Hi Jim. I generally try to keep my two cents to myself, unless I'm asked for it or I've had too much caffeine or alcohol, but I've finally decided that I can't keep it in any longer. You have several awesome games under your auspices, and I would like to request an update to two of them. tHe update is similar in both games, although a couple of thoughts on implementation are provided: The first, and in my opinion easiest, is an update to your golf game to include local multiplayer. No no. I'm not asking for the big giant doozie of them all, network communications. I just want to sit around and play a nice game of pass the keyboard Golf. It seems to me that standard golfing rules would be pretty easy to throw in: farthest from the hole gets to stroke, ties broken by accuracy or at random, and maybe a stroke limit of something like 10 strokes over par to stop your friend from harassing you too badly.
The other game I'd like to talk about is Trucker. You guessed it. I'd love to have multiplayer added in for that too, and again, this is local multiplayer, so it'd be pretty easy to do. The hard part would be slightly reworking the interface to account for more than one driver at a time, but I figure it could work something like this. No matter what happens, you have to press enter to allow an hour to pass in multiplayer mode, so say Bob and Jake are driving. Jake goes to sleep in the truckstop, but Bob wants to keep on going. Traditionally, Jake would hear a bunch of snoring, followed by an alarm, but in multiplayer Bob drives however fast he wants to go and so forth, while Jake has to press enter for each hour of sleep. Of course, you could just decide that he's opted in for the full eight hours, nothing can change that, or you could offer him the opportunity to end his sleep early, just as a nice little change. I love both of these games, and my friends and I would love to play them together, but the prospect of having five computers in a circle and trying to hear hour own thing and not the other guys' and trying to keep relatively synchronized... no fun. The only other game that even remotely makes sense to be multiplayer, in my opinion, is Starmule, and that one seems most fun alone, but that's personal. Football involves a little too much rock paper scissors style and secret strategy to make an effective local multiplayer, and I can't think of any other games that aren't and ought to be, in my opinion. I hope that you will seriously consider adding local multiplayer to Golf and Trucker, as I feel it would add a whole new dimension to some already great games. For added fun, it might even be nice to have computer controlled players, too. -- Signed: Dakotah Rickard --- 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
