sinse we've been discussing voice activation for new technology in a general sense, I wondered what people thought about the possibilities of voice control for games, after all this is something that has already started on mainstream consoles and a couple of indi games such as codename signus.
So, I wonder what people think a good use of speech control for games would be. A voice activated arcade game could be entertaining and provide a lot of atmosphere, ---- imagine a racing game where your yelling "left! left! now breeeeeeak!" or a sort of Dj style boppit game where your saying in rythm "hit it! pull it!" or whatever. however the major field I see for voice working in is stratogy games and rpgs. generally you can speak faster than you can type, and definitely faster than you can find and hit controls. sinse however speech is a manifestly more complex method of input than just hitting buttons, and doesn't have the disadvantage of having a relativistic speed and being commonly missunderstood the way fast typed keyboard inputs do, I wonder if speech in a mud or real time stratogy game could be fun, especially sinse you could have your hands on the touch screen or keyboard controls doing other things. Imagine for example an rpg where you used the keyboard to launche physical attacks such as sword thrusts in response to real time audio, but used your voice to wield magic. This could be quite a lot of fun, because the essential physical combat could then work in an arcade style and the complexity could occur at the metter level of your speech. For example the arcade fighting part of the game could be similar to blind swordsman, ie, hear a sword swing and block, but you could then use your voice to say "Cast ice blade!" or similar. Similarly, imagine a real time time of conflict style stratogy where you could give all your orders vocally. you could be reviewing the map with your fingers or curser keys, but could give orders as you did it rather than having to pause the game and input commands. Of course the disadvantage is I don't know whether this technology would exists sinse the hole chat and gaming thing is also very common at the moment and certainly on mainstream consoles mikes are more commonly for voice chat with other online players than voice commands to the game, but I thought it was a fun idea. Obviously for access reasons as Tom said earlier there would need to be more traditional alternatives in such games, but I did think it was an interesting possibility to speculate on. 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].
