The London Quest

Welcome to the London Quest! Come discover the big city of London where the player visits a friend who's there for an exchange. Through this trip, the player encounters different obstacles and if they choose the correct words, they can gather souvenirs and tools to help them through their journey.

Description

The London Quest is an interactive fiction game made with Twine where the player discovers the city of London, England. In this game, the player interacts with diverse characters and is confronted with English grammar and vocabulary. The English level is designed to be at a B2 level (intermediate level).

The game includes grammar and vocabulary choices where the choice of the player is either correct or false, but it also includes choices that do not have a correct answer and instead allow the player to receive objects and gifts which could help them on their journey throughout London.

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Features

• 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Discover London: discover different areas of London by enganging with different characters!
• 🗣️ Practice your English: practice your English by making grammar and vocabulary choices!
• ✨ Unlock scenes: your choice matters and different choices bring you to new scenes and even might allow you to collect items to help you on your journey!
• 💡 Feedback: see what grammar and vocabulary exercises you still need to practice with immediate feedback and links useful websites containing grammar rules.
• ✅ Counter: see how many answers you can get right and how many points you can get at the end!

How to Play

1. Download the zip file and then unzip it.
2. Open the index.html file.
3. Play the interactive fiction!

Or play on itch.io! Press on RUN GAME to play!

Credits

• Concept and Development: Sophie Ward
• Visuals: The visuals of the interactive fiction were made with Piskel by Sophie Ward.
• Platform: Twine Harlowe 3.3.7 by Leon Arnott.
• Sources:
  • Books:
    • Levasseur, Pamela. Showtime! - Reprendre et perfectionner son anglais - B1/B2. Ellipses, 2022.
    • Murphy, Raymond. English Grammar in Use. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
    • Raimond, Claude. Guide de conversation en voyage! L'anglais pour les nuls. Editions First, 2024.
  • Websites:
    • BigBus Tours. "London Tickets & Passes". BigBus Tours, https://www.bigbustours.com/en/london/london-tour-tickets-and-passes. Accessed 14 April 2025.
    • British Council: Learn English. "Adjectives with '-ing' and '-ed'". British Council: Learn English, https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/english-grammar-reference/adjectives-ing-ed. Accessed 25 May 2025.
    • British Council: Learn English. "Articles: 'a', 'an', 'the'". British Council: Learn English, https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/a1-a2-grammar/articles-a-an-the. Accessed 24 May 2025.
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    • Jones, Larry. "American slang vs. British slang: terms & phrases compared [+ their origins!]". Preply, 4 Apr. 2025, https://preply.com/en/blog/british-english-vs-american-english-slang-compared/. Accessed 14 April 2025.
    • Merriem-Webster. (n.d.). "When To Use 'Then' and 'Than'". Merriem-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/when-to-use-then-and-than. Accessed 25 May 2025.
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    • Twine Forum. "Twine 2 using Harlowe, can I remove the back arrow?". Twine Forum, https://twinery.org/forum/discussion/5446/twine-2-using-harlowe-can-i-remove-the-back-arrow. Accessed 14 April 2025.
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    • Tourmaline Studio."04 Twine: Expressions conditionnelles". Tourmaline Studio, 5 May https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WmnCtbKI24. Accessed 14 April 2025.
    • Tourmaline Studio."05 Twine: Tableaux & Boucles". Tourmaline Studio, 5 May 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ZW8fBqtxA&t=15s. Accessed 14 April 2025.
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  • Some parts of the code and styling have been slightly revised by : ChatGPT (including GPT-3.5 and limited GPT-4o mini)

This interactive fiction was developed as part of the "Interactive Fiction" course provided by Isaac Pante (Section for Language and Information Sciences (SLI), Liberal Arts, University of Lausanne, Switzerland).