The Floppy Disk of Forbidden Creatures

An entry for Ludum Dare 55: "Summoning". Created in under 72 hours 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:
  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.)

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.