Hi Raul, One added benefit to saving a game any time is for catching bugs. I know for sure several bugs were caught in Shades of Doom, Tank Commander and Pacman through customers saving the game and then encountering a bug. By sending the saved file to the developer, they could easily recreate the bug and figure it out. In Pacman, one of the ghosts landed directly on a player and they could not get out. They saved the game and I was able to fix that bug. Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Raul A. Gallegos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: saving games > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello all. > > I know it's not fair to compair games like Pacman and Space Invaders to > pinball because of what you mentioned. I'm only thinking of the time > factor here. While it's true that in a real arcade situation one goes > and spends hours there without being able to save the game, this is not > reality here. When you play computer games you are already entering the > world of imagination. This is the whole point. > > Tom brings up a good point in that with saved games one is effectively > cheating. Take Shades of Doom for example. I have done this and I know > most of you have. You save just before going into a room so you can > replay it over and over in case of a monster who is hard to kill. For > this reason I like the style of saving which is in place for Monkey > Business. You can start and continue at each level but you cannot save > from within the level itself. > > Again, I'm only stressing the time factor here. I'm not suggesting saved > games should be available to allow cheating. At least one solution which > would work is a system where you can only save at the beginning of a > level, not in the middle. > > Again, only for reasons of time spent. to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
