QuestLine headed to XBLIG

QuestLine, my tongue-in-cheek item-trading and arbitrary questing game, has been getting a make over in preparation for an XBox Live Indie Games release. In addition to porting the entire game from ActionScript 3 to C#, I’m also replacing virtually all of the graphics (excepting the item icons, which seem to hold up fairly well) and will be adding some new endings to the game.

I also found myself building some simple editing tools, since I wanted to transition from hard-coded interactions between characters, locations, and items to a more flexible system based on XML descriptions of all the objects in the game. This added quite a bit of tool-building time to the project, but it has made editing the behaviors and responses of characters in the game a considerably smoother process.

Some screen shots of the new look and feel of the game, as well as a couple of images from the editor, are below: