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{{game infobox|title=Cloak of Darkness|image=|author=[[Roger Firth]]|publisher=n/a|released=|authsystem=[[ADRIFT]] 3.8, plus several others|platform=ADRIFT 3.8, plus several others|language=English|license=Freeware|color=none|graphics=none|sound=none|cruelty=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 "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello_world_program 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 [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/ Cloak of Darkness] page is currently off-line. An archived version of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20190916101552/http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/ Cloak of Darkness] site is still available.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).
** {{babel wanted}}
** Download <tt>[http://ultranine.novahost.org/shadowvault/games/cloak.taf cloak.taf]</tt> from [[Shadow Vault]].
** Download <tt>[https://www.delron.org.uk/games/cloak.zip cloak.zip]</tt> 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 <nowiki>[ALAN 3 port]</nowiki>)
** [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/alan/index.html Information and download page]

===An Interactive Environment Engine (Aiee!)===
See also: [[An Interactive Environment Engine]]
* [https://www.mipmip.org/dev/IFrescue/rf/aiee/index.html Transcript]
* [https://www.mipmip.org/dev/IFrescue/rf/aiee/images/aiee.zip Download]

===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]])
** [https://github.com/tundish/balladeer/tree/master/balladeer/examples/ex_11_inventory_compass Example folder in the Balladeer github repo]

===ChoiceScript===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: [[manonamora]])
** [https://manonamora.itch.io/cloak-of-darkness Source code]

===Dialog===
* [https://linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-aa/play.html Link for play]
* [https://linusakesson.net/dialog/cloak/cloak-rel1.dg Source code]

===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]])
** [https://github.com/castwide/gamefic/tree/master/examples/cloak_of_darkness Example folder in the Gamefic github repo]

===Gruescript===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: Robin Johnson), included under "Examples" in the online editor
** [https://versificator.itch.io/gruescript Online editor]

===Hugo===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porters: John Menichelli and Kent Tessman)
** [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/hugo/index.html Information and download page]

===ifSpace===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: Zac Marino)
** [https://www.ifspace.net/adventure/curator/Cloak%20of%20Darkness Play]

===Inform 6===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: [[Roger Firth]]).
** [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/inform/index.html Information and download page]

===Inform 7===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porters: [[Emily Short]] and [[Graham Nelson]])
** [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/inform/index.html Information and download page]

===Ink===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: [[manonamora]])
** [https://manonamora.itch.io/cloak-of-darkness Source code]

===Moiki===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: [[manonamora]]).
** [https://moiki.fr/social-club/manonamora/cloak-of-darkness Play]
** [https://manonamora.itch.io/cloak-of-darkness Source code]

===PunyInform===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: [[Fredrik Ramsberg]]).
** [https://github.com/johanberntsson/PunyInform Library home page, click on cloak.inf to view the source]

===Quest 3===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: Alex Warren)
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20190906040054/http://www.firthworks.com:80/roger/cloak/quest/index.html Information and download page, cached by the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine]

===Quest 5===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: The Pixie)
** [https://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/cloak_of_darkness.html Information]
** [https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/fol1tly36kc0pfy4qynrqq/cloak-of-darkness Play]

===QuestJS===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: The Pixie)
** [https://github.com/ThePix/QuestJS/wiki/The-Cloak-of-Darkness Information]
** [https://textadventures.co.uk/games/view/y02ja5kbyuccmbcelrooza/cloak-of-darkness Play]

===Scratch===
*''Scratchy Cloak of Darkness'' (porter: Dennis G. Jerz)
** [https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2013/05/22/scratchy-cloak-of-darkness-on-scratch/ Description of Scratchy Cloak of Darkness, with playable embedded project]
** [https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/10349772 Direct link to full Scratch project, including source code] **

===TADS===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' (porters: Dan Shiovitz and Todd Nathan)
** [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/tads/index.html Information and download page]
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' in [[Adv3lite|adv3Lite]] (porter: [[Eric Eve]])
** [https://users.ox.ac.uk/~manc0049/TADSGuide/cloak.htm Information and source code]

===Twine===
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' for the Jonah format (Twine 1; porter: [[Iain Merrick]])
** [https://philome.la/iainmerrick/cloak-of-darkness/play/index.html Game link]
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' for the Chapbook format (Twine 2; porter: [[Chris Klimas]])
** [https://klembot.github.io/chapbook/examples/cloak-of-darkness.html Game link]
** [https://klembot.github.io/chapbook/examples/cloak-of-darkness.txt Source code]
* ''Cloak of Darkness'' for the Harlowe format (Twine 2; porter: [[manonamora]])
** [https://manonamora.itch.io/cloak-of-darkness 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)
** [http://zork.net/~nick/loyhargil/if/if.awk 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]])
** [http://samiam.org/software/Cloak-Scott.zip Zip file download link]

==Links==
===General info===
* [http://www.firthworks.com/roger/cloak/ Cloak of Darkness] homepage.
* {{TUID wanted}}

===Spoilers===
* [https://www.delron.org.uk/walkthru/cloak.html Walkthrough] at [[Delron]].

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