Hi Dark, Well, you are right that I started out with something like Piledriver in mind, but since discussing it with the list it is clear people want something more pro wrestling specific. However, I never planned on necessarily making up your own wrestler from scratch. I was thinking more along the ideas of selecting somebody like Hulk Hogan, Tito Santana, Ricky Steamboat, and playing his career mode rather than some anonymous dude. Plus now that I'm convinced guys like Jim Kichen want this game to be self-voicing that pretty much cancels out the idea of creating a fully custom wrestler from scratch. Something as simple as a custom name can't be done unless I use MS Sapi, but I won't do that for the simple fact I've decided to write it as cross-platform independant as I can from the start using SDL and I guess prerecorded speech for speech output. This obviously does go beyond Piledriver, but that's ok for most people.
However, I myself have some misgivings about the direction the game has taken. There is no doubt that a text only game would be preferable. For one thing it would be much much easier to produce. For another people with braille displays could play it including both blind and deaf-blind players. It could be ported to Pacmates and other notetakers. I think I will have to make some sort of decision about this pretty soon as obviously guys like Jim Kitchen and I have some differing opinions on the interface, and weather or not it should self-voice or not. There are advantages and disadvantages with both versions. Cheers! On 4/12/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > It sounds like this project is changing rather vastly from what I originally > thought it was, sinse I originally thought you were just expanding the > initial pile driver to be easier to use and have career modes and the like. > > Obviously this is no longer the case. > > While I do see the merrit in something very realistic and tied to a > wrestling era, given my somewhat sketchy interest in pro wrestling this > actually sounds less appealing to me, ---- sinse sports aren't really my > thing (wrestling is one of the few things I was vaguely interested in as a > ten year old which I'm not interested in now). > > I rather fancied a sort of fantasy wrestling game where you could create > your own wrestler, fight against some famous people and bust heads, but I'm > afraid something probably as tied to the wrestling world as your talking > about actually sounds less my sort of thing. > > This isn't to say you shouldn't do it, sinse obviously many people are > interested, and I'll certainly give it a try, only that I'm not sure it was > what I thought it was. > > 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]. > --- 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].
