Re: [Audyssey] Tutorial On BGT

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
Not to menchin that you can use your handy dandy navigational keys and the bookmark key bfn James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
Hello Jim Sorry I can't remember if I ansered this email yet. I've been cleaning out my email and came across this one. So if I did then just ignore me. for now I plan on learning the bgt toolkit. It sounds eazy to learn. bfn James -- From:

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi James, Considering you are a beginner that sounds like the right choice. To be perfectly honest if it weren't for the issue of cross-platform support I have strongly been considering buying and using BGT myself. There simply isn't an easier and better tool on the market for an audio game

Re: [Audyssey] A wrestling game, and a lightsaber game.

2013-06-05 Thread James Howard
also, there is wrestling manager on the iPhone, if you want to check that out. On 6/5/13, michael barnes c...@samobile.net wrote: Hey, Thomas. Thanks for the info! Yes, if you would please dropbox those files. Is there any Star Wars games that a blind person could play? --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Jesse Gaona
Hi all. Excuse my ignorance, but can you develop all types of audio games using the BGT kit, or is it specifically for certain type? (Ex: arcade, text based, or RPG) Thanks. Sent from my jPhone 5 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
is there really a market for going cross platform though? more and more people do use linux but most use windows, IOS or android. and I think many are still using windows xp servicepack2. On 6/5/2013 10:30 AM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi James, Considering you are a beginner that sounds like the

Re: [Audyssey] A wrestling game, and a lightsaber game.

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
and there are star wars maps for tacticle battle. On 6/5/2013 11:05 AM, James Howard wrote: also, there is wrestling manager on the iPhone, if you want to check that out. On 6/5/13, michael barnes c...@samobile.net wrote: Hey, Thomas. Thanks for the info! Yes, if you would please dropbox

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
as far as I know it is for all types of audio games. that is why audio game maker failed because it was very very limited and slow as to what it could do. On 6/5/2013 11:09 AM, Jesse Gaona wrote: Hi all. Excuse my ignorance, but can you develop all types of audio games using the BGT kit,

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
Not only that but they seriously misrepresented what it was going to be while they were developing it. They said it would be able to create any style of game, but that turned out not to be the case. And anyway there were bugs in it that made any games you developed with it all but unplayable.

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
I imagine before long there will be. But thou must! On 6/5/2013 9:16 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote: is there really a market for going cross platform though? more and more people do use linux but most use windows, IOS or android. and I think many are still using windows xp servicepack2. On

[Audyssey] Gma games

2013-06-05 Thread Chris H
Very impressed with this company. Requested a key replacement for Shades of Doom yesterday, received it just now. And I didn't even know the product key for my old machine which was running a version before they introduced user codes. Well done and keep up the good work man! -- Chris ---

Re: [Audyssey] Gma games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
I agree.I like GMA for precisely that reason. They and the now-defunct BSC have wat I'd consider the most reasonable key replacement policy of almost any developer. But thou must! On 6/5/2013 9:39 AM, Chris H wrote: Very impressed with this company. Requested a key replacement for Shades of

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Tyler
Regarding that cross-platform comment: When I first taught myself computer programming, I used a language called JavaScript. This is still the one I primarily use. It is interesting because, being interpreted instead of compiled, you write it, and anyone can run it. Most people who download

Re: [Audyssey] Tutorial On BGT

2013-06-05 Thread Alexandra
hello, I am sorry for geting back to you all so late. Someone on the list asked for the links concerning second life. I have the client that you must use to access it and a blog made by a blind user of second life. If I can help with anything else about it, please feel free to write to me

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
You can indeed. Because Audio Game Maker was little more than a collection of predetermined buildin blocks, sort of like the RPG Maker programs that were popular in the 90s. So you have very little actual control over how you want your game to behave. And anyway the program was so buggy that

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
yes bgt is better all around because it does what it says. it lets you make any style of game you wish, even plain old text adventures if you wanted to. On 6/5/2013 11:27 AM, Bryan Peterson wrote: Not only that but they seriously misrepresented what it was going to be while they were

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
so you mean in the future most people are gunna switch to ubuntu or something like that? On 6/5/2013 11:28 AM, Bryan Peterson wrote: I imagine before long there will be. But thou must! On 6/5/2013 9:16 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote: is there really a market for going cross platform though? more

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
I just said there may be a market to go cross platform. But thou must! On 6/5/2013 9:48 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote: so you mean in the future most people are gunna switch to ubuntu or something like that? On 6/5/2013 11:28 AM, Bryan Peterson wrote: I imagine before long there will be. But thou

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jesse, All types of audio games can be developed using the BGT Toolkit. The strength of BGT over failed toolkits like Audio Game Maker is that it uses a scripting language, Angelscript, that simply wraps DirectX, SAPI, and other components and makes them available to a programmer without the

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Its hard to say what people will use in the future, but I will say open source solutions like Ubuntu, Sonar, and Vinux are definitely a great alternative for those people who are not wanting to move to Windows 8 and beyond. I myself like the new Unity desktop for Ubuntu, and if people

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Tyler, Yes, that may be true, but Javascript is ill suited to a lot of serious game development. A language like C++, for example, is a much better language if a game developer wants to write a really good FPS game or something else that could benefit from a compiled language with a lot of

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
yes and now that we have qt-at-spi we have access to many more applications such as the skype GUI and others. Is java similar in syntax to c? Probably programming games in java would be easiest because then they could run on windows android and linux. On 6/5/2013 12:58 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Sure there is a market. How big it is I can't say, but there is enough of a market there to consider cross-platform games. There are several people who now have Mac OS X, and the last time I checked the Orca list has a couple hundred blind members. I don't know for sure how many blind

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Tyler
What about web browser games in a compiled language like Java? I heard that Java applets were pretty big; they were in 2006, and I haven't seen much change. Web browsers are changing, but I don't think the JVM went away yet. Tyler Z On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 13:27:55 -0400, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Bryan Peterson
The sad part is that a lot of those features could have Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bryan, No kidding. I could have written a better tool than Audio Game Maker using the same basic concept. A lot of it came down to the

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread BRYAN PETERSON
Oopsie. What i meant to say was the sad part about the whole AGM business is that a lot of those features, the Saveand Load Game feature and the menu system could probably have been written into the Game Manager building block. I agreeit was a neat concept and had it been done properly it might

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
Hello and good day And what I also like is that it's free. so I can learn how to do it and then when I'm ready to move on I can buy the upgrade grin. bfn James --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org.

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
hi james, maybe when you or I learn bgt one or both of us can make a really good nfl football and mlb baseball game with lots of voice commentary and sounds and stuff, that would be fun. On 6/5/2013 2:11 PM, James Bartlett wrote: Hello and good day And what I also like is that it's

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
hI No from what I've been reading you can scripped anything, but I may be wrong on that. bfn James -- From: Jesse Gaona jesse.gaon...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 11:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Cc: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
Hello Myself I would like to cross. I have 4 computers 1 is running XP. the 2nd 1 is running win 7. my wife's laptop is running win 8 and I also have 1 that is running linux. So one day I'll try to get what ever I make to run on most PCs. I don't know about the markit I'm doing it for the

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
That sounds good to me. I love baseball and football. So I would like that very much. t t y l James -- From: Josh Kennedy joshknnd1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:13 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] mp3 Tutorial

2013-06-05 Thread James Bartlett
t y for the link bfn James -- From: dbzfan largel1...@gmail.com Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 2:34 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] mp3 Tutorial n someone post the mp3 File of the Tutorial for BGT? Thanks, Leo Here is an awesome

Re: [Audyssey] mp3 Tutorial

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Leo, I mean this in all seriousness, you are better off learning to use BGT using your screen reader so you can actually look at the code examples. Having someone read a tutorial is the most difficult way humanly possible to learn to program. I did that one quarter in college, and it was a

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Jesse Gaona
Thanks for the info. Will be definitely be experimenting with BGT. Sent from my jPhone 5 --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at

[Audyssey] lone wolf

2013-06-05 Thread wayne17a
Hello list does any one have a link for the lone wolf walk throughs apart from the first 17 as I have them Thanks in advance --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
I also like nhl hockey. that's a fun sport too. On 6/5/2013 2:46 PM, James Bartlett wrote: That sounds good to me. I love baseball and football. So I would like that very much. t t y l James -- From: Josh Kennedy joshknnd1...@gmail.com Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] mp3 Tutorial

2013-06-05 Thread Josh Kennedy
yes and when you read it set your screen reader's punctuation to, all punctuation so it reads every single thing. if you don't you will miss stuff and it will be almost impossible to learn. On 6/5/2013 2:55 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Leo, I mean this in all seriousness, you are better off

Re: [Audyssey] lone wolf

2013-06-05 Thread Charles Rivard
Due to the lack of punctuation in your message, it was very hard to understand on an iPhone. Could you work on it in the future? Thanks. As to audio walk throughs of missions other than the 17 that came with the game, I don't know of any. (Sent from my iPhone) On Jun 5, 2013, at 2:42 PM,

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Tyler, The problem is that Java gets very fussy depending on platform and JRE. Yeah, I know its big selling point is that it is suppose to be cross-platform, easy to port from platform to platform without being recompiled, but the reality is that Java programs need to be updated, tested, and

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Josh, Java is similar to C++ as far as syntax goes, but it is not as simple as you make it out to be. As I just stated in a prior post Java can be fussy and downright temperamental when dealing with different versions of the JRE. Especially, if you test your code against the official JVM and

Re: [Audyssey] A wrestling game, and a lightsaber game.

2013-06-05 Thread dan cook
wait, there are?! I'm gonna have to check these out! how do you find wrestling manager? I've heard its super buggy. On 6/5/13, Josh Kennedy joshknnd1...@gmail.com wrote: and there are star wars maps for tacticle battle. On 6/5/2013 11:05 AM, James Howard wrote: also, there is wrestling

Re: [Audyssey] A wrestling game, and a lightsaber game.

2013-06-05 Thread Ian Reed
Hi Dan, You can download the Star Wars map pack by Craig Brett on the map pack downloads page of http://BlindAudioGames.com Alternatively you can just get the latest dev version of the game, also located on the same page. Here's the direct link:

[Audyssey] For all who want the star conquest mush sound pack

2013-06-05 Thread Mike Maslo
Please find below the link to download the usb sound pack. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10069521/mush%20folder.rar --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription

Re: [Audyssey] For all who want the star conquest mush sound pack

2013-06-05 Thread Keith
where do we extract this file to to make the sounds work? Thanks Keith - Original Message - From: Mike Maslo mmaslo1...@swbell.net To: Gamers Audyssey list gamers@audyssey.org Cc: vip...@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 6:35 PM Subject: [Audyssey] For all who want the

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread shaun everiss
well I do think there is something to concider to go cross platform. yes xp is a good os but once support goes unless you get second hand stuff drivers will be a major issue to find. ok if you have stuff up to 2012 maybe you will get drivers for it but any new 2013 hardware sertainly 2014

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread shaun everiss
I doubt that vary much josh. Truthfully if I started again I am not sure if I'd get windows at all or if I'd get a mac or linux and skip ms all together. In reality I have spent loads of cash on readers games and other programs so yeah like it or not, I am stuck with windows because I have

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread shaun everiss
well I like the offline games. Web based games in html5 seem to be the new rage. ofcause you need ie9 and up to really handle that. ff and chrome support this standard to. flash is still the main thing. javascript works, so does java though you need to load it. At 05:31 AM 6/6/2013, you wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] programming games

2013-06-05 Thread shaun everiss
I do aggree to I may be going with a linux vm eventually and who knows. At 06:22 AM 6/6/2013, you wrote: Hello Myself I would like to cross. I have 4 computers 1 is running XP. the 2nd 1 is running win 7. my wife's laptop is running win 8 and I also have 1 that is running linux. So one

[Audyssey] Purchasing sounds files

2013-06-05 Thread Jesse Gaona
Hi all. Does anyone know any websites to purchase .wav or other sound files for games? Thanks. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at