Quest Creator 2.42.16 is a Game Utility product from DatawareGames.com, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, Quest Creator maker allows you to create your own adventures in mythical, medieval settings. Using pre-set or custom characters, you can create worlds in which you control the plot, action and difficulty of the game. A variety of graphic images are included for you to use with Quest Creator, including slimes, orcs, goblins, ogres, trolls, skeletons, zombies and dragons.
At a first glance the software looks really nice and the most important thing is that is very easy-to-use. You can choose either to create a new party by your own or to choose from the characters already created. My advice is that in the beginning you should try to play the levels created by the producer. In this way you will realize what options can this editor deliver to you. The levels are created in a medieval age atmosphere with all the classic characters of fantasy books like: slimes, orcs, goblins, ogres, trolls, skeletons, zombies, dragons, etc.
Along with the party you can create also the quest based on a story written by you. You can choose the goals of the mission, the enemies that you have to fight, and weapons and scrolls that you can find or buy along the way. Before you start editing anything on your quest, you have to choose the environment where the action takes place. From dense woods to fields and castles. The enemies, goals, items, can be placed with the mouse anywhere on the map. This way of editing is very similar to HEROES of Might and Magic series editor. More similarities to this series can be also the gameplay based on turns. By clicking a character from your party a new menu appears with every action this character can do. From moving, to attack, take, stay, etc. The moving area of every character is limited and this thing will influence a lot the gameplay. Every character moves from square to square, meaning that a character can move only North, South, Eat, West from its origin. At the end of every character movement, comes the turn of the enemy.
As a conclusion, an enemy can attack or can be attacked only from this four points. If the producer would have used hexagons instead of squares in the movement of a character, the possibility of attack would have increased and influenced the game in a good way.
Pluses: easy-to-use; some quests already created by the producer; lots of enemies to create; uses simple rpg rules;
Drawbacks / flaws: the use of squares despite hexagons; the missions are not linked together (you have to load everytime your party before a new mission);
In conclusion: In order to increase the time, a user is spending on a product, Dataware created a game in an editor, not a map editor in a game as in general all the games producers do.
A game maker in which you can easily create your own adventures in mythical, medieval settings. Using preset or custom characters, set up worlds in which you control the plot, action, and difficulty of the game. A variety of graphic images are included for you to use with Quest Creator such as these enemies: slimes, orcs, goblins, ogres, trolls, skeletons, zombies, dragons, and many, many more. Published by Dataware. The license of this game software is Free Trial Software, the price is $14.95, you can free download and get a free trial before you buy. If you want to get a full or nolimited version of Quest Creator, you can buy this game software.