Each exit is “in” only one parent room (the “from” room), and points “to” one other room. It is helpful to think of exits as “one way”. When you click the “Create” button, actually two exits are created - one exit south from to lounge to the kitchen, and another exit north from the kitchen back to the lounge. Ensure that “Also create exit in the other direction” is selected, then click the “Create” button. To create the exit, choose “kitchen” from the drop-down list on the right. To do this, click back to the “lounge” room and go to the Exits tab. To be able to get to the kitchen from the lounge, you need to add an exit. If you play the game at this point, you’ll see the player is still trapped in the lounge, with no way out. Click the “+ Room” button at the top of the screenĪdd a room called “kitchen”, and give it a description - use your imagination!.Right-click in the tree, then choose “Add Room”.
ONLINE TEXT ADVENTURE GAME CREATIOR WINDOWS
In the Windows desktop version, there are three ways you can do this: Enter a Description in the text editor - something like “This is quite a plain lounge with an old beige carpet and peeling wallpaper.” To create a room description, click the Room tab. In this tutorial game, we want to start in a lounge, so select “room” from the tree and change its name. Quest created a room called “room”, which isn’t a very good name.
If you are using the web version, you will probably have noticed that the game started in its own tab in your browser. In the Windows version you can go back to the Editor by clicking “Stop Game” in the top left of the screen, or you can also type “quit” or hit the Escape key. We can type some standard commands such as “inventory” to see that Quest comes up with some default responses, but that’s about all we can do at the moment.
On the Windows version you can also select “Play Game” from the File menu or press the F5 key.Īs you’ll see, it’s a pretty empty game at the moment. You can test the game by clicking the “Play” button. Quest has created a room called “room” for us, and inside this room is the “player” object, so that’s where the player will begin when you run the game. The “game” element is currently selected, so that’s what we can see in the pane on the right. On the left is a tree showing you every element of the game. Click the link which appears, and you’ll see the main Editor screen. You’ll see the “New game” form.Īs you can see, the options are the same in both versions, just laid out a bit differently.Įnter a name like “Tutorial Game” and click the “Create” button. You can change where it puts the file by clicking the “Browse” button - it is recommended that you put your game file in its own folder.Ĭlick OK and you’ll see the main Editor screen: Web version Quest will create a folder and a game file for you. To create a new game, open Quest and click the File menu, then Create New Game.Īlternatively, you can switch to the Create tab and click the “Create a new game” button.Įnsure that “Text adventure” is selected, and choose a language from the list - this tutorial will focus on creating a game in English, but the editor itself will look mostly the same whichever language you pick here.Įnter a name like “Tutorial Game”. Creating a blank game Windows desktop version If you want to create a gamebook instead, see Creating a gamebook. This tutorial guides you through creating your first text adventure game. Any differences in the two versions will be mentioned as we go along. This tutorial is applicable to both the Windows desktop version of Quest, and the web version.
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