Quest is a powerful tool that allows you to create your own text adventure games, without having programming experience.

Make text adventures, role-playing games, training materials, simulations, interactive fiction and more. With its easy-to-use visual editor, absolutely no programming is required - everything about your game is displayed in plain English.

A full tutorial is included so you can get started quickly. You're not limited to text - your games can come alive with pictures, sound effects and music. With Quest Packager (part of Quest Pro), you can create a stand-alone EXE file for your game, so your users can install your game with no additional downloads required.

In your Quest games, you can create rooms, objects, characters, containers, and surfaces. Pick up and drop objects, use objects on other objects, and give objects to characters.
 
Easily add commands, so players can do what you want them to do. Use scripts to make absolutely anything happen in your game. Move the player, move and hide objects. Display menus, use subroutines, functions, loops, conditional statements and more.

Change object properties during the game, create and clone objects, use variables, flags, timers and external libraries. Quest supports random number generation, string handling functions, arrays and inheritance of object properties - and all of these advanced functions are available from a plain-English interface.

You have full control over text formatting, fonts and colours, and you can display pictures in BMP, GIF or JPEG formats. You can play music and sounds - MP3, WAV, MIDI and MOD.

The Quest Compiler encrypts your game so others can't edit it or cheat, and all included graphics and sounds can be put into one file.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

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 folder, and enable or disable the Sandpit and Adult categories. Also, the Adult category option can be “locked out” with a registry setting (see “Configuring Quest” on the wiki for details) – handy if you’re rolling out Quest on a school network for example.

Simple Mode:
· Hides Quest’s more advanced functionality in the Editor – great for beginners, or for using Quest with younger children. The Editor becomes stripped right down to the basics – only rooms and objects are displayed in the tree, without the distracting “clutter” of functions, walkthroughs and so on. The Script Editor is cut down so only the most important script commands are displayed when adding a command. But full power is only ever a click away – you can toggle Simple Mode on or off at any time from the Tools menu.

· Walkthro...