The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures

This began as an entry for Ludum Dare 55: "Summoning", by Cole Cecil. The initial version (v1.0.0) was created in under 72 hours.

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 for Running the Game

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:
  1. Open a terminal using either the "Command Prompt" app or "PowerShell" app.
  2. 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 C:\games\summon, the command would be cd C:\games\summon.
  3. To run the game, type .\summon.exe and press enter.
• macOS and Linux:
  1. Open a terminal using the "Terminal" app.
  2. 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 be cd /home/summon.
  3. To run the game, type ./summon and press enter. (If you get a permission error, make sure the summon file has executable permissions. You can add this by running the command chmod +x summon.)

Instructions for Building the Game

Prerequisites

• Go v1.22
• Make

Building the Game

To build the game for all supported operating systems and architectures, run the following command from the project root:

make build-all

To build the game for a single operating system and architecture, run the following command from the project root, where <osName> is one of windows, darwin or linux, and <architectureName> is one of amd64 or arm64:

make build OS=<osName> ARCH=<architectureName>

Attributions

This game was written in the Go programming language.

The following libraries were used:

• Beep
• Bubble Tea
• Bubbles
• go-openai
• Lip Gloss
• x/ansi

The following audio files were used in the creation of sound effects:

• "floppy drive on old pc", by Pixabay
• "The Sound of dial-up Internet", by wtermini