PAX East 2010

[Penny Arcade Expo East]

IF-Related Events

Storytelling in the world of interactive fiction

(Friday, March 26th, 5:30pm-6:30pm, Wyvern Theatre)

Text adventures have been quietly experimenting with narrative gaming for thirty years. Five authors from the amateur interactive fiction community discuss the design ideas in their games -- reordered storylines, unreliable narrators, deeply responsive NPCs -- and how they apply to other kinds of games. (Rob Wheeler (mod.), Robb Sherwin, Aaron Reed, Emily Short, Andrew Plotkin)

GET LAMP Panel/Screening

(Friday, March 26th, 9:30pm, Naga Theatre)

Premiere of Get Lamp!

The current plan as approved by the PAX organizers is the showing of the main GET LAMP episode at 9:30, followed by a panel on stage of people interviewed for the film, and then some showings of a few more features of the DVD after that, including the Infocom and Bedquilt episodes.

Purple Blurb

(Monday, March 29th, 6 pm? Nick Montfort's office)

Emily Short and Jeremy Freese present IF at MIT.

IF Fans Attending

(People who have said they're attending at least some of the con)

• Andrew Plotkin (zarf)
• Emily Short
• Aaron Reed
• J. Robinson Wheeler
• Robb Sherwin
• David A. Cornelson
• Jason Scott (jscott)
• Jacqueline A. Lott and Sam Kabo Ashwell (maga)
• Christopher Armstrong
• Jeremy Freese
• John Cater (katre) and Duchess
• Jesse McGrew
• Iain Merrick
• Jon Blask
• Nick Montfort
• Dan Schmidt (dfan) and Liza Daly (liza)
• Carl Muckenhoupt (baf)
• Juhana Leinonen
• Jason McIntosh
• Kevin Jackson-Mead

The IF Suite

I (zarf) have reserved a large suite on the top floor of the Back Bay Hilton. (Room number TBA.) We have the room from Thursday afternoon until Monday morning, although I currently plan to clear out on Sunday evening.

This shall be called the "[People's Republic of Interactive Fiction] Hospitality Suite".

The plan is to have the door open through Friday, Saturday, and some of Sunday. It will be both a rendezous/hangout point for mudders and IF community folks, and a publicity center for newcomers interested in IF.

Ideas:

• Chips, soda, M&Ms in mass quantities
• A Speed-IF at some point in the weekend
• Maybe some scheduled discussions beyond the official PAX panel
• Fliers: we should have a stack of fliers describing the suite and all PAX IF events, official and unofficial. Leave on free-flier tables in the convention center.
• Badge ribbons for all of us ("Grue lover"? "Ask me about Interactive Fiction"? "Lost in a maze of twisty little passages"?)
• Badge stickers for anyone who drops by the suite (may be same as ribbons)