One game in which 2 or more players can audibly compete is Tenpin Alley,
although it is a simple one, and is a good bowling game, although I have a
different aiming method in mind for a game of this type. It would be more
like actual spot bowling, as sighted bowlers do.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Munawar Bijani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gamers Discussion list"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big
aspect
Hi Munawar,
Those are some very good points. About the only way to avoid such an
instance where a person would have to purchase an extra sound card or a
controller is make the two player mode turn based like in the classic
Atari games.
Take a game like Packman. Player 1 would start out zoom around the maze,
and if his/her Packman got eaten by a ghost the game then would speak a
message like player 2. Then, player 2 would play until his/her Packman got
eaten. Then, it is once again player 1's turn to play. This is really the
only logical way to do it for an audio only game I think.
Munawar Bijani wrote:
Hi,
I think the real challenge here is not getting two input devices to
control two separate entities at the same time--this is very easily done
if the game is coded properly and made to accomodate very generic input
from the start--rather, preventing one player from being confused by
another's audio output would be difficult. For instance, if SAPI outputs
some messages, unless each player uses a different voice, it would be
difficult to tell whose status the engine is outputting. Even if the game
uses two different voices for both players, and say if player 1 issues a
status command and player 2 does the same, player 1's status would be cut
off (since in real time games it would give player 1 and unfair advantage
if player 2 has to wait for player 1's status to finish.)
In contrast, in visual games, sound is not that big of a deal, and
splitting the screen into player 1 and player 2 areas is not difficult to
do--this is how the Nintendo 64 did it with 007: Golden Eye when you
initiated multiplayer mode; which made it easy to hook up four
controllers at the same time and play without any problems. The audio
equivalent of this, I would think, is to have the user install two sound
cards, and both players wear headsets plugged into either card. Player
1's sound output would come out of card 1, and likewise for player 2.
However, the question then arises as to whether the user is willing to
spend the money to buy two cards (or one card, since the computer most
likely already has one sound card) which will cost about $100, on top of
the extra keyboard or joystick for a second input device, on top of the
price of the game, which would probably be $30.00 minimum. As a
developer, all this has to be factored in and you get to your final
answer of "is it worth it to implement this technology?" Based on how the
market currently is, probably not.
Munawar A. Bijani
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