InkQuest: Text Game Engine Demo

What is InkQuest? InkQuest is a program for making text games — the kind you play by reading a description ofwhere you are and deciding what to do next. Think of a book where the reader chooses what happens. You build the game like this: you draw a map of rooms, you write what the player sees in each one,and you set the rules by choosing from menus. Then you press one button and you have a finishedgame you can share with anyone.

You do not write any code. Not one line. How it works, in three stepsDraw the world. Double-click to add a room, drag a line to connect it to the next one. Fill the rooms with things, people and doors. Set the rules. Every rule is one sentence you build from dropdown menus: WHEN the player enters the vault, IF they carry the lamp, THEN show this text. That is the whole programming language. Press play. Your game runs in the same window you are editing in, so you can try an idea and see it working seconds later.

Typing or clicking — your choiceClassic text games ask the player to type (take the lamp, go north). Newer ones showa list of choices to click. InkQuest does both, and it is one setting — the same project workseither way, so you never have to rebuild your game to change your mind.…