Welcome to the URI Quest home page, proudly wasting space on the Internet since 1998.

You may be asking yourself... "SELF!"... "What is URI Quest?"

Well, let me tell you. It's an adventure game very much in the vein of Sierra On-Line's mid-80's work. Now unless you're about my age, you still might have no idea what I'm talking about. In the 80's and early 90's there was a company called Sierra, which made adventure games. These were actually quite revolutionary and clever games for their time. It all started with the King's Quest series. Some other game series' you might have heard of are Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, Police Quest and Manhunter.

Anyhow... these games were created using an engine called AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) that was developed by Sierra. In these games, you play as a character that walks around different "rooms" or "screens". You give commands to your character by typing them in. The game parses your request and responds accordingly. These games were called 3-D adventure games because your character was able to move in front of and behind objects. The game rooms had a certain depth to them, if only illusionary. The games were not true 3-D like today's games are. The graphics mode was 160x200 resolution with 16 colors.

So what does this all have to do with URI Quest? Well, it's a game made by me using the same AGI interpreter that was used to create all those old games that we know and love. And this game is by no means the only one under development. In the past few years, some pretty smart folks have decoded the interpreter and created utilities that can hack into them and allow just about anybody to create their own games using AGI. (Of course, a good background in programming also helps). There are many other people currently working on their own AGI games. You should check out the links section for more information on AGI and other AGI projects and utilities.

URI Quest follows the adventures of myself and 3 other college friends at the University of Rhode Island. I've long since graduated, but I thought it would be funny to make a game about college. In the game, you play the role of me and my friends John, Ed, and Ziggy. What are we searching for, exactly? Well, I can't tell you. You have to play the game and discover the plot for yourself.

URI Quest requires an IBM compatible computer to run. Aside from this, you will need the AGI interpreter files from another early Sierra game. Distributing these files myself would be illegal. A sound card is required (along with a patch for your interpreter file) to fully hear the music in the game. To check out the game for yourself, and to get instructions on how to do all of this, go to the download page.