Hi tom.
The time aspect is true, though at the same time (ha ha), I don't really
think the full power of audio mazes have been explored as yet, even in a
game like shades of doom. After all, in shear size of area to traverse
something like tomb rader, metroid, ---- or even Turrican has much larger
levels than we've seen in audio thus far, and the larger the area, the more
difficult things are to find.
The searching problem is a point, but in many of the earlier metroid games
all items were actually pretty much in plane site, or in sites and
configurations of ledges that implied the player should search more
completely, and this technique could work in audio. For instance, in the
first level of shades there is that corridor with those tiny 2 x 2 rooms
going off it. Suppose, items were hidden in the back walls of some! of those
sorts of rooms, leading players to have to check those size rooms when they
come to them.
Ditto with sound sorces such as radios.
Another technique might be some form of scanning, where by you come upon
many objects and need to scan them to determine items, though once again,
unless this was tied to some sort of configuration in the maze having to
scan every single object or picture or bit of background could get annoying,
but if the player had just gone through many small passages to find a tiny
room with a jar or a statue or whatever, ods are that statue would possibly
contain something good, where jars and statues in more obvious places don't.
Then of course there's the fact that in such games, expantion items are
supposed! to take time to find, so having players check all objects would be
a way of increasing the play time of the game.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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