  
ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ClubFloyd Transcript:
The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each
week at a pre-arranged time, a group of
people meet online to cooperatively play
a game of interactive fiction.
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ToyShop & Floyditorium
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#ClubFloyd Discussion
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| DavidW says, "Should we try Cave? That's by the guy who did that child-like Dragon Adventure one." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Sure." | ||
| wordsmith says, "That works for me." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Let's hope there isn't another troll that eagerly jumps into our weapon while dead again, though." | ||
| DavidW says, "hold on. I need to find out why there's 38 files or so." | ||
| DavidW says, "oh, help and graphics. We won't need those." | ||
| wordsmith asks, "Is there 'cave.blb' in the zip file?" | ||
| DavidW says, "yup" | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "load cave" | ||
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0. Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | Floyd | A small game file showing one way to use pictures and sounds in games. Floyd | (Type INFO at any time for more information.) Floyd | Floyd | Cave Floyd | by William Stott Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040606 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S Floyd | Floyd | Lake in the Forest Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees Floyd | towards the south. Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees). Floyd | Floyd | You can see some long reeds and a large iron key here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me" | ||
Floyd | You are wearing the traditional clothing of an adventurer. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You are carrying nothing. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reeds" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | You see a mass of reeds that sway gently in the shallow water. Floyd | Looking in the reeds, you find a sack. There is something inside... Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sack" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take key" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key" | ||
Floyd | You see a large, dull iron key that must be for an ancient door. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "open sack" | ||
Floyd | You see a hessian sack. Floyd | Inside is a reed flute... Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flute" | ||
Floyd | The flute is made of elaborately-carved wood. Floyd | | DavidW says, "How strange. His other game also had a flute... in a sack... hidden in reeds." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "This is sounding kind of familiar so far." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "Right." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fish" | ||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | DavidW asks, "South?" | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Tree Stump Floyd | The twisting path leads east deeper into the forest and continues Floyd | north, winding into the trees. There is an old tree-stump next to the Floyd | path where once a great oak tree must have stood. It seems to be hollow Floyd | in the centre. Floyd | You can go north (along a path to a lake) or east (further into the Floyd | forest). Floyd | Floyd | You can see a hollow tree stump here. Floyd | | DavidW says, "We found matches in a stump in the other game." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stump" | ||
Floyd | You look carefully in the hollow tree stump and. find a box of Floyd | matches... Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x matches" | ||
Floyd | You see a box of matches. It's nearly full. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a large iron key Floyd | a brown hessian sack Floyd | a reed flute Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take matches" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says, "I get the feeling that the author is retreading his own material." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd | OK... squeeeak... Floyd | (You don't know how to play it properly - perhaps you need an Floyd | instruction booklet...) Floyd | | DavidW says, "yeah, that's the same too." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "It's not quite the same map according to my recollection, but..." | ||
| DavidW says, "It's a different map, yes." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Entrance Floyd | The opening to a deep cave leads eastwards into darkness, and the path Floyd | winds west into the forest. Floyd | You can go west (to the forest) or east (into the dark cave). Floyd | Floyd | You can see a small candle stub (unlit) and an ancient silver coin Floyd | here. Floyd | | Knight_Otu asks, "A cut-down version, perhaps?" | |
| wordsmith says (to Floyd), "info" | ||
Floyd | Cave (a short demo using sounds and pictures in Glulx) Floyd | Floyd | The Inform Glulx example here illustrates a way I've found to get Floyd | pictures and sounds into games - hopefully, it might help anyone Floyd | wanting to experiment for themselves. Two good places to start are Adam Floyd | Cadre's Gull guide ([LINK]), and the Glulx Floyd | section at Roger Firth's site ([LINK]). It's Floyd | a good idea to read both of these first. Floyd | Floyd | I've put comments in the accompanying source code to help explain Floyd | what's going on. Please feel free to borrow any ideas. All the trickier Floyd | stuff is taken straight from the examples in the Gull documentation, Floyd | where it's explained fully. Floyd | Floyd | The pictures and sounds used here have been borrowed from the Floyd | children's game Dragon Adventure (also in the IF Archive). The game was Floyd | originally written in BASIC for RISC OS computers, and I wanted to use Floyd | the same pictures and sound files in the Glulx version. The various Floyd | picture sizes were chosen to fit the 640 x 480 VGA screen of the Floyd | original version. At higher screen resolutions the pictures appear Floyd | smaller, and remain with a fixed offset from the left side of the main Floyd | window. I haven't found a way round this with Glulx. Floyd | Floyd | PD sound effects can be found on the internet - Floyd | [LINK] is a search site specifically for sound Floyd | effect samples. This gives links to thousands of AU, AIFF and (mostly) Floyd | WAV samples (I found 106 elephant sounds, for instance), though you Floyd | need to check the copyright status before using anything. Floyd | Floyd | You'll probably also need an editor for trimming and changing the Floyd | volume of sound samples. One good one is Audacity, a freeware open Floyd | source editor for Windows, Linux and the Mac (from Floyd | [LINK]). This can convert samples between a Floyd | range of formats (including to AIFF) with different sample rate and Floyd | quality settings. Other utilies (such as the PC shareware Easy CD-DA Floyd | Extractor from [LINK]) may also be of help for file Floyd | conversion to AIFF. 8-bit mono at 11 or 16KHz seems to be about the Floyd | best compromise between file length and quality for basic game sound Floyd | effects. Floyd | Floyd | For pictures, the freeware open source GIMP graphics editor (from Floyd | [LINK]) is capable and comprehensive, with facilities to Floyd | rival Photoshop. It's available for Windows, Linux and the Mac, and, Floyd | once you get the hang of it, is useful for both image creation and Floyd | manipulation. Floyd | Floyd | Like its parent game, this demo has a built-in picture map on screen Floyd | which shows the places visited (type 'map'). Sound effects can be Floyd | turned off or on by 'sound off/on'. It's also possible to see briefly Floyd | inside the dark cave by striking a match, and 'listen' will replay the Floyd | sound heard by the lake. The demo has no set game ending (in case Floyd | anyone tries to find one!). Floyd | Floyd | William Stott, June 2004 Floyd | Floyd | (Type LOOK or L to see where you are in the game) Floyd | | DavidW says, "We had to fill a birdbath for the candle before. And the coin was in the inn." | |
| DavidW asks, "So this is more of a demo than a full game?" | ||
| wordsmith says, "It sounds that way to me." | ||
| DavidW asks, "Shall we continue anyway?" | ||
| DavidW says, "It might be shorter than we expect." | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all" | ||
Floyd | You need to say which objects you want to take. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stub" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | Knight_Otu asks, "I mean, why not?" | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coin" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coin" | ||
Floyd | The coin is very old and made of silver. On one side you see the Floyd | portrait of an ancient king, on the other there is a picture of a Floyd | galloping horse. It looks quite valuable. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "light candle" | ||
Floyd | OK... you light the candle using the matches... Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Damp Tunnel Floyd | The cave floor is moist from condensation, and your flickering candle Floyd | casts pools of pallid light which sway and dance through the shadows. Floyd | The cave exit is to the west. Floyd | Floyd | You can see a mouldy old boot here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boot" | ||
Floyd | Taken. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it" | ||
Floyd | You see an old, mouldy boot. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look it in" | ||
Floyd | You can't see "it" (the mouldy old boot) at the moment. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in boot" | ||
Floyd | You find nothing of interest. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty boot" | ||
Floyd | The mouldy old boot can't contain things. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear boot" | ||
Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake boot" | ||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "i" | ||
Floyd | You are carrying: Floyd | a mouldy old boot Floyd | an ancient silver coin Floyd | a small, burning candle stub (providing light) Floyd | a box of matches Floyd | a large iron key Floyd | a brown hessian sack Floyd | a reed flute Floyd | | Knight_Otu asks, "The boot held ... what was it?" | |
| DavidW says, "hm. I don't remember now. Something." | ||
| Knight_Otu says, "But apparently not in this game, whatever it was." | ||
| DavidW says, "I don't see any exits but the way we entered." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x shadows" | ||
Floyd | You can't see any such thing. Floyd | | Knight_Otu says, "Hm." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Damp Tunnel Floyd | The cave floor is moist from condensation, and your flickering candle Floyd | casts pools of pallid light which sway and dance through the shadows. Floyd | The cave exit is to the west. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig" | ||
Floyd | What do you want to dig? Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "floor" | ||
Floyd | Digging would achieve nothing here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "e" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor" | ||
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Cave Entrance Floyd | The opening to a deep cave leads eastwards into darkness, and the path Floyd | winds west into the forest. Floyd | You can go west (to the forest) or east (into the dark cave). Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Tree Stump Floyd | The twisting path leads east deeper into the forest and continues Floyd | north, winding into the trees. There is an old tree-stump next to the Floyd | path where once a great oak tree must have stood. It seems to be hollow Floyd | in the centre. Floyd | You can go north (along a path to a lake) or east (further into the Floyd | forest). Floyd | Floyd | You can see a hollow tree stump (which is empty) here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "s" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "w" | ||
Floyd | You can't go that way. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "n" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Lake in the Forest Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees Floyd | towards the south. Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees). Floyd | Floyd | You can see some long reeds here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim" | ||
Floyd | There's not enough water to swim in. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "take reeds" | ||
Floyd | They're fixed in place. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lake" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | You see a mass of reeds that sway gently in the shallow water. Floyd | You see nothing special about the long reeds. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boot into lake" | ||
Floyd | Those can't contain things. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick boot" | ||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop boot" | ||
Floyd | Dropped. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "l" | ||
Floyd | Floyd | Lake in the Forest Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees Floyd | towards the south. Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees). Floyd | Floyd | You can see a mouldy old boot and some long reeds here. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick boot" | ||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear boot" | ||
Floyd | (first taking the mouldy old boot) Floyd | You can't wear that! Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip coin" | ||
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise. Floyd | | DavidW says, "I didn't see any exits that we didn't try." | |
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "map" | ||
Floyd | (Type LOOK or L, or enter any instruction to leave the map) Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "look" | ||
Floyd | >
Floyd | Lake in the Forest
Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of
Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees
Floyd | towards the south.
Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see some long reeds here.
Floyd |
| wordsmith says, "Yeah, I think we've seen the demo." | |
| Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I suspect that's it." | ||
| DavidW says, "That's disappointing." | ||
| Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "listen" | ||
Floyd | You hear the occasional splash of fish feeding near the surface. Floyd | | ||
| DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute" | ||
Floyd | OK... squeeeak... Floyd | (You don't know how to play it properly - perhaps you need an Floyd | instruction booklet...) Floyd | |
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