progress-quest

About

Progress Quest is a zero-player game created by Eric Fredricksen as a parody of EverQuest and other MMORPGs — once a character is set up there's no further interaction, and the game plays and displays itself. Its source code was released in 2011. This is a C++/Qt port (version 7) of Progress Quest, continuing from Eric Fredricksen's original Delphi Pascal version and a later JavaScript port. It was written by Martin Horner starting around 2012.

History

The author describes the original Progress Quest as a joke that spiraled into an internet meme, poking fun at how much of typical MMORPG play is just idle time-consumption; after finishing this C++/Qt version (pq7), the author planned to move on to a more ambitious pq8 rather than continue refining pq7.

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Trivia

The author jokes that bug reports and improvement suggestions will initially be mocked before any action is taken on them.