Treasure Quest (game)  Treasure Quest was a puzzle game released by Sirius Entertainment on April 10, 1996. In the CD-ROM scavenger hunt game "Treasure Quest", the player moves from room to room in the mansion of Professor Jonathon William Faulkner, who has bequeathed 1 million dollars to any student who can solve the puzzles he has laid out. To move from one room to the next, players must find a famous quote from visual clues, words and anagrams, and then derive an ultimate solution to the game. Throughout the game, the player is guided by the professor's long-dead love, played by Terry Farrell, who was brought in to the project by "Star Trek"/"Star Wars" author Daryl F. Mallett, who worked at the company at the time. Much of the game's popularity stemmed from the developer's openness about, and players' willingness to share, clues and room quotes, so long as the final solution was kept confidential. The soundtrack featured 11 songs by Jody Marie Gnant (daughter of Sirius Publishing's CEO, Richard A. Gnant,) some of which contained clues. "Treasure Quest: The Official Resource Guide" (Sirius Publishing, 1996) was written by Steve Schwartz with guidance from Sirius Publishing and was available for purchase at the game's launch. Inspired by the book Masquerade and its associated treasure hunt, the game was initially developed by Soggy in Seattle Productions, which then sold its interests to Sirius Productions. Development was completed by David Whipple and Christian Huygen of Motion Pixels, a sister company to Sirius Publishing. The large number of typos and errors in the game were the result of efforts to keep the ultimate answer hidden even from the employees at the company. As the game neared completion, one of the company managers insisted that the game needed to be played to completion to ensure the proper level of quality. The manager feared that such a complex game could be undone by a single error. In order to make sure the ultimate answer remained unknown even by company employees, the game was split in half, 5 rooms each, and tested by two separate groups. One group was composed of employees based at the company headquarters in Scottsdale, AZ while the other consisted of the two programmers who worked remotely. The team at corporate headquarters found many errors and all were corrected. The programming team reported that they had completed their half and found and corrected some errors, but because of the management decision to put a wall between the two groups, neither half was ever verified by the other.