hi tom, just a question.
i see what you're saying and i like the sound of the game that you're writing or re-writing. my question is, can the initial framework be used as a template that can be expanded on to make more complex and larger games? Sent from my iPad On 12 Jun 2012, at 16:47, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Darren, > > I hear you there. I definitely understand your frustration. Perhaps > better than most, because I was sighted for a large part of my life > and after I went blind a lot of the games I enjoyed are no longer > accessible and now that I'm a programmer I have the skills but not the > time and manpower to do half the things I'd like to do. > > For example, I use to love the Civilization games. Unfortunately, the > mainstream Civilization games are not accessible, and Free Civ would > still require a lot of work to be made fully accessible. While it is > possible for me to write something like that it would take years to > complete. I'm not sure I want to invest five or more years in one > single game no matter how good it is, and that's really the problem. > > Something like Galaxy Civilization would rock. Basically, in Galaxy > Civilization you pick one of the playable races and start out at the > beginning of the space age. You might have some farms, factories, and > a short range, unarmed, spaceship. Just enough to explore your home > system and setup a few colonies on nearby planets. As you play you > will build better ships for deep space exploration, better weapons, > etc and will encounter other races. Some will be friendly and trade > and others will be warlike and engage in an intergalactic conflict. > Eventually, it will come to all out galactic war and you will have to > build cruisers, battleships, and dreadnaughts, etc in order to defend > your home space and take over other planets. It is games like that > which I love because a single campaign can take at least a month to > complete and the game seems nearly endless.After a while you will end > up controlling hundreds of ships, stations, factories, farms, > soldiers, etc. That's the kind of game I really love playing, but I > have no idea how long it would take me to create something that > complex. > > Although, I do have something like that in the works. A couple of > months ago Lisa asked me to rewrite a Dos game called, "Facing the > Enemy," which I'm working on as I have time. You basically start out > with a small fleet of ships and end up building a much larger more > powerful one to defeat the Morte Star Empire. Its not quite as complex > as Galaxy Civilization but is close enough and simpler to create. That > is do in part because you are limited to four battlegroups of 15 ships > each which means that the player can only have 60 ships at a time. > That obviously is easier to deal with since we are not dealing with > hundreds of ships, but a fixed number of each thing. > > Cheers! > > > On 6/12/12, Darren Harris <darren_g_har...@btinternet.com> wrote: >> hi thomas, >> >> yes i can see that totally. it's just frustrating that's all to be honest. >> it's certainly not an easy thing to create i can go with that for sure. >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
