Progress Quest Demo

Progress Quest is next generation computer role-playing game. Gamers who have played modern online role-playing games, or almost any computer role-playing game, or who have at any time installed or upgraded their operating system, will find themselves incredibly comfortable with Progress Quest's very familiar gameplay.

User manual

Even inexpereinced gamers will find Progress Quest remarkably intutive and simple to play. Start the program and click the New Game button. You will presented with the character creation screen. Select a name, race and class for the new character. Then, use the Roll button until you are statisfied with the stats for your character. Tip: You can use the Unroll button (a feature exclusive to Progress Quest) to go back to any previous roll if you find that you've clicked too hastily.

If "Play online" is checked, your character will share adventures with other Progress Quest characters in an online virtual world. Online play is reccommended only for users with always-on internet connectivity, though sophisiticated algorithms keep the bandwidth usage to a minimum. You can compare your character against the top Progress Quest players by visiting http://progressquest.com/hi.php.

Finally, hit the Sold! button to begin the game. The game will start immediately and you can safely familiarize yourself with the game's single interface screen as the game progresses on its own. Soon your avatar will will be seeking and destroying an exotic panopoly of beasts while you gaze proudly on. Missing, you will notice, is the tedious march from town, the bewildering maze of cookie cutter streets hiding some specific merchant or NPC, and the repetetive hunt for just the right beast to execute. Progress Quest supplies your character with an endless series of victims, as well as exciting quests which keep your quest log full to the brim at all times.

TREASURE: Each slain creature yields a trophy, which can be sold in any town. When the encumberance bar reaches maximum, your character automatically returns to the nearest town to sell your loot. If sufficiently liquid, he may then purchase an upgrade in equpiment (weapon or armor). That being done, the interpid adventurer then returns to the frontier to spill more blood. Tip: The amount your character can carry before his encumberance bar fills up increases as his STR stat improves.

QUESTS: When a quest is complete, your character is rewarded with one of: a) a special, valuable, treasure item, b) an improved weapon or piece of armor, c) a boost in stats, or d) a new spell for his spellbook. The character is then assigned a follow-up quest, which he immediately begins to make progress on.

EXPERIENCE AND LEVELING UP: Experience represents your character's knowledge about the world around him, as well as his battle prowess and ability to channel the forces of magical power. Your character gains experience by killing monsters and sentient beings, over and over again. Once the experience bar is full, your character levels up, and is given an automatic boost in several of his stats and a new spell for his spellbook.

DYING: Be warned that your character can be slain by monsters which are tougher than he can handle. However, this concept has been abstracted out of the game and takes effect simply by somewhat reducing the experience accumulated for each successful murder.

SAVING YOUR PROGRESS: Your game is saved whenever you quit, as well as each time your character levels up or completes a quest. You can pick up where you left off by restarting Progress Quest and clicking the Load Game button.

Game controls

Progress Quest belongs to a new breed of "fire and forget" RPG's. There is no need to interact with Progress Quest at all; it will make progress with you or without you.

You can quit Progress Quest by using the window close box, or by hitting

-

(hold down the

key while hitting

), but there is really little need to ever do so. Please note that your character will not make any progress except when Progress Quest is running. Your character will make no progress once you quit the program, until you start Progress Quest again.

Keyboard quick reference

Key Description

Alt-F4 Exit Progress Quest