Hi Thomas,
Yeah, I definitely hear Ya. So many moves and then so many moves just with
different names, like the RKO being a DDT, the Master lock is just a full
nelson and all of the ones that you mention and on and on. Like is the
Stighner recliner a camel clutch or a Boston crab or what?
B
Hi Jim,
Grin. Yeah, it is too bad what happened after the match. Don't worry
the Viper always gets his revenge though.
Anyway, speaking of different names for moves I'm sort of running into
the same issue as your football game. I've been taking down notes for
about a week, and realised this morni
Hi Thomas,
Yes, thanks, I knew what RKO stands for. Cool that it's K O though right?
Too bad about what happened to Randy Orton after he beat CM Punk right?
So is it Randy or Randle as CM Punk says?
TGIF and BFN
Jim
If you don't think women are explosive, drop one!!
j...@kitchensinc.ne
Hi Jim,
No, the Sharpshooter is a reverse figure four leglock. Its not a Boston Crab.
By the way, in case you wonder where the name RKO comes from it is
Randy Orton's initials. Randy r, Kevin K, Orton O. The RKO. Grin.
FYI, Randy's match Monday night was awesome. I'm glad to see him kick
CM Punk
Hi Jason,
Oh cool, thanks, that is nice to know that an RKO is just a DDT. And I always
thought that the sharp shooter was just a Boston crab.
The Iron Sheik used the camel clutch. Sergeant Slaughter used the cobra
clutch. For the camel clutch you are squatting and sitting on the man's back
Hi Jason,
Right. I figured it was something like that. As it happens I've been
looking up these moves for my wrestling game so I know how to classify
them. I've been learning a lot of the moves are just old moves I know
with knew names on them. Either that or they are a combo move like the
GTS tha
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Hi Jim,
Well, you are right about that. A lot of the wrestlers like any other
star got passed around quite a lot. Once their contract was up they
generally took a walk to another federation or wrestling alliance and
got a
Hi Shane,
Right. Well, I've got some time to decide. Its not like I'll be
starting this project tomorrow anyway. I'm still elbo deep into MOTA
and Raceway so will probably work more on this wrestling game once one
if not both of those games are released. That will free up my schedule
for other thi
Hi,
Awesome! I'm on my way to get it. Thanks for letting me know NVDA 2011
was out. I wasn't sure if it had been released yet or not. Guess I
better grab it.
Cheers!
On 4/15/11, burakyuksek wrote:
> Hi,
> NVDA 2011.1.1 is released. you can download it at
> www.nvda-project.org
> sevgiler saygi
Hi Jim,
I'm not getting into an argument with you, but I think you
misunderstood what I was saying. First, I don't have any issues with
the new Audio SDK, XAudio2, so I'm not sure why you mentioned it.
Second, it is generally a good idea to stay up to date as far as bug
fixes, patches, etc but as
Hi Jim,
Yes, my Blackjack game as well as the wrestling game I'm working on
are basically simple text games that use the command prompt window
under Windows and a terminal window under Mac OS and Linux. The reason
for that is that in order to create a textbox I have to use some
platform specific g
Hi Burakyuksek,
Thank you for the information and URL for the newest version of NVDA.
TGIF and BFN
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NVDA 2011.1.1 is released. you can download it at
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Jim
If I knew everything that was about to happen, where would the f
Hi Thomas,
I don't mean to be too argumentative but, you always preach that one, us, needs
to have the newest latest greatest OS up dates etc etc. But now you are saying
that the newest IE Windows 7, Vista, the new sound playing SDK are not the best
for the blind. Kind of like what I preach,
Hi Thomas,
So if I would need to uncomment my command prompt support in JFW would that
mean that you are putting the text of your Windows black jack game in a command
prompt type text box and not in a Windows text box?
The one problem that I see with your using blank lines to put text where I
ril 13, 2011 7:41 AM
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Hi Phil,
Interesting. Well, as an absolute purest myself and as the developer
I'd rather either go straight 100% fantasy wrestling, I.E. 100% made
up wrestlers, or 100% true to the wrestlers I know and like. From what
I gather f
put all your wrestlers in the game.
Then just create a custem wrestler option.
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Hi Dark,
Well, I'll
I'd have to aggree with dark.
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Hi Tom.
My vote would personally be text only, or self voicing via sapi si
Hi,
NVDA 2011.1.1 is released. you can download it at
www.nvda-project.org
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Hi Jim,
Yeah, y
Hi Jim,
Yeah, I still use batch files a lot myself. They come in handy for
creating build scripts for Java or C++ programs as it saves me loads
of typing. When it comes to compilers I'm so completely fed up with
the big graphical compilers like Visual Studio because Microsoft as
usual seams to be
Hi Jim,
Well, tell you what. As it happens I'm in the process of rewriting my
Blackjack game in C++ for Linux, and I plan to release a Windows build
as well. When I release it you can tell me how it works with your
version of JFW. I tried it with JFW 11 and it reads the prompts,
menus, etc automat
hmmm I never used that.
Most of my training was for keysoft with a touch on mastertouch and
wordperfect 5.1
The rest I got from friends or got made for me.
Some stuff I pulled from dad's old computer disks and my friends disks.
I pulled a few extras from the net and such but that was towards th
Hi Shaun,
Oh yeah, the old copy con filename. I probably tried that, but since simply
type filename did the same thing and was reviewable I used that. Well it was
reviewable unless it scrolled up and off of the screen in which case you wanted
to use type filename | more
And hey, it still wor
Hi Thomas,
I used dos from like 1980 until 2000. I still use the Windows XP command
prompt all the time. It does not all speak automatically like dos did, but it
all still works great! But I also have the wonderful multitasking of Windows.
You know having probably as many text files or wha
Hi Thomas,
My example of
OPEN "o", #1, "con"
LOCATE 24, 50: PRINT #1, " Jim Kitchen"
was used in PDS7 (Microsoft Professional Basic Development System Version 7)
also called Extended Quick Basic. For dos it was a step above Quick Basic 4.5.
And as I said that would have all dos screen readers
Hi Shaun,
We probably should take this off list, but I do have a quick question
before I close the matter. Why do you think you have to have a
separate computer for Linux?
One of the big selling features of Ubuntu Linux in particular is that
it was specifically designed to run side by side on a s
If only I knew that before I started upgrading.
in 1995.
I have to many things for windows and have invested to much to
realistically go full time to linux.
Eventually I may get a second system to have linux on but I can't see
it being my primary os any time soon.
Hi Shaun,
This is sort of
Hi Hayden,
Yes, of course it does. All cout does is stream text directly to the
console. I can't speak for every screen reader out there, but
generally Window-eyes reads the text as soon as it is printed to the
display. You can also use older functions like printf(), puts(), etc
to display text o
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Hi Jim,
Yeah, I know. In C++ they call this streaming. You can open a file
stream and then send it directly to the console and most screen
readers will read it automatically. That's basically what I was
thinking of doing for my wrestling gam
Hi Shaun,
This is sort of getting off track, but I'd like to say that's actually
one of the reasons I became a fan of Linux. Although, the desktop
editions have a full graphical desktop environment similar to Windows
it also has a large number of people out there who actively use Linux
in the cons
Hi Jim,
Yeah, I know. In C++ they call this streaming. You can open a file
stream and then send it directly to the console and most screen
readers will read it automatically. That's basically what I was
thinking of doing for my wrestling game. I still believe that writing
to the console directly a
well I used type to read files but also a program called list that
did the same thing.
interestingly this reminds me about a command I used to do in the past.
Print con was one
the other thing I could was put copy con filename.ext and type whatever.
I couldn't review it but if I was doing somet
Hi Thomas,
Actually in dos there was a specific way to put text on the screen so that
every single dos screen reader would speak it automatically. It was called
writing to the consul or bios of the computer. It looked like;
OPEN "o", #1, "con"
LOCATE 24, 50: PRINT #1, " Jim Kitchen"
So once
Hi Jim,
Yeah, you are right. With a turned based game automatic speech isn't
always necessary.
For instance, I can remember back when I was in college and
downloading and playing the demo of PCS Games Monopoly for Dos.
Actually, it was very accessible, and worked well with ASAP, Jaws for
Dos, and
Hi Dark,
That is an excellent point about automatic speech being important in a live
action type game and definitely not so much for a turn based type game. The
only other thing for me is that I have many sapi5 voices that I like much
better than Eloquence and my version of Jaws can not use a
Fair enough Tom.
The method I was thinking of in terms of Ai simply involved varying the
likelihood of the computer choosing one action over another in a given
situation.
Say for instance turn buckles was set to 3, the computer would have a %60
chance of choosing to get on the turn buckle wh
e percentage to determine what move the player makes next.
Phil
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Hi Dark,
Well, that sounds interesting, but th
Hi Phil,
Well, for now I'm not going to add any kind of editer etc to the game.
The reason is I want each and every wrestler to have a different
artificial intelligence, his or her own unique moves, and to really
make each and every match completely different where you will have to
change your str
Hi Dark,
Well, that sounds interesting, but there is a problem. I wouldn't have
a clue how to create something like that. Truth is although I'm a fair
programmer I wouldn't know where to start to create something like you
are talking about. You are quite frankly talking over my head and
skills as
Hi Tom.
On the Ai score, one game I really admire for ai which I came across
recently (thanks to a friend), is the pc doss beat em up one must fall 2097.
One of the cleverest things about it, is that though it only had 8 basic
robots, all of whome had moves in standard beat em up style, each
HI Dark,
Yeah, but one major difference between Jim's baseball game and the
wrestling game I'm working on is he stores all of his names etc in
text files. I can't really do that because the way I'm designing the
game everything is pretty specific to each wrestler. I.E. they have
there own specific
Hi Thomas,
One thing that Harry did was to allow some people to create team sets for
the Baseball game.
So if they wanted the 1980 Toronto Blue Jays in the game they had the
ability to create it.
The set creating software asked you the person's name and then went through
the stats and you fille
I like this idea tom as you might guess, it certainly has been one which
nintendo and other game companies have used for boxing and wrestling games
for years, look at punch out with king hippo or Saturday night slam
masters where the likes of Mike Haggar and Alexander power competed for the
Hi Phil,
Interesting. Well, as an absolute purest myself and as the developer
I'd rather either go straight 100% fantasy wrestling, I.E. 100% made
up wrestlers, or 100% true to the wrestlers I know and like. From what
I gather from your message since 90% of the potential players probably
don't giv
hil
>
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>
>
>> HI Dark,
>>
>> Yeah, well one thing is for certain r
found that at least ninety percent of the game owners played it as
fantasy baseball rather than the purists who played it as a real game.
Phil
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Hi Tom.
You are indeed right, and were you making a game based on Dr. who or tolkien
which are! major interests of mine I'd be the first to insist on canonical
details, and while I'm probably more casual about startrek I do appreciate
the correctness of a game like final conflict.
however, s
HI Dark,
Yeah, well one thing is for certain regardless what I do I can't
please everyone. That's true with every game a developer creates, and
it becomes more of an issue any time a game features something like
Star Trek, Star Wars, wrestling, etc as hard core fans see it as a
type of fan fiction
Hi Thomas,
Well you know I think that you should write your wrestling game the way that
you want to. Self voicing via sapi5 would be nice, but you do have some good
reasons for text only. And heck you need to write a game for you, for fun.
Now please just write all of the AI in VB6 and share
Hi Tom.
Fair enough, it is your game.
On the self voicing issue, I chiefly like the idea of text or sapi because
of customizability and ease of play.
While I'm all for human voices in games where those voices are characters, I
don't see the need for this sort of thing in menues, reading stat
Hi Michael,
We will see. The big problem is I don't own an IPhone, and don't have
the development tools etc required to make an IPhone port. However,
should things change or someone out there have the necessary knowhow
to do it they are welcome to try.
Cheers!
On 4/12/11, michael barnes wrote
Hi Dark,
Well, I'll certainly take that under advisement. Unfortunately, now
I'm not quite sure what to do. I have Jim Kitchen saying make it
self-voicing and you seem to be in favor of my original idea of
text-based. I think I'm going to have to have more feedback from the
community to make a dec
Hey, Thomas.
Here is a idea for the wrestling game you are working on. If you
wanted you could also release the game for the iphone aswell.
There is away that you can put it on the iphone for free. You could
sell the iphone game version for ninety nine cent.
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Hi Tom.
My vote would personally be text only, or self voicing via sapi sinse this
would allow for things like creating your own wrestler, adding your own
match types etc.
In fact, creating and swapping wrestlers across list to fight in each
others' ma
Hi Tom.
My vote would personally be text only, or self voicing via sapi sinse this
would allow for things like creating your own wrestler, adding your own
match types etc.
In fact, creating and swapping wrestlers across list to fight in each
others' made up federations would probably be more
Hi Phil,
Lol! Yeah, I did think that was a bit strange. However, it was a good
game all things considered.
On 4/12/11, Phil Vlasak wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
> But, you forget the power of the wrestling belt.
> It allows the wearer to time travel to any era and grab any wrestler at
> their prime and br
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 t
Hi Jim,
Well, you are right about that. A lot of the wrestlers like any other
star got passed around quite a lot. Once their contract was up they
generally took a walk to another federation or wrestling alliance and
got a job. Especially, if they were a big name star, and wanted a
better contract.
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 mer
Hi Thomas,
But, you forget the power of the wrestling belt.
It allows the wearer to time travel to any era and grab any wrestler at
their prime and bring them back to today, so they will have a fare fight.
I enjoyed Harry Hollingworth's baseball game where you could play Babe Ruth
against Micky
Hi Thomas,
Yeah, I remember the feud and match between Jesse the Body and Hulk Hogan. I
was not positive about the time frame though. I have been watching wrestling
since like the mid sixties. So I can not always keep the times and even
companies perfectly straight. Especially since so man
Hi Dark,
Like I've mentioned before I've got several different reasons why I
want to split this up into old era and new era wrestlers. I'll run
down the list quickly and you can agree/disagree here but here are my
reasons in no particular order.
First, I know I originally mentioned making this a
Hi Tom.
My acquaintance with wrestling sort of stopped in the 90's with the likes of
wwf regulars like Hulk Hogan, Jake the snake robberts, the nasty boys,
sergeant slaughter, the million dollar man etc.
I then sort of lost interest for a good while, though vaguely ran into the
more recent w
Hi Michael,
Ummm...Apparently you didn't read the list close enough because Shawn
Michaels and his partner Michael Jannetty are both on their. Yeah, I
definitely know Shawn Michaels was wrestling in the 1980's long before
he adopted the Heartbreak Kid nickname, and got the Sexy Boy entrance
music
Hi Phil,
Thanks for posting. That was a great article. It didn't say anything I
didn't already know, but it was well written and a good read.
It is kind of funny one of the guys who commented on it mentioned the
AWA figures the AWA had put out in the 1980's to try and compete with
the WWF's rock
Hi,
Actually, Earthquake and Typhoon didn't come along until the 1990's.
Again this is kind of out of the time frame I set for the game which
is around 1982 to 1990.Just covering a 8 year period you do realize
I'm almost up to 100 performers. Its going to take years to write a
completely custom A.
Hi Michael,
Well, I'm personally of two minds about creating an "all stars"
wrestling game. I guess it really all depends on if you come from a
wrestling purest point of view or not.
What I mean by that is around 1982 Vince McMan officially purchased
the WWF, and then they split off from the Nati
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Hey, Thomas.
Another wrestler you could add to the game is Shawn Michaels. He was
there in the late 80's.
What about Kevin Nash and Scott Ha
Hi Thomas,
You might be interested in this article,
Wrestling In The 80's
http://www.retrojunk.com/details_articles/1555/
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Hi Mich,
That would be the Paul Bearer. H
Hey, Mitch you are talking about Paul Baerer Undertaker manager.
He was there for a few months last year. The last time he was there
was doing the month of December when Kane and Edge was fighting for the
world title on smackdown.
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Hey, Thomas.
Another wrestler you could add to the game is Shawn Michaels. He was
there in the late 80's.
What about Kevin Nash and Scott Hall as well they was theire in the
late 80's as well.
You could add old arenas such as Wrestlemania and Starcade and others.
Being that WWE brought ECW and
Hello, I think that making a wrestling game using wrestlers from the
80's would be alsome.
Is any of the old ECW and NWA and WCW superstars going to be in the
game aswell?
Here is something to think about what about using the wrestlemania and
starcade wrestling rings. If you think about it this
Hi Greg,
I can look but I'm pretty sure the four horsemen etc didn't come along
until the early 90's. I know for sure Arn Anderson came to the WWF
before his brother did, and wrestled as part of Bobby Henan's Brain
Busters. So the Four Horsemen was definitely way after that.
Cheers!
On 4/11/11,
Hi Mich,
That would be the Paul Bearer. He always walked around with that
stupid urn the Undertaker said gave him his super human powers. He
also would hand the Undertaker a plastic bodybag when the Undertaker
won the match and together they would put the defeated aponent in it
and carry him away
Hi Jim,
You are right. I did forget about good old Hillbilly Jim and Mr. USA
Tony Atlas. As for Jesse the Body by the 1980's he was primarily a
commintator rather than a wrestler. In fact, the only time I recall
seeing Jesse actually wrestle was at the ritchfield Coliseum against
Hulk Hogan.
At t
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Hi,
Yeah, well, the Undertaker has been in wrestling quite a while.
Definitely was there long before I lost my sight, I'd say the late
80's, and I must say he used to creep me
Hello Thomas,
You forgot Arn Andersons brother. I think it was Oly or something like
that. Oh and I think Chris Benoit, sorry about the misspelling, was in the
late 80's. Then with both Andersons, Ric Flair, and Chris you could have
the Four Horseman.
Greg W.
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same here
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Sent: Sunday, April 10, 2011 10:59 PM
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Hi Thomas,
Like it...you have quite a list there.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Hi Ryan,
Yeah, Thomas said that
well. Anyway, I've been working on putting together an official
WWF/WWE roster of big name male and female wrestlers from the 1980's.
So that is why wrestlers such as Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Tripple H,
John Cena, ETC are not in there.
Oh, and for wome
Hi Thomas,
That's a really great! WWE Roster that you put together.
I've got just a couple that maybe you could add.
Chief Jay Strongbow; who had a tag team partner, but I forget who it was.
Rocky Johnson
Tony Atlas
Hillbilly Jim.
Jessy the body Ventura.
Tag teams
The moon dogs
and
Rocky John
Hi,
Yeah, well, the Undertaker has been in wrestling quite a while.
Definitely was there long before I lost my sight, I'd say the late
80's, and I must say he used to creep me out looking at him on WWF
wrestling. Even the look in his eyes as he looked at the camera was
sinister. Lol!
Let's just s
Hi Ryan,
Actually, what I am doing is creating two seperate wrestling games
using the same basic engine. The first is a legends based game
featuring only wrestlers from the 1980's like Hulk Hogan, Junkyard
Dog, Randy Savage, Wendi Richter, Sinsational Sharri, Rockin' Robin,
etc. Basically, anyone
Wow,
The undertaker, happy to see him!
saygilar sevgiler.
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Hi Thomas,
Like it...you have qui
Hi Tom,
Are you trying to make this all older wrestlers? If not, you forgot quite a
people like Stone Cold Steve Austin, the Rock, Tripple H, John Cena, ETC. Oh,
and for women, you can't forget Trish Stratus.
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Hi Thomas,
Like it...you have quite a list there.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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