Quest 5

I announced last month that I was handing over textadventures.co.uk and Quest. Many thanks to everybody who got in touch to volunteer to help. I was really pleased that so many people want to see these projects continue into the future. I am now happy to announce that we have a new team in place! […]

This is a follow up to Looking for a new owner for textadventures.co.uk and Quest. Thanks to all of you who have got in touch so far. A lot of people have asked about what would be involved in taking over and running textadventures.co.uk and/or Quest, so this post is to go into a bit […]

I have been developing Quest and textadventures.co.uk for a long time. It started off as a summer coding project when I was a teenager and wanted to send stupid text adventure games to a friend. Over the last couple of decades it has turned into something far bigger than I could have imagined. It has alternated […]

Squiffy 5 is now available – you can use it in your web browser, or download it for Windows, OS X and Linux. This release makes various enhancements to the Squiffy Editor. The number one request by far has been to add an option to change the font size – so that is now done! […]

Squiffy 4 is now available. This release brings the editor to Windows, OS X and Linux, so you can now create and edit games offline. Squiffy is a simple system for writing multiple-choice interactive fiction. It publishes to HTML so you can upload your game anywhere. The quickest way to see it in action is to check out […]

You can now upload games created with Inform directly to textadventures.co.uk. Previously, you could upload an HTML game created using Inform’s “Release along with an interpreter” option, but now it’s even easier – you can now upload a .z5, .z8, .ulx, .zblorb or .gblorb file directly. Just head to the “Submit a Game” link and submit […]

The third release of Squiffy is now available. The big new feature in this version is you no longer have to download anything! Previously, the only way to use Squiffy was by creating a file in a text editor and compiling it from the command line. You can still do that, but you can now just […]

I’ve wished we had a Stack Exchange site for Interactive Fiction for years now – that is, a site where questions and answers can be voted on and edited by the IF community (like Stack Overflow). There was a proposal on Area 51 back in 2011, and another one in 2014. Both got quietly deleted after […]

A year ago, I released my first work of interactive fiction “Moquette” into the IFComp. Today, I’m releasing the source code for it: https://github.com/alexwarren/moquette It might be useful if you’re interested in implementing similar text effects in your own Quest game – if so, this blog post may also help. Or who knows, maybe you’d like […]

Squiffy 2.0 is now available. Just like Apple’s “Snow Leopard” release of OS X a few years ago, this release of Squiffy boasts an amazing 0 new features. Why no new features? Because Squiffy releases should only do one thing at a time, and this release is all about rewriting the compiler to use Node.js instead of […]