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'''ClubFloyd''' was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time (<span style="border-bottom:green 2px solid">currently Sundays at half-past-noon Eastern</span>), people can meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.
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'''ClubFloyd''' was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time, people can meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. (Please refer to the [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd ClubFloyd webpage] for the current meeting time.) Games are played via the [[Floyd (bot)|Floyd]] bot.


Games are played via the [[Floyd (bot)|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.)
On February 8, 2020, on ifMUD's ClubFloyd bulletin board, [[Jacqueline A. Lott|Jacqueline]] announced that ClubFloyd would begin meeting in a new place on [[ifMUD]]: the Clubhouse. To access the Clubhouse, please see the instructions on the [http://allthingsjacq.com/intfic_cfrules.html ClubFloyd: Rules & Instructions] page.


Currently, which game to play is decided at the beginning of the session by asking players to vote from a list of games at surveymonkey. Whichever game gets the most votes is what gets played.
Formerly, games were played 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.)
 
Deciding which game to play has been done in various ways over the years. One approach was for players to choose a game at the beginning of the session by voting from a list of games at surveymonkey. Whichever game got the most votes was what got played.


Originally, which game to play and when to play it was decided on in advance via the use of the ClubFloyd Suggestions object (located in the Toyshop and Floyditorium). The suggestions object text reads:
Originally, which game to play and when to play it was decided on in advance via the use of the ClubFloyd Suggestions object (located in the Toyshop and Floyditorium). The suggestions object text reads:
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To suggest another game, sign this object:</blockquote>
To suggest another game, sign this object:</blockquote>


==Variants==
==Variants==
* '''ClubFrançois''' was the nickname of a special all-French session on 18th July 2010.
* '''ClubFrançois''' was the nickname of a special all-French session on 18 July 2010.
* '''NightFloyd''' is a night-time version of ClubFloyd that currently runs on Tuesday nights, 10 pm Eastern. The first NightFloyd session was on Wednesday 18th April 2012 at 10 pm Eastern and hosted by [[genericgeekgirl]]. NightFloyd also seems to be favoring longer games that require several sessions to complete.
* '''NightFloyd''' is a night-time version of ClubFloyd that currently runs on Thursday nights at 10:30 pm Eastern. The first NightFloyd session was hosted by [[genericgeekgirl]] on Wednesday 31 August 2011. NightFloyd tends to favor longer games that require several sessions to complete.


==Tips==
==Tips==
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* 5th February 2011: ''[[Flight of the Hummingbird]]'' ([[Michael Martin]]; 2010; Z-code).
* 5th February 2011: ''[[Flight of the Hummingbird]]'' ([[Michael Martin]]; 2010; Z-code).
* 12th February 2011: ''[[Divis Mortis]]'' ([[Lynnea Dally]]; 2010; Glulx).
* 12th February 2011: ''[[Divis Mortis]]'' ([[Lynnea Dally]]; 2010; Glulx).
* 19th February 2011: ''[[TWIFcomp|> by @]]'' ([[Aaron A. Reed]]; 2010; Z-code) and ''[[Tryst of Fate]]'' ([[G. M. Zagurski]]; 1997; Z-code).
* 19th February 2011: ''[[By @|> by @]]'' ([[Aaron A. Reed]]; 2010; Z-code) and ''[[Tryst of Fate]]'' ([[G. M. Zagurski]]; 1997; Z-code).
* 26th February 2011: (No game; we were at the [[XYZZY Awards 2010]] ceremony instead.)
* 26th February 2011: (No game; we were at the [[XYZZY Awards 2010]] ceremony instead.)
* 5th March 2011: ''[[Degeneracy]]'' ([[Leonard Richardson]]; 2001; Z-code).
* 5th March 2011: ''[[Degeneracy]]'' ([[Leonard Richardson]]; 2001; Z-code).
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* 4th December 2011: ''[[Six]]'' ([[Wade Clarke]]; 2011; Glulx).
* 4th December 2011: ''[[Six]]'' ([[Wade Clarke]]; 2011; Glulx).
* 11th December 2011: ''[[Things]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]] and [[Sam Kabo Ashwell]]; 2004; TADS 2), ''[[In Search of Velocitas fictus]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]]; 2007; Z-code), ''[[Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, or, A Poisoned Zenith]]'' ([[Sam Kabo Ashwell]] and [[Jacqueline A. Lott]], both as "Alphonse de l'Entaille"; 2005; Z-code), ''[[This is the game that I wrote]]'' ([[David Welbourn]]; 2006; Z-code), and ''[[The Invisible Argonaut]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]]; 2003; Z-code).
* 11th December 2011: ''[[Things]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]] and [[Sam Kabo Ashwell]]; 2004; TADS 2), ''[[In Search of Velocitas fictus]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]]; 2007; Z-code), ''[[Within a Wreath of Dewdrops, or, A Poisoned Zenith]]'' ([[Sam Kabo Ashwell]] and [[Jacqueline A. Lott]], both as "Alphonse de l'Entaille"; 2005; Z-code), ''[[This is the game that I wrote]]'' ([[David Welbourn]]; 2006; Z-code), and ''[[The Invisible Argonaut]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]]; 2003; Z-code).
* 18th December 2011: ''[[The Play]]'' ([[Deirdra Kiai]]; Web browser).
* 18th December 2011: ''[[The Play]]'' ([[Dietrich Squinkifer]], writing as Deirdra Kiai; Web browser).
* 25th December 2011: ''[[Escape From Santaland]]'' ([[Jason Ermer]]; 2011; Z-code).
* 25th December 2011: ''[[Escape From Santaland]]'' ([[Jason Ermer]]; 2011; Z-code).


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* 23rd and 30th September 2012: ''[[Delusions]]'' ([[C. E. Forman]]; 1996; Z-code).
* 23rd and 30th September 2012: ''[[Delusions]]'' ([[C. E. Forman]]; 1996; Z-code).
* 18th September - 7th November 2012: ''[[The Legend Lives!]]'' ([[David Baggett]]; 1994; TADS 2).
* 18th September - 7th November 2012: ''[[The Legend Lives!]]'' ([[David Baggett]]; 1994; TADS 2).
* 31st October: ''[[Hallow Eve]]'' ([[Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.]]; 2011; Glulx).
* 31st October 2012: ''[[Hallow Eve]]'' ([[Michael Wayne Phipps Jr.]]; 2011; Glulx).
* 18th November: ''[[Andromeda Apocalypse]]'' ([[Marco Innocenti]]; 2012; Glulx).
* 18th November 2012: ''[[Andromeda Apocalypse]]'' ([[Marco Innocenti]]; 2012; Glulx).
* 21st November: ''[[Gardening for Beginners]]'' ([[Juhana Leinonen]]; 2008; Z-code) and ''[[Conan Kill Everything]]'' ([[Ian Haberkorn]]; 2005; Z-code).
* 21st November 2012: ''[[Gardening for Beginners]]'' ([[Juhana Leinonen]]; 2008; Z-code) and ''[[Conan Kill Everything]]'' ([[Ian Haberkorn]]; 2005; Z-code).
* 25th November: ''[[Eurydice]]'' (Anonymous; 2012; Z-code).
* 25th November 2012: ''[[Eurydice]]'' (Anonymous; 2012; Z-code).
* 28th November 2012: ''[[Tenth Plague]]'' ([[Lynnea Dally]]; 2011; Z-code).
* 2nd December 2012: ''[[Changes]]'' ([[David Given]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 9th December 2012: ''[[Guilded Youth]]'' ([[Jim Munroe]]; 2012; Web browser).
* 12th December 2012: ''[[The Immortal]]'' ([[Just Rob]]; 2007; Z-code).
* 16th December 2012: ''[[Sunday Afternoon]]'' ([[Christopher Huang]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 19th December 2012: ''[[Sentencing Mr Liddell]]'' ([[I-K. Huuhtanen]]; 2011; Glulx).
* 23rd December 2012: ''[[Spiral]]'' ([[Justin Morgan]]; 2012; Z-code).


===Games to be played===
===Games played in 2013===
* 18th November 2012 and later: the winners of the [[18th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition]].
* 6th January 2013: [[2013 Ultimate Not Numbered New Year's Speed IF]] games: ''[[Ex Nihilo]]'' ([[Juhana Leinonen]]; 2013; Web browser), ''[[Emma II]]'' ([[David Fletcher]]; 2013; TADS 3), ''[[Disenchantment Bay]]'' ([[Jacqueline A. Lott]]; 2013; Z-code), and ''[[Short of Sushi]]'' ([[Paul Stanley]]; 2013; Z-code).
* 9th January 2013: ''[[Ghosterington Night]]'' ([[Wade Clarke]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 13th January 2013: [[2013 Ultimate Not Numbered New Year's Speed IF]] game: ''[[The Day I died]]'' ([[Marius Müller]]; 2013; Z-code).
* 3rd February 2013: ''[[Bigger Than You Think]]'' ([[Andrew Plotkin]]; 2012; Glulx).
* 10th February 2013: ''[[Andromeda Dreaming]]'' ([[Joey Jones]]; 2012; Glulx).
* 17th February 2013: ''[[Choice of Kung Fu]]'' ([[Alana Joli Abbott]]; 2012; Web browser and smartphones).
* 24th February 2013: ''[[Nautilisia]]'' ([[Ryan Veeder]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 3rd March 2013: ''[[Cut the Red Wire! No, the Blue Wire!]]'' ([[David Whyld]]; 2012; ADRIFT 4), ''[[The Kazooist]]'' ([[Charlie Marcou]]; 2012; Z-code), and ''[[And A Hippo New Year]]'' ([[Adri]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 10th March 2013: ''[[Zorkian Stories 1: G.U.E.]]'' ([[Marshal Tenner Winter]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 17th March 2013: ''[[Under the Bed]]'' ([[Dan Doyle III]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 24th March 2013: ''[[The Forgotten Girls]]'' ([[Brent H.]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 31st March 2013: ''[[The Subtropical Server Room]]'' ([[Andrew Schultz]]; 2012; Z-code).
* 7th April 2013: ''[[A Killer Headache]]'' ([[Mike Ciul]]; 2012; Glulx).
* 11th April 2013: ''[[Olivia's Orphanorium]]'' ([[Sam Kabo Ashwell]]; 2012; Glulx).


==Links==
==Links==
* [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd ClubFloyd IF Transcripts] - posted by [[Jacqueline A. Lott]] on her website.
* [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd ClubFloyd & NightFloyd Transcripts] - official ClubFloyd webpage on [[Jacqueline A. Lott|Jacqueline A. Lott's]] website. Includes transcripts she has posted.
* [[http://allthingsjacq.com/intfic_cfrules.html ClubFloyd: Rules & Instructions] page.
* [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/cf-feed.xml RSS Feed for ClubFloyd News] - when transcripts are posted, what game is being played next, and associated news.
* [http://www.allthingsjacq.com/cf-feed.xml RSS Feed for ClubFloyd News] - when transcripts are posted, what game is being played next, and associated news.
* [http://ifdb.tads.org/club?id=7e8ap2um4pqtk33t ClubFloyd] - club page at [[IFDB]].
* [http://ifdb.org/club?id=7e8ap2um4pqtk33t ClubFloyd] - club page at [[IFDB]].
* [http://ifdb.tads.org/search?searchfor=tag:ClubFloyd%20transcript Games tagged with "ClubFloyd transcript"] - at [[IFDB]].
* [http://ifdb.org/search?searchfor=tag:ClubFloyd%20transcript Games tagged with "ClubFloyd transcript"] - at [[IFDB]].


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ClubFloyd was founded on September 2, 2007. The idea behind it is that each week at a pre-arranged time, people can meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction. (Please refer to the ClubFloyd webpage for the current meeting time.) Games are played via the Floyd bot.

On February 8, 2020, on ifMUD's ClubFloyd bulletin board, Jacqueline announced that ClubFloyd would begin meeting in a new place on ifMUD: the Clubhouse. To access the Clubhouse, please see the instructions on the ClubFloyd: Rules & Instructions page.

Formerly, games were played 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.)

Deciding which game to play has been done in various ways over the years. One approach was for players to choose a game at the beginning of the session by voting from a list of games at surveymonkey. Whichever game got the most votes was what got played.

Originally, which game to play and when to play it was 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 noon Eastern. If you'd like to know what we'll be playing each week, it's generally posted to the #ClubFloyd bb here on ifMUD, as well as to the RSS feed at http://www.allthingsjacq.com/cf-feed.xml (if you're on LiveJournal, you could also put lj user ClubFloyd on your flist).

To see how things work, you can read through past transcripts at http://www.allthingsjacq.com/interactive_fiction.html#clubfloyd

ClubFloyd games absolutely must be programmed in ADRIFT, AGT, Choice Script, Glulx, Hugo, Inform, or TADS (2 or 3) because those are the only games that run on our bot, Floyd. PLEASE ALSO NOTE: As of March 2011 there is no longer a two hour game time constraint, as we have decided to try playing some longer games over multiple ClubFloyd sessions.

Here is a list of games that have been suggested in the past:
Above Far, Anchorhead, Alabaster, All Things Devours, The Apprentice, Augmented Fourth, Babel, Beyond, Bronze, Centipede, The Coast House, The Cruise, Delusions, Down, EGC, Paper Chase, Episode in the Life of an Artist, Eric the Power-Mad Dungeon Master, Foggywood Hijinx, For A Change, Glass, Gourmet, Heroes, Kaged, LASH, Letters from Home, Make it Good, Matha's Big Date, Mobius, Moments Out of Time, A New Day, Once and Future, Operate!, Photopia, The Plant, The Questionable Substitute, Risorgimento Represso, Savoir-Faire, Scary House Amulet!, Shade, Six Stories, Slouching Towards Bedlam, So Far, Vespers

To suggest another game, sign this object:

Variants

  • ClubFrançois was the nickname of a special all-French session on 18 July 2010.
  • NightFloyd is a night-time version of ClubFloyd that currently runs on Thursday nights at 10:30 pm Eastern. The first NightFloyd session was hosted by genericgeekgirl on Wednesday 31 August 2011. NightFloyd tends to favor longer games that require several sessions to complete.

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.

Originally, there was no way to display the status bar from a game. A new experimental terp by vimes, introduced in 2012, is designed just for ClubFloyd and not only displays the status bar, but also marks up where bold and italic text appears in the game output.

Games played

Games played from 2007 to 2010

See the archive page: ClubFloyd/Games played in 2007 to 2010.

Games played in 2011

Games played in 2012

Games played in 2013

Links

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