The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures by Cole Cecil
What awaits you when you explore the contents of the Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures? A summoning, to be sure, but what will you summon? And what consequences will it bring?
(Disclaimer: This game connects to the internet to enhance the gameplay experience. While no personal information is required or intentionally collected during the game, any information you enter may be transmitted over the internet and could be used as AI training data. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not enter any personal information.)
Instructions
This is a game you run and play on the command line. After downloading the zip file that matches your operating system and CPU architecture, unzip it. Then, on the command line, navigate to the unzipped directory and run the "summon" program.
Here are more specific command line instructions for each operating system:
- Windows:
- Open a terminal using either the "Command Prompt" app or "PowerShell" app.
- Copy the path to the directory the game was unzipped to. In the terminal, type
cd, then a space, then paste the path to the directory and press enter. For example, if the game was unzipped toC:\games\summon, the command would becd C:\games\summon. - To run the game, type
.\summon.exeand press enter.
- macOS and Linux:
- Open a terminal using the "Terminal" app.
- Copy the path to the directory the game was unzipped to. In the terminal, type
cd, then a space, then paste the path to the directory and press enter. For example, if the game was unzipped to/home/summon, the command would becd /home/summon. - To run the game, type
./summonand press enter. (If you get a permission error, make sure thesummonfile has executable permissions. You can add this by running the commandchmod +x summon.)
Technology Notes
This game was written in Go, using the Bubble Tea framework. It also uses the go-openai library to call the OpenAI API.
| Link | https://github.com/colececil/the-floppy-disk-of-forbidden-creatures |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/55/the-floppy-disk-of-forbidden-creatures |
Ratings
| Overall | 1090th | 3⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Fun | 1132th | 2.722⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Innovation | 478th | 3.472⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Theme | 744th | 3.472⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Humor | 622th | 2.972⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Mood | 600th | 3.528⭐ | 20🧑⚖️ |
| Given | 11🗳️ | 14🗨️ |
I spent like 15 minutes just giving random answers, I particularly loved how it reacted when I replied with the first verse of "Never gonna give you up"!
I have to say that the Readme and EULA made me very wary of running this program, so mood accomplished. I hope my laptop is not haunted by this summoning I performed.
Oh no, what horrific monster have I summoned? I had a lot of fun figuring out how to prompt jailbreak this :joy:. It's a pretty simple application of an LLM, but still very fun to play around with.