Quest 5

I recently did a talk at AdventureX where I attempted to set out some kind of vision for the future of text adventure games as a rich interactive story medium. This was filmed, so hopefully I will be able to put up a link here soon. I’ll also rework the talk as a blog post [...]

The text adventure game Escape From Byron Bay is now on the App Store. The game is written by Allen Heard, a teacher from Wales who wrote the game as an introduction to interactive fiction for his Year 8 class. It’s the game I’ve been using when running Quest workshops - it can be completed within about [...]

You can now download Quest 5.3 Beta for Windows. This release features a number of enhancements – improvements to the look and feel of games, a few new things you can do in games, some additional script functions, and general improvements to make Quest just that little bit easier to use. And of course, quite [...]

You can now download Quest 5.3 Beta for Windows. This release features a number of enhancements – improvements to the look and feel of games, a few new things you can do in games, some additional script functions, and general improvements to make Quest just that little bit easier to use. And of course, quite [...]

I’ll be at AdventureX 2012 in London on the weekend of 15-16 December – a free event for everybody interested in adventure games and game design. The full schedule will be released at the beginning of December. I’m going to be doing a talk on the Sunday – probably a demo of Quest, and maybe some [...]

I’ll be at AdventureX 2012 in London on the weekend of 15-16 December – a free event for everybody interested in adventure games and game design. The full schedule will be released at the beginning of December. I’m going to be doing a talk on the Sunday – probably a demo of Quest, and maybe some [...]

I’ll be running several Quest workshops at GameCity 7 in Nottingham, UK on 22, 23 and 24 October. For more details and tickets please see the festival schedule. Suitable for all ages from 8 to ∞. These will be similar to the workshops I ran at Games Britannia – so no prior knowledge of text adventures [...]

I’ll be running several Quest workshops at GameCity 7 in Nottingham, UK on 22, 23 and 24 October. For more details and tickets please see the festival schedule. Suitable for all ages from 8 to ∞. These will be similar to the workshops I ran at Games Britannia – so no prior knowledge of text adventures [...]

I am the guest on episode six of Robert Pratten’s Transmedia Podcast. We had a good chat about the past, present and future of text adventure games, building interactive stories, expanding the “niche” for text based games, getting kids into game making and more. It was great fun, though I inexplicably got the name of [...]

I am the guest on episode six of Robert Pratten’s Transmedia Podcast. We had a good chat about the past, present and future of text adventure games, building interactive stories, expanding the “niche” for text based games, getting kids into game making and more. It was great fun, though I inexplicably got the name of [...]