With Quest 5.0 currently under development as free and open-source software, it doesn’t make much sense to continue trying to sell copies of Quest Pro 4.x. So I’m happy to announce that the new release, version 4.1.4 is now available and is completely free.
There is no longer a separate Quest Pro product. Instead, all of the benefits of that edition have been folded into the free version. So, Quest 4.1.4 is now free and includes:
an unrestricted version of the editor, QDK – you can now make games as big as you like
the Quest Compiler, which lets you encrypt your ASL file so players can’t edit your game
the Quest Packager, which lets you turn your game into a stand-alone Setup EXE file for Windows machines
I’ll give it a try sometime soon , though atm I’m mostly ready to bother with Inform 7 as I have Aaron’s Reed book sitting in the library for very long…
I’m definitely looking forward to trying out version 5, and I may use version 4 for at least a draft of a project that is coming together in my notes. I’ve experimented with so many different systems over the several years that I’ve been involved with IF, changing systems nearly as frequently as projects. That makes me hesitant to commit to buying a commercial product, since then I would feel obligated to continue using it, so as not to waste my purchase. Now that Quest 4 is free, I suspect many others like me will be willing to make sincere efforts at IF projects with it. This is exciting news!
