Quest Viva WasmPlayer - host Quest games on any website

You can now host Quest games on any website using Quest Viva’s new WasmPlayer, which is now in Beta.

Unlike WebPlayer, with WasmPlayer games run entirely in the browser - there’s no server component to run, just static files. This means you can have a playable Quest game running on any web host.

It’s like Parchment, but for Quest.

Try it out: All Quest games on textadventures.co.uk have a “Try the new player (beta)” button, to launch the game using WasmPlayer. Eventually this will take over from WebPlayer to serve all games on the site.

Open a local file: Go to play.questviva.com/player and load any Quest game locally. Your file is not uploaded anywhere - the app runs entirely on your device.

Point it to a URL: Enter a URL on the start screen, or append a URL to https://play.questviva.com/player/?url= to play any publicly accessible Quest game. For example, https://play.questviva.com/player/?url=https://ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2014/Jacqueline,%20Jungle%20Queen!/Jacqueline,%20Jungle%20Queen!.quest plays the IFComp 2014 3rd-place entry “Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!” by Steph Cherrywell via the IF Archive (if IF Archive is available in your location).

Host it yourself: Upload WasmPlayer files to any host like Netlify or itch.io. Upload along with your game file, and set the config to point to it. See the documentation for instructions.

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Sounds interesting. Currently, “A Stranger, Unregarded” did not work with the new player on the Quest site. Also, sometimes saving took very long time with other games.

Thanks for the report - that game is fixed now. Saving should also be a little quicker, but let me know if there’s a particular game that is taking an unusually long time and I’ll take a further look into it.

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