Cloak of Darkness

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Cloak of Darkness

Author(s)	Roger Firth
Publisher(s)	n/a
Release date(s)
Authoring system	ADRIFT 3.8, plus several others
Platform(s)	ADRIFT 3.8, plus several others
Language(s)	English
License(s)	Freeware
Multimedia
Color effects	none
Graphics	none
Sound/Music	none
Ratings
Cruelty scale	Cruel

How It Begins

Our heroic adventurer finds themselves in the foyer of an elegant opera house.

Notable Features

This adventure is a tiny adventure designed to be easy to port to a given Authoring system. It is, if you will, the interactive fiction equivalent of "Hello, world!".

Versions

There are many ports for this game, which is rather the point of it. This list is currently incomplete.

Original

Cloak of Darkness (Roger Firth).
- The original Cloak of Darkness page is currently off-line. An archived version of the Cloak of Darkness site is still available. Below is a copy of the relevant section.

The "Cloak of Darkness" specification

There are just three rooms and three objects.

The Foyer of the Opera House is where the game begins. This empty room has doors to the south and west, also an unusable exit to the north. There is nobody else around.
The Bar lies south of the Foyer, and is initially unlit. Trying to do anything other than return northwards results in a warning message about disturbing things in the dark.
On the wall of the Cloakroom, to the west of the Foyer, is fixed a small brass hook.
Taking an inventory of possessions reveals that the player is wearing a black velvet cloak which, upon examination, is found to be light-absorbent. The player can drop the cloak on the floor of the Cloakroom or, better, put it on the hook.
Returning to the Bar without the cloak reveals that the room is now lit. A message is scratched in the sawdust on the floor.
The message reads either "You have won" or "You have lost", depending on how much it was disturbed by the player while the room was dark.
The act of reading the message ends the game.
And that's all there is to it...

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ADRIFT port

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Campbell Wild; ADRIFT 3.8).
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- Download cloak.taf from Shadow Vault.
- Download cloak.zip from Delron.

AAS Parody

See Cloak of Ultimate Darkness (Iain Merrick as "Roddy Ramieson"; 2003; AAS).

ALAN

Cloak of Darkness (porters: Stephen Griffiths and Thomas Nilsson [ALAN 3 port])
- Information and download page

Balladeer

Balladeer is an open source IF system in Python, SpeechMark, HTML5 and CSS3. The "examples" folder contains an implementation of Cloak of Darkness.

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Tundish)
- Example folder in the Balladeer github repo

ChoiceScript

Cloak of Darkness (porter: manonamora)
- Source code

Dialog

Gamefic

Gamefic is an open source IF system entirely in the Ruby programming language. The "examples" folder contains an implementation of Cloak of Darkness.

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Peter Orme and Fred Snyder)
- Example folder in the Gamefic github repo

Gruescript

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Robin Johnson), included under "Examples" in the online editor
- Online editor

Hugo

Cloak of Darkness (porters: John Menichelli and Kent Tessman)
- Information and download page

ifSpace

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Zac Marino)
- Play

Inform 6

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Roger Firth).
- Information and download page

Inform 7

Cloak of Darkness (porters: Emily Short and Graham Nelson)
- Information and download page

Ink

Cloak of Darkness (porter: manonamora)
- Source code

Moiki

Cloak of Darkness (porter: manonamora).
- Play
- Source code

PunyInform

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Fredrik Ramsberg).
- Library home page, click on cloak.inf to view the source

Quest 3

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Alex Warren)
- Information and download page, cached by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

Quest 5

Cloak of Darkness (porter: The Pixie)
- Information
- Play

QuestJS

Cloak of Darkness (porter: The Pixie)
- Information
- Play

Scratch

Scratchy Cloak of Darkness (porter: Dennis G. Jerz)
- Description of Scratchy Cloak of Darkness, with playable embedded project
- Direct link to full Scratch project, including source code **

TADS

Cloak of Darkness (porters: Dan Shiovitz and Todd Nathan)
- Information and download page

Twine

Cloak of Darkness for the Jonah format (Twine 1; porter: Iain Merrick)
- Game link
Cloak of Darkness for the Chapbook format (Twine 2; porter: Chris Klimas)
- Game link
- Source code
Cloak of Darkness for the Harlowe format (Twine 2; porter: manonamora)
- Source code

Curiosities

In addition to ports of Cloak of Darkness for most significant authoring systems, there are some curiosities available for obscure or obsolete authoring systems as well as programming languages not designed to run interactive fiction

AWK

AWK is a programming language included with almost all implementations of UNIX and Linux, as well as available in several forms for Windows. It is designed to process and extract data from text files.

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Nick Moffitt)
- AWK source code

Scott Adams

The Scott Adams system is a simple two-word parser system from the late 1970s for computers with as little as 16 kilobytes of memory. The system is less flexible and more difficult to program in than newer systems, but is extremely lightweight.

Cloak of Darkness (porter: Sam Trenholme)
- Zip file download link

Links

General info

Cloak of Darkness homepage.
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Spoilers

Walkthrough at Delron.

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