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.