Re: [Audyssey] Smarter than a 5th Grader?

2009-06-10 Thread piotr machacz
seems like the game is based off a tv show we have here, it was quite interesting, if someone lost they would have to speak directly to the camera, I, their name, am not smarter than a fifth grater. that is still aired here. On 6/10/09, Robert Montowski r_montow...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello all,

Re: [Audyssey] Super egg hunt 1.2 is here

2009-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Where's Colonel Sanders when we need him? --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: Robyn Bowskill auntie...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Super egg hunt 1.2 is here I tell him

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Draconis Entertainment
Hi, We actually have nothing against Linux. Orca is a capable screen reader, and the OS is an excellent alternative. At this time, however, we do not believe the overhead involved in supporting a third OS would be worth the very small number of users who would benefit. For now, we are

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. As a devoted Linux user it would be nice to see more developers targeting Linux rather than just Windows. However, Draconis is making a big step forward by making there games Mac compatible as well as Windows. As for the Hekkus Sound System that sounds

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread James Dietz
FMODEX AT FMOD.ORG IS ROBUST AND AWESOME, AND SUPPORTS ALL 3 PLATFORMS AND MORE (GAME CONSOLES, SOLARIS IPHONE ETC). AGAIN GET GOING ON SOME MAC ACTION GUYS; I'M EXCITED. JAMES On 6/10/09, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. As a devoted Linux

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, that makes sense. Although from a development standpoint I don't think it would be all that difficult to put out a Linux port if you ever decided to change your mind. Most of the underlying game libraries such as OpenAL, LibSDL, etc are supported onMac and Linux so you might not

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread James Dietz
I get where they're coming from though - Linux can be a pain to support what with different distros and configurations, though stereotype dictates that linux users are more knowledgable about how to fix problems. Give them a list of required libraries and they'll figure it out (even if it takes a

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Draconis Entertainment
Not to burst a bubble or anything, but FMOD is extremely expensive for commercial products. None of the professional accessible game companies would find the $9000 price tag to license the engine very palatable. The engine is free for non-commercial use, so if you're just looking to

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread James Dietz
There are 3 categories of licensing: commercial, budget and shareware/hobbiest. You guys might be able to qualify for the second type (only $3,000... yay?), but if it's just one guy a shareware license might be best (which is only $100 for all flavors of PC). On 6/10/09, Draconis Entertainment

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi, What reason is there to use FMOD? I find LibSDL to work fine. -Ryan On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:46 PM, James Dietzjames.j.di...@gmail.com wrote: There are 3 categories of licensing: commercial, budget and shareware/hobbiest. You guys might be able to qualify for the second type (only

[Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Greetings gamers, At long last Mysteries of the ancients beta 5 has been released. Do to technical details we were unable to make available the cross platform version at this time so we have elected to go ahead and release the Windows only version instead. Please, remember to uninstall beta 4

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ryan, The main reason many cross platform developers choose to use FMOD, OpenAL, etc instead of SDL-Mixer is because of more advanced audio features. SDL-Mixer is fine if you only plan to use it in a 2D audio environment like Troopenum, Dark Destroyer, ESP Pinball, etc but to create a game

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Michael Feir
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Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Phil Vlasak
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[Audyssey] FMOD was Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi James, FMOD happens to be something I am currently looking at for the cross platform Genesis Engine. Although, licensing it could be tricky if I ever decided to resell the Genesis Engine to third-party developers as their games would increase the number of licenses I need for FMOD. As a

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
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Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
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Re: [Audyssey] FMOD was Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread James Dietz
It has advantages over directsound; if you use software stuff and model your world with polygons you can use the geometry engine, meaning that objects will muffle/occlude others. Lots of other cool things you can do, and the fact that it has it's own software 3d engine means that it sounds the

Re: [Audyssey] Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, True, but there are ways of narrowing it down to something managable. While there are over a hundred Linux distributions world wide there are only a handful such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and Debian that are being used by blind and low vision Linux users regularly. If a company like USA Games or

[Audyssey] FMOD was Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, You got that right. The cost of FMOD is one reason I haven't done more than look at it. It is a great audio API, but the cost for a accessible game developer is not worth itconsidering most accessible games aren't big sellers, and a certain amount of my sales would have to go into

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Ok, I just downloaded the game and it doesn't appear to be a problem with the server or the file. Must be a bad connection. Try rebooting your system and see if you can download it. If you are using Firefox you can click the pause button in the download window and then click resume

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil, Hmmm...You are right there is no cyclops in the sound descriptions menu. I can add him to the menu in the next release. Smile. Phil Vlasak wrote: Hi Michael, I've downloaded and played the new version of MOTA with no problems. I did note that there is no Cyclopes in the sound review.

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I suppose bosses should be in the sound descriptions menu to. I just didn't think about it before so I never added the cyclops and other planned bosses to the sound menu. Cheers. Bryan Peterson wrote: I don't think he's ever been there though. Would bosses count? Gabba gabba hey!

[Audyssey] mota bugs

2009-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
Hi tom. Just played as far as i was able in level1. I can't even get to the end of it. the alt key when pushing it will always go to the system menu, and I have to push escape twice and then putsh n to not quit. There really needs to be a key so you don't have to close down the weapons before

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
You have to be careful with that though, especially with bigger files. Sometimes when you click Resume you can get a Download Error message. I know that from personal experience. As I say in another message I had to fight with my old wireless network to download even a fairly small file. Gabba

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
well I just got it fine, although I used getright on it. At 11:31 a.m. 11/06/2009, you wrote: Hi Michael, Ok, I just downloaded the game and it doesn't appear to be a problem with the server or the file. Must be a bad connection. Try rebooting your system and see if you can download it. If you

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
I'm curious to meet these bosses. Gabba gabba hey! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 5:35 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released! Hi, Yeah, I suppose bosses should be

[Audyssey] mota

2009-06-10 Thread shaun everiss
hi. Ok just finnished level1, oh wow that was good. one thing I noticed is that alt and alt space whilst crouched brought up the system menu which sometimes meant I couldn't get a monster. saved games would load from the main menu but the menu would still be there, until you canciled, the load

[Audyssey] Che send me an active email

2009-06-10 Thread Gary Whittington
Che on your Card BlindAdrenaline web page, there is no link to contact any body. Also, I have registered with no email sent to me to active the account. Use my email sent to this post and use my FTP nick to locate the needed info. As of now not able to log in or re register, as the data base does

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Mike Reiser
Really hope the mac version of this comes soon as I can't get windows at this time. Mike On Jun 10, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Greetings gamers, At long last Mysteries of the ancients beta 5 has been released. Do to technical details we were unable to make available the cross

[Audyssey] (Audyssey) New gamehead on the Block.

2009-06-10 Thread Louise Keel
Hi, I'm Lulu, just wanted to say hello as I'm new to this list. I love to play audio games, or why am I here? Grin! I usually only play the freebies, with the exception of Pinball Extreme, just more than marvelous! And a last year's birthday present, Lords of the Galaxy from Vipgameszone. My

Re: [Audyssey] FMOD was Draconis Entertainment News

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi James, Yeah, I know FMOD has some advanced features. As I said up thread I've played with the FMOD library some in C-Sharp and C++ and I like the API, and it has a lot going for it. The only deal breaker for me is cost. As for if FMOD is off topic I'd say it is boarderline. It is a game

Re: [Audyssey] mota bugs

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Two words for you, that sucks! As for the alt key it works fine for me here, and I thought I killed that system menu bug. I guess I'll just have to map the jump and duck commands back to the control key and say screw it. I am sick and tired of fighting that system menu. As for

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, So am I since the cyclops is the only one added so far. Others haven't been added yet. Bryan Peterson wrote: I'm curious to meet these bosses. Gabba gabba hey! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org.

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Sorry, but the Mac and Linux versions won't be out any time in the near future. We have had some rather serious technical issues that lead to us deciding to shelve the cross platform versions. I can't say when we will take them up again. All I do know is that the Windows releases of

Re: [Audyssey] mota bugs

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
It's taking a bit of getting used to but personally I ay leave the keys as they are. Well I do sort of agree about the Alt key though. Under just the right circumstances it has been known to act up on my machine as well. But I agree with you on this one. You've had this projet on your desk, so

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread Bryan Peterson
It does sort of remind me of a old NES game called Battle of Olympus, though that game's story was quite different. It was basically a retelling of the old story of Orpheus and Euridice, although she was naed Helene in the game's manual. As such your mission was to travel throughout Greece,

Re: [Audyssey] MOTA Beta 5 Released!

2009-06-10 Thread dark
Hi Tojm. I like, particularly the way that item frequency is down, it makes the game significantly different not knowing what weapons you've got. When you eventually list weapons in the game's manual, how about a range list? I love the aspect of using specific weapons on specific enemies,

Re: [Audyssey] (Audyssey) New gamehead on the Block.

2009-06-10 Thread Robyn Bowskill
Hi. I too love super egg hunt and treasure mania. Sounds like we have love of games in common. - Original Message - From: Louise Keel louise.k...@comproom.co.uk To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:12 AM Subject: [Audyssey] (Audyssey) New gamehead on the Block. Hi,

Re: [Audyssey] (Audyssey) New gamehead on the Block.

2009-06-10 Thread Charles Rivard
Game head? I like that. Welcome to the list. Have you tried the beta of Mysteries of the Ancients yet? If not, give it a try. It's fun and challenging. --- Shepherds are the best beasts. - Original Message - From: Louise Keel louise.k...@comproom.co.uk To: gamers@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Che send me an active email

2009-06-10 Thread Che
Hi gary, You are approved now, some folks are having trouble getting the registration emails due to some ISP's blocking. I will put my email on the instructions page, thought I had it there, but i was mistaken. also, when sending requests like this, makes it a lot easier if you will just