The House on Highfield Lane - ThePix/QuestJS GitHub Wiki

This is a game currently being written in Quest 6 that will hopefully get entered in IfComp 2021 (which means no one except beta-tester can play it before October 2021).

This section of the QuestJS wiki gives help to anyone playing the game, but also gives some details on how the game was implemented. This means it does contain spoilers (this page is spoiler free, linked pages are not).

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This is a game I started in 2012-13 in Quest 5, and was inspired by a discussion on RPG.net. I developed it off and on for some fives years, before abandoning, in part because it was getting too complicated.

In April 2021, I ported it to Quest 6. There is no easy route to do that, though standard text attributes can be readily transferred. However, it helped that I had already coded Quest 6 to be able to support many of these features, so, for example, it was trivial to change it to third person. I also trimmed out some bits that seemed unneeded. Coincidentally, I do now have a sixteen year old daughter, but this is certainly not based on her. The teachers mentioned are all teachers I had at school.

The walk-thorough is in the form of a series of hidden clues. You can visit the page, select the bit you are interested in, and just see the clues for that, with increasingly helpful clues in each bit.