Questmaker

Questions

Before you buy, before you host, and before you join. Longer answers are in help.

Who buys it · Do friends install anything · Offline · The AI · The public link · Refunds · Hardware · Mac and Linux · Content and age · Getting help

Who needs to buy Questmaker?

Only the host — the one person whose Windows PC runs the game. Everyone who joins plays free. Questmaker is not on sale yet; the price and the buy buttons say coming soon until it is.

Do my friends have to install anything?

No. They join from a browser on a laptop, a tablet or a phone, with no account, no install and no purchase: in your house by the address your app shows for your network, anywhere else by the game's public link or its table name on the join page.

Does it work offline?

Yes, on your own network. When you and your players are on the same home network, the game needs no internet and no licence check. The AI writer's model and the narrator's voice download once, when you choose to set them up; after that they work with the internet unplugged. Only the public link needs the internet, because it travels through our relay.

What does the AI do, and does anything go to the cloud?

Two things, both on the host's PC. The optional AI writer is a language model running in Ollama on your computer: it writes each scene's description, names and lines, inside rules the game checks, and anything that breaks a rule is replaced by the game's own word banks. The narrator reads a line for each scene and roll in a voice made on your processor. Nothing you or your players type, and nothing the model writes, is sent to us or to any AI service: there is no account, key or cloud model involved. Setting up the writer.

Making a game public gives it an address like https://kmrt-fox4-q8ze-w2pd.play.chaordic.games without opening a port on your router: your PC connects out to our relay, and the relay passes each visitor's pages and moves down that one connection. The table name is the key, so share it only with the people you play with; the host can remove anyone. The relay stores nothing it passes, logs only a table opening and closing by a short scrambled fingerprint of its name, and lists no tables. The public link checks your licence — the key from our site or an itch.io download key; checking a Steam copy is planned and not built yet. More on the public link.

Can I get a refund?

Questmaker is not on sale yet, so there is no refund policy to read yet; it will be published here before the buy buttons open. A copy bought on itch.io or Steam also falls under that store's own refund rules. What the game already does: once the store reports a purchase refunded, its licence no longer opens a public link.

What is the minimum hardware?

The people who join need only a current browser.

Is there a Mac or Linux version?

Not yet: the host app is Windows only, and there is no date for anything else. Players joining a game can use a Mac, Linux, a Chromebook, a tablet or a phone — anything with a current browser.

What is the content like, and what age is it for?

The stories are original adventures — a fantasy, the frontier west or the stars — with fights, wounds and danger told in words and engraved pictures. Questmaker has no age rating yet. Players type their own ideas and describe their own heroes, and the AI writer writes from them; the game checks the writer's answers for consistency with the story, but nothing filters what is typed for offensive content today. Play with people you trust: on a public table, strangers cannot use the host's controls, and the host can remove or ban anyone.

How do I get help?

Start with help: hosting, the public link, the AI writer and privacy, step by step; if a friend cannot join, the join page says what to check. To write to us: hello@chaordic.games (not open yet).