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Your friendly, one stop tool for creating your own HeroQuest quests!
โจ Last updated September 7th 2024 โจ
- ๐น Against the Ogre HordeYep - it's here, in all it's ogre glory! (fading the tiles once the total items reached pending!). Tiles are in HQ21 and old style EU/US - naturally. Also - as a HUGE thank you to Banjo for his kind help supplying the icons for HQ21 โค๏ธ you'll find there are now additional annotations to allow arrows to be placed OUTSIDE the board area to indicate where heros enter/leave the map - I have called them 'Banjo Arrows', as I know he has wanted these for a loooong time ๐. Enjoy the update though folks, and enjoy the Banjo Arrows too! If you spot any gremlins just get in touch, as always. And if you want to contribute to the project - project donations for beer and snacks to keep me fueled as I code are always welcomed - Happy Quest Building!
- ๐ Community Quest Filters โจUpdatedโจ
I know you're all waiting for Ogre Horde to be added... and it will appear soon, I promise. But in the meantime, why not explore the community tab and have a play with the new filter mechanic! Just a reminder to make sure you tag your quests AND make them public to see them properly in the community tab ๐ง - ๐ป New Larger/Rotating Homebrew Tile Options!This has been a long time in the making, but I hope it allows folks even more flexibility to be creative with their Homebrew quest building. Here's a video guide if you want to find out more.
- ๐ค hQuestMaster/QuestDown Integration โจhQuestMaster is an amazing site that works seamlessly with hQuestBuilder. Think of it as the official HeroQuest app/an AI Zargon, but for homebrew quests, written on hQuestBuilder! Better still, you have complete control over how you compose all kinds of interesting interactions within your quests with the new QuestDown language - designed from the ground up by the very talented u/Ryuasd. Look for the qd initials on the community quests list to see it in action.
- โ๏ธ Cloud Saving & Sharing Launched ๐Yep - it's finally here! Please watch the features demo video to see how everything works and let me know how you get on!
- ๐ค Community Quests TabYou should notice a new tab has appeared... it's very much a work in progress at the moment - but hopefully it will evolve into an interesting place to explore quests created by other hQuestBuilders.
- ๐ Rise of the Dread MoonYou will now find the Rise of the Dread Moon expansion has been added to the builder. I would love to have some old-style EU/US icons for this expansion too, so if anyone reading this is up for the callenge, or knows someone who might be interested, please get in touch! You'll also find more annotation numbers (a regular request!) as well as some under the hood improvements and optimisations. As always, get in touch with any feedback and happy quest building!
- ๐ Community Quest FiltersYou can now filter by language and other quest metadata tags on the community quest tab to find specific quests. Just make sure you tag your quests for the filters to be applied ๐ง
- ๐ช๐ฎ Mage of the Mirror Expansion!Yep - it's finally here! The official HQ21 PDF dropped on the 2nd March 2023, and now you'll find the Mage of the Mirror expansion items all ready to use in your quests - in HQ21, EU and US styles! Please note - future expansions will be added as/when the artwork is available for the 2021 released version of HQ.
- ๐ Print, Performance and TourHappy New Year fellow Zargons/Morcars. This is a bumper update - I've added an intro tour now! I hope you went through it, even if you're a frequent visitor to hQuestBuilder as you'll have picked up some things you didn't know were there! I've also FINALLY fixed the printing issue (hopefully!). The only side effect may be that you might not see the items for HQ21 on intial print preview in your browser. If that happens, just try to print again and the assets should be there. There's a bunch of other rather boring techy fixes too - enjoy, and as always, get in touch with any comments/feedback. Happy Quest Building!
- ๐ฅถ Frozen Horror Expansion!You'll now find all of the assets for the expansion are available to use in your quests (in 2021, US AND EU format).
- โน๏ธ Additional Expansions & Chaos SorcererI realised I could put some more information on the builder about the other expansions that were released for the OG HeroQuest sets. So you'll find them on the left menu now - just click to find out more. And a thank you to Eudoxio for sending over a suitable HQ21 style Chaos Sorcerer icon. I don't believe he was usually depicted on the quest maps before - but now you have it in HQ21, EU and US styles - enjoy!
- โ๏ธ Clone / Copy QuestIf you long-press on a quest on the quest list you will be given to option to clone/copy that quest. Useful for templates, iterating on the same base quest and other things too!
- ๐ Quest List SearchFinding your quest list getting a little loooong? You can now search your quests by title to locate that all important quest!
- โจ๏ธ Keyboard ShortcutsFor desktop/keyboard users only, hover over the element in the left panel to see the shortcut for any core system item, or here's a Google Doc with them all!
- ๐ Quest List OrderingYep - you can now reorder the quests in your quest list so they're in a sequence you prefer - this is also saved to the .hqb file if you back-up the list too!
- ๐บ New Intro VideoNot hugely exciting - but maybe it is, as there may well be some features highlighted in the video that you didn't know were there...!
- ๐ซ๐ท French UI TranslationProvided by Adrascorix - Merci!
- โ๏ธ Cloud Saving & Sharing Beta Update!Thanks to those of you who have agreed to test this feature - I'm not actively looking for new testers now. I'll keep you posted on any updates to this feature.
- ๐ Dark ModeFind a new switch in the left hand panel next to the delete button to have a look at the darker side of hQuestBuilder.
- Expansion GraphicsYep, they are here! Kellar's Keep and Return of the Witch Lord graphics are all in across EU, US and HQ21 styles. You'll find them in nicely compact collapsable areas above Homebrew on the left hand menu. Thanks once again to Banjo for the new HQ SVG assets. There are more enhancements planned around these additions, but for now, enjoy this MUCH requested feature... and yes, I'm aware of The Frozen Horror on the horizon too ๐
- Print preview optionA small but significant addition that lets you see what the print view of your quest will look like - you can then use your browser screen capture software of choice to save your quest as an image!
- Streamlined Help & InfoYep - this very modal has been updated to make it easier to browse, and a new intro video added.
- Additional letter and number annotationsAdded for all themes - happy annotating!
- Indicator for using too many of an item on the quest mapIf you see an item fade out in the left hand menu it means you've reached the total number of uses of this item (based on base, old EU HeroQuest numbers as it seems to have fewer of some things - namely the trap/wall/secret door tiles). This is very much a soft limit though, you can still use/place items that have been faded out, but hopefully a helpful reference when building a quest.
Text labels on mapAfter some experiments this sadly won't be added to hQuestBuilder - please use annotations as a replacement, sorry!- Homebrew / Bespoke GraphicsYep - they're here! Check this quick video to see how they work for single tiles
- ๐ฎ๐น Italian UI TranslationProvided by lestodante - Grazie!
- ๐ช๐ธ Spanish UI TranslationProvided by Eudoxio - Gracias!
- Refinements to print viewI know it's fairly simple, but hopefully a vast improvement on the initial version!
- ๐ฉ๐ช German UI TranslationProvided by unndee19 - Danke!
- Hero tiles
Drag and drop for iconsNot added to hQuestBuilder to keep things touch friendly- Retro EU/US Abomination iconThanks to /u/StephenGSX for the fun new creature icon!
- Allow switching between HQ21 and old US/EU graphics
- Shaded traps
- Quest author field
- Update to default icons/styling to better match HeroQuest 2021 (HQ21)
- Create/manage more than one Quest
- Allowing solid rock to be added to non-active areas of the map
- Export/import of backed-up quests data
Here are the common items that have been suggested/are on my radar to look at:
- Folder creation for quests in quest list
- Rotation for Homebrew icons
- Text formatting in the quest narrative/notes
- Continuing (yet usually futile) tiding up of code
Thanks
Thank you to the folks from the /r/Heroquest subreddit who have provided such great feedback. I'm always open to feedback/suggestions, so feel free to contact me directly, or use the feedback tool in the lower right of this webpage if you'd prefer.
Special thanks goes to:
- /u/Ryuasd for creating the amazing hQuestMaster and the QuestDown language - a coding partner in crime!
- Luis Bermudez for the great old EU/US style dwarf icon
- /u/Banjo-Oz for supplying his HQ21 SVG set - please check out his website too!
- /u/StephenGSX for missing graphic/tile support and for the creation of the old-style Abomination creature icon (have you managed to find him yet...? Try clicking on the Fimir icon again when you've placed it in the old EU/US style view)
Although I never got it working on my machine (hence the browser-based creation you see before you), HeroScribe has been a great resource for sourcing the older official graphics - and looks to be a great tool!
UI Translation(s) very kindly provided in:
- ๐ซ๐ท Franรงais (French) by Adrascorix
- ๐ฎ๐น Italiano (Italian) by lestodante
- ๐ช๐ธ Espaรฑol (Spanish) by Eudoxio
- ๐ฉ๐ช Deutsch (German) by unndee19
If you are happy to translate the UI into your native language please get in touch!
I'd also like to say a HUGE thank you to the following developers for their amazing work on producing the open-source libaries below. I love working on hQuestBuilder, but there are a lot of things I can't code, and these folks have... thank you!
hQuestBuilder has been created to allow the creation of original (homebrew) quests. It is not to be used to recreate and share copyrighted quests. Thanks - and happy quest building!
HeroQuest and the graphics used by hQuestBuilder are © Milton Bradley Company/Hasbro, Inc. and are not intended as a challenge to the rights of these respective companies in regard to HeroQuest. Do get in touch if any assets have been used that have not been credited appropriately.
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