Crystal Quest (Flash Remake)

An attempted remake of Crystal Quest from 1987 in Adobe Flash with ActionScript.

Crystals in space! Use your mouse to play. Click to start. Click to fire. The ship follows your mouse movements. Press Spacebar to clear the screen of enemies.

Tools used:

• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Fireworks
• ActionScript
• Aseprite

This game was originally created in Adobe Flash and was converted to a standalone Windows executable using swftoexe because Flash went EOL by Adobe on December 31, 2020.  I used flashplayer11_3r300_273_win_sa as the target projector.

I grew up with Macintosh Performa computers in the classroom and they either had Oregon Trail or Crystal Quest loaded on them. I spent countless hours after school, mastering my crystal questing skills, so naturally when I learned some scripting and programming I decided to recreate Crystal Quest to the best of my ability and memory. My version of Crystal Quest is made in Adobe Flash with ActionScript. I used Aseprite and Fireworks to make the graphics. I took Flashkit samples to make the sound effects and I scripted the enemy AI by observing and playing Crystal Quest in a Mac OS 7 emulator.