Rebooting textadventures, Quest and Squiffy

[alexwarren]

I am back.

I am Alex Warren, the original creator of the textadventures.co.uk site, and the Quest 5 and Squiffy text adventure systems.

I handed over all of these in 2017, and I am very grateful to Luis and Andy for keeping things running for the last few years.

Recently I noticed that a few things around the site had stopped working, so I quietly dropped in to fix a few issues with Squiffy.

Well, things kind of escalated from there, and it turned out now was a good time to transfer ownership of things again. So I’m happy to announce that I am back in charge of textadventures.co.uk, Quest 5 and Squiffy once more.

There’s a whole bunch of things I want to do to revive and modernise things, and I’ve made a good start on each of them…

• rebuilding (and maybe rebranding) the textadventures.co.uk site.
• a major new version of “Quest 5”, using Blazor and WASM to make things work super fast, in browsers and across platforms. This will need a new name (as there’s already a Quest 6), so I am referring to this new version as “Quest Viva”.
• a major new version Squiffy, built with TypeScript and with the editor implemented as a PWA.

Work is well underway on all of these, and I’ll announce more details as they come closer to fruition.

In the meantime, I have opened up GitHub discussions for textadventures, Quest and Squiffy, and there’s a new official Discord Server you can join. Hope to see you there!

[Xlithan]

Welcome back Alex. Not sure anybody else is still around from Quest 3 era (Remember CyPet?), but I check in every now and then.

Any plans to make QuestNET again?

[alexwarren]

That's a proper blast from the past! I've got no current plans to make another multi-player version of Quest, but only because "current plans" is already quite a big list of projects to fill my spare time with. Who knows, maybe one day...

[Xlithan]

That's just a short URL thing, there's no tools.

[alexwarren]

Spam reported, for some reason I can't edit or delete, sigh.