Hello from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where I’m currently dressed as a grue. The streets are unnervingly lit up tonight for some reason and many people are about. Perhaps my quest to find a dark, quiet place will lead me to Fenway Park.<\/p>\n
There is a lot of news about upcoming interactive fiction events, and the first part of a two-part article by Illya Szilak, “A Book Itself Is a Little Machine: Emily Short’s Interactive Fiction,”<\/a> is just out in The Huffington Post.<\/i><\/p>\n If you weren’t there, you missed Arden Kehoe presenting on her visual novel Kindness Coins<\/i> at Women in Games Boston<\/a> on October 29, but you can read a bit about her work at the page for the event.<\/p>\n There will be another reading of Lost Pig<\/i><\/a> (the award-winning game by Admiral Jota) on Sunday, November 3, at 6pm, at Pandemonium Books in Central Square.<\/p>\n There will be a reading of Adam Cadre’s award-winning Photopia<\/i> on Tuesday, November 5, at 5pm in University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Olsen Hall, room 311. Adam won’t be at this reading, and I don’t believe Admiral Jota will be at Pandemonium Books event. Adam did read from Photopia<\/i> himself at this event<\/a> in Boston way back in 2001.<\/p>\n The “People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction” (PR-IF)<\/a> meetup for November will be on Saturday, November 9, 4:00 pm, in my lab, The Trope Tank, MIT room 14N-233. (We usually meet Monday or Tuesday at 6:30pm; this is an exception.) Special guest Emily Short will be demonstrating the authoring tools behind Versu.<\/a> Emily will also be speaking on Versu in New York City on Wednesday November 13.<\/p>\n PR-IF now is on teh Twitter,<\/a> as @IFinBoston, which is a good thing since there’s so much going on. Our Twitter presence is backed by the amazing technology known as Jason McIntosh.<\/p>\n An introduction to writing interactive fiction will be offered one week after the Photopia<\/i> reading, on Tuesday, November 12, same time, same place: 5pm in University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Olsen Hall, room 311. These two events at UMass Lowell are sponsored by that school’s Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).<\/p>\n