Our next Seattle area IF meetup will be Sunday, December 2, from 2:00 to 5:00 in Thompson Hall, Room 374, at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. (It’s the same location as last time.) The parking lot next to Thompson Hall is visitor parking, so you can just park there without a pass or anything.
Mathbrush and I will start the meetup with a discussion of game design - how you go about writing an IF game. Depending on the interest of those in attendance, we can discuss game design the entire time or switch to playing a game together after a while.
Oh man, so bummed that I missed this notice until today. Seattle is hard to get to but UPS would have been great. I hope I can get together next time you meet in Tacoma!
The next Seattle area IF meetup will be Sunday, January 27, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 374, Thompson Hall, at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. (It’s the same place we’ve met the last two times. Again, the parking lot next to Thompson Hall is available for visitors to park in, and it should be quite empty on a Sunday afternoon.)
We’re fortunate for this meetup to have David Dunham, creator of the commercial games “King of Dragon Pass” and “Six Ages,” joining us! He’ll be giving a presentation on how he uses text to create a sense of immersion in his games.
The next Seattle area IF meetup will be Sunday, March 24, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 374, Thompson Hall, at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. (It’s the same place we’ve met the last few times. Again, the parking lot next to Thompson Hall is available for visitors to park in, and it should be quite empty on a Sunday afternoon.)
We’ll be playing through some of “Cragne Manor,” the massive “Anchorhead” tribute game organized by Ryan Veeder and Jenni Polodna and featuring over 80 authors.
Our next Seattle area IF meetup will be Sunday, May 5, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 374, Thompson Hall, at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. (It’s the same place we’ve met the last few times. Again, the parking lot next to Thompson Hall is available for visitors to park in, and it should be quite empty on a Sunday afternoon.)
This will probably be the last meetup Mathbrush will be able to attend before he moves out of the area in June, so some of us thought it would be nice to play through one or more of his games. Mathbrush, of course, is the most prolific IF reviewer of the past few years, as well as the author of multiple XYZZY-nominated and top ten IFComp games such as Color the Truth and Absence of Law.
We’re thinking about playing Mathbrush’s Ether to start with, and then we can decide where to go from there.
The next IF meetup will take place on Sunday, July 21 from 2-4 PM in Thompson Hall at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. The room we have been meeting in previously is being used for a summer class, so we’re meeting in Room 399.
For this meeting we thought it would be fun to have brief demonstrations* and discussions of some works in progress. Anything from story pitch all the way up to beta testing is acceptable. This is more of a show and tell than a formal critique, but you are welcome to request specific feedback on anything you’d like. If you would like to show your project, please let us know in advance so that we can make sure there is enough time for everyone. If there are too many requests to fit into one meeting, anyone who isn’t able to present on the 21st will get time at the next meetup.
*Note that Mike has confirmed that showing a work in progress to a small group of people does not affect eligibility for IFComp.
If you are going to bring a project to show, I highly recommend bringing your own computer and a backup, either as a private web site or on a Windows-compatible USB stick with any necessary software to run the project. We don’t want technical problems to derail your demo. Mike should be able to share details about the projector inputs available in the new room.
Also, since there has been some discussion at previous meetings about alternating between the Seattle and Tacoma areas, feel free to submit suggestions for the date and location of the next meetup (September?). Ideally it would be someplace open on a weekend, with free or inexpensive access and a projector.
The next Seattle area IF meetup will be Sunday, September 22nd from 2-4 PM in Thompson Hall 310 at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. As always, there is parking available in the lot next door.
This month David Dunham, the creator of the games “Six Ages” and “King of Dragon Pass,” will give a brief show and tell about his current project. We’ll also play through the newly released game “Renegade Brainwave” by J. J. Guest.
This year’s Seattle area IFComp meetup will be in Thompson Hall 409 on Sunday, October 27 from 2 - 4:30 PM to play as many games as we can in the time allotted. Usually we will have one person drive / read aloud and the others will suggest what to do next. This was a lot of fun last year, and led to some good discussions about the games, styles, and technologies in the competition. Mike will be limiting his comments because he has an entry in the competition, but ask him all the questions you want about his game Sugarlawn.
The next meetup of the Seattle/Tacoma IF group will be Sunday, January 19, from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 409 of Thompson Hall at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma. It’s the same place we met last time.
The plan is to play Matt Wigdahl’s Aotearoa. It’s the ten-year anniversary of this game, which won IFComp 2010 and seven XYZZY awards - including Best Game.
The next meetup of the Seattle/Tacoma IF group will be Sunday, March 22, from 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. in Room 409 of Thompson Hall at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma.
Given the recent interest on the discussion list, the plan is to play A Beauty Cold and Austere, read by and with commentary from the author (me).
Classes have been moved online, but as of now facilities are still open. I emailed the campus schedule coordinator yesterday to ask if we can go ahead with our meetup, but I may not hear back from her until tomorrow or later this week. I’ll send out an update when I know more.
The governor of Washington announced earlier today that “all gatherings under 50 participants are prohibited unless previously announced criteria for public health and social distancing are met.” So we won’t be meeting in person.
The current plan is to try to do the meetup remotely instead. That would have the beneficial side effect of allowing anyone, even those who don’t live in the Seattle area, to join in. More details forthcoming when we nail them down.
As promised, we’ll be having the Seattle/Tacoma IF meetup virtually at 2pm PDT on Sunday, March 22. We’ll be playing A Beauty Cold and Austere. PM me for the link to the meeting. Feel free to join in, even if you don’t live anywhere near Seattle.
We’ll hold our next online meeting of the Seattle / Tacoma IF group on Sunday, May 17th at 2 PM PDT. Paul will give a short talk on the development of his IFComp 2019 game, The House on Sycamore Lane. We’ll also demo a few entries from the 2020 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction.
We maxed out Google Hangouts last time, so we’re using a Zoom account for this meeting. Meeting links will be sent out by email. If you are not already on the email list, please send a message to Paul or to me for the meeting code.