Hi - I was looking at Quest to make an IF type game that serves up a lot of movie-like video clips for various interactions during the game, instead of being a strictly text-based. I understand that you can link to YouTube and Vimeo--but what if I wanted to make a stand-alone game which does not need an internet connection to play videos, it it possible to call up videos during a game which can be stored somewhere in the game's directory? And if not, are there any plans to implement a feature like this in the future?

Thanks in advance for any help or information. - Dustin

As far as I'm aware, there is no support for offline videos in Quest. That being said, it might technically be possible to hack a solution using html and javascript, but it would be a fair amount of work, and would also bloat the size of the quest file by quite a lot, to the point you probably wouldn't be able to upload it for use on the web player.

Another possible workaround could be to convert the video into an animated gif and have quest display that instead? You could also have quest play the audio clip at the same time if there is one. There might need to be some kind of preloading done to the animated gifs, but I think it could work in a pinch if you have the knowledge and software to do the conversions. I'm just spitting ideas off the top of my head though.

sgreig wrote:As far as I'm aware, there is no support for offline videos in Quest. That being said, it might technically be possible to hack a solution using html and javascript, but it would be a fair amount of work, and would also bloat the size of the quest file by quite a lot, to the point you probably wouldn't be able to upload it for use on the web player.

Another possible workaround could be to convert the video into an animated gif and have quest display that instead? You could also have quest play the audio clip at the same time if there is one. There might need to be some kind of preloading done to the animated gifs, but I think it could work in a pinch if you have the knowledge and software to do the conversions. I'm just spitting ideas off the top of my head though.

Thanks for the tips, yeah I thought it might be something as easy as adding a sound or image, but doesn't sound like it. Oh well. Would be a nice enhancement though, so if somebody want to make a game that could be played offline that incorporated video they could.