I have had an interest in the overarching area of interactive fiction (IF) for many years. IF covers such diverse areas as:

• text adventure games,
• choose-your-own-adventure books,
• visual novels,
• multi-user dungeons, and
• textual elements in mainstream games, such as dialogue trees.

I would like to make my own text-based game, so for this talk I want to explore the design space of IF in order to figure out what kind of game I'll be… Read more

Schedule:

• Sunday, Aug 7th, 2022, 17:00 (CEST) - Sunday, Aug 7th, 2022, 18:00 (CEST)

I am bad at keeping disks alive over a long period. As such, I have elected to put my collection of personal photos and videos up in the cloud

This works fine, but sometimes it's useful to be able to share a photo gallery with friends and family with a simple link to a website.

Many solutions to this exist, but most of them seem bloated. I have created a simple S3 media browser with all configuration stored in a single declarative file. It supports useful degrees of authenticat… Read more

Schedule:

• Sunday, Aug 7th, 2022, 13:30 (CEST) - Sunday, Aug 7th, 2022, 13:40 (CEST)