If we are talking truck sim I have been watching iceroad truckers and
outback truckers.
This stuff is more challenging than jims game.
It also adds another feature to an audiogame if it ever were to exist.
Usually, if you get to a hazzard, a storm or any obsticle or enemy, you
have to kill it, go round it, avoid it etc.
But what if you had to fall down that pit, go through that storm, etc.
What if your truck broke, bit of your load fell off, or well you had to
deal with a dangerous ituation and actually go through it.
So much of audiogames is us avoiding things.
On 11/02/2018 6:30 p.m., Jordan Gallacher wrote:
Ships and boats would be fun if done well. Ship simulator was fun and I have
wondered if a blind version could be done that is similar. How about something
along the lines of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator? That is also a lot of fun
although it has been years since I have had the vision to play it.
Jordan
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From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of
Damien Garwood
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 9:42 PM
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.
Hi,
Aren't driving games all the same? There might be physical differences in
driving each vehicle (train, car, bus, wagon, lorry, van, truck, motorbike,
physical vehicles like cycles and prams etc), whether for sport, delivery,
pickup or dropoff, whether customers or cargo, the end result is still the same
- to travel relatively short distances to get from one place to another. We see
those kinds of vehicles and local bore every day, and we already have two
flight sims, a train sim, a motorbiking game, a shuttle game, a trucker game, a
pizza delivery game, and three racing games (although one is no longer playable
now). Do we really need more?
Personally, if I were going down the transport route (no pun intended), I might
choose to extend flight sims with helicopters (we've only seen planes in the
two we have so far), I might even extend the racing genre to include more
realistic obstacles, but I would much prefer ships and boats, as that avenue
hasn't really seen the light of day in audiogames yet. There are tons of things
you can do on the ship, from pulling the ropes on a sailing vessel, feeding the
furnaces on a steam vessel, working the water pumps, managing the engines,
steering and so on. Even more excitement when dealing with lifeboats. Those are
meant for getting to other countries, something we're lucky to get once a year
unless we're millionaires.
Or even better, spaceships. We have tons of space invaders, a fair few
battleship spaceship destroyer type games, but I don't know of any spaceship
driving sims. Feeding fuel to rocket shuttles and controlling thermodynamic
reactors and neutron pumps or whatever fancy names those kind of things have,
and dealing with magnetism to try and simulate gravity etc. Now that's what I
call imagination! I'd love to go to another planet, wouldn't you?
Highly unlikely we'll get there in real life, the best we can do is to hope for
a game to do it! The closest we ever got to it was Lords of the Galaxy, which
incidentally I really enjoyed, but given that VIPGamesZone seem to have
themselves disappeared to some distant unknown galaxy now...
Cheers.
Damien.
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Wolak
Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2018 10:43 PM
To: blind-gamers@groups.io
Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.
Hi,
pitching in here for once, as I rarely do :)
Just wanted to say that I agree 110% with what Josh has just said, as far as
the fact that simulations are lacking in the audiogaming world, and I like Josh
would love an as realistic as possable trucking simulator. It's I would say the
one area that's really not had a solid entry since Jim Kitchen's excelent
trucker, although it's just a starting point in my oppinion and is an excelent
game for what it's worth.
Just my thoughts.
Cheers,
Daniel
On 10/02/2018 21:55, Joshua Tubbs wrote:
I think we need a realistic trucking simulator. Jim Kitchen’s Trucker
doesn’t do it for me, as you don’t actually drive a truck, instead
it’s just programmed by playing sounds and inputting numbers.
This simulator should be like Eurofly and use real map data from a
source such as Open Street Maps, where the world is at our fingertips.
I’m sure BGT won’t be able to pull the data from the Open Street Map
API though, so I hope you switch to a language capable of doing that.
I also think we are getting more online games, but at present Swamp is
the only one where you can team up with people on missions. With a
trucking simulator, it’d be nice to communicate and interact with
people online, whether that be buying food at truck stops or resting with them.
I don’t know how task dispatches would be generated, but when I think
of “simulator” I’d like it to be as realistic as possible, no excuses
unless you can’t get help programming a certain feature. For example,
the Eurofly developer says it’s impossible to program some features to
make flying more realistic. Okay, fine, I don’t expect to be flying
airways and for you to map out every single airport in the world. But
at least use feet for everything, as real pilots do, make ATC
phraseology realistic and use all the frequencies and have coverage
available worldwide, even though the tower voices may be the same a lot.
Which brings me to Tube Sim. There’s not a lot to do in it. Once
you’re done with Driver School, you’ve got about 10-15 tasks to do,
some of which are long sure. Once complete, that’s it. Then you’re
just left with driving freely and that’s it.
So really, I think you should go for the trucking simulator, as
simulators are honestly what’s truly lacking. Those and RPGs.
On Feb 10, 2018, at 7:51 AM, Nick and Gemma Adamson
<n...@ndadamson.com>
wrote:
Hi All.
As you may know I develop audio games and currently have 3 titles
I've released over the last 6 years, check out www.ndadamson.com for
Dotris, Park Boss, and Tube Sim.
I'm trying to come up with a new project that I can work on and I
thought I'd ask what area do players feel is lacking with in the
audio games community.
As a day job I'm a developer in a field which is not related to games
at all so developing audio games is something I do for fun.
So I'm after your ideas. What is a type of game which you'd like to
play which there's not an audio game for?
Now that's quite a big question so I'm going to put some limits.
1. I'm not after a whole game synopsis or script yet. A brief
paragraph is more than enough. Tell me just enough so I get the idea
of the game or the type of game you'd like to play.
2. I'm not interested in rewriting an audio game that already exists.
That's not to say that if your idea has enough differences to
something that already exists it won't be considered. For example,
suggesting a "better racing game" is a bit vague. You'd need to tell
me why it's not the same as topspeed3. Or a submarine simulator, why
isn't it lone wolf. Feel free to consider games from the past that
are no longer available but what would make it better.
3. I'm not really interested in developing another first person
shooter or version of space invaders.
4. I'm not really in to games that don't really have any skill to them.
That's not to say the concept of casual games shouldn't be suggested,
but I'd like to develop a game that has replay value and isn't
something that you'd play for 15 minutes before getting board of.
5. Consider game genres. Think big, Think small, Think card games,
Think board games, Think simulator, think adventure games, think
games that tell a story, think games that don't, basically let your
imagination run wild, other than the couple of limits above, know
idea is off the table.
For those who have played the games I've released are there any areas
that I could improve on. I'm not after specific changes you'd like to
see, it's more of a general question, Better audio, more immersive,
less repetitive, more or less challenging. I'm looking for things
that will help with future developments. One of the things is I'm
going to be moving away from BGT as a development environment, I
think I've just about hit the limits of what it can do.
There's no promises that any ideas will be taken forward, and don't
expect anything to be released in the next couple of weeks. Really
what I'm hoping will happen is that someone will suggest something
and it'll grab my attention and spark my imagination.
Thanks.
Nick.
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