House of Games #59 - Quests

In this episode, we dive head-first into the world of quests of all variants, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and share our thoughts on how they should be designed and implemented!

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Chapters
00:00 Episode Intro
00:27 Introducing the Theme: Quests
02:30 Rune's Favorite Quests
07:14 Otto's Favorite Quests
10:53 Good Quests: The Witcher 3
15:42 Card Mini-Games
19:52 Bad Side Quests: Marvel's Spider-Man
23:28 Bad Side Quests: World of Warcraft
24:42 Good Quests: RuneScape
25:44 Designing Quests in Sunset Moon
30:08 Derailing Into Human Psychology and Numbers
34:35 How Rune Creates Quests
44:14 RuneScape Quest System Continued
52:55 Quests and Location
01:07:46 Episode Outro

Your Hosts and Their Games

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2436180/Sunset_Moon/ - Wishlist Sunset Moon on Steam!
https://www.play-asia.com/red-colony-trilogy/13/70fmjh - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/24596/Red_Colony_Uncensored_Threesome_Bundle/ - Buy the Red Colony trilogy on Steam!
https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/knifeboy-rebooted-switch/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Switch!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/889130/KnifeBoy_Rebooted/ - Buy KnifeBoy on Steam!
https://ottowretling.medium.com/list/game-development-427e99aefd01 - Read Otto's blog about game development!
https://discord.gg/mYM72SQ9CP - The discord server for Game Hub Umeå.

Games
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/ - The homepage for World of Warcraft.
https://oldschool.runescape.com/ - The homepage for Old School Runescape.
https://bethesda.net/en/game/starfield - The homepage for Starfield.
https://www.minecraft.net/ - The homepage for Minecraft.
https://www.stardewvalley.net/ - The homepage for Stardew Valley.
https://www.hogwartslegacy.com/ - The homepage for Hogwarts Legacy.
https://www.rockstargames.com/games/grandtheftauto3 - The homepage for Grand Theft Auto III.
https://fallout.com/ - The homepage for the Fallout franchise.
https://thelastofus.com/ - The homepage for The Last of Us franchise.
https://www.storyofseasons.com/ - The homepage for the Story of Seasons franchise (Harvest Moon).
https://insomniac.games/game/spider-man-ps4/ - The homepage for the Marvel's Spider-Man franchise.
https://www.thewitcher.com/ - The homepage for The Witcher franchise.
https://www.residentevil.com/ - The homepage for the Resident Evil franchise.
https://finalfantasy.com/ - The homepage for the Final Fantasy franchise.
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/ - The homepage for The Elder Scrolls franchise.
https://godofwar.playstation.com/ - The homepage for the God of War franchise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breath_of_Fire_III - The Wikipedia page for Breath of Fire III.

Other Links
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085059/ - The IMDB page for Black Mirror.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944947/ - The IMDB page for Game of Thrones.

Get all the links and the transcript for this episode right here: https://medium.com/@ottowretling/house-of-games-59-quests-e40972ae4b99