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HagQuest - An Epic Story Told in Flask

"You stand at the edge of a vast desert...." So begins the greatest tale of our time.

HagQuest is an interactive fiction game (think Zork) programmed in Python as a collaberation between me and my good friend Ben Tidswell. In it, the protagonist (who must be named Jarek Lenda) seeks to clean the messy house of a hag in order to enlist her help on a perilous quest into the desert.


The tale of the hag

HagQuest was built partially as an attempt to make something fun and partially as an attempt to learn how to use Python's Flask microframework. On both counts I like to think of it as a success.

Don't take my word for it, though: try it yourself here, or if that doesn't work just download the code from my GitHub.

I wasn't kidding, though. You have to name yourself Jarek Lenda.