Mike Riley

Quest for the Unicorn was my second foray into rogue-like games. I began writing the original version in the late 80s and released version 1.0 around 1990.

Quest for the Unicorn was based upon the engine that I had written for The Land. I had updated the engine to support a more expansive world than what the original engine could support. The engine for The Land also had a lot of hard coded values in it which I had moved off to the data files for Quest for the Unicorn, making the engine more generic in case I were to ever use it again for another game of this type.