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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest 1-4|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest 1-4|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Extensions ==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quest games are all based on .aslx files, which are [[XML]]-based files described here. To distribute games, the .aslx files, as well as any accompanying media, gets packaged into a [[ZIP]] archive with the extension .quest. Saved games (see below) are apparently in the same format as .quest files<ref>https://github.com/textadventures/quest/blob/beaeade160c4c1a2912b9d0b52f9ac7a5c4b78f8/PlayerController/GameLauncher.cs</ref> and have the extension .quest-save.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Saved Games ==</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Quest 5 saved games, which have the extension .quest-save<ref>https://github.com/textadventures/quest/blob/beaeade160c4c1a2912b9d0b52f9ac7a5c4b78f8/Utility/Language/Templates.resx</ref>, are in the same format as the game files themselves, and in fact are altered versions of the original game files.<ref>https://github.com/textadventures/quest/blob/master/docs/about_save.md</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Identification ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Identification ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The first line of a .aslx file will look like <nowiki>"<!--Saved by Quest 5.5.5433.25066-->"</nowiki> (minor version numbers varying), unless it has been created by hand. In either case, the root node of the tree (the next line, if automatically generated) will look like "<asl version="580">" (for Quest 5.8.x). It is unclear whether the 5 will be incremented to 6, what will happen once the minor version exceeds 9, etc., so it is probably best to identify by the version-independent parts of these, as [[Quest 1-4|Quest versions 1-4]] use a completely different format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>The first line of a .aslx file will look like <nowiki>"<!--Saved by Quest 5.5.5433.25066-->"</nowiki> (minor version numbers varying), unless it has been created by hand. In either case, the root node of the tree (the next line, if automatically generated) will look like "<asl version="580">" (for Quest 5.8.x). It is unclear whether the 5 will be incremented to 6, what will happen once the minor version exceeds 9, etc., so it is probably best to identify by the version-independent parts of these, as [[Quest 1-4|Quest versions 1-4]] use a completely different format.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [https://github.com/textadventures/quest A GitHub repository containing the source code of the editor, web player, etc.]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [http://media.textadventures.co.uk/games/W207cE4ZekuBenMWGSs5PA/detective.quest A Quest game taken from the public repository]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>== Links ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Quest_(Language) Interactive Fiction Wiki entry for Quest 5]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Quest_(Language) Interactive Fiction Wiki entry for Quest 5]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [https://textadventures.co.uk/Quest The official website, containing a repository of created games]</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [https://github.com/textadventures/quest A GitHub repository containing the source code of the editor, web player, etc.]</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/developers.html Overview of the software internals]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/developers.html Overview of the software internals]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><ins style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/#Reference A "reference", the closest thing that exists to a complete specification]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/upgrade_notes.html "Upgrade Notes" between versions]</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/upgrade_notes.html "Upgrade Notes" between versions]</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">not </del>be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as supplemental files. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">not </ins>be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them), nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">distinct from</del>, nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Quest 5 should be confused with neither [[Quest|Quest versions 1-4]], which it superseded but is <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">incompatible with (although the Quest 5 editor contains a feature to play them)</ins>, nor [[QuestMaker]], which is entirely unrelated aside from being another interactive fiction format.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">media (images, sounds) bundled with it</del>. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Quest 5''', commonly just called '''Quest''', is an authoring system published in 2012 for [[Interactive Fiction]]. It creates [[XML]] files with the extension .aslx, which can be edited either in an official, GUI-based editor (written in a combination of [[C_Sharp|C#]] and [[Visual Basic. NET]]), or as [[plaintext]]. The editor contains a feature to "publish" these as .quest files, which are [[ZIP]] files containing the original .aslx as well as <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">supplemental files</ins>. The .aslx or the .quest files can be played either in the editor or in a "web player" (which uses the same backend as the editor).</div></td></tr>
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== Links ==<br />
* [http://ifwiki.org/index.php/Quest_(Language) Interactive Fiction Wiki entry for Quest 5]<br />
* [https://textadventures.co.uk/Quest The official website, containing a repository of created games]<br />
* [https://github.com/textadventures/quest A GitHub repository containing the source code of the editor, web player, etc.]<br />
* [http://docs.textadventures.co.uk/quest/developers.html Overview of the software internals]<br />
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