I've been using the download version of the quest engine for some time, trying to figure out how to make a text adventure. I have no idea how to code and several times I've hit walls, and needed help to find out what it is I don't understand. But I've never been sure how to ask, and I'm still not. So I'm making this in hopes that some one could help me figure out how to ask for the help I need.

Hello!

Just create a post (just like you created this one) in the Quest Forum, asking whatever you need to know.

Oh, okay. Is there a certain way I should phrase it?

Just try to be as clear as possible.

May be a good idea to include the following, especially early in your Quest experience.

1. Are you using the downloaded version or online?
2. Are you comfortable coding/do you have coding experience?
3. Are you making a text adventure (player types responses) or a choose your own adventure (player clicks links in a story)?

Oh, okay, thank you, I will add those!

if you want to learn to code, it's actually (relatively) easy with quest, we'd be glad to help you with learning to code with quest

(you certainly don't have to, but coding makes using quest and making a game much faster and easier)

Oh yeah, I'm sure it does, but I can't seem to get my head around it, so I mostly just try to figure out what sort of menu items get me when I add them together like a kid messing with Lego.
But yeah, I'd love to learn how to properly code and understand it when reading it cause it looks like gibberish to me...

here you go (see if you can follow along and understand, and if not, ask about anything):

1. http://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/mu7itzjqv0yxrkdwgsbmzg/how-to-make-npc-confront-you-with-chioces#46cdb25b-4767-40a6-8bf4-3cd84e805781 (quest's code structure and coding basics)

2. http://textadventures.co.uk/forum/samples/topic/5559/attributes-and-if-script-guide-by-hk (coding basics: scripting: Attributes and the 'if' Script)

3. http://textadventures.co.uk/forum/samples/topic/5137/list-and-dictionary-extensive-guide-by-hk (coding basics: scripting: List and Dictionary Attributes)

Yeah, K.V. definitely made some good points! With certain questions, it is helpful to paste the code here to, either by copy paste (surrounded by three asterisks below and above it *), or by screenshot (preferably a web host site like imgur but I think some people do it with HTML or something...).

I also have a few tricks as well. I don't remember exactly how I learned these, either listening to amateur hackers on YouTube, or playing around with the program Scratch.

*First means first, if means the start of the condition of the code, else means or, and so on.

*Play around with everything to see how it works. (Do be very careful when messing with the commands (The Command Section), as I've broken the entire game file that way...).

*If you don't know where the problem is in your code, delete different parts of the code, saving the code someplace, and then restoring it, until the error message or glitch goes away. Then solve the glitch.

Its not too hard to figure out what the error is as the Error msg, says what it is having trouble with. I just don't always understand why it's having trouble with it.

what's the error message? (and also if you could provide the bad code of it too), so we can explain it to you, if you want :D

I currently don't have any Errors, the one I did have I posted in the Quest threads and I got the help I needed from XanMag(Thanks again). If I run into another I will be happy to ask for assistance. The people her are really nice and I should have asked for help sooner... Would have saved me like a month trying to figure out how to reference objects in a room without directly knowing what they are.