[Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for February 2014

2014-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
64 people posted 345 messages. 41 From, Thomas Ward. 35 From, dark. 23 From, Josh. 14 From, Cara Quinn. 11 From, shaun everiss. 10 From, Chris H. 10 From, Jacob Kruger. 10 From, john. 9 From, Darren Harris. 9 From, william lomas. 8 From, Clement Chou. 8 From, Darren Duff. 8 From,

[Audyssey] Audyssey thread report for February 2014

2014-03-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
There were 81 thread titles. Here are the top 50. Reviving the Wheel 26. star wars 24. bgt code 21. star traders rpg now accessible on Ios 15. X-Sight interactive gone? 15. so who's still playing startraders? 14. making games with skills i have 12. Cyber Assault with Mush-Z? 11. Rail

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for February 2014

2014-03-06 Thread Christina
Wahoo! I was beginning to worry about you. *Smile* Thanks for the report. Hope you're well. Christina -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kitchen Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 5:49 AM To: Audyssey Subject: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread dark
Personally I agree with Josh, I don't see what is wrong with sapi. Sinse dolphin have (up to last year), been so precious about the api for supernova, very few games have run with it, but that's not stopped me playing Vipmud, alteraeon with Mush Z, Lone wolf etc. The exception of course is

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Lol. Yeah, I suppose for most people a wrapper is a wrap artist. However, in programming a wrapper is simply a piece of code that wraps another piece of code or a program with a different interface in order to make it easier for a developer to use the API etc in question. Cheers!

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, I personally don't get what is wrong with Sapi either. It is a quick and easy API, works fairly well for what it does, and there are plenty of voices available for it. However, as a guess I suppose the voices are precisely the issue people have with it. A lot of Jaws users, for

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Sky Mundell
Tho -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 8:20 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more? Hi Dark, Yeah, I personally don't get what is

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Sky Mundell
Hi, I do have to agree with you. A lot of people prefer to use the screen reader of the choice because it gives them the opertunity to use whatever voice they prefer. I have used SAPI 5 and I find it very easy to use in games that use it. -Original Message- From: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread dark
Hi Tom. that is likely true regarding people's feelings, however equaly that arguement isn't really a tenable one anymore sinse the days when a high quality voice would cost you 200 quid or so are gone so your not really talking sky rocket prices. Plus, on a personal level I'd actually

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, it is certainly true the cost of most Sapi voices have gone down in price. Most are reasonably priced about $30 to $45 USD which is well within a person's budget. At least most of the time. However, I disagree about Microsoft Mike, Mary, and Sam. In my opinion those are some of

Re: [Audyssey] star wars

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
I don't have it anymore. it came in an abandonware and junk package I got a while back. Most of that package was either broken, demo or simply not working. At 09:01 AM 3/1/2014, you wrote: can you send me lite battles? the installer file if you have it using windows7 laptop On 2/26/2014 2:22

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
Windows is still one of the major gaming systems the blind will use for a while. True there are a lot of mainstream accessable games from smart phones apple and android devices and some consoles. However most that can afford it are moving to win7 and up now. Yes eventually we may loose some of

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
There are a lot more things on the forum to. I also know for a fact because I am on the teams that mtg, ks and reality gaming have games out. In fact reality gaming have just gone live with their snow boarding beta. And this morning I did some sound work for at least 2 upcoming titles and set

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
darrin, to be honest devs can just use sapi. Compaired to other things windows is probably easy to develop because you don't have restrictions on what you do, I guess the smart phone will take over but I have not seen that many blind devs actually make games for the smart phone market and

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Actually, compared to other operating systems like OSX Windows is more difficult to develop for not easier. The reason has to do with too many different configurations, versions, and too many libraries and languages that makes Windows difficult to support. For example, right now there

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, True enough. I think a lot of developers choose not to say anything unless they have something of substance to say because a lot of us have gotten sick of negative feedback from this and other accessible gaming communities. The minute a developer announces he or she has something in the

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
I agree charles. And its actually not that hard to multidevelop for screenreaders now, with the screen reader api its easy enough if you know how. Out of all the readers, nvda is the one I'd go for being opensource and non restrictive. And to be honest outputting text on screen is fine to.

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread shaun everiss
thats true and to be honest you are actually paying for the extra 3 or 4g capabilities sms and general phone. with a touch, wifi, etc you can use skype easily enough you just don't get mobile networking. At 02:27 PM 3/6/2014, you wrote: if you can't afford an iphone. get an ipod touch. its an

Re: [Audyssey] star wars

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I am not surprised. Light Battles, what I seen of it, was not exactly anything to write home about. I suppose in time it might have been a good game, but it was poorly written, very buggy, and it is for those reasons I never decided to keep it myself much less put it up on the USA Games

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Actually, there are more than one library out there for Windows for accessing multiple screen readers. There is Accessible Output for Python, there is Universal Speech which is available for various languages, and now there is Tolk. So I agree supporting multiple screen readers isn't

[Audyssey] New Game From GLTech Studios

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, Here is a new game in beta testing from GLTech Studios'. To find out more about it visit the Audiogames Forum at http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=12706 and have fun. Cheers! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] New Game From GLTech Studios

2014-03-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
I apologize; i can't tell from the forum thread, but is this a Windows game only? Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. On Mar 6, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Here is a new game in beta testing from GLTech Studios'. To find out more about it

Re: [Audyssey] New Game From GLTech Studios

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Teresa, Unfortunately, it is only for Windows. Sorry, I guess I should have made that clear in my original post. As far as I know the game was written using BGT, and right now only is for Windows systems. Cheers! On 3/6/14, Teresa Cochran batsfly...@me.com wrote: I apologize; i can't tell

Re: [Audyssey] New Game From GLTech Studios

2014-03-06 Thread Teresa Cochran
No worries; just curious. I'm used to it. :) Speaking of gaming for computers, and specifically for Macs ... looking forward to more games on my Mac Mini. (grins). Teresa “Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”—Groucho Marx On Mar 6, 2014,

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Charles Rivard
I don't think you could have said it any better, and I hope every list member reads this and, more importantly, remembers it. It should have been learned when James North left the scene, but the lesson still did not hit a lot of homes. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread Bryan Peterson
I personally won't be holding my breath. LOL. Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? -Original Message- From: Charles Rivard Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 7:22 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more? I don't

Re: [Audyssey] New Game From GLTech Studios

2014-03-06 Thread Josh
yes it is windows only. using windows7 laptop On 3/6/2014 6:09 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: I apologize; i can't tell from the forum thread, but is this a Windows game only? Teresa Slow down; you’ll get there faster. On Mar 6, 2014, at 2:23 PM, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: [Audyssey] New games for windows not being produced any more?

2014-03-06 Thread dark
hi tom. I'm Afraid I might not have said what I intended clearly enough. I was not claiming that Mike, Mary and Sam were decent voices, or as good as vocalizer, only that I personally do not rate eloquence any more than mike or sam, and so find it a little difficult to sunderstand why a