Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.

[Lisa Hayes]

Jim Kitchen has written a trucker game, very good one too.
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jordan Gallacher
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2018 10:12 AM
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.

Totally agree. A trucking sim would be great.  Also as I e-mailed you off 
list, a transport tycoon or railroad tycoon or the other two ideas would be 
good as well.
Jordan
On Feb 10, 2018, at 3:55 PM, Joshua Tubbs <orin8...@gmail.com> wrote:

I think we need a realistic trucking simulator. Jim Kitchen’s Trucker 
doesn’t do it for me, as you don’t actually drive a truck, instead it’s 
just programmed by playing sounds and inputting numbers.

This simulator should be like Eurofly and use real map data from a source 
such as Open Street Maps, where the world is at our fingertips. I’m sure 
BGT won’t be able to pull the data from the Open Street Map API though, so 
I hope you switch to a language capable of doing that.
I also think we are getting more online games, but at present Swamp is the 
only one where you can team up with people on missions. With a trucking 
simulator, it’d be nice to communicate and interact with people online, 
whether that be buying food at truck stops or resting with them.

I don’t know how task dispatches would be generated, but when I think of 
“simulator” I’d like it to be as realistic as possible, no excuses unless 
you can’t get help programming a certain feature. For example, the Eurofly 
developer says it’s impossible to program some features to make flying 
more realistic. Okay, fine, I don’t expect to be flying airways and for 
you to map out every single airport in the world. But at least use feet 
for everything, as real pilots do, make ATC phraseology realistic and use 
all the frequencies and have coverage available worldwide, even though the 
tower voices may be the same a lot.

Which brings me to Tube Sim. There’s not a lot to do in it. Once you’re 
done with Driver School, you’ve got about 10-15 tasks to do, some of which 
are long sure. Once complete, that’s it. Then you’re just left with 
driving freely and that’s it.
So really, I think you should go for the trucking simulator, as simulators 
are honestly what’s truly lacking. Those and RPGs.

On Feb 10, 2018, at 7:51 AM, Nick and Gemma Adamson <n...@ndadamson.com> 
wrote:

Hi All.
As you may know I develop audio games and currently have 3 titles I've
released over the last 6 years, check out www.ndadamson.com for Dotris, 
Park
Boss, and Tube Sim.

I'm trying to come up with a new project that I can work on and I thought
I'd ask what area do players feel is lacking with in the audio games
community.
As a day job I'm a developer in a field which is not related to games at 
all
so developing audio games is something I do for fun.
So I'm after your ideas. What is a type of game which you'd like to play
which there's not an audio game for?
Now that's quite a big question so I'm going to put some limits.
1.    I'm not after a whole game synopsis or script yet. A brief 
paragraph
is more than enough. Tell me just enough so I get the idea of the game or
the type of game you'd like to play.
2.    I'm not interested in rewriting an audio game that already exists.
That's not to say that if your idea has enough differences to something 
that
already exists it won't be considered. For example, suggesting a "better
racing game" is a bit vague. You'd need to tell me why it's not the same 
as
topspeed3. Or a submarine simulator, why isn't it lone wolf. Feel free to
consider games from the past that are no longer available but what would
make it better.
3.    I'm not really interested in developing another first person 
shooter
or version of space invaders.
4.    I'm not really in to games that don't really have any skill to 
them.
That's not to say the concept of casual games shouldn't be suggested, but
I'd like to develop a game that has replay value and isn't something that
you'd play for 15 minutes before getting board of.
5.    Consider game genres. Think big, Think small, Think card games,
Think board games, Think simulator, think adventure games, think games 
that
tell a story, think games that don't, basically let your imagination run
wild, other than the couple of limits above, know idea is off the table.

For those who have played the games I've released are there any areas 
that I
could improve on. I'm not after specific changes you'd like to see, it's
more of a general question, Better audio, more immersive, less 
repetitive,
more or less challenging. I'm looking for things that will help with 
future
developments. One of the things is I'm going to be moving away from BGT 
as a
development environment, I think I've just about hit the limits of what 
it
can do.

There's no promises that any ideas will be taken forward, and don't 
expect
anything to be released in the next couple of weeks. Really what I'm 
hoping
will happen is that someone will suggest something and it'll grab my
attention and spark my imagination.

Thanks.
Nick.












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