I think James had a good system where you'd still hear important navigational sounds but not treasures and items if you were in a dark room without a torch. That would at least make torches useful. Also, you could have some secret areas where you can only detect the entrances to with a lit torch. Michael Feir Creator and former Editor of Audyssey Magazine 1996-2004 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:07 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] monty trailer > Hi Nicol, > Well, in the old Atari classic many of the temple rooms were dark and > all of the items were not visible. If you grabbed a torch from another > room you could enter that room, and all of the items were visible to get. > In the USA Games creation torches really don't have a navigational > purpose like the original since the game is based on audio. They do > however have a point value, and well using one does in some way give > somewhat the feeling of what the original game was like. Even if it > doesn't exactly do what the original did. > In the classic game torches only lasted so long so you had to be quick > about grabbing one, taking it to a dark room, use it and hurry up and > grab all the gems, gold, etc before you lost your light. > The only way I can see this being recreated in our game is to have some > sort of flag if a game is in an dark room and there is no torch play no > sound. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.2/641 - Release Date: 20/01/2007 > 10:24 AM > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
