ClubFloyd Transcript:
Cave by William Scott
As played on ifMUD on September 29, 2019

The idea behind ClubFloyd is that each week at a pre-arranged time, a group of people meet online to cooperatively play a game of interactive fiction.

Below is a transcript of Cave written by William Scott. It is not a complete game, but proof-of-concept for adding pictures and sounds to an Inform 6 game. You can learn more about the game, including how to download it, by visiting IFDB.


WARNING! Below you will find a transcript of people playing this game, and it goes without saying that the transcript is full of spoilers. So, if you've never played this game, and think you might like to at some point, I do not recommend reading any further. Instead, you might want to return to the interactive fiction page.


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DavidW says, "Should we try Cave? That's by the guy who did that child-like Dragon Adventure one."
Knight_Otu says, "Sure."
wordsmith says, "That works for me."
Knight_Otu says, "Let's hope there isn't another troll that eagerly jumps into our weapon while dead again, though."
DavidW says, "hold on. I need to find out why there's 38 files or so."
DavidW says, "oh, help and graphics. We won't need those."
wordsmith asks, "Is there 'cave.blb' in the zip file?"
DavidW says, "yup"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "load cave"
Floyd | Welcome to the Cheap Glk Implementation, library version 0.9.0.
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd |
Floyd | A small game file showing one way to use pictures and sounds in games.
Floyd | (Type INFO at any time for more information.)
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave
Floyd | by William Stott
Floyd | Release 1 / Serial number 040606 / Inform v6.30 Library 6/11 S
Floyd |
Floyd | Lake in the Forest
Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of
Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees
Floyd | towards the south.
Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see some long reeds and a large iron key here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x me"
Floyd | You are wearing the traditional clothing of an adventurer.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying nothing.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x reeds"
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mass of reeds that sway gently in the shallow water.
Floyd | Looking in the reeds, you find a sack. There is something inside...
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take sack"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take key"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x key"
Floyd | You see a large, dull iron key that must be for an ancient door.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "open sack"
Floyd | You see a hessian sack.
Floyd | Inside is a reed flute...
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x flute"
Floyd | The flute is made of elaborately-carved wood.
Floyd |
DavidW says, "How strange. His other game also had a flute... in a sack... hidden in reeds."
Knight_Otu says, "This is sounding kind of familiar so far."
Knight_Otu says, "Right."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x fish"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
DavidW asks, "South?"
Knight_Otu says, "Yeah."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd |
Floyd | Tree Stump
Floyd | The twisting path leads east deeper into the forest and continues
Floyd | north, winding into the trees. There is an old tree-stump next to the
Floyd | path where once a great oak tree must have stood. It seems to be hollow
Floyd | in the centre.
Floyd | You can go north (along a path to a lake) or east (further into the
Floyd | forest).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a hollow tree stump here.
Floyd |
DavidW says, "We found matches in a stump in the other game."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x stump"
Floyd | You look carefully in the hollow tree stump and. find a box of
Floyd | matches...
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x matches"
Floyd | You see a box of matches. It's nearly full.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a large iron key
Floyd |   a brown hessian sack
Floyd |     a reed flute
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take matches"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Knight_Otu says, "Hm."
DavidW says, "I get the feeling that the author is retreading his own material."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute"
Floyd | OK... squeeeak...
Floyd | (You don't know how to play it properly - perhaps you need an
Floyd | instruction booklet...)
Floyd |
DavidW says, "yeah, that's the same too."
Knight_Otu says, "It's not quite the same map according to my recollection, but..."
DavidW says, "It's a different map, yes."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave Entrance
Floyd | The opening to a deep cave leads eastwards into darkness, and the path
Floyd | winds west into the forest.
Floyd | You can go west (to the forest) or east (into the dark cave).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a small candle stub (unlit) and an ancient silver coin
Floyd | here.
Floyd |
Knight_Otu asks, "A cut-down version, perhaps?"
wordsmith says (to Floyd), "info"
Floyd | Cave (a short demo using sounds and pictures in Glulx)
Floyd |
Floyd | The Inform Glulx example here illustrates a way I've found to get
Floyd | pictures and sounds into games -  hopefully, it might help anyone
Floyd | wanting to experiment for themselves. Two good places to start are Adam
Floyd | Cadre's Gull guide ([LINK]), and the Glulx
Floyd | section at Roger Firth's site ([LINK]). It's
Floyd | a good idea to read both of these first.
Floyd |
Floyd | I've put comments in the accompanying source code to help explain
Floyd | what's going on. Please feel free to borrow any ideas. All the trickier
Floyd | stuff is taken straight from the examples in the Gull documentation,
Floyd | where it's explained fully.
Floyd |
Floyd | The pictures and sounds used here have been borrowed from the
Floyd | children's game Dragon Adventure (also in the IF Archive). The game was
Floyd | originally written in BASIC for RISC OS computers, and I wanted to use
Floyd | the same pictures and sound files in the Glulx version. The various
Floyd | picture sizes were chosen to fit the 640 x 480 VGA screen of the
Floyd | original version. At higher screen resolutions the pictures appear
Floyd | smaller, and remain with a fixed offset from the left side of the main
Floyd | window. I haven't found a way round this with Glulx.
Floyd |
Floyd | PD sound effects can be found on the internet -
Floyd | [LINK] is a search site specifically for sound
Floyd | effect samples. This gives links to thousands of AU, AIFF and (mostly)
Floyd | WAV samples (I found 106 elephant sounds, for instance), though you
Floyd | need to check the copyright status before using anything.
Floyd |
Floyd | You'll probably also need an editor for trimming and changing the
Floyd | volume of sound samples. One good one is Audacity, a freeware open
Floyd | source editor for Windows, Linux and the Mac (from
Floyd | [LINK]). This can convert samples between a
Floyd | range of formats (including to AIFF) with different sample rate and
Floyd | quality settings. Other utilies (such as the PC shareware Easy CD-DA
Floyd | Extractor from [LINK]) may also be of help for file
Floyd | conversion to AIFF. 8-bit mono at 11 or 16KHz seems to be about the
Floyd | best compromise between file length and quality for basic game sound
Floyd | effects.
Floyd |
Floyd | For pictures, the freeware open source GIMP graphics editor (from
Floyd | [LINK]) is capable and comprehensive, with facilities to
Floyd | rival Photoshop. It's available for Windows, Linux and the Mac, and,
Floyd | once you get the hang of it, is useful for both image creation and
Floyd | manipulation.
Floyd |
Floyd | Like its parent game, this demo has a built-in picture map on screen
Floyd | which shows the places visited (type 'map'). Sound effects can be
Floyd | turned off or on by 'sound off/on'. It's also possible to see briefly
Floyd | inside the dark cave by striking a match, and 'listen' will replay the
Floyd | sound heard by the lake. The demo has no set game ending (in case
Floyd | anyone tries to find one!).
Floyd |
Floyd | William Stott, June 2004
Floyd |
Floyd | (Type LOOK or L to see where you are in the game)
Floyd |
DavidW says, "We had to fill a birdbath for the candle before. And the coin was in the inn."
DavidW asks, "So this is more of a demo than a full game?"
wordsmith says, "It sounds that way to me."
DavidW asks, "Shall we continue anyway?"
DavidW says, "It might be shorter than we expect."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take all"
Floyd | You need to say which objects you want to take.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take stub"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
Knight_Otu asks, "I mean, why not?"
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take coin"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x coin"
Floyd | The coin is very old and made of silver. On one side you see the
Floyd | portrait of an ancient king, on the other there is a picture of a
Floyd | galloping horse. It looks quite valuable.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "light candle"
Floyd | OK... you light the candle using the matches...
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd |
Floyd | Damp Tunnel
Floyd | The cave floor is moist from condensation, and your flickering candle
Floyd | casts pools of pallid light which sway and dance through the shadows.
Floyd | The cave exit is to the west.
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a mouldy old boot here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take boot"
Floyd | Taken.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x it"
Floyd | You see an old, mouldy boot.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look it in"
Floyd | You can't see "it" (the mouldy old boot) at the moment.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look in boot"
Floyd | You find nothing of interest.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "empty boot"
Floyd | The mouldy old boot can't contain things.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear boot"
Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "shake boot"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "i"
Floyd | You are carrying:
Floyd |   a mouldy old boot
Floyd |   an ancient silver coin
Floyd |   a small, burning candle stub (providing light)
Floyd |   a box of matches
Floyd |   a large iron key
Floyd |   a brown hessian sack
Floyd |     a reed flute
Floyd |
Knight_Otu asks, "The boot held ... what was it?"
DavidW says, "hm. I don't remember now. Something."
Knight_Otu says, "But apparently not in this game, whatever it was."
DavidW says, "I don't see any exits but the way we entered."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "x shadows"
Floyd | You can't see any such thing.
Floyd |
Knight_Otu says, "Hm."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Damp Tunnel
Floyd | The cave floor is moist from condensation, and your flickering candle
Floyd | casts pools of pallid light which sway and dance through the shadows.
Floyd | The cave exit is to the west.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "dig"
Floyd | What do you want to dig?
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "floor"
Floyd | Digging would achieve nothing here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "e"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x floor"
Floyd | You see nothing unexpected in that direction.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Cave Entrance
Floyd | The opening to a deep cave leads eastwards into darkness, and the path
Floyd | winds west into the forest.
Floyd | You can go west (to the forest) or east (into the dark cave).
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd |
Floyd | Tree Stump
Floyd | The twisting path leads east deeper into the forest and continues
Floyd | north, winding into the trees. There is an old tree-stump next to the
Floyd | path where once a great oak tree must have stood. It seems to be hollow
Floyd | in the centre.
Floyd | You can go north (along a path to a lake) or east (further into the
Floyd | forest).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a hollow tree stump (which is empty) here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "s"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "w"
Floyd | You can't go that way.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "n"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lake in the Forest
Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of
Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees
Floyd | towards the south.
Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see some long reeds here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "swim"
Floyd | There's not enough water to swim in.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "take reeds"
Floyd | They're fixed in place.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "x lake"
Floyd |
Floyd | You see a mass of reeds that sway gently in the shallow water.
Floyd | You see nothing special about the long reeds.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "throw boot into lake"
Floyd | Those can't contain things.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick boot"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "drop boot"
Floyd | Dropped.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "l"
Floyd |
Floyd | Lake in the Forest
Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of
Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees
Floyd | towards the south.
Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see a mouldy old boot and some long reeds here.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "kick boot"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "wear boot"
Floyd | (first taking the mouldy old boot)
Floyd | You can't wear that!
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "flip coin"
Floyd | That's not a verb I recognise.
Floyd |
DavidW says, "I didn't see any exits that we didn't try."
DavidW says (to Floyd), "map"
Floyd | (Type LOOK or L, or enter any instruction to leave the map)
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "look"
Floyd | >
Floyd | Lake in the Forest
Floyd | Dragonflies hum and hover, and you hear the occasional splash of
Floyd | feeding fish. There is a little path winding between dense trees
Floyd | towards the south.
Floyd | You can go south (further into the trees).
Floyd |
Floyd | You can see some long reeds here.
Floyd |
wordsmith says, "Yeah, I think we've seen the demo."
Knight_Otu says, "Yeah, I suspect that's it."
DavidW says, "That's disappointing."
Knight_Otu says (to Floyd), "listen"
Floyd | You hear the occasional splash of fish feeding near the surface.
Floyd |
DavidW says (to Floyd), "play flute"
Floyd | OK... squeeeak...
Floyd | (You don't know how to play it properly - perhaps you need an
Floyd | instruction booklet...)
Floyd |




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