{"id":1615,"date":"2011-05-09T21:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T01:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2011-05-09T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T00:02:18","slug":"spag-covers-the-if-demo-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/spag-covers-the-if-demo-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"SPAG Covers the IF Demo Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkynet.com\/spag\/backissues\/spag60.html\" style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 6px 6px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/spag_60.jpg\" alt=\"SPAG 60 cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkynet.com\/spag\/backissues\/spag60.html\"><i>SPAG<\/i> (<i>The Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games<\/i>)<\/i> #60<\/a> is out &#8211; the latest issue of the long-running interactive fiction newsletter. On the cover, a figure in a dark sport coat looms, his face a grim rictus as he hunches toward some computer or iPad. I don&#8217;t recall seeing this sinister individual at the festive and very enjoyable IF Demo Fair, which Emily Short organized at PAX East, but I do recall seeing happy interactions of the sort depicted in the rest of that scene.<\/p>\n<p>The new issue includes writeups of the work exhibited at the Fair. This includes some comments on my IF system <a href=\"\">Curveship,<\/a> which I showed off at the Fair and spoke about the following day. There&#8217;s some discussion by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkynet.com\/spag\/backissues\/spag60.html#curveship1\">Emily Short<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkynet.com\/spag\/backissues\/spag60.html#curveship1\">Jacqueline A. Lott.<\/a> These, along with the discussions of Curveship at PAX East and the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity in Mexico City, will be helpful as I continue development of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPAG (The Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games) #60 is out &#8211; the latest issue of the long-running interactive fiction newsletter. On the cover, a figure in a dark sport coat looms, his face a grim rictus as he hunches toward some computer or iPad. I don&#8217;t recall seeing this sinister individual at the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2011\/05\/spag-covers-the-if-demo-fair\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SPAG Covers the IF Demo Fair&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,3],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-games","tag-if"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1621,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}