KQ - an adventure game

kq

KQ is an adventure game in the spirit of old console games such as Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy or Zelda.

You control an adventurer, to be chosen amongst eight differently skilled characters (a warrior, a priest, a thief, etc.), across a journey to find the magical Staff of Xenarum. Some subquests will be available to you as well.

You can find money in several places, but mostly by fighting monsters outside of towns. You can then spend this money in towns buying equipment, weaponry, medicine, magical items, spells and many more. Towns are also a common place to gather information or restore health.

You will be able to save your game, but only outside of towns and caves, or in special areas known as "save spots".

A plot summary, a list of heroes, characters and enemies, information about locations and objects, a world map and much more information can be found at the KQ webpage: http://kqlives.sourceforge.net/index.php/GameInfo

Left, Right, Up, Down

move the player

Space

the "Action" and "OK" button; can be used to activate items and validate menu options

Esc

the "Escape" button; bring the load/save/configure menu, or escape from the current menu

Enter

bring the character menu to use items, choose equipment, cast spells or see your players' characteristics

F1

bring the help screen

F12

take a screenshot; screenshots are stored in the ~/.kq/ directory

KQ was originally written by Josh Bolduc <jdb@mb.sympatico.ca>, and was continued by people from the Allegro community, mostly Peter Hull <peter@valleyway.fsnet.co.uk>, TeamTerradactyl <teamterradactyl@ldsisp.com> and Chris Barry <crbarry@mts.net>.

This manual page was written by Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).