I'm talking about the Lonewolf gamebook series from
http://www.projectaon.org/new.htmm, a set of incredibly good gamebooks which
tell a long ongoing story, have skills and other interesting mechanics, and
were originally released in the 1980's but have sinse been made public
domain.
Usually, though the books are done as html with links betwene the various
sections, it's necessary to roll all dice, and keep your own stats and items
etc. The silverlight thing was an attempt to automate this process.
Sadly though, it doesn't work at all!
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "shaun everiss" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 7:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Silverlight accessible or not?
hmmm silverlite has not always worked for us its not really accessible.
However what are the lonewolf gamebooks I thought lonewolf was a gma game
but I guess its many things.
Also where do I play these lonewolf things with the online silverlite
program, also how do you play with the java program, I have jaws 6.20 so I
may try this.
At 09:21 p.m. 10/10/2009, you wrote:
Hi.
poking around the project.aon forums, I discovered someone has created an
online application to automate playing of lone wolf gamebooks. This means
no more stat and item keeping, looking up numbers on tables, rolling dice
or long drawn out combats.
In fact it would make the Lonewolf series function essentially like the
fighting fantasy project stuff.
For a long while there has been a java application called 7th sense which
does this, however sinse I can't read anything with Hal above the title,
it's a bit of a none starter, ---- especially as while some Java
applications can be incredibly screen reader friendly, when they're not,
they're not! and nothing short of a complete rewrite will fix them.
So, I was intreagued to here about this online version. The only trouble
is it apparently uses the Ms silverlight web addon.
I've heard a couple of bad things about silverlight, ---- but is this
dependent upon the webpage and design, or implicitely part of silverlight
itself.
Being as the Lw books are already html text, I'd theoretically assume all
Silverlight would need to do is handle all the backgrounds stats etc, ----
but is this wrong?
have other silverlight driven projects proved utterly impossible?
Any information would be appreciated.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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