Quest to Nowhere

I know some people have been asking for me to do a blog post about what I’m doing for my capstone project (the last thing I have to do to complete my Masters program,) and now I feel I can finally talk about it. I probably could have before, but I wanted to wait until it was signed off on and was officially happening.

So what my project is is a videogame, and also a comic book. Or a comic book and also a videogame, depending on how you look at it I guess. The best way I’ve found to describe it is as a comic book point-and-click adventure game. It’s called Quest to Nowhere: Summer Days.

Quest to Nowhere, aside from being the name of this blog/website, was originally a webcomic I wrote. I really like the characters, and the name, and have always been sort of working on it in the back of my mind. So this project gave me a chance to revisit that, and play around with those characters again.

The game itself, as I have it planned right now, will be like reading a comic book. But you are only given so much of it, and you have to solve puzzles by interacting with the comic itself in order to open up more pages, thus advancing the story.

That’s sort of the quick and dirty explanation of it. I’m going to be doing everything for it (writing, programming, etc.) except for the art for the comic which I am hiring someone to do. To help pay for that I’m going to setup a donations thing with rewards for people that donate, but more on that later in the week probably once I have it up and running.