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	Cruelty to be determined

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).
  • See the Cloak of Darkness page.

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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

Hugo

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

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

Quest

• Cloak of Darkness (porter: Alex Warren)
  • Information and download page

TADS

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

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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