed gaming experiences
- Zork1 speedrun – exploits pile of plastic for carrying
- “poke me” is a good way to kill yourself because poke is a synonym of cleaning teeth and suffocating
- The Imagined Leviathan an existential survival story by Far Few Giants.
- Josh provide a link to the Roguelike Celebration below:
Battle for Dream Island 20 animated objects compete for a chance to live on a dream island. Crowdsourced narrative using YouTube.
Nick’s Apple IIC discussion
Hugh made a free virtual calculator!
Joe posed a question What do you recommend to get more retro computer type things? HW/SW (physical media)
- Swapfest. http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
- Vintage Computer Federation Forum, https://www.vcfed.org/forum/
Discussion of formatting things for Nanogenmo
- Hugh suggests markdown to pdf editor, https://typora.io/
- Zarf recommends “brew install wkhtmltopdf”
- html to pdf, https://pandoc.org/