First of all, how would you make somthing like a lifebar for the character and for bosses, etc. And what would be a good way to make weapons, and change how much damage they can do?

Second of all, what would be a good, quick way to do battles taking into the consideration the above

For a lifebar, use a collectable or numeric variable to hold a value such as 100% or 52 health points or similar.

For weapons, use objects. In Quest 3.0 you could create a property for each weapon, called something like "damage", with stronger weapons having higher values.

Then for battles you could implement a command such as "hit #thing# with #object#". Check that the contents of the string variable "thing" is a valid, hittable object (perhaps using properties again), and subtract the value of #object#'s "damage" property from, say, #thing#'s "health" property. Then see if health has dropped to zero or below... and voila, you have yourself a battle.

As for multiple perspectives, set a numeric variable or string variable to the perspective number or name, and use some actions in each of the affected room/object descriptions to specify what should be reported to the player in each case.

Hopefully this all makes sense... let me know if you have any questions (preferably on the forum so others can have the benefit of having things explained too).

Thanks for telling me about the Damage thing in 3.0 though!

Can you go alittle more indepth on the perspective thing?

If so, have the character name or a character number in a string or numeric variable. For "LOOK" descriptions and room descriptions that depend on the choice of character, use a conditional action to check the character and print the appropriate description.

You won't be able to make a nice-looking lifebar in Quest unfortunately, as all Quest could do with a health rating would be to print the number, or print a certain number of "=" signs etc. Maybe this kind of feature will appear in a future version...

Then insert an afterturn action into the game such as:

(When health is your health collectable and goes from 0-15)

afterturn if has <health;-6> then show <bad.bmp> else if has <health;+5> and has <health;-11> then show <mid.bmp> else if has <health;+10> then show <good.bmp>

PPS. If you do use Paint to make the healthbar don't forget to go down to the bottom right hand of the screen and pull the small blue box so that the drawing window surrounds your healthbar. Otherwise when shown in Quest you'll hardly be able to see it!