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Quest 4.0 - create your own text adventures
AlexW
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Quest 4.0 is now available from http://www.axeuk.com/quest.
Quest lets you create interactive fiction without having to program. Everything about your game is displayed in plain English, and a full tutorial is included so you can get started quickly.
Your games can come alive with pictures, sounds and music, and you can create both single-player and online multi-player games.
Although Quest is easy to use, it also allows you to create games which are as complex as you want. Scripts can make absolutely anything happen in your game, and the powerful debugging features mean you can keep track of what is happening internally.
QDK, the visual Quest editor, features a completely redesigned interface - it's now easier and faster to edit your games, and the editing is handled within one main screen, so you'll see less pop-up windows. Much of the internal code has been rewritten too, making QDK much more robust and reliable.
New features in Quest:
- containers
- verbs make it easier to set up custom commands
- you can now embed pictures, sounds etc. within your game file (using Quest Compiler)
- you can use more complex mathematical expressions within statements
- numeric variables are no longer forced to be integers, so you can use decimals and much larger numbers
- new Object Debugger gives you more power when debugging your game - when you're developing your game, you can change object properties and "jump" around it while it is in progress
- "select case" (switch) support
- MP3 support
- pictures are now displayed within the main text window
To find out more, to order Quest Pro or to download a trial version, please go to http://www.axeuk.com/quest
Alex
Quest lets you create interactive fiction without having to program. Everything about your game is displayed in plain English, and a full tutorial is included so you can get started quickly.
Your games can come alive with pictures, sounds and music, and you can create both single-player and online multi-player games.
Although Quest is easy to use, it also allows you to create games which are as complex as you want. Scripts can make absolutely anything happen in your game, and the powerful debugging features mean you can keep track of what is happening internally.
QDK, the visual Quest editor, features a completely redesigned interface - it's now easier and faster to edit your games, and the editing is handled within one main screen, so you'll see less pop-up windows. Much of the internal code has been rewritten too, making QDK much more robust and reliable.
New features in Quest:
- containers
- verbs make it easier to set up custom commands
- you can now embed pictures, sounds etc. within your game file (using Quest Compiler)
- you can use more complex mathematical expressions within statements
- numeric variables are no longer forced to be integers, so you can use decimals and much larger numbers
- new Object Debugger gives you more power when debugging your game - when you're developing your game, you can change object properties and "jump" around it while it is in progress
- "select case" (switch) support
- MP3 support
- pictures are now displayed within the main text window
To find out more, to order Quest Pro or to download a trial version, please go to http://www.axeuk.com/quest
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If it's pretty seamless, it might be fun.
Fully free and absolutely goddamn amazing. No coding required, though you will want to read the help documents.
Seconded. If anyone wants to get into text adventure design, they owe it to themselves to at least give Inform a look: it's the benchmark standard, for a darn good reason.
He joined today... and the first post reads like a big ad.
Edit: And from the site.. "Software by Alex Warren".
Wouldn't this at least be considered site whoring?
XBL: UnderHero5
Steam/PSN: UnderHero5
EDIT: Not the one I was thinking of, but... http://users.abac.com/MeriBird/TADS/Tutorial/
Are you intrigued? (Y/N)
Y!
-Louis C.K.
Parapets.
But who cares. It looks like it might be cool and maybe he'll never post here anymore. I could lock this thread and then maybe we'd never talk about something cool ever again.
Instead, I'll just say this: AlexW, making posts or threads to pimp your own stuff is called "sitewhoring" and it's explicitly against the rules here. If you'd like to keep posting at the PA forums (and I hope you do) please read the rules thread thoroughly so you can avoid any other unwitting errors.
He explains that you need to ask permission by the administrators of this forum to whore out your own software here.
He also mentions that there is a rules thread at the top of this forum?
Want some rye? 'Course ya do!
edit: Oh fine I'll leave it unlocked but I'm not going to encourage letting people do this for paid software with trials.
So which should we go with?
EDIT: I have to go eat dinner with my mom so I'll leave it to you.
My first instinct was to lock it because it's paid software. We don't even let people do this for free stuff, even though I usually let that slide if it's cool enough. This isn't free, he's just trying to get people to buy it.
But if everyone wants to talk about it, it's cool.