[Audyssey] New games for Halloween! "Congresswolf" and "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven"

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New games for Halloween! "Congresswolf" and "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven"
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Subject: New games for Halloween! "Congresswolf" and "Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven"


  Download "Congresswolf" and "Zombie Exodus: Safe 
Haven" today on Steam, iOS, or Android.  
  View this email in your browser  
   
 
   

   
 
   
  Two new games for Halloween!
  First, Congresswolf, the latest in our popular 
“Choice of Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now 
available for Steam, iOS, and Android. It's 25% off until November 1st.

  Second, Hosted Games has a new game for you to 
play, Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven, out now for iOS, Android, and the Chrome Web 
Store for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It's 25% off until November 1st.

  Is the next member of Congress a werewolf?
  Is the next member of Congress a werewolf? Can 
you survive a lycanthrope’s bite? There’s no silver bullet for winning an 
election!

  Congresswolf is an interactive novel by Ellen 
Cooper, where your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–140,000 
words, without graphics or sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable 
power of your imagination.

  “Democracy must be something more than two wolves 
and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.” — James Bovard

  When a werewolf murders your boss, you must step 
up to run a Congressional campaign all on your own. While werewolves, 
protestors, and worse–the media–lurk around every corner, you’ll use everything 
you can to get your candidate elected.

  Email servers? Tax returns? Who cares. 
Election-season secrets and October surprises are nothing compared to the 
possibility that your candidate might be a werewolf…or that you might become 
one yourself.

a.. Play as any gender, play as gay or straight 
b.. Set the right tone with your TV ads 
c.. Prep your candidate for debates 
d.. Impress big donors 
e.. Get out the vote 
f.. Find out who killed your predecessor 
g.. Decide where your candidate will stand on 
werewolf rights 
 
   

   

   
  Hosted Games has a new game for you to play!

Zombies rise again at the dawn of Apocalypse! 
In this companion to the smash-hit Zombie Exodus, can you survive the first few 
days of the zombie outbreak as the dead rise, society collapses, and the living 
struggle to survive?

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven is the first part of 
a series of thrilling interactive survival-horror novel by Jim Dattilo, where 
your choices control the story. It’s entirely text-based–without animation or 
sound effects–and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

Customize a character using a variety of 
professions, backgrounds, special challenges, and skills to survive in a brutal 
and chaotic city as the Zeta virus spreads. Will you be an honorable soldier, 
searching through neighborhoods to aid survivors? Or will you be a ruthless 
bandit who loots and robs others for needed supplies? How about a paranoid 
hacker, psychopathic con artist, pragmatic scientist, or idealistic teenager? 
Dozens of options allow you to play the character of your choice.

Set in the Zombie Exodus world, the first part 
of Safe Haven focuses on the first few days of a viral outbreak which changes 
the infected into mindless zombies. Explore the changes to society at the start 
of the pandemic. Board your house, gather supplies, meet over a dozen other 
characters, and survive encounters with the living dead and even other 
survivors. Scavenge numerous locations, craft items, and use a variety of 
skills to survive the many challenges of the apocalypse.

The Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven series will 
continue with future stories in new locations in the coming years.

Re: [Audyssey] memory

[Paul Lemm]

Hi Justin,

Xenogear sounds pretty cool, I like the idea of being able to get into the
mechs for battle.

As for the programing, i'd actually be really intrested in that, as I've
said I'm still only learning  so my knowledge  is still pretty basic so I
can't produce anything amazing yet, but it would be good  to chat and swap
ideas. My email if you want to write me off list is paul.l...@sky.com



-Original Message-
From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Justin Jones
Sent: 28 October 2016 17:08
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] memory

Xenogears is an obscure game published by Squaresoft in the late 90's
for the PSX. It was a J-RPG with a fairly complex, and rather dark,
story. The interesting thing about the game, in addition to the story,
that is, is that your characters could pilot mechs and use them in
battle.

You know, Paul, maybe you and I ought to do some serious talking about
designing a role-playing game. I have the creative side, but not the
programming skills. Please let me know.

On 10/28/16, Paul Lemm  wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Ok, so final fantasy and Chrono trigger I've heard  of (although never
> actually played chrono trigger), but never heard of xenogears, ,  I
> actually
> remember  from a while back that one of the audio game developers, I think
> it was Ian reid  was actually working on something that would add
> accessibility  to the older  final fantasy and chrono  trigger  game, that
> was a while back now though , so not sure how far he ever got with that or
> if he's still working on it. As for the other more recent games you
> mentioned, I actually lost my sight about 12 years ago so haven't played a
> lot of those, I see where you're coming from though, as with the constant
> advancement of main stream consoles and PC's the games for those machines
> become more complex in both environment and game play, which in turn makes
> accessibility more and more difficult.  As for the programing side of it,
I
> actually started to teach myself to program just for the reason of wanting
> to create my own j-rpg, although I have to confess to being pretty rubbish
> at writing story's, but I'm hoping if I can get the game creation part
> mastered I can work with someone who will help with the story side of it.
> it is really rewarding though when you begin to see your little game start
> to take shape, so definitely worthwhile, although I've also had a ton of
> nights ridiculously frustrated wondering why a bit of code won't work like
> it should lol, still definitely a long way to go but maybe one day we'll
> see
> a game on here from me, let's just hope if I do people actually play it
> hahaha
>
> Paul
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Justin
Jones
> Sent: 28 October 2016 01:34
> To: Gamers Discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] memory
>
> Up until recently, I was able to play some mainstream video games, but
> I lost the rest of my eyesight almost a year ago. I can confirm that
> part of it was menu layout memorization, and for certain role-playing
> games/real-time strategy games, hotkeys were a big part of playing
> them. Unfortunately, where I ran into trouble was with navigating
> (particularly the third-person/first-person perspective games) and
> reading dialogue/menues.
>
> In many J-RPG's, e.g. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and here's an
> obscure one for you: Xenogears, the menu layout stayed the same. Also,
> in many of these games, if you went into the equipment menu and
> highlighted a weapon/armor/other accessory, there was an indicator as
> to whether or not the equipment in question would do you any good.
> This usually involved the new values conferred by the equipment
> showing up in a different color (and I had the eyesight to see this).
> However, in a western-style RPG, e.g. Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age:
> Origins, Pillars of Eternity or Skyrim, this is absent. Also, the
> layouts are more difficult to memorize in these latter instances.
>
> We haven't even touched on action-RPG's either, e.g. Diablo II,
> Titan's Quest or Torchlight. When I had a little eyesight, I could,
> sort of, play these, but it took a lot of work and extra effort. With
> Diablo II, for example, every time I leveled/found new gear I had to
> open up a third-party utility called Hero Editor that actually played
> nicely with JAWS (sort of) to make the necessary changes to my
> character.
>
> Anyway, once I get my new computer up and running, I am going to try
> to learn how to program. After I try to create a Dungeons and Dragons
> character creator for the blind (5th edition), providing I am
> successful, I would try my luck at creating a game. I do not know if I
> will have any luck/will be able to do this, but I would rather try and
> fail, then simply never try.
>
> It is my turn, now, to apologize for the lengthy message...
>
> On 10/27/16, Paul Lemm 

Re: [Audyssey] memory

[Justin Jones]

Xenogears is an obscure game published by Squaresoft in the late 90's
for the PSX. It was a J-RPG with a fairly complex, and rather dark,
story. The interesting thing about the game, in addition to the story,
that is, is that your characters could pilot mechs and use them in
battle.

You know, Paul, maybe you and I ought to do some serious talking about
designing a role-playing game. I have the creative side, but not the
programming skills. Please let me know.

On 10/28/16, Paul Lemm  wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> Ok, so final fantasy and Chrono trigger I've heard  of (although never
> actually played chrono trigger), but never heard of xenogears, ,  I
> actually
> remember  from a while back that one of the audio game developers, I think
> it was Ian reid  was actually working on something that would add
> accessibility  to the older  final fantasy and chrono  trigger  game, that
> was a while back now though , so not sure how far he ever got with that or
> if he's still working on it. As for the other more recent games you
> mentioned, I actually lost my sight about 12 years ago so haven't played a
> lot of those, I see where you're coming from though, as with the constant
> advancement of main stream consoles and PC's the games for those machines
> become more complex in both environment and game play, which in turn makes
> accessibility more and more difficult.  As for the programing side of it, I
> actually started to teach myself to program just for the reason of wanting
> to create my own j-rpg, although I have to confess to being pretty rubbish
> at writing story's, but I'm hoping if I can get the game creation part
> mastered I can work with someone who will help with the story side of it.
> it is really rewarding though when you begin to see your little game start
> to take shape, so definitely worthwhile, although I've also had a ton of
> nights ridiculously frustrated wondering why a bit of code won't work like
> it should lol, still definitely a long way to go but maybe one day we'll
> see
> a game on here from me, let's just hope if I do people actually play it
> hahaha
>
> Paul
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Justin Jones
> Sent: 28 October 2016 01:34
> To: Gamers Discussion list
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] memory
>
> Up until recently, I was able to play some mainstream video games, but
> I lost the rest of my eyesight almost a year ago. I can confirm that
> part of it was menu layout memorization, and for certain role-playing
> games/real-time strategy games, hotkeys were a big part of playing
> them. Unfortunately, where I ran into trouble was with navigating
> (particularly the third-person/first-person perspective games) and
> reading dialogue/menues.
>
> In many J-RPG's, e.g. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and here's an
> obscure one for you: Xenogears, the menu layout stayed the same. Also,
> in many of these games, if you went into the equipment menu and
> highlighted a weapon/armor/other accessory, there was an indicator as
> to whether or not the equipment in question would do you any good.
> This usually involved the new values conferred by the equipment
> showing up in a different color (and I had the eyesight to see this).
> However, in a western-style RPG, e.g. Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age:
> Origins, Pillars of Eternity or Skyrim, this is absent. Also, the
> layouts are more difficult to memorize in these latter instances.
>
> We haven't even touched on action-RPG's either, e.g. Diablo II,
> Titan's Quest or Torchlight. When I had a little eyesight, I could,
> sort of, play these, but it took a lot of work and extra effort. With
> Diablo II, for example, every time I leveled/found new gear I had to
> open up a third-party utility called Hero Editor that actually played
> nicely with JAWS (sort of) to make the necessary changes to my
> character.
>
> Anyway, once I get my new computer up and running, I am going to try
> to learn how to program. After I try to create a Dungeons and Dragons
> character creator for the blind (5th edition), providing I am
> successful, I would try my luck at creating a game. I do not know if I
> will have any luck/will be able to do this, but I would rather try and
> fail, then simply never try.
>
> It is my turn, now, to apologize for the lengthy message...
>
> On 10/27/16, Paul Lemm  wrote:
>> Hi Justin,
>>
>> To be fair I've never quite understood how people manage to play these
>> games
>> myself, as I've heard of people playing mortal combat, Teken,guitar hero
>> even down to things like castlevania , I think a lot of it is done by
>> memorising  menu layouts,,, routes, and map lay outs  via trial   and
> error
>> etc., in fact I occasionally  play my little boy at teken vs street
> fighter
>> , although he sets it up since I can't navigate the menus I imagine I
> could
>> if I wanted learn the layout of menus and navigate it to start a game
>> 

Re: [Audyssey] memory

[Paul Lemm]

Hi Justin,

Ok, so final fantasy and Chrono trigger I've heard  of (although never
actually played chrono trigger), but never heard of xenogears, ,  I actually
remember  from a while back that one of the audio game developers, I think
it was Ian reid  was actually working on something that would add
accessibility  to the older  final fantasy and chrono  trigger  game, that
was a while back now though , so not sure how far he ever got with that or
if he's still working on it. As for the other more recent games you
mentioned, I actually lost my sight about 12 years ago so haven't played a
lot of those, I see where you're coming from though, as with the constant
advancement of main stream consoles and PC's the games for those machines
become more complex in both environment and game play, which in turn makes
accessibility more and more difficult.  As for the programing side of it, I
actually started to teach myself to program just for the reason of wanting
to create my own j-rpg, although I have to confess to being pretty rubbish
at writing story's, but I'm hoping if I can get the game creation part
mastered I can work with someone who will help with the story side of it.
it is really rewarding though when you begin to see your little game start
to take shape, so definitely worthwhile, although I've also had a ton of
nights ridiculously frustrated wondering why a bit of code won't work like
it should lol, still definitely a long way to go but maybe one day we'll see
a game on here from me, let's just hope if I do people actually play it
hahaha 

Paul 

-Original Message-
From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Justin Jones
Sent: 28 October 2016 01:34
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] memory

Up until recently, I was able to play some mainstream video games, but
I lost the rest of my eyesight almost a year ago. I can confirm that
part of it was menu layout memorization, and for certain role-playing
games/real-time strategy games, hotkeys were a big part of playing
them. Unfortunately, where I ran into trouble was with navigating
(particularly the third-person/first-person perspective games) and
reading dialogue/menues.

In many J-RPG's, e.g. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, and here's an
obscure one for you: Xenogears, the menu layout stayed the same. Also,
in many of these games, if you went into the equipment menu and
highlighted a weapon/armor/other accessory, there was an indicator as
to whether or not the equipment in question would do you any good.
This usually involved the new values conferred by the equipment
showing up in a different color (and I had the eyesight to see this).
However, in a western-style RPG, e.g. Baldur's Gate, Dragon Age:
Origins, Pillars of Eternity or Skyrim, this is absent. Also, the
layouts are more difficult to memorize in these latter instances.

We haven't even touched on action-RPG's either, e.g. Diablo II,
Titan's Quest or Torchlight. When I had a little eyesight, I could,
sort of, play these, but it took a lot of work and extra effort. With
Diablo II, for example, every time I leveled/found new gear I had to
open up a third-party utility called Hero Editor that actually played
nicely with JAWS (sort of) to make the necessary changes to my
character.

Anyway, once I get my new computer up and running, I am going to try
to learn how to program. After I try to create a Dungeons and Dragons
character creator for the blind (5th edition), providing I am
successful, I would try my luck at creating a game. I do not know if I
will have any luck/will be able to do this, but I would rather try and
fail, then simply never try.

It is my turn, now, to apologize for the lengthy message...

On 10/27/16, Paul Lemm  wrote:
> Hi Justin,
>
> To be fair I've never quite understood how people manage to play these
> games
> myself, as I've heard of people playing mortal combat, Teken,guitar hero
> even down to things like castlevania , I think a lot of it is done by
> memorising  menu layouts,,, routes, and map lay outs  via trial   and
error
> etc., in fact I occasionally  play my little boy at teken vs street
fighter
> , although he sets it up since I can't navigate the menus I imagine I
could
> if I wanted learn the layout of menus and navigate it to start a game
> myself, and I do occasionally win to, which is probably down to
remembering
> all the moves/combo's from when I used to play, so I can see to a  degree
> how with enough memorisation  and practise that you could play some games
> in
> this way., I guess you could argue that if you have to put that much
effort
> into remembering  so much about the game   to be able to play it, that
does
> it then lose some of the fun of the game? I guess it all comes down to how
> much you want to play the game and how much effort you want to put into
> learning /memorising all that stuff in a game to be able  to play it, but
I
> don't have any proof  of anyone playing these