Quest Giver

Devlog

• Quest Giver Postmortem
  January 14, 2024 by Darzington

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  What a wild ride leading up to launch and everything that's come after! 📜We had a great time making Quest Giver , and the project is now entering the maintenance phase (small polish updates and bug... Continue reading

  
• Quest Giver 1.0 OUT NOW!
  December 01, 2023 by Darzington

  After 14 great months, it's release day! 📜 We can't wait to hear what people think, let us know which scenario is your favourite 😍 🪲 Going forward we intend to fix bugs as they are found, but... Continue reading

  
• T - 4 days!
  November 27, 2023 by Darzington

  Version 1.0 launches on Steam on Friday this week, and we can't wait! Our work has been focused solely on polish, making sure scenarios are decently balanced, tidying up the art/music/writing, and try... Continue reading

  
• Polish polish polish!
  November 19, 2023 by Darzington

  Since the 1.0 release is less than 2 weeks away, we're entirely focused on polish at the moment! This means we're: 📜Brushing up the flavor text and translations 🎶Tweaking the music to change bas... Continue reading

  
• Cloud Saves!
  November 06, 2023 by Darzington

  Progress this week included: ☁️Set up the Steam cloud saves, available cross-platform! 🛡️ Added a screen at the end of the scenario for victory or defeat ⌨️ Put in a CONTROLS screen to vi... Continue reading

  
• Steam & Scenarios
  October 29, 2023 by Darzington

  Since we're releasing on Steam December 1st, our current focus is making sure all the content we want is in, and that we're making the most of Steam's features. So, last week we did the following... Continue reading
• Version 0.4: All Main Scenarios Done!
  October 22, 2023 by Darzington

  With the Steam release date of December 1st (2023), we've been pushing to get all the game scenarios done as quick as we can so that we can focus on polish before we release. On that note, all the mai... Continue reading

  
• Steam page is up!
  October 13, 2023 by Darzington

  Our Steam page is up, go ahead and wishlist Quest Giver ! Along with that comes our fabulous trailer Releasing Dec 1st, 2023. We can't wait! -D&Z (On a side note: the demo will be unavailable here unt... Continue reading

  
• End game stats! New music! More flavor text!
  October 09, 2023 by Darzington

  New this week is a stats summary at the end of each scenario: (the quests went pretty terribly towards the end...) 🎺Also, new music in the main menu and The World Needs a Hero scenario 📜 Plus fl... Continue reading

  
• New music, and stamps!
  September 29, 2023 by Darzington

  This week's goodies! 🎶 Improved menu & tutorial music (now with fade in/out!) 💌 Get collectible stamps when you find secrets or particular scenario endings 🎺 More fanfare when you unlock the... Continue reading

  
• Dynamic map!
  September 21, 2023 by Darzington

  Some little changes this week: 🗺️ The map now updates as you find different scenario endings, a treat for the perceptive player: 🪟 And last but not least, by popular demand F11 now toggles win... Continue reading

  
• New hero classes!
  September 17, 2023 by Darzington

  We've been doing playtesting with friends recently so there's plenty of bugfixes and balancing changes this week, plus a big writing polish pass on all demo content. 😏Keep an eye out for the new he... Continue reading

  
• New map! Responsive dialogue!
  September 10, 2023 by Darzington

  So many fun changes this update! The main things are the brand new scenario map screen, and responsive dialogue: Some other excellent changes include: ⏩ Press START/ENTER to skip dialogue (great whe... Continue reading

  
• Version 0.3: The Quest Overhaul!
  August 28, 2023 by Darzington

  We've reached version 0.3 : The Quest Overhaul ! This has included: ⚔️ Better quest variety and clarifying their difficulty 🧑 🤝 🧑 Multi-hero quests 🛡️ Heroes change class when they l... Continue reading

  
• Upcoming Playtesting of the full build!
  August 22, 2023 by Darzington

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  For the past few weeks we've been pushing to make a build of the full game for playtesting: this means 4 playable scenarios , fancier graphics, and fewer bugs. 💪 All these changes (except access to... Continue reading

  
• Writing Spree!
  August 04, 2023 by Darzington

  This week we had a major focus on writing for Quest Giver , and we've finished all the main scenarios! ✍️ The free demo will continue to feature only the first two scenarios, but we've now written... Continue reading

  
• Behind the Scenes
  July 26, 2023 by Darzington

  No demo update this week, since we're busybusy making the next 2 playable scenarios. This means new character art, script writing, and much coding. It's a lot of fun! 💌 We've also been setting up s... Continue reading

  
• Fancy Animations!
  July 21, 2023 by Darzington

  Lots of nice updates this week! 📂 Our biggest focus has been adding animations and general smoothness to the dialogue and transitions ⬇️ Heroes now get demoted to a lower class when they lose l... Continue reading

  
• Quest Quality!
  July 16, 2023 by Darzington

  Some small updates this week: 🐉 Did some polish work on the first scenario (better quest descriptions, unique heroes, fewer typos, etc.) ⚔️ The quests posted to the board each day are a bit mor... Continue reading

  
• Fun art, and scenario prep!
  July 07, 2023 by Darzington

  This week's update brings you some fun art changes and prep for more scenarios: ⁉️ A new look for confirmation menus 💀 Unique quest results for special quests 💬 And behind the scenes, dialog... Continue reading

  
• Holiday!
  July 02, 2023 by Darzington

  No update this week, since we're enjoying the long weekend! D&Z... Continue reading
• Multi-hero quests!
  June 23, 2023 by Darzington

  Our main focus this week has been setting up multi-hero quests, to be used for big important quests (like the final quest of a scenario) This update, coming to the demo next week, also adds the "shred... Continue reading

  
• The Plan!
  June 17, 2023 by Darzington

  No update this week, since our current focus is on content (more scenarios) for the Steam release! That means this demo will mainly be receiving small updates to UI and polish, and not necessarily eve... Continue reading

  
• Classy Heroes!
  June 09, 2023 by Darzington

  The big focus this week was on hero classes: Each unique hero will now follow a specific class path, which can be thematic with their name and appearance. With this and last week’s portrait update... Continue reading

  
• New heroes!
  June 03, 2023 by Darzington

  🖼️ As promised, the hero portraits have been freshened up and now feature different races, heights, builds, etc! Each hero now looks unique and memorable. Their appearances are also more aligned... Continue reading

  
• No update this week
  May 26, 2023 by Darzington

  🏠No update this week, since we've been very busy with moving to a new apartment! 🖼️We'll be back in the full swing of things next week though, look forward to some changes to the hero portrait... Continue reading
• Some Fresh Dialogue
  May 18, 2023 by Darzington

  This week we added some nice new dialogue: 💬 More goofy lines for the bald guy ⚔️ Different death messages depending on which hero class kills you And that's it for this week, we're taking it a... Continue reading

  
• Content Update!
  May 12, 2023 by Darzington

  After last week’s break, we’ve got all kinds of goodies for you! 🧙 Heroes now change class as they level up ⚔️ Added a greater variety of quests, with difficulty descriptions 📜 A redesig... Continue reading

  
• No update this week
  May 05, 2023 by Darzington

  We're busy bees working on home renovations, and so should be back with some fun changes next week :) In exciting news though, we've incorporated our game dev company! Check out darzalgames.com ;) Han... Continue reading
• End of day fun!
  April 29, 2023 by Darzington

  A bit of a quieter week, our main focus was on making the end of day results screens more interesting: Aside from that, there’s been big behind the scenes work to improve our controller support in o... Continue reading

  
• Back in action!
  April 21, 2023 by Darzington

  After a big push for the v0.1 update, we decided to spend a bit of time on writing, art, and polish: 💦 Added a splash screen 🎚️ Put in a music volume slider in the options, by popular request... Continue reading

  
• v0.2: The Scenario Update!
  April 11, 2023 by Darzington

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  We’ve been hard at work since the v0.1 update to make Quest Giver feel like more of a real game (as opposed to a jam submission), so now v0.2 brings you: 📚 A full tutorial and 2 playable scenario... Continue reading

  
• Tutorial time!
  March 31, 2023 by Darzington

  Big changes this week: 📚 There’s a tutorial now! Players should find it brief and informative ⏯️ We added an options/pause menu, so you can quit mid-scenario 👍 And for fun, the heroes now... Continue reading

  
• Level up!
  March 24, 2023 by Darzington

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  Some tidy changes for this week: 🔝 Hero XP and leveling has been rebalanced and randomized a bit 🎺 Music was added to the main game 🪦 Quests will expire after a short time now, if ignored Nex... Continue reading

  
• Second Playable Scenario!
  March 18, 2023 by Darzington

  That’s right, we now have twice as much Quest Giver to give, from the comfort of your home. Try out The Cult scenario and discover some deadly new characters and endings. Added to the feature list t... Continue reading

  
• WIP
  March 11, 2023 by Darzington

  Hello! No update this week, since we're working hard on something spicy for next week 🌶️ Remember: Just because you can have coffee for breakfast or pizza for breakfast, doesn't mean you should h... Continue reading
• Wiiiiide UI
  March 03, 2023 by Darzington

  The biggest change you’ll notice this week is the wiiiiiiiiiiiide UI! This room to breathe is welcome compared with the cramped gameboy resolution. Also, we’ve added a darker background when a par... Continue reading

  
• Randomized Heroes!
  February 24, 2023 by Darzington

  🙆 This week's update brings you randomized heroes! Heroes will now get random names, classes, and appearances, so go check them out. This was a feature we had prototyped in the jam version, and whi... Continue reading

  
• Scenario Editor, ahoy!
  February 17, 2023 by Darzington

  It's been a nice week of work on Quest Giver ! 🐉Behind the scenes, we've been hard at work at making a scenario editor since the goal is to have more than just the dragon adventure! If all goes wel... Continue reading

  
• Here there be dragons!
  February 10, 2023 by Darzington

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  It’s been quite a special week: 📝With Darz’s computer out for most of the week (fixed now thankfully), her main focus was art and writing. A whole new playable scenario has been written out on... Continue reading

  
• Mighty Main Menu
  February 03, 2023 by Darzington

  Some nice changes this week: 🪟 Resizable game windows are in! Play in whatever resolution you want, go wild. (Desktop builds only for now) 🔪 We fixed a funny bug where hero could come back from... Continue reading

  
• Will it Stack?
  January 27, 2023 by Darzington

  No playable Quest Giver update at the moment, so we'll share what we’ve both been working on this week: 📜 Darz is writing a big UI code refactor to use a Stack in order to determine where mouse a... Continue reading

  
• Quest Giver 0.1.0!
  January 20, 2023 by Darzington

  Isn’t this a jam project from 3 years ago? Yes. Is it in active development now? Yes , YES! For the past couple of months we’ve been working hard on refactoring the jam code for Quest Giver to mak... Continue reading