Quest
What is Quest?
Quest lets you make interactive story games – you can make text adventure games (like Zork, or The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) and gamebooks (like the Choose Your Own Adventure books). Your game can be played anywhere – in a web browser, downloaded to a PC, or even turned into an iPhone or Android app.
Free to download, or free to use via your web browser. Quest is free open source software.
No programming knowledge is required. Everything about your game is displayed in plain English, and a full tutorial is included. If you’ve ever wanted to create your own game, but have been put off by complicated programming languages, Quest is a great way to get started.
Quest is a powerful game platform. It’s designed to be easy to learn, but it has huge power if you need it. You can even create your own user interface with HTML and Javascript, to completely customise the look and feel of your game. You can create and share libraries of advanced functionality. Quest is free open source software, licenced under Ms-PL (similar to MIT), which means you can download and modify the Quest source code, and even use it in closed source commercial applications.
Add pictures to your game, music and sound effects – even video from YouTube or Vimeo.
Create games in English, French, German, Spanish or Dutch – or create your own translation.
Share your game with friends, and the world, by uploading it to this website. It’s the number one destination for text adventure games on the web, serving hundreds of games every day. There’s no need for players to download any software – games can be played in any web browser.
After you’ve created your game, it can be converted into an app for iPhone or Android. Find out more…
Who made this?
My name is Alex Warren and I am the creator of Quest. If you would like to help developing Quest, please see the Quest CodePlex site.
If you like Quest, please consider making a donation.
To keep up to date:
- Join the mailing list for release announcements
- Follow @TextAdv on Twitter for Quest announcements and game releases
- Follow @alexwarren on Twitter for Quest announcements and other thoughts
Need some help?
- Read the Quest 5 Documentation wiki
- Post questions or problems on the forum
- Post suggestions at Uservoice
- Add bugs to the Issue Tracker
- Email me at alex@axeuk.com