Oh, I forgot to note that I may have to try this game on my husband's Windows laptop. It sounds like my kind of game. :)
Teresa Winging its way from my iPod > On Jul 12, 2014, at 4:10 PM, "loriduncan" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, I am very impressed with the sounds and voice-acting in this game, > however I am unable to use my arrows to face my attackers. I heard him on my > left, so hit left arrow to face him, but my character didn't move, so got > killed pretty quickly. I'm on a windows 7 dell laptop with windows 64 bit. I > also found that the only way of shutting the game down, was by keeping jaws > running and closing the game by hitting alt then close. I'm also finding > pressing backspace doesn't move me back in menus too. > > As for timed parries Dark, I'm hopeless at timing, probably because i spend > too long planning my next move lol. From Lori. > > -----Original Message----- From: Christina > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 9:18 PM > To: 'Gamers Discussion list' > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The blind swordsman,an audiogame with interesting > mechanics > > Hi. > Ok so, I figured out hitting the 180 degrees mode starts it. > However, none of the arrow keys do anything. I'm on a Windows7 64 computer. > I also tried it on a Windows XP computer. > When I use it, Adobe 11 also pops up. Do I need to change a setting? > Thanks. > Christina > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gamers [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dark > Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Audyssey] The blind swordsman, an audiogame with interesting > mechanics > > Hi. > > This is to anyone who hasn't seen this one over at audiogames.net It's an > action game where you play a warrior who has become blind and is seaking a > warlock to help him get his site back. You have a sword and shield, but the > game is very much anime enspired with armies of attacking warriors, dagger > wielding psychotic women, and archers who's arrows you can cut out of the > air (yes it's that awsome). > > The music, sounds and story are great, however what really impresses me > about this one is the gameplay. it is extremely simple, move left and right, > up arrow to attack, down arrow to parry, and should by rights be just > another sterrio target boppit affair. I am however extremely impressed by > the way the game works mechanically. You can't just automaticaly block every > attack and then respond with a hit, there are opponents you need to attack > first, some others you need to attack slightly before they do etc. Actually > the mechanics are far closer o those of a beatemup in terms of timing and > response even though the enemies only have one attack each and you have only > one block and one attack to play with. > > I'd definitely advise developers interested in creating more subtle > audiogames to have a look at this one, sinse it takes that very simple idea > we've all seen time after time, but manages to make it mechanically much > more interesting and adds just those elements of judgement which I've been > wittering on about, indeed I am quite surprised it was possible in such a > basically simple game. > > The story and sounds are also great too (the enemies are just so evil). > Either way I'll stop wittering and say where to get it. > > The game was originally designed to run on a game play website in flash, but > getting that one to work was a bit of a pest so the author has provided a > direct download: > http://www.evildogserver.com/theblindswordsman/theblindswordsmanPC.zip > > I'll be adding this one to the database when the developer sends me more > information. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > 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/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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