I would mostly like to get hold of a copy of worms etc. so I can 'show' it
to sighted people nowadays...LOL!
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
----- Original Message -----
From: "shaun everiss" <shau...@xtra.co.nz>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy
games - but sort of animal versions
<grin>
I probably can still source a copy of lemmings scortched earth and maybe
worms or at least some of those if anyone cares for it.
At 07:12 a.m. 23/03/2010, you wrote:
One of the games we used to play quite often on a friday afternoon in the
offices as a sort of inhouse LAN gaming activity was worms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_game
Here's a short version of the descriptive section of that page:
---start of content---
Worms is a series of turn-based computer games developed by British
company Team17 Software. Players control a small platoon of earthworms
across a deformable landscape, battling other computer- or
player-controlled teams. The games feature bright and humorous
cartoon-style animation and a varied arsenal of bizarre weapons.
The game, whose concept was devised by Andy Davidson,[1] was described by
the Amiga gaming press as a cross between Cannon Fodder and Lemmings.[2]
It is part of a wider genre of turn-based combat games in which each
player controls characters who duel with projectile weapons; similar games
include Scorched Earth and Gorilla.
---end of content---
This was specifically for sighted guys, and it also had a bunch of funny
sound options like choosing different languages/vocabularies you could let
your team make use of for comments, instructions etc., but you basically
navigated your teams worms around the 2D environment, sometimes making use
of either parts of the environment, or certain bits of equipment like
rocket packs, grappling hook ropes etc., and then let them make use of
whatever weapons they had/found to attack the other teams
members/environment pieces etc. to try obliterate everyone except your
team, and I think you could have up to around 6 teams taking part in a
session, and there were lots of different environments/stageing areas as
well, along with different pieces of equipment/weaponry.
This was generally turn based, I think either with a sort of time limit,
or with limiting each turn to a certain amount of activity, as in move so
far before carrying out a form of attack, and the weapons ranged from
manual weapons to missile weapons, to some other stranger ones that came
straight out of sci fi novels/cartoon serieses etc.
Anyway, after looking into/trying out time of conflict, was just thinking
about sort of real time strategy games based on alternative scenarios,
like animals/monsters, and wondering if anyone had considered/looked into
something like this ever...?
Stay well
Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'
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