Hi Charles, Um...just curious but are you classifying JD as a sidescroller?
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Rivard Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 8:10 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the spirit of game production - Re:bringsbackmemories - Re: Fw: BlindSoftware.comBlog Feed Are Judgment Day, Super Liam, and the betas of MOTA the same? Even though they are side scrollers, no. This is why I don't think that the attitude of not creating a side scroller because they already exist is not the way to look at what to produce. I have an idea for a bowling game. How many of them exist for blind gamers to play with absolutely not one bit of sighted assistance from start to finish? Should I produce it? Should I get together with a programmer and share the rewards because I don't know programming? Or should I forget it because of what already exists. --- Laughter is the best medicine, so look around, find a dose and take it to heart. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 7:57 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] the spirit of game production - Re:bringsbackmemories - Re: Fw: BlindSoftware.comBlog Feed > Hi Dark, > > That's possible. Remember the VI gaming market as a whole hasn't had > much experience with games outside this community and maybe what > his/her friends/family play. This might contribute to the feeling of > well if there is a game like Tarzan Junior set in the jungle then > another side-scroller such as Perilous Hearts wouldn't sell. Of > course, as we've already heard the two games are quite different in > game play, and I'm certainly thinking of buying Perilous Hearts based > on what I've heard alone. So the side-scroller genre is far from > played out. > > As far as arcade games I'm not sure it is totally played out either. > Remember you are only thinking of the virtical shooters like Space > Invaders. There are games like Time Pilot, Chopper Command, Topgun, > Air Wolf, and perhaps hundreds more that have never been tapped in the > arcade genre alone. We just need to tap those types of games. > > Cheers! > > > On 5/19/11, dark <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Tom. >> >> You are right about side scrollers. >> >> thinking about this a bit further though, I do wonder if part of the >> issue >> comes from the fact we have! had such a boom in specifically arcade style >> games. >> >> IWhile I think Liam did a great job with jd, I think the basic arcade >> principle of having a set of things you need to react to quickly in order >> to >> wrack up score is itself a limiting genre, afterallleft/right sterrio >> targiting is! sterrio, whether your shooting copters, planes, alien >> spaceships or whatever. >> >> ditto with boppit or simon style games. >> >> If however games involve a specific element of exploration and/or >> continuous >> plot, then even if all mechanics were exactly the same, the basic area of >> the game can be intrinsically different. >> >> Suppose Phil were to create a packman talks Ii with the character and >> sfx. >> >> By altering the layout of the levels, maybe sticking in some new enemies, >> he >> could create a game more than different enough from the original for >> people >> to be interested in buying, simply because! packman talks inolves >> physical >> exploration of a maze, and that maze can be altered irrispective of >> gameplay >> elements. >> Mega man x 1 and mega man x 2 are pretty similar, indeed in one gameboy >> title megaman extreme, bosses and level elements from both games were >> included. >> >> But because the enemies, locations, weapons and bosses changed, even >> though >> the core mechanics of the game didn't, the two games are very different >> to >> play. >> >> As someone who played (and indeed owns), many of the side scrollers >> produced >> in the early nineties, I absolutely agree with you. >> >> Look at Philip bennifalls perilous hearts and how many people have become >> interested just from the preview. >> >> A side scroller set in the jungle? ---- isn't that a bit similar to >> Tarzan >> jr? or Q9? ---- heck no! >> >> 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]. 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