Questmaker: a story game you host on your own PC

Questmaker is a tabletop-style adventure for two to four players, where each scene is drawn as an engraving as the party arrives, the dice are real dice, and the story goes where your votes and ideas take it. One of you hosts it on a Windows PC, and everyone else joins from a browser on a laptop, a tablet or a phone.

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What you get

• The game runs on your own PC. The host app holds the game, the save and the journal on your computer. Your story is saved as it goes; we have no copy of it.
• Friends join free, in a browser. No account, no install, no purchase for the people you play with: in your house by your network's address, anywhere else by the game's public link.
• The AI writer and the narrator's voice run on your PC. The optional writer is a language model on your own machine that writes each scene inside the game's rules; the narrator reads a line for each scene and roll in a voice made on your processor. Nothing anyone types is sent to an AI company.
• One purchase, no subscription. The host buys it once. Playing on your own network needs no internet and no licence check at all.

How it plays

• A party and a road. Players take seats, pick a hero, and travel a story of three acts — a fantasy, the frontier west or the stars — through scenes, people, fights and puzzles, to one of its endings.
• You choose the way. Every scene offers its ways on: you vote, and anyone can type an idea — read the old marks on the wall — which the game judges and the dice decide.
• One game, every screen. Everyone sees the same board, the same roll and the same ending, as it happens. Watchers are welcome too, and every seat can talk over voice chat.
• A seat for a game master. One person can sit as the dungeon master: place things ahead of the party, hand the writer notes, draw the next board and answer the table's ideas.

A game, from the first board to the ending

Screenshots from one real play-through of a ready story, The Ninth Crown, with the AI writer off.

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What the host needs

• Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and 8 GB of memory. The host app is Windows only.
• The AI writer is optional. Its suggested medium size wants a graphics card with about 6 GB of memory (an 8 GB card fits it); a small size runs from system memory, and a large one wants a 12 GB card.
• No graphics card that fits? The game writes every scene from its own word banks instead and plays exactly the same.
• The narrator's voice is made on the processor, so it needs no graphics card.

The people who join need only a current browser. More in the questions.

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