My fellow Australians will know that there are only six actual people on this continent of ours, and we’ve been working hard all this time to look like more.
Of those six people, five are into IF (and the other guy is a jerk).
The Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival is running an Interactive Fiction Panel (they’re still looking for a parser writer, FYI - PM me if that sounds like you) and I intend to be there, along with my fellow Tin Man Games writer Alyce (and probably various other Tin Minions).
So… shall we all converge on Brimbank at the beginning of September?? There’s bound to be a food venue of some kind (I shall consult my Melbourne associates if no one here speaks up) we can invade en masse for an afternoon on Saturday or Sunday.
Edited to add: The panel is set for 2-3:30pm Saturday 10 September.
@ Sydenham Library.
I will absolutely dress for the occasion (probably steampunk, possible pirate) and I’m generally difficult to miss. I’ll most likely look like this (any skirt I wear will be ankle-length), but with a top hat just to make sure I can’t be mistaken for someone else.
Is it bad that I have no idea were Brimbank is?
Apart from that, sounds like fun. Will try to get the day off. I had a look and couldn’t see when it’s running. Do you know what date it’ll be running on or is it TBA?
Cools, thanks Felicity
I Google mapped it and it looks like it’s probably out of central Melbourne in the Western suburbs (sunshine or keilor park-ish way)
It sounds like (based on the intfiction forum discussion) morning tea will be a good time to do the social part of the meetup (and any other time, of course). There’s a Jolly Miller Cafe in the same building as Sydenham library, where the panel will begin at 2pm (not to be confused with other Jolly Miller Cafes around Melbourne).
So, perhaps morning tea 11am-12:30pm at the Jolly Miller Cafe (shop 1/1 Station Street, Taylors Lakes, Watergardens, Melbourne).
And around the corner to Sydenham Library 2-3:30pm for the panel, possibly followed by LARPing and/or further shenanigans.
Speak up if that doesn’t work for you (and there’s something that does).
Yes, the Aussie IF meet-up is absolutely happening, and so is the “Participatory Fiction” panel of the Brimbank Writers and Readers Festival (including yours truly and several others covering other forms of fiction). It’s less than three weeks away now!
-Morning Tea & Meet-Up 11am-12:30pm at the Jolly Miller Cafe (shop 1/1 Station Street, Taylors Lakes, Watergardens, Melbourne).
-And optionally around the corner to Sydenham Library 2-3:30pm for the panel, likely followed by LARPing and/or further shenanigans.
I’ve booked my flights now, so at least two Australian states will be represented (and probably many more). At least one other Tin Minion will definitely be there, so if you’re a fan of Tin Man Games (in my opinion, Australia’s biggest and best producer of interactive fiction and games) this is a unique networking opportunity and/or a way to see how the professionals are just like us.
Some of my best friends are fellow-writers I’ve met at writing events like this one, and three of those friends have become international best-selling authors since I first met them.
