News Archive
| Spoltog Reopened The realm of Spoltog, long exclusive of new characters, has at last been restored to full operation. Bring us your tired, your halflings, your huddled Battle-felons... [April 5, 2008] |
News Archive
Spoltog Reopened
The realm of Spoltog, long exclusive of new characters, has at last been restored to full operation. Bring us your tired, your halflings, your huddled Battle-felons...
[April 5, 2008]
| New Server Progress Quest has migrated to a new server. [October 3, 2007] |
| New Realm The venerable realms Expodrine and Oobag have become hopelessly overcrowded. The spawn point campgrounds are cesspits of disease and abandoned rat whiskers; XP is scarce and the coopering economy is hyperinflated. Thank goodness, then, for the new realm of Pemptus! Let there be a bold new progression! [February 8, 2007] |
| Character cards on your Google homepage Arguably the two greatest technologies to appear since sliced transitors are Google (striving to make the worlds information available and accessible) and Progress Quest (which needs no parenthesized explanation). Now these two innovations have come together, in some handwavy sense: You can now display your character's vitals on your personalized Google homepage. This will help you keep track of the little cuss while you're away from the game for some unavoidable reason. Here's what it looks like:  [December 14, 2005] |
| Drinkin' Song Here's a little drinkin' ditty very popular amongst the natives from Knoram to Oobag.
A bloke I met in Midmotheringhay [October 6, 2004] |
| New Bugfix Release The new 6.2 release of Progress Quest fixes various bugs and adds various minor features, as explained in the release notes. Enjoy and destroy! [September 27, 2004] |
| Calendar Reckoning If you've ever been confused about why there are two Hipsember 11ths every year but only one Fourth of Dipnorther, or how many days there are in a plusperpentual year, now you can learn all you ever hoped to know about the reckoning of calendar time withing the realms of Progress Quest. [September 10, 2003] |
| Character Lists Your PQ Account Page now lists all of the characters associated with your account. (The list only includes Spoltog characters, of course, since Spoltog is the only realm requiring login to create a character.) [February 23, 2003] |
| Oobag With the population of Expodrine near 50,000, a new realm has been introduced. It's called Oobag and it's progressing nicely. There's plenty more progress to be had in Oobag, so never mind the pungaroles; get in there and slay! [February 22, 2003] |
| DNS Troubles The PQ site fell out of the DNS tables for a couple days, but we're back now... I just can't leave town without trouble a-brewing, can I? [February 4, 2003] |
| The Horror Funny story, really, if you think about it hard enough. Progress Quest's webhost seems to have dropped off the face of the earth (forever, I hope, and curse them to hell). Our offsite backups are weeks old, so that turns back the clock on new characters, new guilds, guild changes, and new user accounts from October 27 through most of November. Older characters should not lose any progress from the intervening time. Sadly, there are no offsite backups at all of the PQ Forum, which is therefore making a fresh start. We apologize for any loss of progress you may have experienced. No one knows better than we the importance of foward progress, and the terror of backward progress! [November 30, 2002] |
| Mass Extinction An unnatural catasrophe has meant the deaths of every Expodrine character born in a two week period at the end of September and beginning of October. Efforts to resurrect these characters have failed, due to local MP shortages. May their progress be not for naught -- we're backing up the database daily now... [October 14, 2002] |
| Guild System Players may now create and chieftain a guild. Guilds are displayed by rank and vying for cred even as you read. Don't miss the boat! Throw in your lot with those of a like mind or start and the very bottom! [September 23, 2002] |
| The Ice Menace Spurred on by the broad acclaim he received for his first Progress Quest adventure, Joe Cabot has done it again. The adventures of Runix the Dung Elf Battle-Felon continue in The Ice Menace! [September 15, 2002] |
| Primitive Guilds The ability to join guilds has been added to the realm of Spoltog, the beta realm. This feature is in a fairly primitive state at the moment. You can't yet create guilds, or do much else with them, but you can join one of the existing guilds if you're playing on Spoltog. More to come in the fullness of time, of course. [August 25, 2002] |
| The Big Quest Those hankering for (optional) interaction and pleasing images will love this Progress Quest adventure by Joe Cabot, the tale of a Dung Elf Battle Felon named Runix. It is not to be missed and is wonderful in every way. [August 17, 2002] |
| Winamp Skins Another talented PQ fan has come through with the goods, and taken the time to create PQ-themed Winamp skins. [Update: The original link has died, so Internet Archive to the recue!] Available are skins mirroring the acclaimed game window itself, in both 2D and 3D modes, as well as skins which harken back to the PQ Forum. These skins go perfectly with the sounds of Forum denizen Seven's PQ audio marketing experience. [August 16, 2002] |
| PQ Group A devoted fan has set up a mailing list on Yahoo Groups so you can receive still more massive amounts of email on the compelling subject of Progress Quest. Join up! [July 11, 2002] |
| Accounts Page The accounts page now includes an option to receive email updates about the goings-on of Progress Quest. If you don't already have an account, sign up for one so you can be notified when new realms or new features appear. You'll be glad you did, one supposes... [July 10, 2002] |
| All Your Progress Are Belong To Us Progress Quest seems to be popping up all over the place. Diligent fans have been posting photos of their sightings from all over the memesphere, and these pictures have been collected here from the PQ Forum. In the name of all that is holy, please take a look. [April 30, 2002] |
| Forum Upgraded The Progress Quest Forum has been upgraded to phpBB 2.0, which means they have a new look and more nifty features. The content is of the same quality as ever. [April 28, 2002] |
| Tales of Adventure The new Tales of Adventure page relates the exciting triumphs and travails of Progress Quest characters. Reporting in this time is Fung-Shway, fresh from a complicated encounter with a succubus. Submit your tale for consideration at tales@progressquest.com! [April 25, 2002] |
| Welcome to Expodrine A new online realm by the name of Expodrine has just been introduced. Unlike with Spoltog, the beta realm, login is not required to create characters in Expodrine. Meanwhile, it is now no longer possible to create characters in Progress Quest's oldest realm, Knoram. This means that players with the old version of the game must download the latest version of Progres Quest to be able to create new online characters. [April 20, 2002] |
| Progress Quest article in CGM Progress Quest is featured in an article by Tom Chick in the latest issue of Computer Games Magazine where it is called "the most refreshing innovation in RPG's since the Angband bot". It is part four of a three part series called Three Finger Salute on page 100 of the 100-page magazine. [April 11, 2002] |
| Hall of Fame restored The Hall of Fame died some days ago; the culprit was database corruption; all the data was lost. Luckily it could be rebuilt from logs, and it has now been restored to its former glory. [April 10, 2002] |
| New Developer Diary page Get a preview of what's to come in the upcoming Progress Quest expansion. Check out the Developer Diary page. [March 17, 2002] |
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