The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction convened on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 over zoom. Zarf, Anjchang, Dana Freitas, KaySavetz (Eaten By A Grue), Kathryn, NickM, Hugh, and Carrington (Eaten By A Grue). Warning: What follows is probably not proper English, but just my log of notes from the meeting to jog people’s memories:
Taper Deadline
Tricks for Taper:
ternary operator javascript shorthand
How to use XOR to use only 2 memory locations, the index into an array are just pointers
so making one of the base, its the offset.
- a^=b
- *(a + b) is also *(b + a)
Spring Thing
Parser Comp
Text adventure literacy jam
Anniversary of Inform’s release date
What we’re playing::
Goat game
NorCo point and click
Ukraine Bundle – not really much IF in it. Here are some listed as IF in it.
Fox Harrell’s D&D Citadel built on a Terasse story announced in the Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel Anthology (Amazon PreOrder)
Trope Tank, Class visit happening tomorrow
- Unpacking
- Salons 4/7, 4/14, 5/12 2-4pm at the Trope Tank, PR-IF welcome
Eaten By A Grue
- #45 reviewed Changing the Weather and Uncle Zebulon’s Will
- Zarf listened in and was acknowledged on #44 when they reviewed Zork Zero: The Revenge of Megaboz
The Meteor the Long
Eaten By A Grue Episodes
Milk & Honey
Rupi Kaur bestselling and successful Canadian Poet, self-published
Paper Beats Rock
Resources at the Trope Tank, books: House of Leaves, infinite Jest, where you look at the Footnotes.
Neil Patrick Harris’ Choose Your Own Autobiography
David Cage, Quantic Dream, Detroit Become Human. Fahrenehight in Europe and Indigo Prophecy in US, about things getting cold.
Like the Paul Simon song “50 Ways I Met Your Mother”
Closed Hands exploration of terror attack in the UK. You follow story threads fowards and backwards. Small interactivity for dialog decisons. Could have dialogue interacivity that go backwards, are reflective of the past.
IO is sort of like this, what you do in a supermarket you have different pasts leading up to that revealed.
Literary techniques discussed
e.e. cummings disputed as a lowercase lover
youdoyou
Jim Munroe No Media Kings – a favorite self publisher
Italo Calvino’s If on a Night A Traveler (Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore)
If On A Winter’s Night Four Travelers
Narrascope 2022 Panel Proposals are open, due April 22