Re: [blind-gamers] Oh dear. I can't get hero's call working

2017-12-30 Thread Damien Sykes
Hi, That's one of the things I hate about CSharp, and the .NET platform in general. You really have to make an effort to obfuscate. Don't worry, your copy isn't the only demon in the dark. I'm getting: System.PlatformNotSupportedException: MonoGame requires either ARB_framebuffer_object or EXT

[blind-gamers] Oh dear. I can't get hero's call working

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Length cannot be less than zero. Parameter name: length at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy) at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length) at Ian.RPGStartup.SetWorkingDirect

Re: [blind-gamers] Soundtrack for A Hero's Call.

2017-12-30 Thread Jack Falejjczyk
I believe the soundtrack should still be available for purchase/streaming on the major music services. On 12/30/17, michael barnes wrote: > Hello. > > I first got to say that A Hero's Call is a great game. > I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of the soundtrack? > > Thanks. > > > > -

[blind-gamers] a hero's call server down

2017-12-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi It seems a hero’s call out of sight games server is down. I had to delete the game folder, re-extract it. Now I cannot unlock the game. So if entombed is free, I’d like to play that until a hero’s call is back up and running. I really hope entombed is all the way free.

[blind-gamers] entombed free? really?

2017-12-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Hi I just went to the entombed website. And it seems the game still costs $39 because there is a payPal button? So is it free, or not?

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Stephen
The way I see it, some people attacked him, and he arked up and started lashing out at some who quite frankly, did not deserve to be lashed out at. He got his nose out of joint with me because I kept finding crash bugs with monkey business, one after another after another. I committed the oh

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
Yeah but by then people were really mad. Really mad, sadly espsoftworks shifted from lioncourt to adora to draconis which seems to have gone silent ish. Just like everything in the old core. On 31/12/2017 12:08 p.m., Charles Rivard wrote: Someone also put out a hack for one of the games be

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
No one knows about the start of the history from 1995-2005 that well its only recently that we have started to record community history on forums, archives, audyssey.org, etc and even then the mag has stopped. If I remember rightly, we had a few servers with stuff, one softcon server now lost

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
Thats the problem you are right, up till the change he had regularly been releasing updates. In the last batch, something happened to get him off, he simply shut his mouth and this was before the external attacks started, the only guy he would talk to was phill and thats why we even tried to h

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
The issue wasn't that he wasn't forfilling things, I think we would have been ok if he didn't close down all avenues of communication. He didn't put out a anything, no one knew what was happening and so no one knew. On 31/12/2017 11:19 a.m., Paul Lemm wrote: Hi, I wasn't actually around

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
James wasn't that bad, up to 2005 or so he ran old espsoftworks. It was a nice game, company mostly with tabletop games, monkey business, pinball  classic, and dynaman were origionally his as well as shellshock and a few others. Then he decided to branch out and make his own style of gaming s

Re: [blind-gamers] a hero's call for help rescuing my speech

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
Technically tolque which is what this thing uses should have the jfwapi.dll. If you have something like teamtalk it should be in there. If you copy that over to the tolque folder technically that will work I am not sure what else one needs to do but still. On 31/12/2017 7:28 a.m., Michael

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
I agree as well. however in this case the guy took money, for something that never came. I am not talking about breakerboxgames where while its a bit hit and miss its eventually happened, I mean never and some of these were preorders. It was such a disaster it changed how the industry as a wh

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Lisa Hayes
you're right Charles fault maybe on both sides, but it was some gamers who threw the first bomb not James. -Original Message- From: Charles Rivard Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2017 9:50 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question Ac

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread michael barnes
It's like I said earlier. There is no reason for anyone to be nasty with a developer. One of the things that was said to me by a great late developer of accessible games was this. People will keep on and there won't be anymore games for the blind. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You r

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Justin Jones
Sorry Charles, but that's not how it works. On 12/30/17, Charles Rivard wrote: > Personally, if one developer burned me, I would not hold it against others. > > Also, and this is not in reply to any one poster but to everyone, I don't > feel that people who weren't around when all of this happene

[blind-gamers] Soundtrack for A Hero's Call.

2017-12-30 Thread michael barnes
Hello. I first got to say that A Hero's Call is a great game. I was wondering if anyone could send me a copy of the soundtrack? Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118281): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/1

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
Personally, if one developer burned me, I would not hold it against others. Also, and this is not in reply to any one poster but to everyone, I don't feel that people who weren't around when all of this happened should comment without firsthand knowledge of what went on during the flying of the

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
Someone also put out a hack for one of the games because he felt that, seeing as he got a pirated copy for free, everyone else should get it, too. Think that didn't cause a fuss?? Holy Smoke!! This was after James North had sold the rights to the game to Josh de Lioncourt, if I remember it ri

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
Reality check for Justin: Seeing as you know nothing about what went on between James North and a lot of blind gamers, you should say nothing. While it is true that, as the saying goes, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen", there was also absolutely no reason for these people t

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
Actually, as I remember it, James North did keep us updated when delays cropped up. Most of the delays dealt with bugs in the games, and I thought that the delays were justified. As for the last batch of games after the company name change, I think that we should have gotten lur money back whe

Re: [blind-gamers] Updating A hero's call.

2017-12-30 Thread michael barnes
I was not sure if there was one or not. I was only going by what I had read on a form that I am on. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 30, 2017, at 12:05 PM, Charles Rivard wrote: > > It only came out late yesterday. Hmm. What do you think about an update so > soon? > > > > > If you think you

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Paul Lemm
Hi, I wasn't actually around when this thing with James North happened, and though I don't think there is ever any reason for anyone to be nasty to someone else as there is always a constructive way to go around things, . I do think however, that if a developer has taken pre-payment for someth

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Shaun Everiss
Have everyone forgotthe disaster which james north became? Now james north was a nice guy that decided after esp softworks had sold a lot of arcade games that he wanted a change and sold the company to what eventually became draconis. He should never had done that, up till then he was doing

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Milos Przic
Will we have to pay even more when the next major update, the one with graphics, will be released? Best, Miloš - Original Message - From: "Lenron" To: Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 09:14 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question The game works

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Lenron
The game works perfectly fine with nvda. On 12/30/17, Christina wrote: > Thank you. > > > From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of > Greg Wocher > Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:32 AM > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Christina
Thanks very much. -Original Message- From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of William James Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:29 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question It sounds like Jost is capt

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Christina
Thank you. From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of Greg Wocher Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:32 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question Hello, Yes you will need to put JAWS to sleep or exit out o

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Justin Jones
Okay, reality check: if a developer cannot handle the heat, he shouldn't be a developer, or, at the very least, have someone else handle his public relations. I don't know anything about this James person you guys are on about, but based on what I have heard, he sounded like a thin-skinned narsici

Re: [blind-gamers] a hero's call for help rescuing my speech

2017-12-30 Thread Michael
Thanks a ton Phil! And thanks to the dev team who set up this toggle speech output mode thingy. Yay I have speech back! Sorry its not my usual screen reader, but its all good! Thanks again!!! Michael Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Phil Vlasak Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 12:36 PM To:

Re: [blind-gamers] a hero's call for help rescuing my speech

2017-12-30 Thread Phil Vlasak
Michael, Try, Toggle Speech Output Quickly switch between screen reader support, SAPI, and no speech Alt + O - Original Message - From: Michael To: blind-gamers@groups.io Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 1:28 PM Subject: [blind-gamers] a hero's call for help rescuing my sp

[blind-gamers] a hero's call for help rescuing my speech

2017-12-30 Thread Michael
Hi all, I wrongly assumed I could set the speech output to something other than NVDA or sapi. Namely, Jaws, but since I wasn’t sure what that other option was, and I still can’t even recall what it was called, I set it to that, and now I have no speech running at all when I start the game. Is th

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Yes I agree also. And now everybody I checked my bank and I am good to go! So guess what? I am off to buy a hero’s call and start playing, yay! Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Ian McNamara Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 12:54 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: James North - Re: [bl

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi all, I completely agree, it’s good to give feedback to developers but not be nasty or slag them off. If your not satisfied with what your getting then why not learn the skills and make a game you want? Kind regards. Ian McNamara > On 30 Dec 2017, at 17:42, Jordan Gallacher > wrote: >

Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
No idea. I do not even know his email. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Lisa Hayes Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 04:03 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question josh any idea how to do this? I'd love it.    From: Josh Kennedy Sent: Saturday, December

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Jordan Gallacher
Yep so true. It is also not right to talk about another product on a list that is specificly for one product, which is what one person did, and he caused a lot of headaches for a lot of people. Jordan -Original Message- From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behal

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread William James
It sounds like Jost is capturing control of your keyboard. Turn jars off altogether while playing the game. That should fix your problem. Sent from my iPhone 7 Plus > On Dec 30, 2017, at 10:14 AM, Christina wrote: > > Hi, > My husband and I are both trying to play A Hero's Call on separate > c

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Josh Kennedy
Does a hero’s call also work with NVDA? Or will I have to shut NVDA off? NVDA is my primary screen reader. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Greg Wocher Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 12:23 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question Hello

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Greg Wocher
Hello, Yes you will need to put JAWS to sleep or exit out of it when playing the game. If you don’t the arrow keys won’t work to move you thru menus and things. Regards, Greg Wocher > On Dec 30, 2017, at 10:19 AM, Liam Erven wrote: > > Hi. You may want to disable jaws completely while playing

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heros Call released

2017-12-30 Thread Keao Wright
I plan to get the game soon, I hope the servers are not to full. From: kukovecand...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 5:45 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heros Call released please download link. Phil Vlasak je 30.12.2017 ob 15:36 napisal:  A H

Re: [blind-gamers] Updating A hero's call.

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
It only came out late yesterday. Hmm. What do you think about an update so soon? If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! -Original Message- From: michael barnes Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:02 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Updatin

Re: James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread michael barnes
It is very sad when people are nasty with developers of games for the blind. We have lost so many developers do to this reason. It is cool to give ideas or suggestions, but not to be nasty with them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heros Call released

2017-12-30 Thread Phil Vlasak
kukovecandrej You can download the game but it is over a gigabyte in size and there is no demo mode in which you can try the game out. After unzipping the game and running it, you get one choice to unlock it. You can listen to the game played on Youtube. - Original Message - From:

James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
If you know how, feel free. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! From: Josh Kennedy Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 10:01 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question If James North was driven away, then why don't we simply just get hi

James North - Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
He made it very clear that he would not be producing games for impatient and nasty customers anymore. If you have contact info for him, contact him to see if he would give it another try. In short, though, lotsa luck. Some, but not all, blind and visually impaired gamers were far too hostile.

[blind-gamers] Updating A hero's call.

2017-12-30 Thread michael barnes
I heard that there is a update to A hero's call. I am not sure if this is true. After I ran the update file my game still shows 1.0 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118253): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118253

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heros Call released

2017-12-30 Thread Charles Rivard
If you are asking for the link to get the game, read the message you replied to. The link is in it. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! From: kukovecand...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 9:45 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heros Call released

2017-12-30 Thread kukovecand...@gmail.com
please download link. Phil Vlasak je 30.12.2017 ob 15:36 napisal:  A Hero's Call version 1.0 - An Accessible Fantasy RPG by Out of Sight Games For Windows 7 and later, was released December 29, 2017. A Hero’s Call version 1.0 will be an AUDIO ONLY release–the game will feature no visuals but

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Christina
Hi, That worked! Thanks very much! Christina From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of Liam Erven Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 10:19 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question Hi. You may want to disabl

Re: [blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Liam Erven
Hi. You may want to disable jaws completely while playing and stick to using SAPI. I’m unsure if this will solve all the issues, but I wonder if perhaps keyboard input is being intercepted by Jaws. It has a nasty hhabbit of doing this. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Christina Sent: Satur

[blind-gamers] A Heroe's Call Speech Output Question

2017-12-30 Thread Christina
Hi, My husband and I are both trying to play A Hero's Call on separate computers. We unlocked the game with our account info. However, not all elements of the game are read. For example, when I use the arrow keys to select my character's attributes, no voice output can be heard. I tried switching

[blind-gamers] A Heros Call released

2017-12-30 Thread Phil Vlasak
A Hero's Call version 1.0 - An Accessible Fantasy RPG by Out of Sight Games For Windows 7 and later, was released December 29, 2017. A Hero’s Call version 1.0 will be an AUDIO ONLY release–the game will feature no visuals but will be completely playable only from using sound. To achieve this,

Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question

2017-12-30 Thread Lisa Hayes
josh any idea how to do this? I'd love it. From: Josh Kennedy Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2017 3:01 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] A Hero's Call question If James North was driven away, then why don't we simply just get him to come back? Sent with AquaMail for An