SIDEQUEST.exe - REALITY HAS UNFINISHED MISSIONS.

What if your everyday life had side quests?

Meet SIDEQUEST.exe — a gamified real-world exploration project built for the Hacktoberfest 2026 DEV Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass.

The idea is simple: step away from the screen, explore your surroundings, complete small real-world missions, and turn ordinary moments into adventures worth remembering.

🎮 What can you do with SIDEQUEST.exe?

• 🧭 Real-World Missions: Discover small challenges that encourage exploration, curiosity, and meaningful offline experiences.
• ⚡ XP & Level Progression: Earn experience points and level up as you complete missions.
• 📓 Field Journal: Record your observations, discoveries, and memorable moments.
• 🕸️ The Clue Web: Collect clues and connect discoveries through a visual network.
• ✳️ Mission Generator: Generate missions based on your mood, from creative challenges to calm, low-energy activities.
• 💾 Browser-Based Progress: Save your progress locally without creating an account.
• 📦 Data Export: Download a JSON backup of your progress and discoveries.

🌱 Why I built it

We spend so much time online that we sometimes forget how much there is to discover outside our screens.

I wanted to experiment with turning everyday exploration into something playful — a tiny nudge to be curious, notice the world around us, and make ordinary days a little more interesting.

🚀 Try it out

Live Demo: https://jahnavist04.github.io/sidequest-exe/

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/jahnavist04/sidequest-exe

The project is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and is hosted using GitHub Pages. It works directly in your browser, with no installation required.

🤖 What's next?

I want to take SIDEQUEST.exe further by integrating an open-weight AI model to generate more personalized missions, while keeping the experience accessible and privacy-conscious.

The current mission generator is rule-based, so the AI integration is a future improvement rather than an existing feature.

💚 The mission

Close this tab. Step outside if you can. Find something interesting. Come back with a story.

Reality has unfinished missions. Go complete one.

I'd love to hear your ideas for making real-world exploration more fun!

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