Hi Thomas, I'm sure you can. (no sarcasm attatched to that comment) <Grin>
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 10:13 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] New here; saying hello Hi Neophite, Initially I wrote my first game STFC in C# .NET, but I have since switch to C++. Do to some driver compatibility issues we have decided to adopt two different API standards for our games. On the Windows side we will be developing our games in C++ with direct support for MS Sapi 5, DirectInput, and other Windows specific APIs. On the Linux side we are going to use Speech-Dispatcher for speech support and SFML for input, audio, and networking support. That's actually what we are doing now for Mysteries of the Ancients beta 16. As far as playing interactive fiction on Linux I agree that Speakup works better for that. The Linux frotz interpreter is a console application, and sometimes Orca doesn't handle it too will in a terminal window. Using Speakup with frotz is a pretty good combo accesssibility wise. Also there is an open source Adrift Runner for Linux called Scare, and for the most part it works well with Speakup. As with frotz Orca doesn't handle the screens too well, but Speakup seams to do pretty well with them. For that reason alone Vinux is handy because they have Speakup already compiled and configured out of the box where with Ubuntu you have to do a bit of compiling and configuring to get Speakup working. As far as doing a bit of creative writing I use to do a lot of it back when i was in high school and college. I have the nack for it, but somehow coding seams to take up most of my creative time/talent. I keep telling myself that eventually I am going to get back into creative writing and lay off game coding for a while. Although, I have a project in the works that might let me do both. I'm working on a text based RPG in the spirit of ADOM or Nethack for Windows and Linux. As it is an RPG system it will take quite a lot of both coding and creative writing to pull off. One of the reasons I'm writing it is that for a while I was heavily into playing an RPG game called Sryth. Unfortunately, over the past couple of years Sryth has become less of a story based RPG and has a lot of quests that are little more than grinding. I understand the need to improve stats, wepons, etc but when you have to do mindless grinding, playing the same adventure over and over to get a special item, it gets old real quick. Therefore I figured I could write my own and do better. Cheers! --- 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].
