Need more information about gamebook mode

hoper

21 Mar 2013, 13:41

Hi everybody.

I'm a (really) new user of quest (5.4).
I don't have any experience of text advendure, but I already wrote some "real" (paper) gamebook (in french).
Don't know why, but there is a strong french comunity for gamebook

Anyway, I'm trying now to find the bests tools for writing electronic gamebook, and eventually ended here.
It's seems quest could become a really good tool for that, but It may miss some features.

Here are my thought for now :

I did'nt found a "random" fonction, so I can't simulate dice roll.
(I found the "RandomChance" option... Good, but not enought).
In gamebook mode, there is no character sheet (inventory, life point...) Why ?
Most gamebook use a character sheet, with lot's of values (gold, food and so on)

We also really should be abble to export the game made to plain html/javascript.
I know there is a web site for this, but people who want to use it need to register

Also, for simplest gamebook, an export to pdf, or even better odt, would be just great.

I also wonder if somebody already try to run Quest on linux box (using wine/mono and so on) ?
I will soon, and will be really disapointed if it's not working :p

Sorry if my english is not really good, and thank you Alex for puting Quest in open source.
(I would not have even bother to try it if it was not).
I must say that Quest seems REALLY easy to use (just made a few page and script actually)
So I really hope it will become better and better, especially for what I'm interested in, gamebooks.
(I promise to make a donnation if I use it !)

jaynabonne

21 Mar 2013, 13:44

It sounds like you don't want Gamebook mode. You can easily simulate Gamebook mode in the standard adventure mode. (Ask for more details if you want. Basically, you turn off the input line and put command links in your output text.)

As far as getting a random number, there is GetRandomInt.