ClubFloyd

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ClubFloyd was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time (currently Saturdays at 2pm EST, 7pm GMT), people can meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Games are played via the Floyd bot located in the Toyshop and Floyditorium, just southwest of the Adventurer's Lounge in ifMud. (The magic word "toyshop" can be used to teleport there directly.)

Which game to play and when to play it is decided on in advance via the use of the ClubFloyd Suggestions object (located in the Toyshop and Floyditorium). The suggestions object text reads:

Welcome to ClubFloyd!
ClubFloyd meets here each Sunday at 2pm Eastern. You can read through past transcripts at http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd to see how things work. To suggest a game, send a mudmail to Jacqueline and she'll add the game to the list below. Good ClubFloyd games should take about two hours to play, and absolutely must be programmed in Hugo, AGT, Inform, or TADS (2 or 3) so that they'll play on our bot, Floyd. This list was last updated on [DATE].

(There is then a lengthy list of previously-suggested games, a new one of which is chosen each week.)


Contents

Tips

The quick way to tell Floyd to do something is with the "f" command, e.g.:

  • f take keys is the same as the mud command ..Floyd take keys

You can also whisper to Floyd with the "wf" command, but whispering to Floyd is discouraged during ClubFloyd games.

There's two buttons in the Toyshop to help players tell Floyd to push the spacebar or enter key:

  • push green button or push space or push spacebar tells Floyd to push the spacebar.
  • push yellow button or push enter or push return tells Floyd to push the enter key.

There is also an 'automatic' saving tool in the Toyshop which will keep track of multiple save points.

  • push save tells Floyd to save the game. Each time you push this button, the save file changes sequentially.
  • push restore tells Floyd to restore the last save point.
  • reset save clears the save counter so that it's ready to use in a new game.

Unfortunately, there's no way to display the status bar from a game.

Games played

Games played in 2007

(on hiatus during IF Comp 2007; the following sessions celebrated IF Comp winners)

(return to normal schedule)

Games played in 2008

(break for XYZZY Awards 2007 on 9th March 2008)

(ClubFloyd was put on hiatus during IF Comp 2008.)

(No game on 30th November 2008; ifMud was down.)

Games played in 2009

(ClubFloyd was put on hiatus during IF Comp 2009 and Jacqueline's travels.)

Note: new time! (2pm EST, 7pm GMT)

Games played in 2010

Games to be played

Links

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