Quest 5

The winner of QuestComp 2013, and the £100 prize money, is Heal Butcher with Worship the Pig. Congratulations! Very close runner up is Jonathan Estis with Pest. For the full results, listing all the votes for each game, see the QuestComp 2013 Winner Announcement thread on the forums. Many thanks to Evan Williams for organising […]

The winner of QuestComp 2013, and the £100 prize money, is Heal Butcher with Worship the Pig. Congratulations! Very close runner up is Jonathan Estis with Pest. For the full results, listing all the votes for each game, see the QuestComp 2013 Winner Announcement thread on the forums. Many thanks to Evan Williams for organising […]

The IFComp 2013 has been officially announced! This is the biggest text adventure competition there is – now in its 18th year. Entries can be written for any interactive fiction platform, and it usually gets some good coverage out there in the wider world. Many authors wait for the competition to release the game that […]

The entries for QuestComp 2013 are now in! They are: Worship the Pig by Heal Butcher Pest by Jonathan Estis Over to organiser, Evan Williams: Score as 1 – 10, mark any discussion threads in the forum appropriately so people aren’t led into spoilers accidentally, and I encourage you to post reviews on the game’s page. […]

The entries for QuestComp 2013 are now in! They are: Worship the Pig by Heal Butcher Pest by Jonathan Estis Over to organiser, Evan Williams: Score as 1 – 10, mark any discussion threads in the forum appropriately so people aren’t led into spoilers accidentally, and I encourage you to post reviews on the game’s page. […]

We’re now accepting a bigger range of submissions at textadventures.co.uk. What does this mean? It means that all web-based text adventure games are now accepted! Why do this? We want to make it easy for people to discover and play text adventure games without having to download any software. And for game authors, we want […]

Last Thursday I attended the Futurebook Innovation Workshop, programmed by The Literary Platform – a very interesting afternoon of presentations and workshops on what I will call “digital storytelling” (although one of the recurring themes was that nobody has yet got a clear idea of what to call this, er, stuff). Setting the scene – […]

Our latest free app is for iPad is now available – an illustrated interactive children’s book called Filbert and the Broccoli Escape, by Erik Fetler. Filbert, the world’s laziest boy, always looks for ways to get out of doing what he is supposed to do, like cleaning his room, taking out the trash, or in […]

Recently, more and more teachers are starting to use Quest and text adventure games with their classes. Some teachers have used text-based games to inspire children to read; others use it as an introduction to programming; others get their students ... [More] to create games around a set historical theme. The main textadventures.co.uk site isn’t particularly optimised […] [Less]

In April 2012 I marked a year of working on Quest full-time by conducting my own “Annual Review” (Part 1, Part 2). Well, er, 13 months have elapsed since then, which makes it the perfect time to do it all again. So, what have I been doing for the last 1.0833 years? What’s going well, [...]