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: 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, including the Infocom and Bedquilt episodes. (Hosted by Jason Scott.)

Purple Blurb

(Monday, March 29th, 5:30pm-7:00pm, MIT 14-310 -- map)

Emily Short and Jeremy Freese present IF at MIT. (Hosted by Nick Montfort.)

IF Fans Attending

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

• Andrew Plotkin
• Emily Short
• Aaron Reed
• J. Robinson Wheeler
• Robb Sherwin
• David A. Cornelson
• Jason Scott
• Jacqueline A. Lott
• Sam Kabo Ashwell
• Christopher Armstrong -- "hopefully"
• Jeremy Freese
• John Cater
• Duchess
• Jesse McGrew
• Iain Merrick
• Jon Blask
• Nick Montfort
• Dan Schmidt
• Liza Daly
• Carl Muckenhoupt
• Juhana Leinonen
• Jason McIntosh
• Kevin Jackson-Mead
• Ben Collins-Sussman
• Jack Welch
• Duncan Bowsman
• Harry Kaplan
• Mary Kaplan
• Mark Musante
• Paul O'Brian
• Kazuki Mishima -- on the 29th, I hope
• Mike Sousa
• Jim Munroe
• Chris Klimas
• Jenni Polodna
• Sean Huxter

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 rendezvous/hangout point for mudders and IF community folks, and a publicity center for newcomers interested in IF.

(Scheduling details should probably wait until we have a PAX event schedule. Hopefully that won't be *too* late in February...)

Plans

• Chips, soda, M&Ms in mass quantities (Kevin Jackson-Mead)
• Computers to demo games and IF development (Jason Scott)
• A Speed-IF at some point in the weekend (Saturday?)

People willing to help be room-watchers: (add your name)

• Andrew Plotkin
• Robb Sherwin
• Harry Kaplan, Mary Kaplan (schedule together)
• Kevin Jackson-Mead
• Mark Musante
• David Cornelson
• J. Robinson Wheeler
• Emily Short
• Jake Eakle

Ideas Still In Progress

(I have shifted all of this to the Talk page; click the "discussion" tab at the top of this page. --Z)