Hi Dark:
To be honest I have never tried Zero Site, but I take your point. I
guess others have tried creating random levels/missions, and of course
a number of accessible games do have add-ons of one kind or another.
Lone Wolf has about a hundred extra missions besides those that ship
with the gam
Hi Shaun:
As I mentioned in a prior post I have not been able to get the 8 pack
of games from Games for the Blind going on Windows 7 or later. Tonight
I ;located demos for those games, put them on my Windows 8.1 machine,
and could not get them to work at all. Not sure what the problem was
specific
oh man this sounds interesting.
At 10:36 AM 1/2/2014, you wrote:
Greetings gamers,
By far our most popular character over the years has been Old Man
Stanley. He first appeared in the Sudwerks pinball table, where he
was immortalized by the line, "What the hell's this sissy drink?"
Later, he
alvan 3d was part of the shoot da me series which I helped beta test.
I never ever managed to finnish it and to be honest rsgames seems to
have abandoned desktop games for online games.
it will probably work but not sure.
the 8 pack may work if you have jims winkit installed but then again
it m
dallas we are not mainstreamed though we are blind.
There is only so much that can be done with sound.
As for online I have never been that sort in fact there are friends I
have that really hate the online side and don't have cash for extras.
At 08:40 AM 1/2/2014, you wrote:
ahh yes, but we ar
Well there will be at some point.
Though to take full advantage of them you will need to use windows 7
or higher for full 3d effect and sound output.
look at the deathmatch thread in audiogames forum.
There is a zombie demo put out by reality game studios the group I am
with that uses the fsl e
Hi Tom.
I agree that both addons and random content would be good, though Draconis
isn't the only audio game developer who have tried this, look at Zero site
and the addon for the game (an addon which actually adds randomly generating
missions).
I will say however there is another serious fa
Exactly Dark. We'd be unlikely to get away with making a straight Metroid
title in audio, which was why a few years back I was and amd still am toying
with the idea of a game in the style of Metroid but with an original story
and character. The trouble might be in finding someone familiar enoug
Hi charlse.
As you imagine I do agree just because a game is old doesn't mean it can't
be fun, and accessible computer games have introduced me to several games
I'd not played before which have been around for a long time such as
backgammon, eucre or spades toname a few.
The issue for me ho
well, shaun, i'm afraid then, you may have to go without games. i
mean, what's more important. living, or gaming. lol. i know a lot of
sighted people who game, and that can't always afford the new game
that has just come out, and have to go without, untill it's either
gifted to them, or has come do
Hi Shaun:
Well, I don't know about that. Rewriting a retro game is fine, but I
don't necessarily agree with going to the extreme of trying to make
everything as retro as possible. Technology has drastically improved
to the point we have better graphics, better sounds, better music, and
so on. Impr
Hello Simon,
We are not aware of any outstanding issues for Topgun right now, although if
they were reported long ago, it is possible that we were unable to reproduce
them.
Our efforts right now, as we have stated numerous times, are to both release
new titles and rewrite our old titles with t
I agree.
To be honest since they have not been played I do feel that some of
the retro games that were played by sighted should try to have as
retro a feel as they can.
a remake is good but then its a remake.
Even if there was a free crappy retro that came with the remake or
whatever I wouldn
Well I only get on average of 2 games a year maybe 3 and not often.
I got tdv and entumbed, at that time 40 bucks for entombed was at
least 60 and tdv about the same with the taxes and stuff when it came
it ended up as at least 75 dollars each.
I don't have that kind of cash.
I struggle to upg
Hi Dallas:
That is quite true. the majority of accessible games aren't on par
with mainstream games, and those that are tend to be on par with
mainstream games 20 to 30 years ago. Certainly not on par with
anything more recent.
What you say about random levels etc is also true. What makes audio
g
hi there what about the topgun bugs i and everyone else reported to
you ages ago? are these ever gonna be fixed or not.
On 01/01/2014, Draconis wrote:
> Greetings gamers,
>
> By far our most popular character over the years has been Old Man Stanley.
> He first appeared in the Sudwerks pinball tab
Hi Dark:
That is true. Our prices for audio games are more or less what one
would pay for an average indie developed game for PC or Mac. However,
that is sort of missing the point.
The basic point was compared to a lot of mainstream games, by that big
name games for console and PC, our games are
Hi Alvin:
You can definitely play Sarah on Windows 8 provided that you install
the missing Visual Basic 6 dependencies, and I tend to install games
like that locally in my User directory rather than in Program Files
(x86). The reason is that User Account control does not allow games
and other prog
Holy crap!
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you! really! are! finished!
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From: "Draconis"
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:36 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Old Man Stanley
Greetings gamers,
Hi list,
It's AC. I was just doing some backing up of my new laptop files to my
external hard drive and ran across some old games that I saved a while ago.
I want to know if they are able to be played on my new laptop running
Windows 8 64 bit.
One of the games is named 3D, which I be
Greetings gamers,
By far our most popular character over the years has been Old Man Stanley. He
first appeared in the Sudwerks pinball table, where he was immortalized by the
line, “What the hell’s this sissy drink?” Later, he was featured in the staring
role of Old Man Stanley’s House in the P
Hi list,
It's AC. I was just doing some backing up of my new laptop files to my
external hard drive and ran across some old games that I saved a while ago.
I want to know if they are able to be played on my new laptop running
Windows 8 64 bit.
One of the games is named 3D, which I believe was
For the gamer who has been blind since birth who has never played a very
popular game of even the early eighties, I'm all in favor of an audio
remake. I'm also in favor of new ideas. To anyone who has never played
chess, although the game has been around for centuries, it is a new
experience,
Hi Charlse.
That is true, and I must admit I'd love to play something like final fantasy
or dark souls myself, or to show people who haven't had the chance to play
them the true fun that can be had metroid hunting on Planet Zeebs, however
the problem is the fat cats and their stupid laws, and
Ah, but what about for those who have never seen it before and those who
would like to again, in a format that those who are now blind can play?
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you! really! are! finished!
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From: "dark
ahh yes, but we are forgetting one thing here. I am sorry to the devs
out there, but most games we have, are no! where, near, main stream.
it's just a fact. so yes, we pay about what sighted people do. but the
replay ability of a game they buy, tends to be miles higher. how ever,
as has already bee
Hi.
Well that is quite a ways into the game, lets just say that perhaps if you
can get on good terms with the governer of a system he might just invite
you home to see his family, and should you meet his daughter, well who
knows! :D.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
- Original Message
Thanks again. THis game is so amazing. Excuse me for my bunch of questions.
Dark, I discoverred that you can have wife and child
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Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 6:52 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject
A quiet month for me.
Thanks, Jim.
Christina
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Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 11:23 AM
To: Audyssey
Subject: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for December 2013
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Neat!
Thomas is our winner by a long shot. But then, he is the moderator. ;)
Thanks, Jim.
Hope your new year is starting off well.
Christina
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Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:03 PM
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Hi Ian.
It's something I need to look into, but whenever I look at the setup and
translate it just seems a lot of hassle, particularly for someone like
myself who isn't familiar with nvda to begin with.
I also dislike the way that people have used the japanese games as basically
an excuse to
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Hi
Glad I helped. The supply missions are really for traders. what you need to
do is physically buy the goods and take them to the location where the
mission wants them. that is why the mission payouts are so big, though
obviously since the quantities are so large you need a ship with a good
Hi All,
I fancy trying a new game. Something with a lot of action. I sadly can't afford
to buy any games, so are there any free ones with a lot of action in them? I
love taking things apart.
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Hi Dark,
I too dislike 1D side scrollers and after trying a few I was put off of
trying more.
Because of that I may not have a good concept of which games actually
stretch that boundary and become more 2D.
Fortunately I finally tried bokurano daiboukenn 3 yesterday and was
quite impressed.
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Hi Dark and thanks. I am beginner in playing this game so I have an other
question. How to solve the carying supplyes missions?
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Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Smugglers game question
Hi.
First
Happy new year to everyone
Amanda
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From: "Thomas Ward"
Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 1:49 AM
To: "Gamers Discussion list"
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Happy new year
Hi Dark:
Same to you. Have a happy new year. We in the USA are still stuck i
Well Charlse, copywrite is only an issue if you want a game with the same
characters, as indeed occurred with the huge montizumas return mess.
For example, lets say a developer wanted to make an audio beatemup like
mortal combat. Well, it'd be possible to create a story and characters and
have
Hi chris.
Well I'm less certan on the representative qualities of sound since as you
know audio and visual processing are handled diferently anyway and past
experiments have usually resulted in something with stoo much information
that is hard to interpret, rather than something which is of pr
Hi Tom.
While I agree mainstream console or pc games are much more expensive, at the
same time audio games are actually about average for indi developed stuff at
least on pc.
Look at the smugglers games for 25 usd as an example, and for simpler arcade
titles the price is far less, especialy
Hi Charles:
I think you just brought up a very important point when it comes to
creating audio games and converting certain games into audio games. A
lot of people like yourself have never had a chance to play certain
games, and would like to know what they missed out on. Montezuma's
Revenge is as
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