Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson)
Hi Eleanor. while I certainly appreciate that developing games for the Iphone is important, heck, I'm probably going to get one myself (lots of gamebooks!), i do think it'd be sad if people missed your pc games for want of a demo. While the games page describes them, those descriptions could equally apply to interactive fiction or gamebook titles (yes I know your page mentions! video and sfx, but there's a big difference betwene mentioning and experiencing). There are mistery works of standard if, and at least a few mistery gamebooks on the net I can think of, - albeit usually with a more supernatural theme like Bodies in the docks on fighting fantasy project. thus, from point of view of a potential customer, there is a certain element of why should I buy this game? that's why malinch, for all I rather dislike their actually rather irritating promotional style and confusing website, have done at least one correct thing in selling works of interactive fiction, offering either full scale demos, or a 60 day money back guarantee. Your games however have imho much more to offer even someone who is used to playing If and gamebooks than malinch's (the fact they're a third of the price and also that you don't beat your customers over the head with self congratulations helps a lot too), and it'd be nice if that was taken advantage of. I may be able to have a bash at doing a recording myself, but I don't make promises at the moment, sinse I still have a thesis to finish and a couple of other bits of recording to do (for phil for instance), though i will do if I can. I do however think a recording would help hugely, even just a standard mp3 file showing off a couple of rooms, talking to various characters with the menue system, and maybe a quick look at how the solution submission works. all the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Eleanor Robinson elea...@7128.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 9:36 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson) Hi Dark - Thanks for the suggestion. John and I have had some conversation about using HTML5 on the website to produce demo-like trailers which would show just what you are talking about - the game features such as the videos, the sound and music and so forth. If that does not work, we will get back to you regarding the sound recording. The HTML5 stuff would not take as long to do as some other alternatives we have talked about. We do want to minimize the time taken away from working on the IOS stuff though. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Dark We certainly appreciate your offer to do a recording - if and when you get a chance - obviously with what is on your plate, you can't make any promises. We would be happy if you or someone else on the list did a recording of a portion of an Inspector Cyndi game as you described in your post. You could put it on the Audio Games website and we could put a link to it on our website. One reason we haven't done that type of thing previously is that since our games are not just for blind and VI gamers and we didn't think that it would be appropriate on our website. We still are thinking that we will try to do something like a trailer demo on our website, but it may take a while. Anyway we certainly are open to whatever works best for people. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Hi Eleanor. i'll have a go if I can, I've been meaning to do some more audio reviews anyway, though at the moment things are rather hechtic due to various other matters. Even if I can't however, it'd be great to see an audio ddemo. one other idea you might considder is a straight up utube trailer which would obviously showcase everything about the game. lots of game devs are using them as promos at the moment, indeed Shard workshop has been using utube to offer audio of their zero site game and now the upcoming extention right from the start. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Eleanor Robinson elea...@7128.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2012 3:29 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games Dark We certainly appreciate your offer to do a recording - if and when you get a chance - obviously with what is on your plate, you can't make any promises. We would be happy if you or someone else on the list did a recording of a portion of an Inspector Cyndi game as you described in your post. You could put it on the Audio Games website and we could put a link to it on our website. One reason we haven't done that type of thing previously is that since our games are not just for blind and VI gamers and we didn't think that it would be appropriate on our website. We still are thinking that we will try to do something like a trailer demo on our website, but it may take a while. Anyway we certainly are open to whatever works best for people. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson)
Mike asked - any time frame for the iPhone? Mike the only thing I can tell you is that we are starting to look at how to develop in IOS. This means it will take some time before we can start putting actual games up in the APP store. I would estimate that it will be some time next year before we will have some of our current games re-coded for IOS. If our company was bigger and had more programmers we might be able to do it faster - but for that to happen we have to sell a lot more games than we currently do. Meanwhile we have a relatively narrow pipeline to get stuff out through. We have some ideas for new games as well as re-coding some of our current games. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Michael asked if you have to ask all the questions. The answer to that is no - you will get more points if you ask only the questions that will get you clues. As to how to do that, you need to think like a detective and try to pick questions that will get you leads to motive, opportunity or method in questioning a suspect. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson)
Hi eleanor. If sapi won't work with the demos, might it be possible to reccord some gameplay footage? I'm thinking here particularly of the inspector cindy games, sinse to my mind what really sets them apart is the acting, writing quality, music and ambience, and those are things that just can't be explained by a webpage, and as I said, it'd be extremely sad if people missed playing your games because of a lack of demos, though to an extent I can understand it, and providing official audio demonstrations would at least show off some of the best features of the games, namely their music, sound and interface. all the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: Eleanor Robinson elea...@7128.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2012 3:04 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson) Mike asked - any time frame for the iPhone? Mike the only thing I can tell you is that we are starting to look at how to develop in IOS. This means it will take some time before we can start putting actual games up in the APP store. I would estimate that it will be some time next year before we will have some of our current games re-coded for IOS. If our company was bigger and had more programmers we might be able to do it faster - but for that to happen we have to sell a lot more games than we currently do. Meanwhile we have a relatively narrow pipeline to get stuff out through. We have some ideas for new games as well as re-coding some of our current games. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games (Eleanor Robinson)
Hi Dark - Thanks for the suggestion. John and I have had some conversation about using HTML5 on the website to produce demo-like trailers which would show just what you are talking about - the game features such as the videos, the sound and music and so forth. If that does not work, we will get back to you regarding the sound recording. The HTML5 stuff would not take as long to do as some other alternatives we have talked about. We do want to minimize the time taken away from working on the IOS stuff though. Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Hi gamers The reason we stopped the demos was when we updated it to the SAPI voice we ran into some changes that had to be made to continue the demos. Some of the more knotty tech support problems were associated with the demos as well. So we decided to put them online. The problem is that we have a very narrow bandwidth and so far new development has bumped redoing the demos. It is still on the drawing boards, but we really want to work on iPhone and iPad games, as well as finishing the ones we have already started. Dark and others are right that the games do have the same outcome. But the scoring is based on correctness and efficiency. So there is re-playability. Each story is different, but shares some characters. You are the detective who solves the case. One Inspector Cyndi game comes with the Perception GameBook, along with a Tyler Game, a Woople game and two Woops games, for a total of 5 games. All of our games can be found on www.7128.com Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Any time frame for iphone Sent from my iPhone On May 4, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Eleanor Robinson elea...@7128.com wrote: Hi gamers The reason we stopped the demos was when we updated it to the SAPI voice we ran into some changes that had to be made to continue the demos. Some of the more knotty tech support problems were associated with the demos as well. So we decided to put them online. The problem is that we have a very narrow bandwidth and so far new development has bumped redoing the demos. It is still on the drawing boards, but we really want to work on iPhone and iPad games, as well as finishing the ones we have already started. Dark and others are right that the games do have the same outcome. But the scoring is based on correctness and efficiency. So there is re-playability. Each story is different, but shares some characters. You are the detective who solves the case. One Inspector Cyndi game comes with the Perception GameBook, along with a Tyler Game, a Woople game and two Woops games, for a total of 5 games. All of our games can be found on www.7128.com Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Hey, I was wondering about the games. Do you have to ask the characters all of the questions or are there important ones and not important ones? How do I find out which ones to ask? Thanks! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Inquiry on Inspector Cyndi games
Hi Michael, What questions you ask and find important and unimportant is a judgment call. When you play the game there is a dialog that pops up and you are prompted to ask certain questions. You will find ifyou ask one character something that relates to another character you can go back to the prior character and get more information on that subject. However, the only way to know if a question is important or not is by asking them. Cheers! On 5/4/12, michael barnes c...@samobile.net wrote: Hey, I was wondering about the games. Do you have to ask the characters all of the questions or are there important ones and not important ones? How do I find out which ones to ask? Thanks! --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
