Quest 5

The web-based version of the Quest editor is now available publicly for the first time. Many thanks to all those who tested it during the closed beta – your feedback has been really useful. Please keep it coming! I’ve redesigned the Quest page, to reflect the fact that for the first time Quest is now [...]

When I was at Perins School last week, I was asked about puzzles with a time limit. For example, the player opens a cupboard, inside which is a hungry alien. How do you give the player 10 seconds to kill the alien, before the alien kills them instead? This is pretty straightforward to handle, because [...]

I had the pleasure of spending Wednesday at Perins School in Alresford, Hampshire, where the entire Year 7 (11-12 year olds) went off-timetable for the day to start creating their own text adventures with Quest. This was part of their “Transform” programme spread over five Wednesdays. In the first week, the school had a visit from a [...]

I was hoping to announce the world’s very first online text adventure maker – but, dammit! Playfic got there first, by a matter of days. So, what I am announcing today may be the world’s second-ever online text adventure maker, but it is also rather different to Playfic as you will see. The Quest WebEditor [...]

Learning Without Frontiers (LWF) is at London Olympia on Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th January, and alongside the (expensive) main conference there is a free festival, featuring a variety of sessions on digital learning. On Thursday from 10.30 – 12.00, iO are hosting a session on Game Based Learning at Salon Bourdieu (S2): This session [...]

I’ve started work on Quest 5.2, aiming for a release in the Spring. One of the first new features I’ve implemented begins to take Quest away from “pure” text adventures to open up another type of interactive storytelling – gamebooks, also known as Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA). The gamebook mode is fundamentally a simple [...]

Quest 5.1 is now available. The new version of Quest features the following improvements below (mostly copied from the beta announcement, so apologies if this is all familiar!) Enhanced Game Browser. You can now see star ratings, and read reviews and comments, directly within Quest. You also have more control – from the Options window, [...]

All games on textadventures.co.uk can now be played online via iPhone, iPad and Android browsers, and on desktop browsers the player has a fresh new look. Although the main website isn’t particularly mobile-optimised (just yet!), if you click the “Play online” link for a game and are using a mobile browser, you’ll see the new [...]

Quest 5.1 Beta is now available. This is the beta test version of the next release of Quest, which features the following improvements: Enhanced Game Browser. You can now see star ratings, and read reviews and comments, directly within Quest. You also have more control – from the Options window, you can change the download [...]

The Things That Go Bump In The Night is now available for iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad) and Android devices. In this game, written by Tim Hamilton, you are a security guard settling down to a quiet night shift, when things start to go wrong. You must make your way around the compound, solving puzzles [...]