Re: [blind-gamers] Query regarding Shades of Doom version two.
You can sign up for the GMA account, and you can register your key if the computer id did change. Regards, DARK LORD From: blind-gamers@groups.io On Behalf Of tim Sent: Thursday, 29 April 2021 2:55 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Query regarding Shades of Doom version two. Just go ahead and reg it. Your only going to have a problem if you change the hard drive it is installed on. On 4/27/2021 7:27 PM, Gary Price(Gmail) wrote: Hello everyone. Please can I try and check something. Yesterday, I got into a right mess with my desktop and I've had to reset my Windows10 completely. But before I did this, I forgot to remove my registration from Shades of Doom version two. To be honest I didn't know how to do it. My query is even though I've accidentally done this, can I still register it on my new install? Or is it going to have a hissy fit and start moaning that's already registered on a computer. Thanks very much, any replies really appreciated! -- Gary Price. This is my backup Email address. gazwpr...@gmail.com <mailto:gazwpr...@gmail.com> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#123683): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/123683 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82417742/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/21656/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder
Unfortunately that's the part of the idiots who did the port to android, not Asharp themselves who did all the great stuff for Vo on Ios. Unless Asharp do the android port of sic ages themselves, accessibility might be difficult. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Milos Przic" To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 11:25 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder Let's hope that it will be accesible on Android too when it comes out, as King of Dragon Pas was not... - Original Message - From: "dark" To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 12:22 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder Hi Lori. The trailer probably wouldn't show anything since if six ages works the way king of dragon pass does, all the action is text on screen and presumably the trailor wasn't using voiceover. Don't worry though, apparently the game is fully accessible with Vo. Actually given how much I've enjoyed king of dragon p[ass I really look forward to this one. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "lori duncan" To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder Do these games actually have any sounds other than music? I tried the trailer but couldn't hear anything other than music. On 22/06/2018 08:47, Bogdan Muresan wrote: Hi. I am happy to anounce that the game is ready for preorder. I was a beta tester and I can say that it is fully accesible with voiceover. It is the next a-sharp title after the King of dragon pass. Below is the official game page. https://www.sixages.com/ Best regards, Bogdan. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119380): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119380 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/22575289/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder
Hi Lori. The trailer probably wouldn't show anything since if six ages works the way king of dragon pass does, all the action is text on screen and presumably the trailor wasn't using voiceover. Don't worry though, apparently the game is fully accessible with Vo. Actually given how much I've enjoyed king of dragon p[ass I really look forward to this one. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "lori duncan" To: Sent: Friday, June 22, 2018 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Six ages: ride like the wind, is ready for preorder Do these games actually have any sounds other than music? I tried the trailer but couldn't hear anything other than music. On 22/06/2018 08:47, Bogdan Muresan wrote: Hi. I am happy to anounce that the game is ready for preorder. I was a beta tester and I can say that it is fully accesible with voiceover. It is the next a-sharp title after the King of dragon pass. Below is the official game page. https://www.sixages.com/ Best regards, Bogdan. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119375): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119375 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/22575289/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] test message
Oh No Lori, I'm afraid your message never appeared on the list which was why I was completely unable to reply to it :D. Seriously, feel free to ask questions, I've been a little busy recently to keep up with games but I'll help if I can, and of course there's the audiogames.net forum if you want an alterantive place to ask questions. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119370): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119370 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/22498739/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds.
Hmmm, I always got the impression that MushZ had rather more sounds etc than Alteraeon, does, though at some point I'll have to try playing alteraeon with Vipmud for contrast. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Travis Siegel" To: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 4:13 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds. But, alter aeon supports the mud sounc protocl, so I don't understand why mushz fiddles around with sound packs, just download the sounds from the mud itself, that's what they're for. I did notice that muzhZ doesn't play the sounds alteraeon has in their MSP support, and I was puzzled as to why this was. There's actually no need for it, alteraeon has a complete set of sounds you can get quite nicely from the Mud Sound Protocol, so bringing in sounds from other sources is just plain silly. On 6/12/2018 10:49 AM, dark wrote: @travis, not all mud SOUNDPACKS work by msp, actually comparatively few of them do, only classic six dragons and materiamagica I believe. A lot of muds with pre build soundpacks make those soundpacks for! specific clients, by having a set of scripts for the client along with sounds that can be downloaded. the scripts then essentially command the client to play a sound everytime some text is sent from the mud server. This is how mushZ for alteraeon works. this isn't a criticism, mushZ is an awesome piece of work, but equally its why MushZ won't work with any other client but mushclient, why it needs auto updating through the client rather than through the mud itself or the alteraeon website, and why updates to the client often are made after updates to the game, EG if a new spell or ability is introduced it usually takes a while before it gets a sound. This is also why most of the sounds and music in MushZ actually come from other games and different places. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119347): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119347 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21957478/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds.
That would make sense. When I've seen MSp used in the past, even in games that have a fair amount of Msp like classic six dragons, it has indeed been more of an added luxury than something to convey specific information, indeed games like Materiamagica are largely silent and just have the odd sound for special events. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "john" To: Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds. Sound quality and distinguishability, in many cases. Consider, for example, the MSP combat sounds. It would be impossible to use those to determine damage type being dealt, especially in high-intensity situations. There are certainly a few MSP sounds suitable for inclusion in Mush-z. However, you need a very different set of standards when building something that's entirely sound based, as opposed to having sound as an add-on capability. Mush-z builds a world in sound. Msp is a nice feature in an existing one built of text. Also, MSP came after Mush-z, as far as I know. -- From: "Travis Siegel" Sent: Friday, June 15, 2018 11:13 To: Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds. But, alter aeon supports the mud sounc protocl, so I don't understand why mushz fiddles around with sound packs, just download the sounds from the mud itself, that's what they're for. I did notice that muzhZ doesn't play the sounds alteraeon has in their MSP support, and I was puzzled as to why this was. There's actually no need for it, alteraeon has a complete set of sounds you can get quite nicely from the Mud Sound Protocol, so bringing in sounds from other sources is just plain silly. On 6/12/2018 10:49 AM, dark wrote: @travis, not all mud SOUNDPACKS work by msp, actually comparatively few of them do, only classic six dragons and materiamagica I believe. A lot of muds with pre build soundpacks make those soundpacks for! specific clients, by having a set of scripts for the client along with sounds that can be downloaded. the scripts then essentially command the client to play a sound everytime some text is sent from the mud server. This is how mushZ for alteraeon works. this isn't a criticism, mushZ is an awesome piece of work, but equally its why MushZ won't work with any other client but mushclient, why it needs auto updating through the client rather than through the mud itself or the alteraeon website, and why updates to the client often are made after updates to the game, EG if a new spell or ability is introduced it usually takes a while before it gets a sound. This is also why most of the sounds and music in MushZ actually come from other games and different places. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119346): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119346 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21957478/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Help with muds.
@travis, not all mud SOUNDPACKS work by msp, actually comparatively few of them do, only classic six dragons and materiamagica I believe. A lot of muds with pre build soundpacks make those soundpacks for! specific clients, by having a set of scripts for the client along with sounds that can be downloaded. the scripts then essentially command the client to play a sound everytime some text is sent from the mud server. This is how mushZ for alteraeon works. this isn't a criticism, mushZ is an awesome piece of work, but equally its why MushZ won't work with any other client but mushclient, why it needs auto updating through the client rather than through the mud itself or the alteraeon website, and why updates to the client often are made after updates to the game, EG if a new spell or ability is introduced it usually takes a while before it gets a sound. This is also why most of the sounds and music in MushZ actually come from other games and different places. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119335): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119335 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21957478/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client?
I admit I was less of a fan of cyber asault, maybe it was that I missed most of the newbie area, or maybe its that combat is stupidly fast and rather difficult without a soundpack etc, or maybe its just that the writing appealed to me less, a shame, since scifi exploration muds seem much rarer. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Has anyone had any success with ancientanguish.org? That's a rather old mud or was the last time I tried to create an account and couldn't do that. A while back I played cyberassault.com and that was pretty good. On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, Travis Siegel wrote: Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 11:41:10 From: Travis Siegel Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Well, over the years, my favorite muds have changed.? When I was just a newbie in the mud scene, (back in the early 90s), I really liked a mud called darkwind, one that was still running a few years ago when I last logged in, but it seems to be gone now. These days though, I really like 3K (3k.org), since it is one I also played in the 90s, and it is still around, and still going very strong, and they do have some help for the visually impaired user. I also very much like their guild selections.? One of my characters is a changeling, one is a cyborg, and on 3scapes (the sister mud to 3k), I have a juggernaut character. Another mud I used to enjoy thoroughly was lostsouls (lostsouls.org), because of it's amazing race selection and it's skill sets.? Unfortunately, I quit playing that one a few years ago when they expanded the world to the point of uselessness. Sure, it's nice to have thousands and thousands of rooms to stroll around in, but when you're wandering around for hours and can't find a damned thing, it's time to go find something else to do. Lostsouls is a mud I'd also been playing since the mid 90s, and although I really love the mud, I just can't handle the fact that since the world expanded it now takes three times as long to get anywhere, and that's assuming you know exactly where said place is.? If you don't, and you need to look for it, just forget it, you'll never find it.? If they'd put the world map back to how it used to be, I'd pick up playing there in a heartbeat, but I've got better things to do than spend long stretches of time getting from place to place even when I know exactly where I need to go, but I sure can't see how running around for (sometimes) hours trying to find a place you've already been hundreds of times helps anybody, least of all the player accomplish anything.? So, I just quit playing there, and have no intention of going back, despite the fact that I think their skill system is the best I've ever seen in all my mudding time. I do play alter aeon, and I like it well enough, it's skill system is pretty decent, and while I've tried aardwolf, I'm not a big fan of their environment, though I do log in there once in a while to remind myself why I don't play there regularly.? I've found a few other muds where I play once in a while, but I don't play anything regularly except for 3K and Alter Aeon.? If I can find another mud like lostsouls, then I'd be there fairly regularly, but until then, I'll just stick with empiremud, 3k, and alter aeon.? Those suit my purposes for the time being. On 6/10/2018 5:16 AM, dark wrote: > Alteraeon is a lot of fun, especially with all the constant updates and > editions, but there are other muds I enjoy for different things. > > Usually when not playing Alteraeon I? like Vipmud as a client because > its > straight forward and easy to use and handles characters well. > > other muds I enjoy are frandom for the puzzles, 4 dimensions for the > weird > world, erion for some quick monster bashing (I've also played aardwolf > too), > and cosmic for great space activities, Flexible survival forcrafting > and > exploring though I'm always up for trying new muds recently I was > expiermenting with a game called criosphere which is like frandom in > space. > > All the best, > > Dark. > - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" > To: > Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:39 AM > Subject: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? > > >> Hello. >> >> What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? >> And why is it your favorite? >> >> My favorite MUD is Alter Aeon. >> The reason is because of all of the creativity that goes on in the >> game. >> I have not found any other MUD that is just as good as this one. >> >> My favorite MUD client is Mush-z. >> I like that it gives the MUD music and sound
Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client?
Hmmm, not heard of legends of kalisty, can you say a bit more about the game? EG what theme it has, classes, quests crafting, exploring etc, and how is the access in terms of combat spam and All the best, Dark.so on. - Original Message - From: "Hunter Jozwiak" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Howdy, Recently, I got into Legends of Kallisti, as I really like the progression system. Not only can you buy hitpoints and mana with your experience and gold (okay, that's necessary in order to progress), but at level 58, you can get bloodlines which gives all the ancestors benefits (each time you level you get one hitpoint, mana, and stamina, or both). As for cli"js, I like Tintin a lot, as writing packs for it is easy. Speaking thereof, a bit of a self-plug, I and another character on the game have one at http://github.com/tintin-kallisti-pack On 6/10/18, dark wrote: Sorry, its spealt with a U. See http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Frandum for details. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tobias Vinteus" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Thanks for the tips. I can't find frandom. Did you spell it right? On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, dark wrote: Alteraeon is a lot of fun, especially with all the constant updates and editions, but there are other muds I enjoy for different things. Usually when not playing Alteraeon I like Vipmud as a client because its straight forward and easy to use and handles characters well. other muds I enjoy are frandom for the puzzles, 4 dimensions for the weird world, erion for some quick monster bashing (I've also played aardwolf too), and cosmic for great space activities, Flexible survival forcrafting and exploring though I'm always up for trying new muds recently I was expiermenting with a game called criosphere which is like frandom in space. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:39 AM Subject: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Hello. What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? And why is it your favorite? My favorite MUD is Alter Aeon. The reason is because of all of the creativity that goes on in the game. I have not found any other MUD that is just as good as this one. My favorite MUD client is Mush-z. I like that it gives the MUD music and sound effects. With this client it makes the game more enjoyable. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119318): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119318 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21944913/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Leave: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client?
Sorry, its spealt with a U. See http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Frandum for details. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tobias Vinteus" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 10:49 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Thanks for the tips. I can't find frandom. Did you spell it right? On Sun, 10 Jun 2018, dark wrote: Alteraeon is a lot of fun, especially with all the constant updates and editions, but there are other muds I enjoy for different things. Usually when not playing Alteraeon I like Vipmud as a client because its straight forward and easy to use and handles characters well. other muds I enjoy are frandom for the puzzles, 4 dimensions for the weird world, erion for some quick monster bashing (I've also played aardwolf too), and cosmic for great space activities, Flexible survival forcrafting and exploring though I'm always up for trying new muds recently I was expiermenting with a game called criosphere which is like frandom in space. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:39 AM Subject: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Hello. What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? And why is it your favorite? My favorite MUD is Alter Aeon. The reason is because of all of the creativity that goes on in the game. I have not found any other MUD that is just as good as this one. My favorite MUD client is Mush-z. I like that it gives the MUD music and sound effects. With this client it makes the game more enjoyable. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119312): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119312 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21944913/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Leave: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client?
Alteraeon is a lot of fun, especially with all the constant updates and editions, but there are other muds I enjoy for different things. Usually when not playing Alteraeon I like Vipmud as a client because its straight forward and easy to use and handles characters well. other muds I enjoy are frandom for the puzzles, 4 dimensions for the weird world, erion for some quick monster bashing (I've also played aardwolf too), and cosmic for great space activities, Flexible survival forcrafting and exploring though I'm always up for trying new muds recently I was expiermenting with a game called criosphere which is like frandom in space. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" To: Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2018 7:39 AM Subject: [blind-gamers] What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? Hello. What is your favorite MUD and MUD client? And why is it your favorite? My favorite MUD is Alter Aeon. The reason is because of all of the creativity that goes on in the game. I have not found any other MUD that is just as good as this one. My favorite MUD client is Mush-z. I like that it gives the MUD music and sound effects. With this client it makes the game more enjoyable. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119310): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119310 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/21944913/21656 Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Leave: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [SPAM] Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail.
Delight games on android and Ios have some gamebooks with the name Oregon trail, but how they're related to the original if at all I'm not sure. Of course also remember there is westward on the age of fable site: http://www.apolitical.info/webgame/westward/ Hth. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Travis Siegel" To: Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2018 3:35 PM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail. Interestingly enough, the first time I played the oregon trail, it was when I was working at a summer camp in New Jersey for the blind and visually impaired as a computer instructor. I beat the game with very little play time, and never bothered with it again. This was back in the early 90s. I honestly don't see what all the hype is about, but I know sometimes folks really like an old game because of having fond memories of playing it, but for me, it was nothing special, and was easily beat, so I don't have fond memories of anything. I have hunted around for versions of oregon trail, but I haven't found anything I'd consider useful or playable on the pc. I'd even settle for the original apple II source code, as I could port that to windows easily enough, but I come up empty every time I look for an accessible version playable on the pc. Now, to be clear, I have no desire to play the game myself, I was just figuring if I could come across a version that could be adapted to run on the pc that had all the original bits in it, I'd take a stab at said conversion, but no such luck. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119240): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119240 View All Messages In Topic (11): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/19079325 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/19079325/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.
Hi Damien. Just as someone who used Xp for a very long time and only switched when it was inconvenient, I can say I've got on with windows 10 fairly well, since between using classic shell to layout the interface as i'd prefer, and C cleaner to get rid of anything I@m not interested in I've found it actually an easier experience than my attempts with windows 7, not to mention generally more stable. One other thing I will say about Windows defender, is that its fairly good at respecting your exceptions folder, so even if it does object to BGT at the second its fairly easy to get around, though I have made philip Bennifall aware of this problem and asked if he'd contact microsoft. of course your welcome to do as you like computer wise, but as someone who made a lot of assumptions about windows 10 before actually trying it, let alone customising the thing, I thought I would put a word in on this debate. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119186): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119186 View All Messages In Topic (80): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/10785834 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/10785834/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.
I'm looking forward to it myself. My brother used to love Sim city on the Snes, I could never understand the appeal until I played Castaways by Aprone, and then suddenly it hit me how much fun single player sim building games could be, ever since then I'vereally ! wanted to play a game like Sim city myself :D. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Lenron" <lenro...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2018 5:25 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project. I am really excited to see what you do with city boss. On 5/18/18, Nick and Gemma Adamson <n...@ndadamson.com> wrote: Hi Aaron. Thanks. I guess you could call the concept an extension of what I did in Park boss. However, with any luck, it won't just feel like you're playing a bigger version of the same game. Game play is going to be quite different. BGT is OK for what it is. Unfortunately it's got its limits. For me the major issues with it are the lack of multi-threading, There's going to be a fair bit of background processing going on in City Boss which would make the game feel very sluggish if it was all single threaded. The lack of full proper 3d audio, particularly positional audio that moves around the listener as they change direction and the performance, it's just not quite quick enough for what I'm after. I'd love to see BGT get an update, mainly to see if the anti-virus issue could be resolved as it's great for quickly pulling a project together but personally for me I think I've hit its limits. There were things I wanted to do in Tube Sim which I really had to cludge together in BGT that could have been done easier with a more complete language. As a day job I'm a c++ software engineer and it's been my main professional language for about 13 years now so it was the obvious way to go for me for City Boss. I'm using a couple of other third party libraries. FMOD for sound, an epic 3d audio library with all sorts of fun bells and whistles. I'm also using SDL, a library for simple 2d graphics, multi-threading, eventing and input. If only I had more time to spend on City Boss, at the moment it’s a bit slow going. Thanks. Nick. -Original Message- From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of valiant8086 Sent: 18 May 2018 15:44 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project. Hi. I like this. What's more, it's similar to other projects you have so something you have a good idea how to do already. You could in theory do this with bgt too I think, if you actually ended up needing to stick with it for one reason or another. Cheers: Aaron Spears, A.K.A. valiant8086. General Partner - Valiant Galaxy Associates "We make Very Good Audiogames for the blind community - http://valiantGalaxy.com; On 2/11/2018 5:35 PM, Nick and Gemma Adamson wrote: Hi All. Thank you all for the ideas on and off list. It looks like Sims are very popular and I’ve got a great list of ideas you’ve all suggested so thank you for your time. The idea that has captured my imagination, as you can see below, is a city building simulator. I’ve been letting my mind run wild a bit and have pulled together an idea of what I’m thinking. It’s potentially quite a big project so don’t expect anything in the next month or so, Also at this moment in time this has captured my imagination and I’m quite enthusiastic about it however I’ve got a folder of projects sitting on my computer that I’ve started and didn’t really go anywhere. I’m hoping this won’t be another one of these. But I don’t believe in miss leading people so consider the below a set of ideas which “could” turn in to a game, there’s no promises. Take a look at the brain dump below. This isn’t a complete set of features I think the game may have, it just some ideas I’ve had as I’ve been reading the various replies I received. Are there additional things you’d like to add to the wish list? Again, no promises that any of the below or any ideas will make the final cut but if we’re thinking big then why not add things. It’s much easier to add ideas in at the design stage rather than trying to squeeze them in at a later date. So my ideas: Concept You start in an empty field. Your task is to take your empty field and turn it in to a city. The main scoring mechanism is the population of your city. The terrain of your city plot will be randomly generated. Somewhere on the field will be an interstate/motorway which you need to connect your road system to for contact with the outside world. There may also be a river, lake, mountains, sea shore, national railway link, natural resources such as coal, iron, copper, gold, stone, ETC. The environment will be randomly set at the start. This will include factors like average yearly temperature, rain fall, wind. Game play. I was thinking 2 modes of game pl
Re: [SPAM] Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail.
That would be awesome. I've heard a lot about the origon trail game but never played it, and apparently the Alexa skill isn't available outside the Us. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2018 8:06 PM Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail. Think I should create an iOS version? On May 10, 2018, at 2:01 PM, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com> wrote: I have looked in the app store for both Delight Games and The Oregon Trail, and find nothing. If it is Voice=Over Accessible, I would love to give it a try. I do have the paid version of the Delight Games Library, and they are good games, dut do not have Oregon Trail. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! -Original Message- From: Tobias Vinteus Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 5:11 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail. Delight Games also has a version in their catalog, both from iOS and Android. Don't know if they have a web version. On Wed, 9 May 2018, michael barnes wrote: Hey. Can someone give me the link to play the accessible version of Organ trail? Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119141): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119141 View All Messages In Topic (4): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/19079325 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/19079325/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail.
Unfortunately the Oregon trail skill isn'#t available in the Uk skil store yet (bloody geo blocking). All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tobias Vinteus" <tob...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Accessible Organ trail. Delight Games also has a version in their catalog, both from iOS and Android. Don't know if they have a web version. On Wed, 9 May 2018, michael barnes wrote: Hey. Can someone give me the link to play the accessible version of Organ trail? Thanks. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119127): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119127 View All Messages In Topic (7): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/18960524 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/18960524/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking
Hi Travis. Take a look at Aprone's lunimals, which basically had the same idea with eco system management instead of farms. the way to make that sort of game interesting is with lots of levels, acheivements, tasks to do etc and progressive measures in gameplay that let you progress. For example, just because you can grow carrots on level one doesn't mean they're the best! carrots you can possibly grow, so maybe an achievement could involve growing and harvesting several generations of carrots flawlessly in order to improve the quality of your carrots (while protecting them from weeds, floods, ravenous goats etc). Another idea might be to go the crafting kingdom route and have you need to buy different luxury achievement or estate items to win the game, for which you need to grow and sell increasingly better quality plants in increasingly different varieties. Another might be tasks to grow certain combinations of things, for example suppose an Italian chef was making a special meal and requested yu provide good quality garlic, tomatoes and bazel as ingredients. Hth. As I said I love the idea of this style of game so definitely keep on with things. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Travis Siegel" <tsie...@nfbcal.org> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2018 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking That's certainly possible. The way it works now is after you plant a vegitable (no fruits yet), you have to wait a number of seconds (roughly equivalent to how many days it would take in rl) before you can harvest the plants. There's of course background music for each level, and sounds for various things, (reaching the side of the garden plor, finishing tasks, and so on). I do plan to add a market, (currently, you can't do anything with the plnats once you harvest them except plant them again. Of course, harvesting them is necessary to complete the tasks for each level, and even after the market is added, that's only going to add minimal color to the game, there's still not a whole lot to do, which is why I kind of stopped fiddling with it for the last week or so, I honestly can't for the life of me think of anything to do with it to make it interesting. Floods, drauts, storms, thieves, wild animals and so on could certainly add spice, and are almost certainly going to be necessary before the game is really playable, but still, I don't see the point of just sitting there growing and harvesting plants. On a phone/tablet, it's a nice way to pass the time, watching your garden grow over time, but on the pc, it's just boring, and I can't think of anyway to spice it up beyond making it more difficult, but then nobody wants to play it. Perhaps, that's why there aren't any of these sorts of games on the pc. On 4/14/2018 4:32 PM, Maureen McEntee wrote: Hi Travis, how about making it like a real farm, with drouts, floods and the like and the farmer has to survive, and save his crops. then be able to sell them. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119017): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119017 View All Messages In Topic (28): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/12585876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/12585876/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking
Hi Travis. Actually I'd love a game like this and have been thinking about design and suggestions. The first is variation. In reality, farming isn't just a matter of planting things and waiting, or even just remebering to add water every so often. You need to watch out for pests, perhaps irrigate the land if there is too much rain, or add extra water for too much sun, weed the garden whilst making sure not to pull up your plants etc, plus of course there are different sorts of soil conditions and such that affect different plants. If anyone has ever played the gardening minigame in four dimensions mud you'll get an idea of this. Basically games are fun when the player is engaged and need to use their judgement about certain conditions. So for example, suppose you have a field with carrots in the north and onions in the south. Well you look at your north field and find weeds growing there. Okay, you need to take the time to pull out the weeds, however while your doing this there is a lot of rain. Your carrots will be okay in watery soil, but your onions need dryer conditions so you'll need to alternate your time between weeding in the north and shoveling a bit of sand in the south. The problem though is your spending so much time weeding that your at best only able to fulfill a holding action for your onions which are rapidly becomming water logged as the rainy weather continues, so you use some of your limited funds to buy weed killer which will ease off the weeding so you can concentrate more on drying the soil for your onions, as you hope that if you grow enough onions you can recoop the cost of your weedkiller. This is the sort of thing I mean by judgement and reaction, give you changing conditions that affect your crops and require you to spend time and resources in the game making those judgements. hth and I really hope your gardening game gets finished. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119016): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119016 View All Messages In Topic (27): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/12585876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/12585876/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Mississippi
Okay John, I can then update the download in the audiogames.net db as well. To be honest I played the demo at the time, but wasn't as much of a fan. Basically you had to buy resorces and then hope the gods of random generation were nice to you in generating a price that was low enough to buy, and you didn't really have enough stock room to buy different sorts of resources. Also the game really should have had either internet connectivity or computer opponents, since i'm afraid I found playing on my own rather dull. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: john To: blind-gamers@groups.io Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Mississippi That is looking like the plan (hosting the demo, anyway). From what I've heard the developer is pretty difficult, if not impossible, to contact. There was no license included in the installer or game, so I'm going to presume its safe to distribute the demo version, as we've done with other developers. Unfortunately I don't have a terribly large amount of time at the moment, but will work on getting this (and several other submissions) added to the archive in the next week and a half or so. Digging this out of the internet archive was some seriously inspired work, so my congratulations to the OP. Best, John From: dark Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 11:19 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Mississippi As I remember the game was commercial, you could only play the first few turns in demo mode and needed a license to unlock the rest, so you could probably include the demo version at the least and maybe we could contact Mardy software about making the thing abandonware if it's not being worked on anymore. All the best, Dark.
Re: [blind-gamers] Mississippi
As I remember the game was commercial, you could only play the first few turns in demo mode and needed a license to unlock the rest, so you could probably include the demo version at the least and maybe we could contact Mardy software about making the thing abandonware if it's not being worked on anymore. All the best, Dark.
Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack
I meant arrow keys to read the screen, since you always read up and down line by line. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 9:34 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Don't use arrow keys. What's wrong with h,j,k,l? On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, dark wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:10:17 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Again though when you hit down arrow from your current position your told the entire line not just what is one tyle south of you. There is no way with a windows screen reader to go down one character thus you can never be sure what is south or north of you exactly, quite aside from the fact that going through a screen of over 120 lines each of which is 300 characters one character at a time is really! time consuming. I did wonder in Angband if you could use the look curser to jump around the screen, since a command was implemented to tell you the distance from your characters' current position and the nearest enemy/item, the problem though is without an idea of the layout of the area your always basically stuck with single targets, and there is no way to know which is a tunnel, which a room, what rooms connect where etc. I suspect roguelikes won't be completely accessible until someone develops that full screen braille display. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Don't listen to the screen reader while it reads lines. Wait until it stops then use the keys you normally use to check out the characters on the screen. The first thing to do when the screen reader stops reading is to locate any @ signs. One of these is going to be you. Others are either vault guards; shopkeepers, or shape-shifters. Then do a / command and Identify each one of them as well as any monsters near you. If you know your screen location the monsters screen location is given in the same way so you can find direction and distance from you that way. These games involve at least as much strategy as killing monsters so if I get lucky with equipment finds or increases in experience levels or finding a down staircase, often I'll save the game and come back to it and start playing it later. On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, dark wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:56:59 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack I know about the nethaccess file, but whenever I've ried the map has been impossible to make sense of since screen readers read text in lines and getting a line that says dot dot dot hash dot dot dot dot bar dot dot doesn't tell me much, indeed the only roguelike I've ever had success playing was Angband and that due more to a combination of usable large graphic tyles and my remaining vision than anything in the game itself. This is why we don't list roguelikes on audiogames.net since until someone comes out with that full screen braille display they're always going to be a pain in the arse to play. All the best, Dark. -- -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118936): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118936 View All Messages In Topic (9): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/13897224 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/13897224/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack
Again though when you hit down arrow from your current position your told the entire line not just what is one tyle south of you. There is no way with a windows screen reader to go down one character thus you can never be sure what is south or north of you exactly, quite aside from the fact that going through a screen of over 120 lines each of which is 300 characters one character at a time is really! time consuming. I did wonder in Angband if you could use the look curser to jump around the screen, since a command was implemented to tell you the distance from your characters' current position and the nearest enemy/item, the problem though is without an idea of the layout of the area your always basically stuck with single targets, and there is no way to know which is a tunnel, which a room, what rooms connect where etc. I suspect roguelikes won't be completely accessible until someone develops that full screen braille display. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack Don't listen to the screen reader while it reads lines. Wait until it stops then use the keys you normally use to check out the characters on the screen. The first thing to do when the screen reader stops reading is to locate any @ signs. One of these is going to be you. Others are either vault guards; shopkeepers, or shape-shifters. Then do a / command and Identify each one of them as well as any monsters near you. If you know your screen location the monsters screen location is given in the same way so you can find direction and distance from you that way. These games involve at least as much strategy as killing monsters so if I get lucky with equipment finds or increases in experience levels or finding a down staircase, often I'll save the game and come back to it and start playing it later. On Tue, 6 Mar 2018, dark wrote: Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 12:56:59 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack I know about the nethaccess file, but whenever I've ried the map has been impossible to make sense of since screen readers read text in lines and getting a line that says dot dot dot hash dot dot dot dot bar dot dot doesn't tell me much, indeed the only roguelike I've ever had success playing was Angband and that due more to a combination of usable large graphic tyles and my remaining vision than anything in the game itself. This is why we don't list roguelikes on audiogames.net since until someone comes out with that full screen braille display they're always going to be a pain in the arse to play. All the best, Dark. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118934): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118934 View All Messages In Topic (7): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/13897224 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/13897224/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] unnethack
I know about the nethaccess file, but whenever I've ried the map has been impossible to make sense of since screen readers read text in lines and getting a line that says dot dot dot hash dot dot dot dot bar dot dot doesn't tell me much, indeed the only roguelike I've ever had success playing was Angband and that due more to a combination of usable large graphic tyles and my remaining vision than anything in the game itself. This is why we don't list roguelikes on audiogames.net since until someone comes out with that full screen braille display they're always going to be a pain in the arse to play. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118929): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118929 View All Messages In Topic (4): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/13897224 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/13897224/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] crazy party
Hi. What I've done myself is create a folder on my c drive called audiogames which I've made an exception from windows defender scanning where I can install things like Crazy party, and I can say it's worked very well indeed, far better than exceptions used to work under Avg in fact. To make an exceptions folder, open windows defender by hitting the "actions recommended" button in the notification area, then find "antivirus" and hit the "antivirus settings" button. After this tab to the "exceptions" button and then find "add exception" you can select a process, file type, file or folder, obviously if you want to make a folder an exception you select that and browse to itt. hth. i confess I was a little narked when I saw windows defender doing this, and I had quite the hunt to find the settings, but once I did sort out the exceptions it's been %100 fine. Hth. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Maureen McEntee" <mau...@samobile.net> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Friday, March 2, 2018 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] crazy party You know what happened to me? I downloaded betta 56, and windows defender said i had some threats, When i did a deep scan, it found threats, so i took the reccomended actions to clean it. and now of course i can't upgrade. Boo hiss. I got the download from the official website. I don't know what the problem is. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118908): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118908 View All Messages In Topic (7): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/13286157 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/13286157/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Leveling in Manamon.
I suspect it's done like that so you have a vague chance of surviving against the levl 1 manamon you come across, and can start building your collection. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "michael barnes" <c...@samobile.net> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2018 1:04 PM Subject: [blind-gamers] Leveling in Manamon. Hello. I have been wondering something for a little while about Manamon. Why is the first manamon that you get at the beginning at level 5 instead level 1? I feel that the first one that you get should be level 1. The game can still work the same accept you start at level like A Hero's Call. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118892): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118892 View All Messages In Topic (9): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/13272661 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/13272661/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking
Hmmm, it isn't hard to find software to play zcode games at all, or indeed games in other If formats like tads or glulks either. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tyler Zahnke" <programmer...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 3:21 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking I mean, even the Apex can play Z5 files, so why is it so hard to find software that can play them? On 2/24/18, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: Most of them aren't playing on the original z-machine any longer. You might be able to find one of them in Rick's Pawn Shop or that Pawn Shop in Detroit that's on TV or maybe the Smithsonian Museum by now. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Tyler Zahnke wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 07:46:27 From: Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking Well, if I remember correctly, Zork was for the original Z machine, and that's a game that's held up just as well as any 80s video game; millions still play it. On 2/24/18, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: z8 is the last so far of the z-machine formats the .z5 format was an earlier format. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Tyler Zahnke wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 07:39:55 From: Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking Wait, I'm confused. Based on the numbers, Z8 sounds newer than Z5. Why would it be harder to find software that's compatible with Z8 games than it is to find software compatible with Z5 games? On 2/24/18, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: z8 games can be played even on modern platforms. You would probably need win-frotz to play them though. For those using Linux, we have frotz and jzip available to us. The mac platform might have a problem unless these packages are on darwin or fink or in the apple store, but iPhone users and iPad users won't have any problem since the frotz app is available in the app store and now you can use it to browse ifarchives for games. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, mattias wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:47:45 From: mattias <mjonsson1...@gmail.com> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking z8? i think you cant play so old games on modern platforms accessible? e.g here in sweden there is a old webpage with swedish text adventures for i think amiga and some more but no no you cant play it accessible Den 2018-02-24 kl. 06:27, skrev Jude DaShiell: I forget if this is a .z8 game or .tads but I remember one of them with the title "chicken vindalou" in which you prepared that dish. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, dark wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:07:56 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking Not as yet. I believe Aprone is working on a restaurant management sim which we might see at some point, revelation involves lots of recipes some of which re cooking based, and as part of Parkboss you can setup snack stands, but that is about it in the world of audiogames. There are however lots of muds and several browser games which feature cooking, some of it fairly in depth cooking as an activity, though none concentrate on cooking specifically. off the top of my head Kingdom of loathing and metroplexity both have cooking and coctail crafting as major parts of their rp ethos, while the creature rpg puppet? nightmares lets you make recipes to feed to your soul puppets and even has a major quest chain where you work for a? chef. Gates of survival has cooking as an activity, but the access on that one is a little iffy. Mud wise, many of the crafting and survival muds such as Clok and lament have cooking, and I believe alteraeon is just introducing it too. Flexible survival also has cooking recipes as? parts of the general crafting. i know these aren't exactly what your looking for but these are thus far the best examples of? games with cooking in that I can think of. hth. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tyler Zahnke" <programmer...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:35 AM Subject: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking ?In the mainstream video game world, there are games like Cooking Mama ?and Burger Time. I was wondering if there were any audio-based games ?with a food/cooking theme. -- -- -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118850): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118850
Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking
I thought the mac had an interpreter called Zoom or something that could play Zcode, tads and glulks games, though obviously since I don't have a mac I'm only guessing here. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 11:38 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking z8 games can be played even on modern platforms. You would probably need win-frotz to play them though. For those using Linux, we have frotz and jzip available to us. The mac platform might have a problem unless these packages are on darwin or fink or in the apple store, but iPhone users and iPad users won't have any problem since the frotz app is available in the app store and now you can use it to browse ifarchives for games. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, mattias wrote: Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:47:45 From: mattias <mjonsson1...@gmail.com> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking z8? i think you cant play so old games on modern platforms accessible? e.g here in sweden there is a old webpage with swedish text adventures for i think amiga and some more but no no you cant play it accessible Den 2018-02-24 kl. 06:27, skrev Jude DaShiell: I forget if this is a .z8 game or .tads but I remember one of them with the title "chicken vindalou" in which you prepared that dish. On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, dark wrote: Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 22:07:56 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking Not as yet. I believe Aprone is working on a restaurant management sim which we might see at some point, revelation involves lots of recipes some of which re cooking based, and as part of Parkboss you can setup snack stands, but that is about it in the world of audiogames. There are however lots of muds and several browser games which feature cooking, some of it fairly in depth cooking as an activity, though none concentrate on cooking specifically. off the top of my head Kingdom of loathing and metroplexity both have cooking and coctail crafting as major parts of their rp ethos, while the creature rpg puppet? nightmares lets you make recipes to feed to your soul puppets and even has a major quest chain where you work for a? chef. Gates of survival has cooking as an activity, but the access on that one is a little iffy. Mud wise, many of the crafting and survival muds such as Clok and lament have cooking, and I believe alteraeon is just introducing it too. Flexible survival also has cooking recipes as? parts of the general crafting. i know these aren't exactly what your looking for but these are thus far the best examples of? games with cooking in that I can think of. hth. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Tyler Zahnke" <programmer...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2018 12:35 AM Subject: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking ?In the mainstream video game world, there are games like Cooking Mama ?and Burger Time. I was wondering if there were any audio-based games ?with a food/cooking theme. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118849): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118849 View All Messages In Topic (16): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/12585876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/12585876/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] games about food and cooking
Actually interactive fiction interpreters tend to be very well maintained and exist for all modern platforms, Macand Ios as well as Windows, so you should have no problem playing if games in formats like zcode and tads on a modern machine, actually there's a pretty cool Nvda addon that reads text output in many if interpreters very well that I tried recently. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118837): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118837 View All Messages In Topic (5): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/12585876 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/12585876/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] looking for contact details for audio games.net
No need for a contact address Your question is answered here: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?id=7482 All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Paul Lemm To: blind-gamers@groups.io Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 3:21 PM Subject: [blind-gamers] looking for contact details for audio games.net Hi, So I don't often use the audio games forum and haven't logged in for a while, I've had to reset my password which all went fine, but my account has a restricted status on it for some reason so I can't reply to topics, not sure if the restricted status is because I haven't used it in a few years. I've looked all over the forum website but can't seem to find a contact email address for the owners/admins. Does anyone have an email address I can use to contact audio games.net to have them take a look at the issue for me. Thanks in advance for any help Paul
Re: [blind-gamers] Remembering Thomas Ward
Tom has been on my mind recently too. He was one of the first people to say hi to me back in 2006 when I joined the audeasy list, and we had a lot of chats, here, on the audiogames.net forum, and on the Usagames list too. obviously with him being the administrator of audeasy and me being in charge of audiogames.net we frequently talked about moderation matters, but we also discussed a lot of other things, especially in terms of Christianity and science, relationships and the differences between America and Britain. I would love to tell him that I'm now married to an American, visually impared none loopy christian, I think he'd have quite a lot to say and I'd love to have had his opinion. it seems odd to miss someone I never spoke to in person, though as we probably communicated daily at least for close to ten years it's not so surprising. I hope Tom's happy wherever he is now. All the best, Dark. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118602): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/118602 View All Messages In Topic (4): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/9803582 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/9803582/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] Hunting and fishing games for the blind.
I remember Sega used to have a very silly, but extremely fun arcade style sea bass fishing game which would translate well onto an Iphone. The controller was a device with a real (a handle to turn), and a rod that moved up down left and right. First, you began by casting your line, which you needed to get precisely right, then various fish would pass across the screen from left to right and you’d need to jiggle your lure to get their interest, once you’d hooked a fish you had to real at the correct speed. I could imagine this working on the Iphone fairly well. First, cast yourrod precisely by tilting your phone dowards making sure there was neither too much power so you create a great splash and scare the fish, or too little power so that your rod landed on the bank. Next, listen for the splashing sounds of an oncoming fish, and when centered, start to move the phone forward back left and right to move the lure enough to attract the fish. If the fish bights (which could depend upon the movement speed of the lure as well as the type of bat eused, different types of fishing requiring different bates and speeds), then you’d need to real it in which would mean a precise rotor motion on the screen, too quickly and the fish would snap the line, too slowly it’d get away. Btw, I know nothing at all about fishing, I just recall my brother playing the Sega sea bass fishing in the arcade and thinking it looked a really cool and quite fun game to play . All the best, Dark.
Re: [blind-gamers] Having a hard time precisely locating people and objects in A Hero's Call.
I’m having a similar problem over here. The mouse looking seems super! Sensitive, so much that if I move the mouse a centimetre, I hear about 10 different objects, it also doesn’t help that you can seemingly look through things like fenses, hedges etc, or that frequently what is in front of you has an annoying habbit of changing, and the ctrl s and d commands only seem to work some of the time. # I’d love to get into the game, but navigating around the town is just proving a pest at the moment, though admittedly I haven’t spent too long with the game yet. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Travis Siegel Sent: 12 January 2018 16:16 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Having a hard time precisely locating people and objects in A Hero's Call. You're doing better than me, I can't even find the lord what's his name. His daughter claims he's in his study, but AI can't find the stupid study. I found guest bedrooms, his bed room, armory, some room I never heard of, kitchen, dining room, several closets, and a few hallways, but I can't for the life of me find his study. So, I'm just strolling around town, picking up anything not nailed down, and generally getting the lay of the land, picking up quests I can't do, because I can't leave town, but otherwise, not accomplishing a thing, because this lord guy seems to be in stealth mode or something. On 1/11/2018 11:30 PM, Michael wrote: I’m having a hard time finding the house of the miner I released from a goblin prison. Willam or William I think his name was. So a hint as to which side of town their house is on would be appreciated. Thanks, MikeFont Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Darren Duff Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2018 10:02 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Having a hard time precisely locating people and objects in A Hero's Call. Try using the control D and control A command to snap to an object. different than shift A and D and arrows. Darren Duff. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face book http://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary E-mail duff...@gmail.com Mobile E-mail mobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 1/11/2018 3:53 PM, Arianna Sepulveda wrote: > Hello, all, > > > I've y purchased A Hero's Call, and while I'm really loving the game, I'm > seriously having a hard time locating people and objects. By shere dumb luck, > I located the governer, though other objects have been quite difficult. > However, locating Gwen has been an absolute nightmare! Can anyone help with > this? I'm pretty good with cardinal directions, but I'm finding the > navigation system rather challenging. I've never had to deal with radar in a > game before, so maybe that's part of it. If anyone can give me any help with > this, it'd be much appreciated! > > > Thanks, > Ari. > > Virus-free. www.avast.com
Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all.
Hi Milo. Actually, 40 usd isn’t a laughing matter for lots of people in developed countries either, I certainly don’t have that sort of cash to throw around generally (particularly at the moment when moving house and having lots of practical utility type bills). That aside though, one thing to remember is that when you buy a game you are investing in the developer as much as in the product itself. It’s one thing if the developer has dropped off the map, isn’t making games anymore and is just raking in cash off their previous work while offering no updates, but frequently while your buying game number one, game number 2 is in development, indeed it’s the very fact that so many people have bought Jason alan’s sadly inaccessible graphical mobile games which means he can offer Entombed for free. So if buying entombed gets us a little closer to entombed ii I’m all for it myself,. Actually I had a very similar situation with tarzan junior, which I bought back in 2006, and became free about a year later, but look at what Philip Bennifall went on to do. All the be best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Milos Przic Sent: 28 December 2017 21:23 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all. Hey Dark, I get your point completely and I can't say that you are not right as those are the facts. But it is one thing to live in the UK or in the US and another to live in a developed country. The difference is that, for many if not most people in the UK or US, buying a game is like paying for a cup of coffee, while here buying a game is an investment. No problem if a game is 2 or 3 dollars, at least for me, for someone else it also can be a big issue, but if I spent 40 dollars on a game just to see it free after a few monthhs, I hope you can imagine my feelings. I get the technical issues, but the question is, when and how can they conflict with some ethical issues. Best, Miloš - Original Message - From: dark To: blind-gamers@groups.io Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2017 03:26 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all. Hi Milo. I’m afraid I must disagree completely. Lots of people (including me), bought lots of games back in the day that are now free, superliam, judgement day,Bsc titles etc. However if the status had remained paid nobody would’ve been able to get hold of them when they were no longer on sale. The fact is software updates, requirements change and developers cannot always keep their games uptodate with the latest operating system changes. Of course, there are plenty of compatibility fixes and the like that mean people can still play them, (indeed this is one of Jim Kitchin’s greatest contributions to this community, since without him getting a lot of older titles including his to run on windows 7-10, would be far more difficult), it gets harder and harder for developers to keep them up to date. This is why Q9 ended up being sold off to an unscrupulous hack , and why games like the original Klango pirate memnory game are not available anymore. Contrast the situation on’ windows and Ios. Judgement day celibrated it’s tenth anniversary the other day, and there are people who are new to this community who downloaded and played it this year. On the other hand, games like the pappasangre 1 and 2, Solara and soul trapper which are barely 7 years old are now utterly inaccessible thanks to Apple’s closed development system , people’s inability to maintain the games when their life circumstances change, and the fact that the games can no longer be bought. And of course, don’t forget that just because one game from a developer is free, it doesn’t mean that developer drops off the Map. Ian is still producing games now which I will certainly support, and Jason Alan of Entombed is going on to work on a sequel which will likely be bigger, badder, better and also a paid game. As someone who was around with Entombed’s development from the very beginning, was a private alpha tester, contributed ideas and moderated the entombed mailing list, I’m really happy people will be able to go on enjoying the game for years to come. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Milos Przic Sent: 27 December 2017 19:40 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Entombed is now free for all. Hi all, sincerely I would not like this, and I will explain why, risking being linched by the community. I baught 3d vilocity and it went free after some time. I baught Entombed and it is also apparently free. I also baught Misissipi and I think anyone can play it legaly. Some time ago, people baught Tarzan Junior, for, Inspector Cyndi series, and some other games. Now is it fair that someone pays and someone else has it for free after some time? For example, I was excited yesterday when I found out that the Inspector Cyndi series was free
Re: [blind-gamers] Free games, etc.
Actually, I was very surprised myself how many xp titles do! Work under windows 10, to say that this was one of my major worries about losing xp. The only windows games I’ve found that don’t work at all (not counting games originally written for Dos like fallthru), are most of the bsc games, though Hunter does still work. All you need to do is first install Jim Kitchin’s games since they come with all the needed dependencies, which is again a wonderful legacy Jim has left us. Then, just to be absolutely sure, install any of Aprone’s games, eg castaways, swamp, pawprints etc and run the checkup file. After that, everything should be fine. I love the fact I can still enjoy games like Judgement day, and pinball xtreme as I used to, quite apart from all the new titles coming out. All the best, Dark.
[blind-gamers] Merry Christmas and so on
Just to reiterate what I wrote on the news over at audiogames.net Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, Hope any Hindus had a good devali, and any pagans had a good time at Winter solstice celibrations on te the 21st. Whatever your selibrating this year, have a good one. Dark and Mrs. Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion
Hi Paul. Unfortunately while I am still a postgrad, my doctorate actually finishes in may so trying to fiddle around with student discounts probably wouldn’t work. I’ll have a look at downloading the amazon video thing and seeing what is available. I do have stuff from Blind mice audio described that I like to do with my wife, but sometimes I do like the graphics too, although given the choice I prefer both . Since I’ll probably be ordering from them in future it is something I am considering, but I have to find decent bennifits first not connected to their ridiculous music system. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 23:21 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Hi Dark, Yep, iTunes is a complete nightmare to navigate with a screen reader, but once it’s on my phone I tend to just listen to music shuffled , so I don’t mind how its sorted and I tend to put things like TV series into playlists so I can find them nice and easily and group stuff together. I’m actually in the UK to, I do have amazon prime to, I actually find it really handy since I order so much stuff from amazon, so I’ve saved a small fortune on delivery charges over the years. Although I’ve got prime video , I’ve never used it, since the blind mice website has such a big collection of audio described tv shows and films all audio described , I tend to just watch everything from there. With the prime video though, I’m not sure, but I think if you download the app it will let you search the store to see what’s there but it just won’t let you watch it unless you have the prime subscription, or at least that’s how it used to work, not sure if it still does work like that. If you are looking at getting prime, if you’re a student you get it half price, if not, and I’m not promoting anything dodgy here, but there are online courses you can sign up for and get an NUS card and therefore the prime student discount, not to mention other student discounts in other places to, there’s courses for under a tenner , so if there’s something your interested in studying anyway it’s another option. If you google NUS card for everyone, you should get some more info if your interested. Paul From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 21 December 2017 20:41 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion I’m afraid Paul I find Itunes to be the spawn of satan since it’s nearly impossible to get files out of it, plus the hole organisation with artist, album genre etc is just not the way I like to organise my own music, so for me it’s all about owining the actual files, still I can download these from the amazon player even if I buy something through them. I am thinking about Prime however, firstly for ordering (since I’ve ordered several things), secondly because ordering by voice would be rather nice, and thirdly because I like the idea of streaming videos for tv series I don’t want to own on dvd, indeed even though prime is 80 quid a year over here (that’s about 120 dollars), that is still about the same as a Uk tv license. So, if you know if there is a way I can see what tv series are available through prime video and how many I might be interested in that could be good, plus of course since I just paid four quid postage and packing to order a present for my brother the free delivery would be handy too, indeed I’m finding the order service rather useful (I found a Mega man Gameboy game I’ve been looking for for literally 18 years). All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 15:58 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion hi dark, Yeah, I was pretty impressed to find a swamp trivia game on there, although since I’ve never made it off the first map I failed at the quiz as soon as it started asking questions about the later maps. As for music through the echo, I’ve got the full echo and the sound qualities actually pretty good, I think you said you’ve got the dot, which although it can play music it definitely won’t be as good as your headphones or other speakers. I think if you ask alexa about amazon music unlimited she’ll offer you a free one month trial, but you’ve then got to remember to go in and cancel it so you don’t get charged after the trial. Spotify is definitely better though, but like you I do like owning the actual files myself, but my iPhone storage just isn’t big enough to store all my music , so since I’m often out with the guide dog and like to listen to music when I’m out and about Spotify works well for having all the music I want at my fingertips. Paul From: blind-gamers
Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion
I’m afraid Paul I find Itunes to be the spawn of satan since it’s nearly impossible to get files out of it, plus the hole organisation with artist, album genre etc is just not the way I like to organise my own music, so for me it’s all about owining the actual files, still I can download these from the amazon player even if I buy something through them. I am thinking about Prime however, firstly for ordering (since I’ve ordered several things), secondly because ordering by voice would be rather nice, and thirdly because I like the idea of streaming videos for tv series I don’t want to own on dvd, indeed even though prime is 80 quid a year over here (that’s about 120 dollars), that is still about the same as a Uk tv license. So, if you know if there is a way I can see what tv series are available through prime video and how many I might be interested in that could be good, plus of course since I just paid four quid postage and packing to order a present for my brother the free delivery would be handy too, indeed I’m finding the order service rather useful (I found a Mega man Gameboy game I’ve been looking for for literally 18 years). All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 15:58 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion hi dark, Yeah, I was pretty impressed to find a swamp trivia game on there, although since I’ve never made it off the first map I failed at the quiz as soon as it started asking questions about the later maps. As for music through the echo, I’ve got the full echo and the sound qualities actually pretty good, I think you said you’ve got the dot, which although it can play music it definitely won’t be as good as your headphones or other speakers. I think if you ask alexa about amazon music unlimited she’ll offer you a free one month trial, but you’ve then got to remember to go in and cancel it so you don’t get charged after the trial. Spotify is definitely better though, but like you I do like owning the actual files myself, but my iPhone storage just isn’t big enough to store all my music , so since I’m often out with the guide dog and like to listen to music when I’m out and about Spotify works well for having all the music I want at my fingertips. Paul From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 21 December 2017 14:37 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Lol paul, swamp trivia? That is rather cool. I’ve heard Spotify has a semi decent selection of music and can do a better job than Amazon, though as I said I still prefer to own the actual files myself and not be tied to a service so I can play them on whatever device I like, plus my pc, either through surround sound speakers or my sanheisa momentum headphones is likely better quality than I’d get out of the Echo. Still, that’s one reason I wanted to investigate what else I can do with the thing. I’ll admit it would’ve wouldn’t have been my first choice of technology, (I think an Apple watch might have been more useful), but as my brother gave me the thing | I felt a bit bad at not getting some! Good out of it, which is why I’ve investigated so many skills and different functions and such, and I will say Mrs. Dark and I are having fun with the thing, also it’s a nice way to get the news from the bbc or sky news without having toremember to tune in to a radio at a specific time since we don’t have a tv. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 12:59 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Hi Dark, Well if you want to try the guess who you’re thinking of thing, just ask alexa ‘ can you read my mind’, she’ll then ask you to think of a character or person and she’ll then try to guess who it is. But like you said I think that’s more of a software feature than an actual game, as although it’s a little novel to start with its not something you’d really go back to time and again like a game. Oh, and I don’t think it was on your list, again not really sure it’s a game but there is a swamp trivia skill on the echo too. I have to say I actually really like the echo, if nothing else since I’ve already got a Spotify account it’s a really good speaker, , but even more impressed with it now after seeing all the games you’ve found on it. Paul From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 21 December 2017 11:51 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Hi Paul. Glad you like the list, there are some good things in there both for short and long games. I did
Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion
Lol paul, swamp trivia? That is rather cool. I’ve heard Spotify has a semi decent selection of music and can do a better job than Amazon, though as I said I still prefer to own the actual files myself and not be tied to a service so I can play them on whatever device I like, plus my pc, either through surround sound speakers or my sanheisa momentum headphones is likely better quality than I’d get out of the Echo. Still, that’s one reason I wanted to investigate what else I can do with the thing. I’ll admit it would’ve wouldn’t have been my first choice of technology, (I think an Apple watch might have been more useful), but as my brother gave me the thing | I felt a bit bad at not getting some! Good out of it, which is why I’ve investigated so many skills and different functions and such, and I will say Mrs. Dark and I are having fun with the thing, also it’s a nice way to get the news from the bbc or sky news without having toremember to tune in to a radio at a specific time since we don’t have a tv. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 12:59 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Hi Dark, Well if you want to try the guess who you’re thinking of thing, just ask alexa ‘ can you read my mind’, she’ll then ask you to think of a character or person and she’ll then try to guess who it is. But like you said I think that’s more of a software feature than an actual game, as although it’s a little novel to start with its not something you’d really go back to time and again like a game. Oh, and I don’t think it was on your list, again not really sure it’s a game but there is a swamp trivia skill on the echo too. I have to say I actually really like the echo, if nothing else since I’ve already got a Spotify account it’s a really good speaker, , but even more impressed with it now after seeing all the games you’ve found on it. Paul From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 21 December 2017 11:51 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Hi Paul. Glad you like the list, there are some good things in there both for short and long games. I did see the option to play 20 questions with Alexa which I’ve not tried yet, though again I’m not sure if that counts as a game or a software function, still Mrs. Dark and I will have to try it out, actually the Alexa is proving good for her since she enjoys trivia and word games. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 09:35 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Thanks Dark, that’s a serious amount of games you’ve tried out there, I’ve had my echo for almost a year and only tried one of those games, some sound really good though so I’ll be giving them a go, thanks for taking the time to write the list and adding descriptions and reviews. It’s not quite a game so probably doesn’t belong on your list, but my little boy quite likes the built in echo function where you think of a person and the echo then asks you questions to work out and guess who you’re thinking of. It’s actually quite clever, me and my little boy were trying to give it things it probably wouldn’t be able to work out, but it managed to even guess the name of some fairly obscure things, such as utubers , cartoon characters, gods and it even guessed when we were thinking alexa and siri haha From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 20 December 2017 21:18 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion For anyone who hasn’t seen the recent audiogames.net news, I have finally! Got the Echo dot my brother bought me last Christmas out and am doing something sort of half way useful with it Yes, I admit this is quiteridiculous in terms of time but better very very very very~! Late than never . Ihave therefore been having a hunt through Alexa skills (well those available on in the Uk app store, damn those developers who region lock there’s), and making short descriptions and notes about them. Since most of the skills are short games, this is an easy way to get a list. Eventually they will probably get db pages, but there are a lot of them, and just one of me, so I thought this was a nice way to let people know sooner, especially if, like me your wondering what actual good the Amazon machine will do if you don’t want to pay amazon 80 quid a year for the privilege of buying from them and find the idea of renting music (of which they only have the top 40 crap anyway), a really terrible one . The list can
Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion
Hi Paul. Glad you like the list, there are some good things in there both for short and long games. I did see the option to play 20 questions with Alexa which I’ve not tried yet, though again I’m not sure if that counts as a game or a software function, still Mrs. Dark and I will have to try it out, actually the Alexa is proving good for her since she enjoys trivia and word games. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 21 December 2017 09:35 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion Thanks Dark, that’s a serious amount of games you’ve tried out there, I’ve had my echo for almost a year and only tried one of those games, some sound really good though so I’ll be giving them a go, thanks for taking the time to write the list and adding descriptions and reviews. It’s not quite a game so probably doesn’t belong on your list, but my little boy quite likes the built in echo function where you think of a person and the echo then asks you questions to work out and guess who you’re thinking of. It’s actually quite clever, me and my little boy were trying to give it things it probably wouldn’t be able to work out, but it managed to even guess the name of some fairly obscure things, such as utubers , cartoon characters, gods and it even guessed when we were thinking alexa and siri haha From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 20 December 2017 21:18 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion For anyone who hasn’t seen the recent audiogames.net news, I have finally! Got the Echo dot my brother bought me last Christmas out and am doing something sort of half way useful with it Yes, I admit this is quiteridiculous in terms of time but better very very very very~! Late than never . Ihave therefore been having a hunt through Alexa skills (well those available on in the Uk app store, damn those developers who region lock there’s), and making short descriptions and notes about them. Since most of the skills are short games, this is an easy way to get a list. Eventually they will probably get db pages, but there are a lot of them, and just one of me, so I thought this was a nice way to let people know sooner, especially if, like me your wondering what actual good the Amazon machine will do if you don’t want to pay amazon 80 quid a year for the privilege of buying from them and find the idea of renting music (of which they only have the top 40 crap anyway), a really terrible one . The list can be found here: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=342844#p342844 It will be updated a as I try more things out, and of course any suggestions of things to try are most welcome. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10
[blind-gamers] Dark's list of Amazon/Alexa audiogames, aka shameless self promotion
For anyone who hasn’t seen the recent audiogames.net news, I have finally! Got the Echo dot my brother bought me last Christmas out and am doing something sort of half way useful with it Yes, I admit this is quiteridiculous in terms of time but better very very very very~! Late than never . Ihave therefore been having a hunt through Alexa skills (well those available on in the Uk app store, damn those developers who region lock there’s), and making short descriptions and notes about them. Since most of the skills are short games, this is an easy way to get a list. Eventually they will probably get db pages, but there are a lot of them, and just one of me, so I thought this was a nice way to let people know sooner, especially if, like me your wondering what actual good the Amazon machine will do if you don’t want to pay amazon 80 quid a year for the privilege of buying from them and find the idea of renting music (of which they only have the top 40 crap anyway), a really terrible one . The list can be found here: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=342844#p342844 It will be updated a as I try more things out, and of course any suggestions of things to try are most welcome. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10
Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom
When I tried “save to cloud” I was told “couldn’t connect, try again later” which was disappointing to say the least, hopefully it’ll work at some stage between now and my rephoning . All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jude DaShiell Sent: 16 December 2017 00:35 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom With the 1.80 current update, in options save to cloud switch by default is off. If you turn that switch on, there is also a restore from cloud option in options which you can use to get your game data updated. One thing I didn't notice was a restore purchases button but that probably won't matter since the app store keeps a record of past purchases so when the ad free purchase comes up on a new iphone you'll be told you already bought that and Apple will take care of putting that unlock on your new iphone. On Fri, 15 Dec 2017, dark wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:00:05 > From: dark <d...@xgam.org> > Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom > > Well one thing I will say is it?d be nice if the game did save to the cloud, > since I am going to swap iphones as soon as I can get the cash together and > find a good deal as the battery on my iPhone 5 is caputski. I haven?t > bothered playing crafting kingdom since I assumed I?d have to restart my game > if I bought a new phone. > All the best, > > Dark. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Richard Sherman > Sent: 14 December 2017 18:55 > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom > > Hi, > I agree. I wrote up a lengthy gripe an posted it to the crafting page on > audio games. really not happy with this update except that now numbers read > like numbers and not digits using voice over. > > The main fix I was looking for was working with places with large number of > production slots. got 93 in workshop. And to me even if there is nothing > running in an area you still get sluggish movement and severe focus issues. > > Shermanator > - Original Message - > From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> > Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 12:33 AM > > > If you haven't updated from version 1.55 do yourself a favor and skip this > update. I found two bugs in the game I'm about to contact the developer. > Both happen with accessibility interface enabled I have no clue what > happens in the other interface. Both happen in work sites. In order to > use the restart all automations button and not go several slots out to the > right I have to swipe right until I land on the button; swipe right once > more to slot 1 then swipe left before hitting the start all automations. > Once that's done I'm thrown out into slot 4 sometimes and swiping left > rarely gets me back to the back button so I can get to the world map. I > have a situation now where so far tonight it has been impossible to get to > the back button twice to go back to the world map and powered off the > iphone and will try again later. I had this happen rarely in the version > before 1.55 too so whatever fix was done appears to actually be a > regression. > > > > > > --
Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom
I have had to stop crafting kingdom, because my Iphone is basically on a ticking timer and will soon be replaced and there isn’t a way to change settings from one device to another from what I know, so there is no point me playing on only to have to restart fairly soon. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Lindsay Cowell Sent: 12 December 2017 13:45 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] crafting kingdom I don’t have the patience for a lot of those quests, i sometimes pick it up and do a bit, but i soon lose patience, as i never have enough gold to buy more expansions or automations. I am not good at expanding my slots either, if i do, i can’t automate them. Lindsay Cowell. Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Dec 2017, at 12:17, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: > > I just got finished the 500 automations quest. I got a bit of a surprise > since I thought the expansions quest was 15,000 and looked through the quests > in the castle and found it was 12,500 and I had completed that quest too. I > have 1,000,000 timber 300,000 meat 600,000 logs and 300,000 coal in the works > now. I used 5,000 boosts so once I finish all of these it will be time for a > reset. The space expansion quests are really expensive at this level, it > cost me over 2,000,000,000 gold pieces to buy all of that. Lots of time and > like watching paint on the wall for sighted people to do all of the gold > boosts. I also got the 100,000,000 gold in the bank quest finished too just > by building gold for all of that inventory space. > > > > -- > > > >
Re: [blind-gamers] MUDs
Hi. Alter does have keys to move and other things, and of course with the amounts of sounds and such it’s virtually an audiogame in it’s own right and is thus highly worth a go. However, bare in mind most muds don’t work like your traditional interactive fiction game. For example, instead of typing out the directions to move, you can usually just n s e w. You don’t have to type out full commands like open box with key, op bo key (or in some games op bo with key), will usually do. In some muds you can even use numbers instead, eg in one mud I know for equipping items you just look in your inventory where each item has a number by hitting I, and if sword were in slot 12 and so instead of typing out “ready sword” or something like that you could just type eq 12. It’s actually one of the things I like about muds, that the typing is far easier than in traditional if, which also usually means less of those annoying “guess the syntax” type of puzzles. Hth. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Paul Lemm Sent: 08 December 2017 22:48 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] MUDs Hi Damien , You mentioned about not being able to use things like cursor keys to move about in Muds, but I believe in alter if you are using the Mush client that pressing the cursor keys will actually move you about rather than having to type the commands to move. I have to confess to not really playing a lot of muds for similar reasons to you as not keen on typing lots of text to play a game, but I have tried alter with mush-Z and it does seem a lot of work has been put in with hot keys for certain things and with all the built in sounds it does make it seem less like a text adventure and slightly more like an audio game. when you do get mush-Z working though, the intro to alter has a mini storyline that talks you through some of the basic commands and is really helpful, plus there is a read me file that comes with mush-z and this has a lot of helpful info if you haven’t played before along with some of the mush-z hot keys you can use in alter that will help. Actually, at some point when I have more time on my hands I do mean to go take another look at alter myself Paul From: blind-gamers@groups.io [mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io] On Behalf Of john Sent: 06 December 2017 12:00 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] MUDs Hi Damien, There's a lot to cover here, so I'll try to answer a few of your questions and see where to go from there. Muds are, yes, somewhat similar to text adventures. In this case though, there's no "guess the verb" issue, since you can type help and get a description of what it does. On alter Aeon, you play as a combination of the six classes, picking one to be your primary. Which class you choose will determine what style of character you end up with - a mage is going to have a lot of offensive spells but not a lot of health, whereas a warrior will focus on physical skills and be more sturdy. You can apply a bit of Dungeons and Dragons-esc logic to your choice, if you're familiar with that. As for the connection bit, its worth pointing out that this is not an audiogame. Its purely text-based. Muds, in their simplest form, are telnet applications. The reason people recommend mush-z is because MushClient, the program that runs it, is a really, really powerful telnet client. Its where most of the work happens: processing the text you receive from the mud and acting on it, for example to play a sound or tell you that you're injured. If you're running on windows 10, it'd probably be worthwhile for you to install mush-z to your documents folder, rather than program files. This may resolve some of the technical difficulties. I know this hasn't covered all your questions, so let me know what else you need to know, and I'll see if I can help you get up and running. Best, John From: Damien Sykes Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2017 21:39 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] MUDs Hi there. You know, I wasn’t sure if Alter Aeon was discussed on here much any more. Given that updates are still posted here that sends me a clear message that it is still popular. I have been hesitant to try MUDs for a while due to the fact that I always knew them to be mainly textual, leading to a lot of confusion and frustration for beginners of the text gaming world, and a slight sense of anticlimax for those more used to real-time gaming such as myself. However I was recently informed that MUDs have now become more than just the traditional text adventure style game and can now include audio, action hotkeys etc, like any other audio game might. To that end, I have been recommended to, and trying to get into, AA. However so far I have found the whole concept confusing and almost advanced. I know something like Crazy Party is no comparison to something like AA, but this is how clueless I am in that
Re: [blind-gamers] Audiostrike
Hi Darren. There has been an issue with the server I think, since I notice things have been a little sluggish lately with both Ie and chrome, hopefully it’ll work itself out soon enough as these things usually do. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Darren Duff Sent: 05 December 2017 13:46 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Audiostrike I am having a hard time even getting to the audio games web site. for some reason, firefox will not go to the site at all, and I can't get any of the links to work in IE. Darren Duff. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face book http://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary E-mail duff...@gmail.com Mobile E-mail mobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 12/5/2017 7:23 AM, dark wrote: Hi. The game was updated to a new version. The links in the db work now, I’d highly recommend this one, it’s quite unique and a lot of fun, even if very difficult at times. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Appleman Sent: 05 December 2017 11:50 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Audiostrike Hi all, I would really like to try this game. Unfortunately, the download links in the audio games database do not work. Is there anywhere else where I can grab the game? Many thanks for any assistance. David Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Virus-free. www.avg.com
Re: [blind-gamers] Audiostrike
Hi. The game was updated to a new version. The links in the db work now, I’d highly recommend this one, it’s quite unique and a lot of fun, even if very difficult at times. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Appleman Sent: 05 December 2017 11:50 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Audiostrike Hi all, I would really like to try this game. Unfortunately, the download links in the audio games database do not work. Is there anywhere else where I can grab the game? Many thanks for any assistance. David Sent from Mail for Windows 10 Virus-free. www.avg.com
Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
My thought on how things look is that Apple’s disagreement seems primarily due to the fact that all the blindfold games use the same menu structure for obvious reasons and Apple are objecting partly based on that fact, hence why they are not applying a reasonable standard to accessible aps. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Scott Chesworth Sent: 09 November 2017 13:40 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates I can't say I'm able to follow Dark's train of thought on how this is related to sighted vs blind players or the way things look. Seems to me that this is an effort on Apple's part to keep search results from being overwhelming, and also to cut down on the amount of copycat/lookalike apps in the store. That in itself is understandable, but I think they're barking up the wrong tree here, because these aren't just copycat apps are they. Tbh, as an end user, I'd probably prefer to have one master Blindfold Games app with a menu system on my phone, but seeing as that doesn't seem to be economically viable for Marty, I'll also be writing to Apple and urging them to reconsider their decision. Off to do that now. Scott On 11/9/17, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Marty. > > Really sad to hear. > > I have sent apple a polite but indignant email on the subject you mention, > so hopefully we can get them to move said rock. This decision seems more to > me to be motivated by the needs of sighted people who need ever flashy menus > and different things to look at, than the needs of Vi gamers. > > Hopefully Apple can be persuaded to change their mind, since this sounds to > me like a decision with not much related to access behind it and everything > related to how things @loook@ > > I really hope you can keep developing. > > All the best, > > Dark. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Marty Schultz > Sent: 08 November 2017 23:34 > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates > > I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and Apple’s decision > is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold Games into a handful of apps, they > will no longer allow new games to be released or allow updates to be make. > From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and time-consuming. > From a business perspective, that would mean spending hundreds of hours > recoding the games, with no possible return-on-investment. Most of the > games generate sales in the first three months of the game being released, > and I’ve been building these games for 4 years. > From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would be > ridiculously complex, and the settings screens would be confusing and almost > unusable. > If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your opinion to > Apple. The accessibility desk is at accessibil...@apple.com or you can call > 1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games. > > >
Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
Hi Marty. Really sad to hear. I have sent apple a polite but indignant email on the subject you mention, so hopefully we can get them to move said rock. This decision seems more to me to be motivated by the needs of sighted people who need ever flashy menus and different things to look at, than the needs of Vi gamers. Hopefully Apple can be persuaded to change their mind, since this sounds to me like a decision with not much related to access behind it and everything related to how things @loook@ I really hope you can keep developing. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Marty Schultz Sent: 08 November 2017 23:34 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates I just finished talking with an Apple representative, and Apple’s decision is that unless I merge the 80 Blindfold Games into a handful of apps, they will no longer allow new games to be released or allow updates to be make. >From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard and time-consuming. From >a business perspective, that would mean spending hundreds of hours recoding >the games, with no possible return-on-investment. Most of the games generate >sales in the first three months of the game being released, and I’ve been >building these games for 4 years. >From a usability perspective, that means the main menus would be ridiculously >complex, and the settings screens would be confusing and almost unusable. If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express your opinion to Apple. The accessibility desk is at accessibil...@apple.com or you can call 1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games.
[blind-gamers] Empire mud
Hi. I have decided to give Empire mud a serious try. I tried the game back in it’s previous version a few years ago and ran into trouble, but with the awesome work the developer has put in for access I really ought to look into it further, especially considering the great maps and other resources, indeed this has been on my list of muds that need db pages for a while. For those who don’t know the game is different from most muds like Alteraeon or aardwolf in that you build an empire with your own citaizens, or join an existing one. Lots of crafting, even making buildings and roads and such. I’m just getting into things and seeing how things work, so if anyone wants to join me the name is tamarind. The connection info is empiremud.net port 4000, and the website is over on Where you can examine the help and do various other things. Hope people have fun, and for any long time players, feel free to share thoughts. All the best, Dark.
Re: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net
Nope, it doesn’t work on xp, this however is due to the cloud flare hosting rather than anything the site has done specifically and thus isn’t something we can solve unfortunately. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Jack Falejjczyk Sent: 30 October 2017 00:03 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net Are you using windows xp? It looks like it doesn't work on xp anymore thanks to the security protocol being updated. On 10/29/17, mattias <mjonsson1...@gmail.com> wrote: > not down here > > > Den 2017-10-29 kl. 20:05, skrev Shaun Everiss: >> Hi. >> >> Audiogames.net the entire site seems to be down today. >> >> Eventually cloudflare times out the site so hmmm. >> >> >> >> >> > > > > >
Re: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net
Hmmm, It seems to be working now so hopefully whatever problem there was is now fixed. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Shaun Everiss Sent: 29 October 2017 19:05 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net Hi. Audiogames.net the entire site seems to be down today. Eventually cloudflare times out the site so hmmm.
Re: [blind-gamers] manamon puzzle question
Hi. While I did complete the arcade puzzle and a couple of others in manamon I don’t recall the solution, however Jayde from audiogames.net has recorded a very comprehensive manamon guide with detailed information on all aspects of gameplay, puzzles include. There is a link to download it over on the audiogames.net manamon page at http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Manamon Hth. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: mattias Sent: 25 October 2017 03:46 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] manamon puzzle question Myself are stuck in the arcade With the dorr with the game Skickades från E-post för Windows 10 Från: John Sanders Skickat: den 25 oktober 2017 01:24 Till: blind-gamers@groups.io Ämne: [blind-gamers] manamon puzzle question Hi, I have a question: whenever I'm playing manamon, I'm stuck at the puzzle where you have to move the stones around to spell the word open. I'm following the instructions that a walkthrough has given me, but it's not working. How should I go about getting past this? I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely, John Sanders
Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike
I can say as someone who used Xp for probably longer than I should have done, I am not disappointed with Windows 10, which is odd because I was less keen on windows 7 :D. Still with classic shell to get the xp style start menu and C cleaner to remove the stuff I didn’t want (something I had to equally do with new xp machines back in the day), I really haven’t had to alter what I do too much, accept now I can enjoy all available audiogames, indeed I suspect for gaming purposes these days there are probably more games that won’t run on xp than on windows 10. My only major regret with lack of Xp are the dos style console games like Fallthru, eamon deluxe etc, and I have heard there are now talking versions of Dosbox that can go some way to solving those, indeed I do hope the eamon deluxe developer gets back to me at some point in the future since we finally might have that accessible cross platform version of the games we’ve been wanting for years. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Liam Erven Sent: 24 October 2017 16:09 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike I can totally respect that, but please understand that developers don’t want to support an out of date operating system. XP support is long over, so at least from my perspective I don’t feel obligated to still support it. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: john Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 10:03 AM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike Hi Justin, In my case at least, its more a situation of having xp machines in addition to newer systems, and wanting to use them for offline things like audiogames. -- From: "Justin Jones" <atreides...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 8:48 To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike Simple solution: don't run Windows XP and update to Windows 7-if for no other reason than XP has security issues that Microsoft will not address, owing to them no longer supporting that particular operating system. On 10/24/17, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi John. > > In fairness to Vgstorm, they never actually claimed that their games ran on > Xp. What they said is they couldn’t find a reason why their games didn’t! > Run on xp, but since they didn’t have access to an xp machine for > development purposes they couldn’t investigate fully. > > The issue actually does not affect all of their games, paladin of the skies > and adventure at C: will run fine on xp, though psychostrike, The gate and > Manamon won’t. > > > > All the best, > > Dark. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: john > Sent: 24 October 2017 12:17 > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike > > There was that xp issue that's plagued all of VG's games. They did promise > to fix it with Psycho Strike, but its continued into their other titles, > and, as far as I know, they've been saying their games run on xp the whole > time (which means something's weird if they won't even update the manual). > > From: Damien Sykes-Lindley > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 3:21 > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] psycho strike > > Hi, > Just because a game isn’t updated doesn’t mean it’s been discontinued. As > for Psycho Strike, you can still purchase it, it’s still playable, thus to > my mind it’s not discontinued. > Personally, I don’t see what needs updating. The game is stable enough. I > haven’t seen any bugs in the 30 months it’s been on the market. > Cheers. > Damien. > > From: mattias > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 4:36 AM > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: [blind-gamers] psycho strike > > Are it discontinued? > No updates at least 2 years > > Skickades från E-post för Windows 10 > > > > -- Justin M. Jones, M.A. atreides...@gmail.com (254) 624-9155 701 Ewing St. #509-C, Ft. Wayne IN, 46802
Re: [blind-gamers] What's happened to audiogames.net?
Hi Steven. I’m afraid that audiogames.net doesn’t work on xp anymore. It’s something to do with the hosting service protocols that are being used. It’s fine on versions of windows over 7, but not on Xp. Sorry for the inconvenience. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Stephen Sent: 14 October 2017 05:58 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] What's happened to audiogames.net? I'm using it with windows XP as well. At 02:27 PM 10/14/2017, you wrote: >I'm using it on windows xp and it's not loading. Seems as though >Cloudflare might've updated their security if that's the case, because >mac with safari works just fine. > >On 10/13/17, Jack Falejjczyk <jackf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On what windows version? > > > > On 10/13/17, Stephen <whocr...@internode.on.net> wrote: > >> firefox. > >> I can't get to http://forum.audiogames.net/viewforum.php?id=25 > >> At 09:47 AM 10/14/2017, you wrote: > >>>What browser and operating system are you using, Steve? > >>> > >>>On 10/13/17, Stephen <whocr...@internode.on.net> wrote: > >>> > Hi. > >>> > anybody know what's happened to audiogames, and when it will be back > >>> > on the air again? > >>> > Thanks. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > >
Re: [blind-gamers] Eurofly?
Hi david. Yes most certainly the game and site are in English, however it is possible you wound up with the Slovak version of the page instead. The English homepage is here: http://eurofly.stefankiss.sk/ If you look in the download center you will find documentation and some audio tutorials. Also remember you can find out more about the game on : http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Eurofly Which also has links to some tutorials etc, plus a link to an article someone wrote on the audiogames.net forum’s articles room about how to get started flying. Hth. Eurofly is one of these games that I mean to check out morecompletely when I have time. I played it enough to create the db entry, but I’d like to sit down and really explore the thing, especially with the world atlas and set of different missions to do. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: David Mehler Sent: 17 July 2017 17:40 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Eurofly? Hello, I am trying to check out Eurofly, I've seen it mentioned and it sounds good, like a follow up product filling the void of Microsoft Flight simulator, is that accurate? I'd like to get Eurofly, but am not seeing it in English. I'm also wondering if there are any tutorials audio or otherwise in English for this game? Thanks. Dave.
Re: [blind-gamers] Saving Files to a Thum Drive
Hi Danielle, I assume your using windows 10? Generally speaking it works the same in windows 10 as it does in any other version of windows. First, stick your thumb drive into the usb then open your downloads folder. Select the files with the arrow keys, either one at a time or by holding shift if you want a number at once, or heck if you want to select the lot hit ctrl A. Then, hit ctrl c if you want to copy the files and still leave a copy of them in downloads, or ctrl x if you want to cut them, ie, move them from downloads to your drive and not leave a copy . Then you’ll need to find your thumbdrive. First open windows explorer (you can do this by opening a folder on your desktop or just hitting windows key and e). For me since I have windows 10 set to display in lists (like I used to with xp), I just have to hit shift and tab from a folder and then march down with the arrows (or hit the first letter). I don’t know what your thumbdrive will be called but it will probably have a drive letter next to it, quite often for me when I use such things they come up as being called “Usb disk F” or “removable disk G” Once you have found it hit enter to display the drive, then hit ctrl V to paste the files you previously cut or copied, then wait a bit. One thing I have noticed in windows 10 is that unlike previous windows it does not give you the option to directly open and view the contents of a usb drive when you connect it unless you mess around in the notifications area, that is why it’s better doing it in windows explorer (and it’s always good to know where things are on your pc anyway). Hth. For windows 7 the process is nearly the same accept that windows 7 has a rather more annoying way of displaying connected drives (I actually ddislike the windows explorer layout in 7). You’ll need to go to “my computer” and it’ll show a device list, however when using either nvda or supernova it seemed nearly impossible to get these devices to display properly other than hitting the first letter of each to open it and view it’s contents, meaning you have to know the name of something before you find it which is rather silly. On the plus side, windows 7 does still have the option to open a usb derive’s contents when you connect it I believe. Hth. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Danielle Ledet Sent: 15 July 2017 23:20 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Saving Files to a Thum Drive Hi yall, I don't know how to do this anymore. Can somebody give me step-by-step directions. I want to send certain files from my downloads folder to my thumb drive. -- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. George Washington Carver Email: singingmywa...@gmail.com
Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom
Usually I tend to duplicate all boosts, though from some experimentation it seems the best boosts are bag of gold if your leaving the game idle for a bit, animal mastery if you want to make lots of cash quickly and can sit by your phone and continually sell things, or generalized production boosts if your doing a quest for a specific item, eg, master of stones when your on a quest to sell quarry products. Unfortunately, I've now completed all the current quests accept the 100 automations, which will take some time, Indeed it seems the automation quests take way longer than the others, even when selling quotas get up into the thousands. Then again, as I still have the metal parts upgrade to buy for my estate it'll be a while until i completely run out of things to do and am just buying automations for the sake of it. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom I hadn't often done duplicates of boosts only by accident a few times. It's good to know that strategy can help, thanks. On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, Denny Schwab wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:44:05 From: Denny Schwab <denny.sch...@gmail.com> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom Hi, I have just started up this game again. When I am running the lumberyard quests for amount of product, I tend to go straight up with four axemen as my bonuses. This way I can run one log production per seven tember production. I then run the rest as ladders. This is with 15 slots open in lumberyard production and all automated currently. So I think it was something like seven ladders, seven tember, and one log. I also had twelve leather slots going to keep production rolling. I just finished the 1000 ladders quest with the above. I am now doing the 25000 tember and 25000 grain, but may put off the 75000 logs for a bit yet, that one is going to take a while, even with 4 bonuses on axemen and 15 slots open for log production. we will see though. On 7/12/17, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: I'm on the 5,000 ladders quest. I found out half of lumber yard production works best in ladders and a quarter of lumber yard production works best with logs and the last quarter works best with lumber. By quarters I mean measured in quantity of slots, I have 4 ladder slots 2 timber slots and 2 logs slots running and that decreases inventory which helps to minimize running to the city regularly. The only thing with this strategy is you need to watch level of leather strips. If those get low you'll probably need to sacrifice salesman aboost for animal whisperer boost. I run sharpened axe; salesman, master lumberjack, and master farmer normally for this kind of production in terms of boosts. Something else I'm noticing about treasure chests. The more gold pieces you have the more gold pieces you find, and the treasure chest is usually going to be to the left of the castle or to the right of the princess when you find it. -- -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#117494): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/117494 View All Messages In Topic (8): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/5521314 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/5521314/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom
I've already got some storage space upgrades, but the limitation on production always! seems to be storage since you always seem to be producing more than you can store, even if you buy lots of storage upgrades and upgrade your estate to make those purchices more effective. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 4:24 AM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom There are quests to buy storeage space which brings down the cost of storeage space in future resets. Also, setting up an estate may help but I'm not certain on that one yet. On Wed, 12 Jul 2017, dark wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 17:23:59 From: dark <d...@xgam.org> Reply-To: blind-gamers@groups.io To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom Well I had no ladder quests this time around, but last time I tended to go in thirds with logs timber and ladders, and as many leather strips as I can so I could sell of the excess since leather strips are easily the most lucrative product in terms of time vs money, I just hovered over the city selling as needed. As for bonuses, I used all of them in master lumberjack. As for bonusesI used master lumberjack as that spead up ladder production. It seems generally in crafting kingdom despite earning more automation time, since you never have enough storage space the best stratogies are those that maximise something that you can sell off quickly while your hovering over your phone, so the best money making stratogy I've found is bang as many slots into farm as possible, use all four in anaimal wisperer and then just go on selling, but if I want to walk away from my phone I put four in bag of gold instead, though it's possible this may change when I've completed a few more quests and the amount available from bag of gold increases. Unfortunately I've now finished all the current quests accept for buy 100 automations, and since I'm only on 40 or so thus far it could take a while, though as I also have the metal parts to work for to get the boost on my estate I will at least have something else to do rather than just buying lots of slots and automating. All the best, Dark. All the best, DArk. - Original Message - From: "Denny Schwab" <denny.sch...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom Hi, I have just started up this game again. When I am running the lumberyard quests for amount of product, I tend to go straight up with four axemen as my bonuses. This way I can run one log production per seven tember production. I then run the rest as ladders. This is with 15 slots open in lumberyard production and all automated currently. So I think it was something like seven ladders, seven tember, and one log. I also had twelve leather slots going to keep production rolling. I just finished the 1000 ladders quest with the above. I am now doing the 25000 tember and 25000 grain, but may put off the 75000 logs for a bit yet, that one is going to take a while, even with 4 bonuses on axemen and 15 slots open for log production. we will see though. On 7/12/17, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: I'm on the 5,000 ladders quest. I found out half of lumber yard production works best in ladders and a quarter of lumber yard production works best with logs and the last quarter works best with lumber. By quarters I mean measured in quantity of slots, I have 4 ladder slots 2 timber slots and 2 logs slots running and that decreases inventory which helps to minimize running to the city regularly. The only thing with this strategy is you need to watch level of leather strips. If those get low you'll probably need to sacrifice salesman aboost for animal whisperer boost. I run sharpened axe; salesman, master lumberjack, and master farmer normally for this kind of production in terms of boosts. Something else I'm noticing about treasure chests. The more gold pieces you have the more gold pieces you find, and the treasure chest is usually going to be to the left of the castle or to the right of the princess when you find it. -- -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#117493): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/117493 View All Messages In Topic (7): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/5521314 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/5521314/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom
Well I had no ladder quests this time around, but last time I tended to go in thirds with logs timber and ladders, and as many leather strips as I can so I could sell of the excess since leather strips are easily the most lucrative product in terms of time vs money, I just hovered over the city selling as needed. As for bonuses, I used all of them in master lumberjack. As for bonusesI used master lumberjack as that spead up ladder production. It seems generally in crafting kingdom despite earning more automation time, since you never have enough storage space the best stratogies are those that maximise something that you can sell off quickly while your hovering over your phone, so the best money making stratogy I've found is bang as many slots into farm as possible, use all four in anaimal wisperer and then just go on selling, but if I want to walk away from my phone I put four in bag of gold instead, though it's possible this may change when I've completed a few more quests and the amount available from bag of gold increases. Unfortunately I've now finished all the current quests accept for buy 100 automations, and since I'm only on 40 or so thus far it could take a while, though as I also have the metal parts to work for to get the boost on my estate I will at least have something else to do rather than just buying lots of slots and automating. All the best, Dark. All the best, DArk. - Original Message - From: "Denny Schwab" <denny.sch...@gmail.com> To: <blind-gamers@groups.io> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 6:44 PM Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] cr4afting kingdom Hi, I have just started up this game again. When I am running the lumberyard quests for amount of product, I tend to go straight up with four axemen as my bonuses. This way I can run one log production per seven tember production. I then run the rest as ladders. This is with 15 slots open in lumberyard production and all automated currently. So I think it was something like seven ladders, seven tember, and one log. I also had twelve leather slots going to keep production rolling. I just finished the 1000 ladders quest with the above. I am now doing the 25000 tember and 25000 grain, but may put off the 75000 logs for a bit yet, that one is going to take a while, even with 4 bonuses on axemen and 15 slots open for log production. we will see though. On 7/12/17, Jude DaShiell <jdash...@panix.com> wrote: I'm on the 5,000 ladders quest. I found out half of lumber yard production works best in ladders and a quarter of lumber yard production works best with logs and the last quarter works best with lumber. By quarters I mean measured in quantity of slots, I have 4 ladder slots 2 timber slots and 2 logs slots running and that decreases inventory which helps to minimize running to the city regularly. The only thing with this strategy is you need to watch level of leather strips. If those get low you'll probably need to sacrifice salesman aboost for animal whisperer boost. I run sharpened axe; salesman, master lumberjack, and master farmer normally for this kind of production in terms of boosts. Something else I'm noticing about treasure chests. The more gold pieces you have the more gold pieces you find, and the treasure chest is usually going to be to the left of the castle or to the right of the princess when you find it. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#117479): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/117479 View All Messages In Topic (3): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/5521314 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/5521314/21656 New Topic: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/post Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/editsub/21656 Group Home: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers Contact Group Owner: blind-gamers+ow...@groups.io Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Re: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net forum issue
Hi. I’m not really sure what is going on here, but someone else has reported a similar problem with the password retrieval so the right people are looking into it. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Shaun Everiss Sent: 07 July 2017 07:04 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] audiogames.net forum issue Hi. Logged in this morning to the audiogames forum for a topic, logged in again later on to reply to it. In the afternoon. Tried to login just now, same userid and password. Nothing happens, at first I got the password wrong, and so I sorted that out and put in the right one but it just didn't accept it or anything. Tried to get another password, got the window to do that open but I sent my email address and when I clicked submit it didn't do anything. Then again I didn't really want one so closed out and tried again. FOr some reason I thought firefox was the issue, tried with ie, same issue can not login the site is viewable. Its not my net, I just logged in to my mobile phone previder to top up the device.
Re: [blind-gamers] new member to this list
My only problem with death on the road is after you’ve got several bonuses and the games’ progressed to a point, you get to a stage where it’s not getting any harder and you actively have to work to lose. It’d be interesting if the game got more hazards and expantions that insured it had some sort of ending, or at least a limit on the amount of bonuses you can buy son so you don’t end up with goodness knows how much health. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Tyler Zahnke Sent: 03 July 2017 17:39 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] new member to this list The one I've spent the most time on is Death On the Road; one time, I went several hours without my points ever going down; crossing the road at just the right time, grabbing every bonus item, and if one of those items was a bomb, I was very quick at putting those digits in order. On 7/3/17, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > It’s a toss up for me between beatstar pro and rhythm rage, though I did > rather enjoy copter mission and death on the road for destructive value. > > It’s great someone is still making high quality action/arcade games, since a > lot of people try them as their first practice projects and don’t always > succeed,. > > I’d personally love to see more for rhythm rage, since the last pack was > amazing and I love the sounds and action. > > All the best, > > Dark. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > From: Lenron > Sent: 03 July 2017 17:17 > To: blind-gamers@groups.io > Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] new member to this list > > I think beatstar pro is my favorite. > > On 7/3/17, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Copter Mission, Death on the Road, BeatStar Pro, Bomber Cats, Danger >> on the Wheel, F**k That Bird, Hammer of Glory, Insect Therapy, >> QuickTap, Rhythm Rage, Run for Your Life, Run From Your Past (those >> two are basically the same), Supercube, Thief, Villains from Beyond >> (which I believe is just accessible Xevious), and those are just the >> currently available games; no longer available from his site, but >> floating around the Internet, is the clone of Smack Me; Smack Me was >> originally IOS, his was Windows; the Smack Me clone evolved into the >> original default pack for BeatStar Pro. >> >> On 7/3/17, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> what games did he make? >>> >>> >>> >>> On 7/3/2017 11:19 AM, Tyler Zahnke wrote: >>>> You are changing the world by doing it, that's why! The production >>>> values, the gameplay, the performance of the programs; it's all top >>>> notch! >>>> >>>> On 7/3/17, Oriol Gómez <ogomez@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> You really think so? >>>>> Why is that? I'd like to know why you think so. >>>>> Thanks for your kind words. >>>>> >>>>> On 7/3/17, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Glad you could join! I remember your games! I really hope that you >>>>>> can >>>>>> make either some more Windows games or some more updates. Your games >>>>>> are some of the best in the downloadable audio game scene! >>>>>> >>>>>> On 7/3/17, Oriol Gómez <ogomez@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>>> I'm a new member to this list. Some of you might know me for my >>>>>>> games. >>>>>>> Just wanted to say hi and say that I am not dead (yet). I've been >>>>>>> busy >>>>>>> with work so I haven't been making games, but I'll soon start >>>>>>> working >>>>>>> on new stuff for mobile platforms. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks and happy to be here. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> sent with mozilla thunderbird >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Lenron Brown > Cell: 985-271-2832 > Skype: ron.brown762 > > > > >
Re: [blind-gamers] manamon
First you need to find the tunnel floor two. Once your there the ring is around towards the north wall between two drips of water, you’ll hear it as an item and can collect it, Btw, if you want more precise directions, try Jayde’s manamon walkthrough, there’s a link for it on the audiogames.net manamon page. Hth. Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: mattias Sent: 03 July 2017 18:03 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] manamon annyone know how to find the ring in the tunnel? should i do something with the statyet?
Re: [blind-gamers] new member to this list
It’s a toss up for me between beatstar pro and rhythm rage, though I did rather enjoy copter mission and death on the road for destructive value. It’s great someone is still making high quality action/arcade games, since a lot of people try them as their first practice projects and don’t always succeed,. I’d personally love to see more for rhythm rage, since the last pack was amazing and I love the sounds and action. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Lenron Sent: 03 July 2017 17:17 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] new member to this list I think beatstar pro is my favorite. On 7/3/17, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote: > Copter Mission, Death on the Road, BeatStar Pro, Bomber Cats, Danger > on the Wheel, F**k That Bird, Hammer of Glory, Insect Therapy, > QuickTap, Rhythm Rage, Run for Your Life, Run From Your Past (those > two are basically the same), Supercube, Thief, Villains from Beyond > (which I believe is just accessible Xevious), and those are just the > currently available games; no longer available from his site, but > floating around the Internet, is the clone of Smack Me; Smack Me was > originally IOS, his was Windows; the Smack Me clone evolved into the > original default pack for BeatStar Pro. > > On 7/3/17, Josh Kennedy <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> what games did he make? >> >> >> >> On 7/3/2017 11:19 AM, Tyler Zahnke wrote: >>> You are changing the world by doing it, that's why! The production >>> values, the gameplay, the performance of the programs; it's all top >>> notch! >>> >>> On 7/3/17, Oriol Gómez <ogomez@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> You really think so? >>>> Why is that? I'd like to know why you think so. >>>> Thanks for your kind words. >>>> >>>> On 7/3/17, Tyler Zahnke <programmer...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> Glad you could join! I remember your games! I really hope that you can >>>>> make either some more Windows games or some more updates. Your games >>>>> are some of the best in the downloadable audio game scene! >>>>> >>>>> On 7/3/17, Oriol Gómez <ogomez@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>>> Hello all, >>>>>> I'm a new member to this list. Some of you might know me for my >>>>>> games. >>>>>> Just wanted to say hi and say that I am not dead (yet). I've been >>>>>> busy >>>>>> with work so I haven't been making games, but I'll soon start working >>>>>> on new stuff for mobile platforms. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks and happy to be here. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> sent with mozilla thunderbird >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- Lenron Brown Cell: 985-271-2832 Skype: ron.brown762
Re: [blind-gamers] audio game recordings
Hi Lori Actually, the music on the podcast about mota was from the access collective, which are a set of podcasts done by Barry elice aka skallagrigg, the webmaster of oneswitch.org.uk which does for physically impared gamers what audiogames.net does for vi ones. He was the one who arranged the demos and added the music. Unfortunately, I can’t play on headphones because I haven’t ever worked out how to get my computer to record my voice, and the computer’s output, and still play through headphones, it’s all a bit of a confusion. Hell, I haven’t even got the stand mikes I bought to work normally on windows 10 with kortana or anything else, so dont’ ask me. I recorded the podcasts with a very old, but still very functional Rowland r09 digital sterrio recorder, which is why I used speakers, and that is likely what I’d use again since the world of audio recording is a bloody confusing one to me (hell as I said Iam most disappointed with window’s ten’s attempt at a siri like intervface given it doesn’t even recognize the mikes let alone get any sound from them). So, if I do another odcast it’ll have to be something I can play on speakers, which puts swamp right out of the picture, besides there are already far too many good audio reviews and such on swamp anyway. As for The Gate, since I had trouble with the demo and don’t even own the game itself I probably wouldn’t do one for that any time soon, especially with the need to play on speakers which in such a difficult game as The gate could be asking for trouble. Sorry to be disappointing. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: lori duncan Sent: 22 June 2017 22:31 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audio game recordings Hi Dark, you should do one on Swamp next or maybe The Gate, but please please please, a billion times please, remember to play with headphones not on speakers lol. I hated seeing you die in mota, it broke my heart. I do however love your voice and your style of presenting, I let my sister hear the opening to the podcast and she cracked up laughing at the opening music saying it sounded like a cheerful hamster dancing a jig. Now I think about it, it would make a funny ring or text tone, the kind which would so get on someone's nerves on a train if turned up loud. >From Lori. On 19/06/2017 17:47, dark wrote: Hi Lori. Yes, I confess I particularly miss Tom with me having got married last year since over on the audeiogames.net forum we often discussed relationships etc, and I really would’ve liked to tell him about things, especially with me married to a yanky . I really ought to see about doing another one of my castings of the pod about something or other, possibly the Cog or hg games, though again time and motivation and all of those things . All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: lori duncan Sent: 19 June 2017 00:39 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] audio game recordings Thanks Dark, wow I didn't even know that page was out there, I thought the asmodean site had just dropped for some wierd reason and was worried it'd had been hacked. I listened to your podcast with the 3 audio game reviews, and although I enjoyed it emencely, it's made me feel a bit sad again that Thomas Ward is no longer around. anymore. I even wish I still had that beta demo of TH to play, but it's on my old old old computer, and as I'm on my old computer at the moment, I've no way of reaching it. I wondered who the girl's voice was in TH, the one playing Angela Carter? I sure miss that game. >From Lori. On 18/06/2017 15:17, dark wrote: Hi Lori. No need for dropbox on this occasionsince the audiogames archive has everything covered. You can find all of Raul’s recordings on Also, if you check out the recordings page you’ll find some other good stuff (plus some podcasts by none other than yours truly). It’s actually a great resource. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: lori duncan Sent: 18 June 2017 00:08 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] audio game recordings Hi guys, I just tried to find the audio game recordings someone very kindly sent me, the ones done by Raul Gallegos from the Asmodean website, but for some reason the folder hasn't coppied properly to my dropbox, and as I can't remember who sent me them to begin with, I was wondering if anyone had them and could dropbox them to me, so I can copy and paste them to my recordings folder in dropbox where they should have been in the first place if my dropbox hadn't went all over the place lol. I'm not sure what's wrong with the asmodean site, it looks like all the content is gone, but there's no file 504 not found message, just some wierd domain links which don't make sense to me. Hope someone can help, as I could really do with a chuckle at all thos
Re: a suggestion for Dark - Re: [blind-gamers] blind gladiator
Hi Charlse. It’s on my list of things to try. I have enjoyed the arcade titles in the blindfold games range thus far so I’ll be interested to see what that one is like. All the best, Dark. Hi Dave. Yes, I’m playing the Ios version. I was hoping for another nice quick action game I could play along to rather like Space encounter (which I still pull out once in a while for a quick blast). I do like the system on Ios with you moving your phone, I just wish it was less buggy. I suppose I could buy the version for windows, but IT SEEMS A BIT WASTEFUL AFTER I BOUGHT THE GAME ON iOS, heck I have all the other audio it games on Ios and as I said I do think it would be an awesome game if they would just fix the bugs. All the best,
Re: [blind-gamers] blind gladiator
Hi Dave. Yes, I’m playing the Ios version. I was hoping for another nice quick action game I could play along to rather like Space encounter (which I still pull out once in a while for a quick blast). I do like the system on Ios with you moving your phone, I just wish it was less buggy. I suppose I could buy the version for windows, but IT SEEMS A BIT WASTEFUL AFTER I BOUGHT THE GAME ON iOS, heck I have all the other audio it games on Ios and as I said I do think it would be an awesome game if they would just fix the bugs. All the best, Dark.
Re: [blind-gamers] blind gladiator
Hi. Got the message. The one thing I have with blind gladiator is it seems the bug avoiding center attacks still! Hasn’t been fixed, meaning you basically are there wailing away with your primary weapon hoping for the god of random numbers not to hit you in the center too much. I do enjoy Adio it’s games, but often it does seem they get released a little early and then it takes a while for bugs to get sorted out. This is a shame since the games themselves are pretty good from what I’ve gathered, but for example space encounter really only wasn’t stable enough to ply until the latest version. I really hope blind gladiator gets an update which makes it less frustrating in the same way. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Zaire Johnson Sent: 20 June 2017 19:41 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] blind gladiator I hope this message gets out to the gamers. I play Gladiator but I haven't played it in a few weeks. At the current time I'm visiting Michael wh's also on the list. Iknow I should start back playing it 'cause it's fun. I'll be writing again soon if the list gets this message.
Re: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request
Hi Charlse The quests are meant to be hard, but also they are the goals in the game. I confess some of those involving buying lots of automation slots have always got me as a little irritating, but it’s also the quests that are the way you progress, so usually I focus on them entirely. All the best, Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Charles Rivard Sent: 16 June 2017 19:44 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request At $600 apiece, I figure that ladders are good investments, aren’t they? I get a lot of gold by selling them. They are produced at a rate of 4 every 30 seconds. I just have to be sure that enough timbers are always available, and it takes logs to produce timbers. So I need all 3 products. I’ve been considering to not produce grain or meat, and just produce leather strips, and the other two items are not required to produce the leather. I’m just thinking out loud, here. Some of the quests seem, at the current time, unattainable. A storage space of 5,000 is a good example of this. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! From: dark Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 12:17 PM To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request Hi Charlse. Your further along than I am, but one thing which I find a bit odd is your need to produce all the products each time. Mostly you don’t especially if your doing a quest. I actually found I made more cash producing just stone and leather strips than I did trying to make ladders,s imply because ladders filled up storage faste. :likewise, I tend to use the boosts for the @salesman@ perk so that I can max out the gains from what I sell. Generally of course it depends upon your quests, but this would be my suggestion, to try and work out what your next goal is and work towards it rather than having a specific method of going about thing. All the best. Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Charles Rivard Sent: 16 June 2017 17:31 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request There must be a faster way to progress through this very fun and addictive game than the way I am doing it. I will reveal my method below, and would like some hints and suggestions on strategy. Needless to say, there will be spoilers for some players. If you do not want them, stop reading at this point. Otherwise, read on. I start the game and immediately use 4 boosts, selecting the bag of gold on all 4 boosts. I have gotten the 1,000,000 gold piece achievement, so each boost produces 32,000 gold pieces per minute. When the money starts piling up, I go into the city and increase storage to about 500 or more. Then, I buy the lumber yard and 12 slots. I produce logs in the first 4, timbers in the next 4, and leave the last 4 unused at this point. I then buy the farm and 12 slots. Grain is produced in the first 4, meat in the next 4, and leather strips in the last 4. Then, back to the lumber yard and setting the last 4 slots to produce ladders. I waited to do this because leather strips are needed to produce ladders. Next, I buy the quarry and 16 slots. Four slots for each item in sequence: coal, stone, iron ore, and copper ore. Next, I buy the furnace. I have only gotten to the point of buying 4 slots to produce metal. Along the way, I have built my estate up to a hut with doors. I have also, along the way, increased my storage space up to roughly 1,000. This takes quite a long time, even though boosts are being used to provide more bags of gold, needed to do all this stuff. Any help on ways to advance more quickly are appreciated. It is a fun game, for sure, but I’ve got a long, long, long way to go!! If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
Re: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request
Hi Charlse. Your further along than I am, but one thing which I find a bit odd is your need to produce all the products each time. Mostly you don’t especially if your doing a quest. I actually found I made more cash producing just stone and leather strips than I did trying to make ladders,s imply because ladders filled up storage faste. :likewise, I tend to use the boosts for the @salesman@ perk so that I can max out the gains from what I sell. Generally of course it depends upon your quests, but this would be my suggestion, to try and work out what your next goal is and work towards it rather than having a specific method of going about thing. All the best. Dark. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Charles Rivard Sent: 16 June 2017 17:31 To: blind-gamers@groups.io Subject: [blind-gamers] Krafting Kingdom advice request There must be a faster way to progress through this very fun and addictive game than the way I am doing it. I will reveal my method below, and would like some hints and suggestions on strategy. Needless to say, there will be spoilers for some players. If you do not want them, stop reading at this point. Otherwise, read on. I start the game and immediately use 4 boosts, selecting the bag of gold on all 4 boosts. I have gotten the 1,000,000 gold piece achievement, so each boost produces 32,000 gold pieces per minute. When the money starts piling up, I go into the city and increase storage to about 500 or more. Then, I buy the lumber yard and 12 slots. I produce logs in the first 4, timbers in the next 4, and leave the last 4 unused at this point. I then buy the farm and 12 slots. Grain is produced in the first 4, meat in the next 4, and leather strips in the last 4. Then, back to the lumber yard and setting the last 4 slots to produce ladders. I waited to do this because leather strips are needed to produce ladders. Next, I buy the quarry and 16 slots. Four slots for each item in sequence: coal, stone, iron ore, and copper ore. Next, I buy the furnace. I have only gotten to the point of buying 4 slots to produce metal. Along the way, I have built my estate up to a hut with doors. I have also, along the way, increased my storage space up to roughly 1,000. This takes quite a long time, even though boosts are being used to provide more bags of gold, needed to do all this stuff. Any help on ways to advance more quickly are appreciated. It is a fun game, for sure, but I’ve got a long, long, long way to go!! If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
