I'm working on Quest 5, Squiffy and textadventures.co.uk again

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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.

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I would be interested in a new ver of squiffy

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Great news! Welcome back! I drifted out of the community, but still got fond memories of it.

Edit: that said, moving the forum to GitHub is going to exclude a lot of people. Are you sure?

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Who does it exclude?

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A lot of people can’t or won’t make a GitHub account for a variety of reasons. I stopped going there too.

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People who are just plain anti-Microsoft. I should know, I used to be one of them.

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I kind of see a Github account as a necessary annoyance, like Discord and all those kinds of platforms.

Alex, It’s good to see you’re back working on Quest! I always liked that system a lot.

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Yes, Sirrrrr! You are a sight for sore eyes. I’ve been away mostly from the IF scene and only recently just delved back in, but had Quest for several years. Will say I prefer the ease and look of the old website/forum, opposed to GitHub, but it is what makes it easier for the devs/moderators that counts. Glad to have you back though.