Sarah Goes to College—a Quest text-adventure—New Release (No Joke!)

[Spicy_Garbage]

Nevermind lol ! found it

[skitterwave]

The original SGtC was a top tier wg text adventure for me, so it’s been exciting watching the remake.

I really like some of the personality changes you’ve made to Sarah’s family.

Dad is still supportive, but feels more human than the Pollyanna of the original. The Christmas dinner prep scenes really help sells this by walking a tightrope of caring but driven to impatience by the holiday stress.

Mom (so far) has transformed from a gentle but mostly ineffectual push against your gains to nearly a Big Bad Wolf. Her motivation also seems shifted, not the projected insecurity of the original but a desire for propriety, everything and everyone looking just as perfect as the decorations Mom insists on. If I’m reading new Mom right, this feels like a really clever and productive reinvention.

Leaving Madision. It feels like she or Mom (or both) have given up on the fight about her weight much sooner than in the original, letting the game shift more conflict onto Sarah and freeing up Madision to be more open about liking being big. This is the one relationship where I don’t have a clear guess of what the arc looks like, which is kind of exciting!

Sorry for the novel! Looking forward to more

[midnightplumhour]

this is legitimately my favorite game on here, and im glad to see it getting attention again. my only thing is that my real life sister is also named madison, and so it feels a bit weird there. i was wondering if there’s a way to go into the files to change her name, or something similar?

[skitterwave]

There are a few ways to do this, but the simplest is:

1. Download the game file and Quest executable
2. Make a save game
3. Open your save in a text editor (any will do. I like Notepad++)
4. Do a find and replace on Madison
5. Open in your edited save in Quest and play

[midnightplumhour]

oh! thank you, that worked

[skitterwave]

One question: Am I missing something/mathing wrong, or is it only possible to get the highest weight first semester if Summer is your roommate? The Fitbit boosts Sarah’s gain by 10, but the cookbook and poetry book only boost by 5. Deliberate design choice?

[blargballs]

It seems deliberate: The Fitbit makes you go running and injure yourself basically immediately, Summer then spends the semester feeding you, basically, so you both gain the most.

[iod9963]

It’s a holdover from the original. I loved the irony of the least obvious path (joining the running club) ended up being the vehicle for the largest possible gain.

[xpnsnpk]

@iod9963

Been a while. Crazy. Dropped by to give an explanation. Long story short, had computer issues and lost everythign I was working on.

sucks to hear but happy youre back and i guess my old guide is useless now lol maybe you can release 1

@iod9963

Things are going pretty well, and I’ve been able to address some of the issues I’ve been stewing over since the beginning. Simply put, I feel like the story is less derivative of the original with a less linear path.

what do you mean im pretty sure everyone would say the story was good

@iod9963

This project came about because I wanted something to do when I should have been doing something else, so I decided to start messing around with the quest engine having absolutely no coding skills at all. That first version was all a self-taught, self-discovery mess behind the scenes, which is actually why I was working on a “better version.”

i tired to do the same because lol but while ive got the ideas for games puttin them into a game was more overwhelmin then i thought it would be

@iod9963

Having to do a new version from scratch also allowed me to make story adjustments for things that always bothered me (but I did anyway). Like, why would a college freshman not have a roommate?

This is also very much a work in progress. I know it’s disappointing to be retreading old ground, but I’m already starting to work on Christmas break. I plan to keep the same storybeats as before.

like i said in a much older post i have lots of ideas that i wanted to add to this myself but like i said in this post it got overwhelmin lol

@iod9963

I agree with @namad, in that Quest is pretty easy. If you look through the tutorials on the website, it does a decent job of walking you through using their engine, which you can either download or use directly from the site. Thanks to a myriad of tools, you can do some pretty impressive things with no knowledge of coding required. Once I had some experience (and with a little help from Dr. Google), I was able to expand on that to both make things easier and remake the first stage of this game in about a week. All it requires is diving in and getting your hands dirty.

maybe i wasnt cut out for it then lol or cause i was tryin to do it all myself lol

@iod9963

Keeping track of all the branching paths is challenging. That’s partly responsible for why I decided to go back and redo it, as the original build was so unwieldy. There were also issues with the storyline, too—since what little conflict I had got resolved during the cruise sequence, it was hard to think of where to go from there.

which is way we should get a guide

my bad for the long post but i havent been on in abit and seein you posted got me exicted lol anyway i just played it and it was good cant wait for more and like i keep sayin ive got ideas so message me and so i can tell you lol

[gamerca]

I wonder if Sarah will end up getting as big as her sister. Something tells me her mom aint gonna like that

[Horseless_Knight]

I played through the whole new version. I loved it and I’m really hyped! I never finished the original version, don’t remember why, maybe because it didn’t have a visual map? I keep getting lost when in quest games the map is too complex without any visual reference.

[loljuicepwn]

Not sure if I’m dumb but can’t find the grandmother anywhere. She says she’s going to sit on the couch but it’s just the two kids, dinner won’t start until I round everyone up, but she doesn’t seem to exist in any room in the house.

Edit: yup I’m dumb apparently I some how missed a door, I reloaded and really hope that somehow my original bugged, but I suspect I missed the door somehow…

[appleandbanna111]

It’s the couch to the right of the kitchen

[Yo-Yo]

ah man how do you make sarah eat the chocolate bars she get’s from Madison every thing i try it seems like she say’s “she’s eaten far too much” to eat them.

[Sung]

@Yo-Yo

ah man how do you make sarah eat the chocolate bars she get’s from Madison every thing i try it seems like she say’s “she’s eaten far too much” to eat them.

Did you chat with Liam on your smartphone before dinner? That allows her to eat more.

[Yo-Yo]

ah man that’s a good point should have went film club and then get the fit bit that’s the mistake i made then.

[gamerca]

I personally am liking the quest redesign, seems like this project has potential.

[xpnsnpk]

ill update as the game comes out but for now here is a lazy guide lol if you want this here my bad you can delete it

145
Marketing
talk girls
find sketchbook
talk to guys
join both clubs
buy sweater
buy cookbook
get flyer
all but Julianna gain
go to kitchen
im starving
take more candy
message everyone
eat all diner
eat candy

145
Creative Writing
talk girls
find sketchbook
talk to guys
join both clubs
buy sweater
buy poem book
get flyer
all but Julianna gain
go to kitchen
im starving
take more candy
message everyone
eat all diner
eat candy

fattest
150
Organic Chemistry
talk girls
find sketchbook
talk to guys
join both clubs
buy sweater
buy fitbit
get flyer
all but Julianna gain
go to kitchen
im starving
take more candy
message everyone
eat all diner
eat candy

[xpnsnpk]

my bad to double post but i wanted give what i think of it without ruinin the guide lol and i really like it but i miss the pix from the old version lol it was more fun to read those then what you got as reminders now if that make sense lol and as always like i always say if you need help even or want some ideas send me a message

[america123369]

now i just might be an idiot but how do you progress to the next day?