Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread dark
Hi Travis. Take a look at Aprone's lunimals, which basically had the same idea with eco system management instead of farms. the way to make that sort of game interesting is with lots of levels, acheivements, tasks to do etc and progressive measures in gameplay that let you progress. For ex

Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread dark
Hi Travis. Actually I'd love a game like this and have been thinking about design and suggestions. The first is variation. In reality, farming isn't just a matter of planting things and waiting, or even just remebering to add water every so often. You need to watch out for pests, perhaps irr

Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread Travis Siegel
That's certainly possible.  The way it works now is after you plant a vegitable (no fruits yet), you have to wait a number of seconds (roughly equivalent to how many days it would take in rl) before you can harvest the plants.  There's of course background music for each level, and sounds for v

Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread Maureen McEntee
Hi Travis, how about making it like a real farm, with drouts, floods and the like and the farmer has to survive, and save his crops. then be able to sell them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119014): https://groups.io/

Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Heh, just for information, and kind of a outreach. I've actually been working on a game similar to those found on the Iphone where you can grow things in your garden, harvest them, sell them, upgrade them, and so on.  My wife plays one of these, and it sounded so interesting, I decided to writ

Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking

2018-04-14 Thread Travis Siegel
Just for reference, jzip and frots both compile just fine on mac OSX.  I used to have copies on my mac pages, but I have since lost those actual pages, though I'm sure I can still find the programs if anyone still wants them.  Perhaps I need to rebuild my mac pages, and post everything again. 

Re: [blind-gamers] Cast Aways problem

2018-04-14 Thread Jordan Gallacher
Thanks. The link I had in my favorites somehow broke. Jordan From: blind-gamers@groups.io On Behalf Of Jeremy Kaldobsky Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 3:28 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Cast Aways problem www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames/