Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread dark
pProbably not enough peasants. Your peasants will always transport food first, then do other tasks like transporting flour or firs later, so if those jobs aren't being done, get more peasants. Also, take care what people's secondary jobs are. If you have a tailer or doctor standing around do

Re: [Audyssey] Online games

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Hi Devin. Solara is a good online game, for mobile devices, but won't take your time as long as alteraeon. I'd personally recommend King of Dragon pass. It's offline rather than online, but takes literally hours! to finish and even longer to get the stratogy, it also has many completion awar

Re: [Audyssey] saitek pro flight system?

2014-08-09 Thread goshawk on horseback
well I haven't intirely ruled it out yet, but certainly at the moment, I am not exactly confident that the outlay will be worth it, given the current rather limited joystick/controller usage in accessible games. the one good thing about this system, is that as it comes in a number of parts, it i

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread loriduncan
Awww, I feel so guilty about the children, if the social services heard about this, poor Aprone would be told his game wasn't pc lol. That's politically corect, nothing to do with a pc computer. :) -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 11:13 PM To: Gamers Dis

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread loriduncan
Hm, this is so wierd... I have 5 pesents, they transported the things to my mill, and although I set one of them to the whieght farm, there isn't any being dropped off at the mill. I also built a textile, and assigned a taylor and a weever, but they arn't making cloth for my hospital, despite

Re: [Audyssey] Castaways contest, with cash prizes

2014-08-09 Thread john
Two questions: First, How is metal/barrels/cloth/cloaks/armor/horses/leather scored? Second, can we play this on multiplayer? It would be really interesting to see the strategies developed by people playing co-op on this mode. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to lea

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread john
Build your tavern as soon as your storehouse is finished. Never, ever close it. If food isn't in the tavern it can't be cooked, and thus your people won't eat. If you're not already doing this, play in sandbox until you can get a civilization up and running. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread john
I'd like to debate you on the starter, Dark. I've actually come very close to losing people while building the storehouse, so imho there's a lot of value in using strong start. This is especially true in mission 5, because you really don't have time to play with dragging resources all the way a

[Audyssey] Online games

2014-08-09 Thread Devin Prater
Hi all. I have used mush z for alter aeon for years now. I write this not to bash it, but I really don't think, for blind users, it is good for mobile platforms. I'll be going back to school soon, and will need a good game to play after classes. I go to a school for the blind, and will be stayin

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Hi Lori. Your peasants will transport stuff automatically, starting with food then moving on to less essential supplies, this is why you always need many peasants. As for starving, you need a cook. Without a cook to serve meals your people will starve even with a warehouse full of food. Bt

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Thomas is correct. Just because audiogame.snet is currently down doesn't mean the games are unavailable, they're all on the websites for the people hosting them, audiogame.snet doesn't host any games besides those developed by the audiogames.net staff themselves namely Richard and Sander, such

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I certainly wouldn't object to audeasy replicating news, sinse not only would this mean more sources of game news and more people looking out for new games and updates (the other news posters and I try my best but we're only human), but also there's always some advantage to seeing news

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread loriduncan
Hi Thomas, I managed to get castaways working, but my people seem to always end up starving. Here's what I start with. I use the strong start, and once my storehouse is complete, i then have them build a sawmill so lumber can be produced. I then build a hospital, a few farms and a tavern. I

[Audyssey] Quick Quinton question

2014-08-09 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi all Being a windows user I'm wondering... the playroom is cross platform right? Cause one of my friends is a mac user and wasn't sure. Thankds ahead of time Ron --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] controller versus keyboard - Re: saitek pro flightsystem?

2014-08-09 Thread Charles Rivard
OK, now that you bring up the gaming mouse, which I haven't even heard of, here's the question: Mouse? or game pad. Sounds like they would be almost the same from this brief post. Thanks. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! fini

Re: [Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky a new audio rpg

2014-08-09 Thread Bryan Peterson
It didn't take me long to decide. Surete game's got a few rought edges but it's the closest thing to a true audio RPG that we've seen. Even Entombed doesn't come quite so close as Paladin does to the sort of games I've been hoping to see in our little market. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gi

[Audyssey] Castaways contest, with cash prizes

2014-08-09 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
I think it's time to toss a little money back at the community.  *Smiling face*  I had posted this on audiogames.net, but since it is now offline I'll post this here too. Quick reminder, Castaways can be downloaded from the following link:  http://www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames/castaways.zip Cas

Re: [Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky a new audio rpg

2014-08-09 Thread Ian McNamara
I have downloaded the demo to take a look first. Then I can decide weather to buy it. Ian McNamara --- 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 http://

Re: [Audyssey] help needed with castaways.

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lori, In Castaways it all depends on if there is any work to be done. If your peasants are just standing around not doing anything there is probably something else that needs done first and they are waiting on some task to be completed. I'd need to know more about the situation here. cheers!

Re: [Audyssey] Flash Games

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Well, there are other Flash based games besides Drive. The new Blind Swordsman is also written in Flash. The main question I have for Danielle is are you looking for online based Flash games or off line stand alone games written in Flash? cheers! On 8/8/14, ishan dhami wrote: > Hi t

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Ishan, Well, offering games for download from Audyssey isn't practical not if you wish to keep it available as a non-profit organization. there are many reasons why your suggestion is simply impractical for us. The first is that disc space for a site is not cheap. We have to pay for every gig w

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll take those under advisement as I happen to agree with you those are some areas where we can improve upon the site and help out newbies to the community etc. Definitely far more helpful than just another database of games. Plus since Audyssey was intended

Re: [Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky a new audio rpg

2014-08-09 Thread Bryan Peterson
I'm in Heaven. LOL. Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 1:00 AM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky a new audio rpg Hi. Audiogames.net is curr

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread ishan dhami
Hi Thomas sir! If the audiogames.net is down then you should maintain audyssey as a game downloading website. some games which are not available in audio games website such as ghost car you should add them in your data base because audyssey is going well and If we try something new then it can bec

Re: [Audyssey] Flash Games

2014-08-09 Thread ishan dhami
Hi there is the game called drive ralley racer. this is the answer of the question of flash games. I have a question that what is fun according to you? Do you think some games based on comic themes and have a comic cut seens is this is fun according to you? Thanks Ishan On 8/8/14, Danielle Antoin

[Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky: new audio RPG from VGStorm.com

2014-08-09 Thread Karl Belanger
Hi all, A new audio game has recently been released. It’s called Paladin of the Sky, produced by www.vgstorm.com. It is an RPG in the style of many of the games from the 1990s and 2000s. The game has a very good story, a magic system which involves some rather strict timing, dungeons to explore,

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Hi Tom. Well while I take the point about redundency, between Phil's fantastic games list on Pcs and Applevis, there are already some quite adequate resources in terms of letting people know what games are available aside from audiogames.net, and bare in mind these days your probably talking a

Re: [Audyssey] saitek pro flight system?

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, Good point. One thing nice about joysticks is the fact they are generally intuitive when it comes to gaming in general. Push the stick forward to move forward, pull back to move backward, and left and right turn or move in that direction. Its both more comfortable than using a keyboard,

Re: [Audyssey] saitek pro flight system?

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Simon, Well, that all depends on perspective. It may have been something of a loss in the beginning, but once developers like myself knew for certain someone was using such an expensive controller we could add support for it, and use you as a beta tester. Therefore in the long run buying it may

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, I know. In fact, it is because of this latest situation that has made me consider rearranging my schedule to put more time into building the Audyssey website so we can mirror links to new and old games in case Audiogames.net goes down again like it just has. Especially, now that the

Re: [Audyssey] controller versus keyboard - Re: saitek pro flight system?

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, While I agree with you in principle that all games should include keyboard support along side mouse and joystick support that does not mean that there are certain cases where a joystick or mouse is preferable. One of the principle problems here as far as I am concerned is that there ar

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread dark
I Hope so Tom, though if the problem is related to the server hosting the site and forum it might not be in Richard and Sander's control to fix. Having both audeasy and audiogames.net down at the same time was distinctly bad luck, especially sinse at the moment there are so many good games bein

Re: [Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Thanks. Good to know. Hopefully it won't take too long to get Audiogames.net back up and running again. Cheers! On 8/9/14, dark wrote: > To forstall all the questions, yes, audiogames.net is currently down. Sander > has confirmed that it's a server and database error not a hack and it

[Audyssey] Audiogames.net down

2014-08-09 Thread dark
To forstall all the questions, yes, audiogames.net is currently down. Sander has confirmed that it's a server and database error not a hack and it'll hopefully be back up soon. All the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

[Audyssey] Paladin of the Sky a new audio rpg

2014-08-09 Thread dark
Hi. Audiogames.net is currently down due to server issues, so I'm not sure how many people saw the news item I wrote on the front of site earlier this week. For anyone who didn't, and indeed for those who don't check the front of site, Paladin of the Sky is a new audio rpg by the same develope