Re: [Audyssey] shades of doom

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yes, exactly. There is a crack in the wall I want to say level 4 where you can pick up a armor upgrade not available to say level 5 if you miss it. Its been a while so I forget where exactly where it is, but there are little secret places like that in the game that are easily missed an

Re: [Audyssey] shades of doom

2013-03-25 Thread Charles Rivard
Like getting through cracks in walls? I had never encountered that sort of thing in a game before. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, March 25, 2013 10:25 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] patience - Re: replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking ForSomething New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yes, I do tend to work on other projects besides the major ones.. For a while I was working on MOTA exclusively but discovered that I can't focus on any single project for that long without going a bit crazy. There are other ideas that I'd like to see produced, and besides it helps bre

Re: [Audyssey] shades of doom

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, That would definitely be a good reason. Shades of Doom is the type of game you need to spend a couple of hours with per sitting to get good at. If you are the kind of gamer who sits down, plays for 15 minutes, and walks away you'll never get far with Shades of Doom just because you nee

[Audyssey] shades of doom

2013-03-25 Thread Charles Rivard
I think the only reason I haven't beaten Shades of Doom is that I just haven't sat down and played it for long stretches of time. As to why, I don't know, because I do like the game. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: "Thomas War

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to contact blindsoftware.com

2013-03-25 Thread Ron Kolesar
No problem. Just glad that I could help you outl. Tom said that he has checked his mail and the letter that I've shipped hasn't bounced back yet. So you should be hearing from Tom shortly. Check out Blast chamber for a good thrill. GRIN. It puts classic pipe to shame. But that's just my opinion.

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to contact blindsoftware.com

2013-03-25 Thread Ryan Conroy
Hey Ron, Thanks, I appreciate it. Ryan -- Original Message -- From: "Ron Kolesar" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Trying to contact blindsoftware.com Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:20:33 -0400 Hi Rian. I just forwarded your l

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Well, honestly I personally can't relate. I came from a completely mainstream gaming experience before I went blind and so I have a different perspective on this. I didn't play as many text adventures or simple games as some of you have because immediately after losing my sight I went af

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability andUsagameswas Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Exactly. I think that more than anything else is what I'd like to see in more audio games. Even if someone creates a walkthrough or gives away some hint or clue how to beat a game there is still some challenge required to actually beat the game. Of course, as with everything else I suppos

Re: [Audyssey] Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yes, agreed. I thought something similar about Castaways. Increasing the number of jobs and character classes would make for a more interesting game all around. Something else I thought would be cool is instead of building one ship to sail away building some sort of patrol boats that cou

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to contact blindsoftware.com

2013-03-25 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hi Rian. I just forwarded your letter to the tech support guy for Blind software. He will be getting back to you. Ron who was a beta tester for the pipe version two better known as blast chamber. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states "that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of t

Re: [Audyssey] replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yes, definitely. I think Shades of Doom could use for a few more areas to explore, bonus levels so to speak, as well as a couple of bonus enemies now and then. Still one thing I think Shades of Doom does well is while it has some sort of complex mazes it also offers a navigation system ab

[Audyssey] Trying to contact blindsoftware.com

2013-03-25 Thread Ryan Conroy
Hey everyone, This is a copy of an EMail I wrote to blindsoftware. I can not reach them by Email, by phone, or through there website. Did they shut down? Anyways, here's the Email: Hi, I've been trying to contact you for weeks now. I've emailed supp...@blindsoftware.com, I've called the company,

Re: [Audyssey] Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Dakotah Rickard
let me put my two cents in. First of all, I'd like to see a few more modifications with Swamp. For example, right now, the default weapons have skills associated with them, but the newer ones don't. Then, you have questions like this: if there are now weapon classes, couldn't you have class-based

Re: [Audyssey] catch 22 - Re: Inquisitor, Ios or pc?

2013-03-25 Thread Trouble
The sighted games all come with install guides, because they have to make sure they have enough graphics to run the game. Some of the newer games out there require dual video cards or they won't even install. At 01:39 AM 3/25/2013, you wrote: Hi Charlse. Yes, users guides including installati

Re: [Audyssey] replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread dark
Hi Tom. As you know I'm an exploration fiend, so the maze aspect of shades of doom is very much something else I like about the game, aprticularly given that David did a great job with ambient sound sources in the maze which give it an interesting background to explore too even though the game

Re: [Audyssey] replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Agreed. At this point releasing something complete would be a step in the right direction. You'll get no argument from me on that. One of the things I think that makes Shades of Doom such a good game is that its fully accessible, but it is also difficult too. On the higher difficulty lev

Re: [Audyssey] replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun and all, A few comments about the message below. Yes, older versions of Visual Basic, such as Visual Basic 6, are not Mac and Linux compatible, but that does not mean a person can not write apps for Mac and Linux in Visual Basic. Newer versions of the Mono Framework supports Visual Basic

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability andUsagameswas Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread dark
Hi Tom. That is totially true about walkthroughs, and indeed something I'm more familiar with myself. For years, ever since I first discovered the internet, I have been using walkthrus instead of instruction manuals to provide access to graphical games. For example, in the mega man games I rea

Re: [Audyssey] replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, No offense, but you are way off base here. There is no way in Hades I'm going to just delete, scrap, or trash all the work I've done on Mysteries of the Ancients over the last four years. That would be flipping insane not to mention a waste of my time and everyone else who has helped o

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread shaun everiss
I know tom and I suspect that although we are caipible a lot of us me included have been playing simple stuff for ages to adjust is a bit of a curve, I know it actually frightens me that I can't handle everything at once. At 08:16 PM 3/25/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Ah, I don't know of a si

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread shaun everiss
true I have friends that do get frustrated when playing games. I also don't read my manuals as much as I should I skim them and I shouldn't I think we are all guilty about not doing the rtfm thing, I am a tech and often I rely on my programs menus or help files and even that sometimes I skim

Re: [Audyssey] killing replay value - Re: replayability and Usa games was Re: Looking For Something New to Play

2013-03-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Ah, I don't know of a single person running Dos on a 286 these days blind or sighted. That's a bit far fetched don't you think? However, I do take the point that the blind is generally behind the mainstream technologically, and there are good reasons for that. Most of the blind computer