Downloaded Quest at home and get a list of all the games and categories to download and play.

Get into school and open Quest to find this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7336564/CloudShot/New%20Picture.png I cannot access any of the games and the TTGBITN game I downloaded is not there? We had to unblock the textadventures site and the help wiki - is there a further site that needs unblocking too?

Also have a further concern in that if we are going to install this on our school, I dont want a link to the "Adult" content.

Any thoughts/ideas/help appreciated

Gideon

Yes that looks like the games list is blocked. Quest connects to www.textadventures.co.uk to fetch the games list and download games, so you need to ensure that domain is unblocked.

Any games you download are stored locally in your user profile "Documents\Quest Games" folder. You could also download manually from the website using your browser, and then open them from the File menu.

For schools, I'm thinking of having the ability to set up separate "areas", so you could only allow students to download games from your own mini version of the site. This could be customised with just the games you want to permit. Students could submit games to their own school mini-site as well. Maybe that's overkill for your purposes?

Another way would be to have a particular registry setting to filter the list. Would that be something easy to deploy over the school network?

I just released Quest 5.1 Beta which lets you disable the "Adult" category (it's turned off by default in fact).

If you want to ensure it stays turned off, you can block the option by making a registry change - it should be possible for a network admin to make this change on all machines on a network.

The key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Quest\Settings, and the value to set is LockAdult=1.
(On x64 machines, the key is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Wow6432Node\Quest\Settings)