[Audyssey] Snake hunting in Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Karl
Hi, I am trying to beat the snake in the chamber of Secrets. Despite when or how many times I use the sword, I always get eaten. Any hints on how to kill the snake? Thanks, Karl -- Email services by FreedomBox. Surf the Net at the sound of your voice. www.freedombox.info

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Charles Rivard
The game is still popular because it is what a game is supposed to be. FUN TO PLAY! The same can be said for why a band out of the early sixties to the seventies is still popular. I have heard people who did not grow up listening to The Beatles or The Rolling Stones get a taste of their music

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
any reason why ms are killing direct play and what they will replace it with? It will mean that stuff like topspeed multiplayer will be non playable. Not sure about railracer, or any of the vipgameszone stuff, railracer has its own custom made server. At 10:42 a.m. 24/03/2007, you wrote: >Hi Gary,

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
what is it like? I wander if you just release it to those that are bored enough. I myself am extremely bored, may have a crack at it for what its worth. At 10:56 a.m. 24/03/2007, you wrote: >Hi Kerry, >Yes, but it is not available for download. James North actually had >Raceway to beta stage befor

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
Lets face it though, we are just starting. Sighted stuff is way ahead of our stuff. We have only just started the dotnet course of games. There are still a few of us that use vb6, and autoit, or have just dropped said older things. We have only just started multiplayer support. We have only just g

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Jacob Elsberry
Hi, Do you know if remoting has been phased out as well? We had to make a poker game that could be played over the internet for my C# class in college, and our professor seemed to think remoting was the best solution. You really don't have to worry about a lot of the details that you normally w

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
well we all learned the hard way what was best and what plainly sucked. Read my last message I posted about the time reset thing. If a game in development switches devs then the time that the last dev put in the game shouldn't count against the other dev's time. I know from you tom that the origon

Re: [Audyssey] opinions

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
in reguards to the older game vs newer game thing, I think that if we had all games look like the newer way of doing things we would forget. Arcade is good, still is good. Classics are being made all the time. In the arcade game play except for packman I think all the rest are modified rehashed s

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread shaun everiss
I am sure tom is doing his best. On a side note, I think once a game switches from dev to dev and its still under development, that dev shouldn't incur the wrath from users over time on the project that he didn't have, ie the time the other dev has spent on the project in question shouldn't be a

Re: [Audyssey] Monty Opinions was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Maslo
Thomas: I am comparing it the newer games out there now. You see WE system, PS 3 and PS 2 games. They are so enriched with sounds, complexity etc. For example, my mom and dad play ps 2 golf. It is so awesome. I love Jim Kitchen's golf game and play it probably 2-4 days a week. I wish it had a lit

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Maslo
Thomas: I thank you so much time for your response. I greatly appreciate the time you took to respond. As you said interests change and maybe since I most my vision not to long ago maybe my interest have moved ahead. I, as said before, will try the game and maybe will be surprised with how much

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Kerry, Yes, but it is not available for download. James North actually had Raceway to beta stage before he suddenly started over on the game. I have the beta, but it isn't what you would call super great. kerry wrote: > oh there is a older version of race way? where could one get this? >

[Audyssey] Side-Scrollers vs FPS.

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lisa, Agreed. Side-scrollers are inherently much easier for us since we are only interested in for general directions up, down, left, and right. It is also easier to pinpoint where an item is as we can here it left or right and only need to walk or jump in that general direction to grab it.

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Gary, I know many people have interest in a net play feature, but I don't simply have time to work that in to the 1.0 release. One of the major factors I have elected not to make a net play feature is that Microsoft is fasing out DirectPlay in DirectX 10 which games like Topspeed use for net

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, As for the Monty test team that team is full. As for Raceway testing I haven't began selecting testers yet for that project so it is premature for anyone to ask can I be on the Raceway team. Smile. william lomas wrote: > hi > > thanks for honest answer. > i still run windows on my maci

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread kerry
oh there is a older version of race way? where could one get this? - Original Message - From: "Gary Whittington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:05 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge > Hi Tom > > AS an old owner of

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Lisa Leonardi
Plus, the games in the 21st century are almost solely focussed on the graphical nature of the game. I, for one, am looking forward to another side scroller. Though I do have one or two of them, I don't find the games with the ability to turn in any direction as enjoyable. I like them, but I con

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Gary Whittington
Hi Tom AS an old owner of Raceway, that being two copies, I even wait longer if the game comes out with a net play feature. Crash - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:09 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Raceway w

Re: [Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Draconis Entertainment
Just to clarify, we get credit card orders all the time that work just fine. Søren Jensen wrote: > Hi Raul. > > I'm sorry to post this on the list because it's a bit off topic, but here is > my answer: > > My credit card does work in other online shops but not in the Draconiss > shop. But I'll

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Charles Rivard
I'm trying to figure out how you figure that learning something new is, as you say, stepping back into the dark ages. Even though we have calculators on our computers, pocket calculators, and other gadgets, a Cranmer abacus is handy at times, even though it is pretty old technology. Learning t

Re: [Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Raul. I'm sorry to post this on the list because it's a bit off topic, but here is my answer: My credit card does work in other online shops but not in the Draconiss shop. But I'll see if I can set up a paypal account. If other have successfully ordered some games in Draconiss shop useing th

Re: [Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Dark
I once got a declined message when i didn't type in my creddit card number correctly, obviously there are lots of other things it could be as well, as Raul says, but perhaps checking the number might be a good idea to begin with. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Raul A.

Re: [Audyssey] opinions

2007-03-23 Thread Neo
Also, I don't think we were arguing your opinion. Yes, it's right that when someone presents an opinion that doesn't appeal to the others, they probably try to persuade him with their reasons, but I was actually expecting much more flames and insulting going when I saw that post of yours than oc

Re: [Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
That is a question for your bank. Not for the list and not for Draconis Entertainment. Any merchant processing a credit card will get one of two answers. Approve or Decline. That is it. If they get an approve message, they will also get an approval code and process the order. If they get a decl

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Neo
Exactly, Charles. I believe that if you didn't know that this was supposed to be a remake of an old Atari game, it would simply blow ya away. But just because the original game sounds too old to you, you've made a negative judge about it. Take care, Lukas - Original Message - From: "Cha

Re: [Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. I don't understand why my visa-card doesn't work in the shop. I'm always getting the following message: Your credit card was declined. Please try another card or contact your bank for more info. I'm sure my credit card works. I have tried to ordre the game directly from the game and sended

Re: [Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread william lomas
hi thanks for honest answer. i still run windows on my macintosh but purely for gaming needs so would be interested tom if you could reply to me privately off list regarding monty, wondering if i can be on the team at all of testers thanks, will On 23 Mar 2007, at 16:09, Thomas Ward wrote: >

Re: [Audyssey] where does sarah come from? RE: hp question

2007-03-23 Thread Davy Kager
I thought she was hanging around on this list? (Anyways, that's why I'm always so quiet here.) - Original Message - From: "Charles Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] where does sarah come from? RE: hp q

Re: [Audyssey] where does sarah come from? RE: hp question

2007-03-23 Thread Davy Kager
Wow, I thought the story of BSC Games's Hunter was well-written... Although I'm sure that Justin can't point me to a real person called Hunter Joe. - Original Message - From: "Phil Vlasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 11:06 PM Subject: R

[Audyssey] Raceway was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi William, Yeah, I realise Raceway has been on the waiting list for an extremely long time. Do remember most of that is the fault of Raceway's previous owner. It has only been in my custity for a year, and for most of that year I have been hopping between three different game projects: STFC, M

[Audyssey] Things to know when you order Sarah

2007-03-23 Thread Draconis Entertainment
Greetings all, We're getting drowned in countless emails about ordering this title, so we thought we'd post and make a few things a little more clear. Please pass on this message to anyone you feel may benefit from it. When you order Sarah, it is important to realize there are three companies

[Audyssey] Monty Opinions was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael and all, As I mentioned earlier I do respect your opinions, but I do disagree with them somewhat. It would be helpful if you could explain to everyone why you feel as you do. Opinions themselves aren't bad, but most of the time people would like to know the reason behind why you feel

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Agreed. Simply saying that someone does or does not like something isn't just enough to sway a developer from his or her course. We would like reasons backed up with concrete examples of why side-scrollers are less desirable than an ultra modern FPS game. Is the reasoning have to do w

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Dark
Hi thom. I agree. on a purely personal level, Shades of doom was my first Audio game simply because the original Doom is a game that I personally find unplayable. for the same very selfish reason, I'd love to see audio resident evil etc. On general principles though as i said, the more accessi

[Audyssey] List perfanity was Montezuma's Revenge

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, Just a reminder to watch your perfanity on list. I noticed one of us let one slip, and this is a friendly reminder that the moderators strongly encurrage reframing from use of perfanity on Audyssey. We have members from all sorts of ages and religious backgrounds and we should try and be

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, manpower is also a very big contributer as to why we don't have anything close to Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness, Resident Evil, Star Trek Elite force, or another FPS game sightees play. They have money to higher real acters to do the cutscenes, they have money to have profetional sound

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I can agree in part with those who want newer accessible games based on newer mainstream games, but that kind of thinking can get a developer in hot water if he or she does allot of that. I mean I'd love to play a good remake of Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, and more of our hottest titles

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Liam, I am not like Alchemy and I do my best to keep those on prepaid status and not on prepaid status of recent changes well in advance so they know what they should and can expect. The only reason I don't want to give a new release date is I don't want to make another commitment I may or no

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Dark
Hello Michael. One of the purposes for this list is the discussion of audio games and people's opinions about them, and your opinionns on the subject are extremely welcome as part of this discussion. However, examining opinions in detail, and the basis for holding them can often be a helpful t

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread william lomas
hi while i am not meaning to be rude here, shouldnt raceway be given more development time. we've been waiting four, five maybe six years for that, it is getting long in the tooth. ok, money was promised, monty i mean a year or so ago but i doubt to be fair we will see raceway this year s

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Liam, Well, keep in mind most of the delays were on Alchemy's part and not mine. There has been very few days over the passed year I have not worked on Monty at least a little. I had to rewrite the game from scratch which of course slowed down production, but I don't expect this recent change

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, I respect your opinions, but I do have some trouble understanding why just because a game is old to sighted people why does it have to be old and boring to many blind users that never had a first chance to play? This kind of reminds me of my college dorm mates first reaction when th

[Audyssey] opinions

2007-03-23 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
You are correct that opinions are really welcome. What we all need to remember is that this is email and we don't really know the tone of the person writing the message. For me personally, I certainly have a lot more things to worry about right now with my recent move, than whether a game is ma

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Michael Maslo
Hi List: Everyone has a right to a opinion. I personally don't look forward to the dark ages but at the same time I fully appreciate and respect for those who have the opinion that old is better. I appreciate that going and bringing a classic back to life is awesome and look forward to it. Why is

Re: [Audyssey] Montezuma's Revenge News

2007-03-23 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
That is too bad you feel that way. One of the things which makes Monty more appealing is the restoration to the original as best as possible. Remember that computers like today were not around in the seventies. This is not a new concept either. At Wal-Mart, one can easily find restored Atari ga