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Chapter 1: Getting Started
A common mistake is beginning to design a quest in ZQuest without taking the time to plan on paper an idea of what you want to do. (I had roughly 70% of my Unofficial Third Quest planned out before the first release of ZQuest.) While you do not necessarily have to plan that much prior to getting started, you should plan ahead somewhat.
Here are two Excel 2000 spreadsheets I created to help get you started. The grids are set up to use ZQuest coordinates.
- Click here to download a 16 x 8 Overworld grid. (6 KB)
- Click here to download an 8 x 8 Underworld grid. (3 KB)
That being said, let's get started with a small tutorial quest to teach you most of the basic concepts (so you'll know what to do with your plan).
Step 1: Opening ZQuest and Starting a New Quest File
- Open ZQuest (how to do this will vary from computer to computer) and click File -> New. Type "tutorial" as the name of the new quest you would like to create.
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Step 2: The Quest Header
- Click Quest -> Header to bring up the Quest Header dialog.
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- Note the "Password" option. Here, you can type a code that will have to be entered each time the file is to be opened. I do not recommend entering a password until you are ready to make a quest ready for download. So we'll skip this step for now.
- Quest Number: Leave this at "0." The "0" indicates a custom quest, which is what we are designing.
- Quest Ver.: Short for "quest version" (what else), use this as an indicator as to how far you are along in a quest's development. Since we are just starting, 1.0 is a good number to place here.
- Min Ver.: Short for "minimum quest version." For now, make this 1.0, to match your current quest version. Later on in the development of your quest, you might make significant changes to earlier parts of your quest. If you do, make this your current quest version at that time. Any games started with an earlier version of your quest will have to be restarted.
- Title and Author: In Zelda Classic, when you clck Misc -> Quest Info this is the information you will see. Type whatever you would like to appear here.
- When you are finished, click "OK" to save your changes.
- Now, click File -> Save (or press F2) to save your file. Make sure you save after making any changes to your quest that you'd like to keep. I'll just leave it at this: shtick happens...
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