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I might also suggest extending Cloak of Darkness rather than entirely replacing it. The IF scene is a nostalgic bunch, so "Cloak of Darkness: Advanced" may have more appeal than a wholly new game.

The pass-phrase idea works well with dialog, but for the game to be generic, what will it do when there is no parser input? Having the pass-phrase as a choice make it too easy.

This poor, extended Cloak of Darkness example is now stuffed with extra
things that in no way provide an interesting gaming experience, but do
provide demonstrations of several aspects of the ZILF libary (the world
model and special routines in parser.zil).

Intended for testing the ZILF library, it will serve as a demo of
ZILF features/coding and eventually be replaced with a better
demo.

SAVE, RESTORE, RESTART, AGAIN, WAIT and UNDO should all function as expected.

If you find any bugs, please report them at the SourceForge tracker for ZILF:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=13 ... unc=browse


THINGS TO DO IN THE ZILF VERSION OF CLOAK OF DARKNESS:

THE FOYER
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- Examining the cube should cause 10 game turns to pass
- Examining the painting or card should randomly display a different description each time, not
repeating until all possible descriptions have been shown once (6 for the painting, 3 for the
card)
- Reading the painting should pick from three different signature possibilities to display, in
a 'totally' random fashion - ie, it doesn't guarantee all other possibilities have been shown
before repeating a particular possibility
- Eating the apple should kill you, taking you to a "quit, restore, undo or restart?" query

IQUEUE event tests:
- A "You looked at grime 1 turn ago" message event should fire 1 turn after any EXAMINE GRIME
action
- A "You looked at apple..." message should fire 2 turns after any
EXAMINE APPLE action
- The Foyer room's own routine should report if the above apple event is going fire (saying
"The Foyer routine detects..." - a test of the RUNNING? (as in, is this event running?) routine
- Examining the table should cause an event to fire every turn, until you examine the HOOK in the
Cloakroom, which should dequeue it. Note 'every turn' events do not fire during meta-actions
like INVENTORY.

CLOAKROOM
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- You should have to remove the Cloak before traveling west to Hallway to Study

HALLWAY TO STUDY
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- Event describing spider should interrupt a wait cycle, ie full 4 turns won't go by
(test by toggling turn # display with DTURN). Example of RTRUE at end of IQUEUE event.
- Examining the SIGN should reveal both its description and its text, reading it should
only reveal its text.

STUDY
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- The random event descriptions here (of mouse and scratching sound) should *not* interrupt a wait cycle.
(There are examples of using RFALSE at end of IQUEUE event)
- Has many containers and surfaces to test PUT IN and PUT ON with: jar is an always open container,
wallet is a takeable container with very limited capacity which can be opened and closed, safe is
a non-takeable container that can be opened and closed. Tray and stand are surfaces. Crate is
an always-closed container. The case is a transparent unopenable container holding a muffin that
can be seen but not taken.
- You can use DCONT command to toggle on and off descriptions of objects' sizes and capacities
that will display when a PUT IN action is run
- You can SWITCH/TURN ON and SWITCH/TURN OFF and FLIP the LIGHTSWITCH to control whether the
Closet is lit or not. The flashlight is a device that you can SWITCH/TURN ON and SWITCH/TURN OFF,
provides light when on. The sphere is a transparent unopenable container that holds a firefly
which provides light.
- You should have to hold the book to be able to read it.

Note: TURN OFF FLASHLIGHT works, but TURN FLASHLIGHT OFF doesn't. The syntax VERB OBJ PREPOSITION
is not supported yet - Jesse may make changes to the ZILF parser in the future to implement
this syntax.

GENERAL
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IT should refer to the last direct object you used in a command
HE and SHE can be used to refer to Bentley and Stella after you've
used their names in commands at least once.
THEM can be used to reference the grapes (the grapes have PLURALBIT)
The CEILING is a global object that should be refrenceable in every room
DARKNESS is an abstract (GENERIC in ZIL terms) object that you can THINK ABOUT.
The RUG is a GLOBAL-LOCAL (scenery in multiple rooms) object that is in both the Foyer and the Bar.

Hi. Thanks for posting this. Do you have a link to a working example of this. It might make a good model.