Compare my new engine to others via ports

[TomTAP (Tom)]

Other than Cloak of Darkness, are there other port-comparison IFs I can use for testing? Looking to increase complexity and comprehensive ability, a little at a time (baby steps)

[zarf (Andrew Plotkin)]

After Cloak of Darkness, the next most widely ported game is Colossal Cave. But that’s not a baby step!

You could start at the beginning and see how far you get.

[StJohnLimbo]

Ryan Veeder’s “Craverly Heights” was ported several times and is relatively small: Craverly Heights

[8bitAG (Strident)]

Creating a more expanded equivalent of something like Cloak of Darkness is something that does come up for discussion on here every so often. The last time was here, I think…

Cloak of Darkness, Ring of Darkness

Point one is that Roger’s Cloak of Darkness page is not available. It was, when I started, last calendar year. It isn’t. Anyway! I have a new idea. Ring of Darkness. Ring of Darkness presumes you have an IF authoring language and library that can produce Cloak of Darkness. Your scenario is that of four locations. You may try to go to the fourth, but you cannot, until you do x, y, and z. You win? → The Ring of Darkness IF terms, in a simple scenario, you are in a cave, and there is a bear in th…

There are some very old 1970s/80s games (much smaller and more manageable than Colossal Caves) that have been ported so many times that they’re almost in the Cloak of Darkness realms but, of course, they’re mostly not “open source” like CoD.