Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
Hmm tom. Well I have a plantronics mic, its got low noise. I can only record it or the real tech card so I can't mix things like I can with the analog stuff. if you are thinking of handling full hosting, but need samples I have a few. Firstly check out technology.jaredrimer.net There are some casts there I did stuff in, I have some casts, and another project I semi mixed for digital talking books I never released its a bit bitty as it went with a mixture of the cheaper mics I had on the sound card, other people's stuff and so on and so forth. I guess I could send you my bits, as an early example. I have a few casts but since I recently started recording archives of my casts, there may be more around. Email t...@menvi.org and tell jared I sent you to him, i have been doing podcasts with him for the last 2 years or so though it is by no means continous. Outside this I have got a certifficate in broadcasting intro so if that means much. Equipment wise I have this box with the realtech, the plantronics, and a loud sounding ms lifecam unit. I have a soni ux60 digital recorder and some subs, though obviously full stereo is something I can't get. I don't have any mixer or know how to record 2 cards at once. I have studio recorder, and audacity, but since most of that was free or given to me I don't really have much over that. Right now I have shoved the draft to the forums. on audiogames.net. I can now you have shown interest in putting up the samples I have, However take into concideration this is a home studio, I have little space, sertainly I can't fit anymore on this desk, and I don't have the cash to really get mega good but its good enough for what I needed the mic was the only extra thing I got, but even so, we will see. Right now I am waiting for a few more takers on this idea. i will put samples up or at least pack them. Over that I have never made any real pro casts at all. At 05:30 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, I'm in a position to solve all of your problems here, but I'd like to see some samples of the show before I commit to a project like this. I think that an audio podcast in of itself is a good idea, but we need someone semi-professional to host it and someone with the right equipment to record and edit the shows. I've heard some really professional podcasts in my time, and I've heard some that sound like crap. Obviously, the more professional sounding we can get the show to sound the more I'm in favor of donating web space etc for the project. As for a subdomain of Audyssey.org I'm pretty sure that won't work. For one thing there is no space on the webserver to host the casts, unless they are hosted elsewhere, and Raul would have to grant me access to the control panel to create the subdomain and install Wordpress, etc. As for Wordpress that's no problem. As you know I have my own Wordpress blog so I've had personal experience setting up and managing a Wordpress blog. All I need to know where to put it and have access to MySQL so I can create the databases etc you'll need for the blog users and admins. Alternatively, you might consider using a wiki instead. That way users can edit the pages as needed, add articles, posts, whatever is required as long as they have edit privlages. Any thoughts on that? As for donating you'll probably want something like a Paypal IPN script which will allow people to pay via Paypal to whomever will end up running the podcast. I've got such IPN scripts written in php, but they'd have to be modified as I primarily designed them for USA Games sales and ordering rather than donations. As for your equipment problem goes I don't want to sound rude, but if you don't have the right equipment to do this then you probably aren't the right person for the job. I understand you are eager to help, interested in kicking this podcast off, etc however having the equipment and someone who can talk without interjecting ah's, oh's, um's, etc is essential in my book in putting together a semi-professional podcast. That's how I see it. For instance, I won't host the podcast myself simply because I don't fit the requirements for a commentator. For one thing I have never had something of a great voice to begin with, but a few years ago I had some nerve damage to my face which makes it difficult for me to talk clearly. Sometimes my words are slurred or come out sounding mumbled because its hard to get my mouth to speak words clearly. As a result I don't think I would make a very good commentator. In short, knowing what we each can bring to this project and what areas we aren't very good at will insure we find the right people for each position for the job. Cheers! On 11/8/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: david, you may have solved my problem at least partually. if I could get a subdomain, ie audysseycast.yourname.com or something, or somehow be able to have you maintain a no-ip or something, then that would rock. On that
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
hmmm I like the name. On the ag forum you will see I have broadened the scope a little, obviously we would have to watch it going to far, but I aim to not have a situation where content just isn't there. One thing I did not mention anywahere is that if we get a good cast going,We should be able to get magnitune access, magnatune or how ever you spell it will give casters free access to buy their stuff for free, This should previde, at least for a while the music we could need. However right now its a bunch of storyboards and stuff. Lets not get to far. Tonight I plan to wudge all my recordings I ever archived from oldest to now which is not that many, and shove them to dropbox. I will give a couple weeks to get those reviewed by those that wish to contribute and then we will see where we go from here. My plan is to have games as a primary focus and general tech as secondary, just in case we run out of stuff though to be honest I am only doing this from general projections as this is really early days. Right now there are at least 4 people I know that have an interest in this project. There may be more tomorrow on the forum. At this stage this interest is enough to post up samples, and continue the descussions on the fleshing out of ideas. If this all goes through, a sample cast needs to be done, for distribution over dropbox for a few people to look at it, then if that works out. We will need to get some sort of structure going. Firstly one or 2 mods, contributers, etc. Next I will need a backup person if for whatever reason I can't work, may be a couple. However, actual real documents can be drawn up later. Its probably fair to say there will need to be some sort of private or public communication list for the day to day functions of the cast. Next depending on space, have a shared folder on the place the cast is on public or private ftp access or a dropbox folder. Though due to size, we would only be able to work on one cast at once. Then ofcause we will need some automatic and manual checkers to make sure copywrited stuff is not inadvertantly put online and if it is deliberately done notify the right people. In nz maybe others new laws mean that if you get it wrong, it could throw everything off. Worst case, I get fined 15000 or so, and my net goes away for well who knows. At this point we would have to well either stop the cast or find who did whatever and bann them. Something I'd prefur we stop before it goes that far. Obviously if its on a legal site and is downloadable we can use it as long as the owner of it and the site is credited. In cases where we need to ask for permition we need to do that. publically games soundtracks or anything with a free creative commans or gpl licence are excluded ofcause. I would probably want to avoid any comercial music, and limit things to instrumentals, though this last thing may not be necessary. so as you can see there is a lot of if and what have you. By looking at the time at least for today I doubt I will be able to finnish what I need to do, let alone put anything out tonight but we will see. At 09:12 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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] walk throughs
I aggree on that. At 07:04 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0800, you wrote: Although I can get tips on how to get through games by listening to them, I listen to walk throughs just to see how other people play the games, and I think they are just fun to listen to. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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] Swamp reflections.
Have you tried checking the debuglog.txt file after it crashes? It might give you some additional clues about the cause. Hi. My router reserves dhcp addresses, so if power goes out, what ever, it still forwards any forwarded ports to the proper target. Regarding what you said about being pretty stable, I have one strange problem I've been having. Occasionally swamp just closes for me, Can I find out what caused it? I just crashed it and haven't restarted it. The error was something about missing protocol or some such. I'm afraid I was a little flustered and didn't think to take careful attention to what it said until now. It crashed for me twice today. I wonder if it's my internet? I've been having internet issues anyway. I think it's crashing hard like tha when it loses conectivity. --- 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] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander
If this is the hidden fire in sod getting it right in front of you, and shooting or walking into wit with your fist swinging will destroy it. You can also move to the left some and go round it. At 01:00 p.m. 10/11/2011 +0530, you wrote: hi all i managed level 2 and 3 but face problem in level4 from the hidden fire i dont know whare it comes from and how to distroy it On 11/10/11, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: Animal trucks? I think you'd better go through the documentation and listen to the description of the second mission that was radioed to you while crossing that bridge. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander hi all i finily managed to pass stage1 of tank commander without cheets its real fun but i am having problem in stage 2 ive distroied all the 4 tanks but cant spot and distroi the animal truks can any1 please! Help me with how to spot and distroy the animal truks On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. -- austin pinto email austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com alternat email austin.pi...@hotmail.com facebook www.facebook.com/austinpinto.xaviers orkut www.orkut.com/austinpinto.xaviers twitter www.twitter.com/austinmpinto join me on google + surch for +austin --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Very true Phillip. I agree totally. Count me and my wife Angela in. Smiles, Jess - Original Message - From: Cary cary5...@gmail.com To: 'Philip Bennefall' phi...@blastbay.com; 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:05 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Philip, I would totally preorder. Although history of preorders in this community has been a bit rocky, there has been nothing to suggest you personally would scam us. You've developed quite a few really, really awesome games and I have faith that this one is going to be even better. So my answer is yes, most definitely yes. I would preorder. Definitely keep the list posted if you do decide to start accepting preorders, and I'll definitely be one that does. *grin* -Cary -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Philip Bennefall Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 15:24 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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. --- 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] sample recordings
Hi all. Ok as prommised here are samples of my work. Take in mind that at the time I did most of this I did not have all the equipment I had now. Some of this is from a project unreleased. I made a couple files, a game sample and a voice only which should have been a game but for some reason the right device on the recording program was not set right and it never recorded right. My voice could be a little to loud so maybe I will have to fix that. You should get a clear sound from the realtech card in the box playing laser breakout of all things. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1407689/sample.zip I don't promise perfection but at least I can keep the wheels turning. If you are happy to handle hosting at least for now, that will hold the cast for a bit, I plan to look into the cdn type of stuff. at some point. I guess I'll leave the community to its business. Hopefully this won't just be me. we can figure stuff out later if I pass the first step. --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Philip. I for one would definitely consider placing a pre order for this game. if the audio demo is anything to go on then I can't wait to play it. and I for sure would be very happy to place a pre order for this game tidal. from Mich.- Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:24 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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] require cheat codes and key bordcommandsforGMAtankcommander
Where are you in the sector? if your north of the second forest, your talking about the bunkers. My advice (those things are brutal) is to stay in the second forest (the farthest you need to be away from it is 10 meters north) and take out the bunkers from there, as they can't see you. Also, if you've got smoke, you can run by them an shoot from behind. - Original Message - From: austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:53 +0530 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bordcommandsforGMAtankcommander hi all i managed level 2 and 3 but face problem in level4 from the hidden fire i dont know whare it comes from and how to distroy it On 11/10/11, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: Animal trucks? I think you'd better go through the documentation and listen to the description of the second mission that was radioed to you while crossing that bridge. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 12:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander hi all i finily managed to pass stage1 of tank commander without cheets its real fun but i am having problem in stage 2 ive distroied all the 4 tanks but cant spot and distroi the animal truks can any1 please! Help me with how to spot and distroy the animal truks On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. -- austin pinto email austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com alternat email austin.pi...@hotmail.com facebook www.facebook.com/austinpinto.xaviers orkut www.orkut.com/austinpinto.xaviers twitter www.twitter.com/austinmpinto join me on google + surch for +austin --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] walk throughs
Hello, When it comes to me and game walkthroughs I listen to them both to see how others play the game and for an insite in to the game itself. Reading game descriptions and a manual is good for a game overview, but for me there's a lot more to a game than replay value. Some games I've looked at the quality of sound effects or voice overs has been a turn off, and listening to the walkthroughs gives me that information, telling me if the game is a purchase or not. Dave. On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: I aggree on that. At 07:04 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0800, you wrote: Although I can get tips on how to get through games by listening to them, I listen to walk throughs just to see how other people play the games, and I think they are just fun to listen to. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. --- 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] Swamp reflections.
I had a hard exit to Windows crash yesterday as well. I've looked at the debug.txt file and it had registered a whole bunch of errors, but without time stamps I couldn't tell if they were a cascade failure from a single problem or small things that happened over time. Chris Bartlett -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Kaldobsky Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:26 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp reflections. Have you tried checking the debuglog.txt file after it crashes? It might give you some additional clues about the cause. Hi. My router reserves dhcp addresses, so if power goes out, what ever, it still forwards any forwarded ports to the proper target. Regarding what you said about being pretty stable, I have one strange problem I've been having. Occasionally swamp just closes for me, Can I find out what caused it? I just crashed it and haven't restarted it. The error was something about missing protocol or some such. I'm afraid I was a little flustered and didn't think to take careful attention to what it said until now. It crashed for me twice today. I wonder if it's my internet? I've been having internet issues anyway. I think it's crashing hard like tha when it loses conectivity. --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hey Phil, where's Tarzan when you need him? SMILES. Loved the file that you had for down load yesterday. Ron -Original Message- From: Phil Vlasak Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 6:52 PM To: Philip Bennefall ; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Philip. I would pre-order Perilous Hearts on one condition. If you have real SAPI with pitch and volume control rather than pre-recorded SAPI clips using Microsoft Sam. I also wouldn't mind if you used your own voice for the cut scenes. Phil - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 5:24 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4006 - Release Date: 11/09/11 --- 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. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states that a service dog beats a cane hands down any day of the week. --- 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] walk throughs
Hi Charles, Yes, that's exactly what I meant by walkthrough. I wasn't talking about audio walkthroughs at all, but the written kind found on Game FAQS, Game Spot, etc that give you step by step instructions how to complete a puzzle, get past a certain trap, and other details that spoil the sense of adventure and discovery for someone like me. There is a big difference between an audio walkthrough and a written walkthrough. With an audio walkthrough like Philip's audio demo of Perilous Hearts a person can show off quite a bit of the game while not giving all the secrets and puzles away. However, in the written walkthrough for Sarah the solution for every single puzzle is discribed in detail and anyone who wants too can read that before they even start the game for the first time, and therefore pretty much know everything there is to know without working at it. See my point? I see your confusion here. Normally when you say walkthrough to a mainstream gamer they assume the written kind which I described above. Mention the term walkthrough to a blind gamer and apparently everyone assumed I meant audio walkthrough which was not my intent. So hope this message makes my point clear. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: I wonder if the kind of walk through you are thinking about is along the line of what comes as part of the documentation of Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Phil? --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Philip, Well, I for one trust you, and would probably be willing to pay for the game as a preorder provided I have the funds to do so myself. With Christmas around the corner I'm not sure how much I'd have to spend right now on a game since I'm saving a little money for Christmas gifts as well as pay the bills, buy food, etc. The only point of disagreement I have with your plan below is you mentioned providing a public demo for preorder customers. I feel if i preorder I should get a license key or something that unlocks a little more content besides just the two levels in the public demo. Content could be the cutscenes, extra levels, but if I'm going to pay for the game I just feel I should get something other than just the public demo everyone else gets. Just my thoughts. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Thomas, yes, that makes sense. I could allow preorder users to play two more levels that are complete at this point, for instance. That would give a clear advantage when preordering, other than just the slightly reduced price. On an unrelated note, did you receive the code snippet I sent you to install the keyboard hook? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Philip, Well, I for one trust you, and would probably be willing to pay for the game as a preorder provided I have the funds to do so myself. With Christmas around the corner I'm not sure how much I'd have to spend right now on a game since I'm saving a little money for Christmas gifts as well as pay the bills, buy food, etc. The only point of disagreement I have with your plan below is you mentioned providing a public demo for preorder customers. I feel if i preorder I should get a license key or something that unlocks a little more content besides just the two levels in the public demo. Content could be the cutscenes, extra levels, but if I'm going to pay for the game I just feel I should get something other than just the public demo everyone else gets. Just my thoughts. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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] star conquest soundpack for MT
Hi all, If anyone has the SC pack for MT, would you mind uploading it? thanks, Nick -- Nick Helms P.L.U.R. --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Philip, Yes, that sounds fair. Just a little extra content for preordering while not giving the entire game away. Anyway, I did get your code snip for installing the keyboard hooks. Thanks, that will be a big help. I also see as I use a lot of mouse control I might want to hook the mouse as well. On 11/10/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi Thomas, yes, that makes sense. I could allow preorder users to play two more levels that are complete at this point, for instance. That would give a clear advantage when preordering, other than just the slightly reduced price. On an unrelated note, did you receive the code snippet I sent you to install the keyboard hook? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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] walk throughs
Yeah, it does. When I think of a walk through the first thing that comes to mind is someone showing you what's in an unfamiliar building. Sort of an orientation of a dorm at a dog guide school or something like that. Here's what we have to offer. or Here's what you might encounter while you are here. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] walk throughs Hi Charles, Yes, that's exactly what I meant by walkthrough. I wasn't talking about audio walkthroughs at all, but the written kind found on Game FAQS, Game Spot, etc that give you step by step instructions how to complete a puzzle, get past a certain trap, and other details that spoil the sense of adventure and discovery for someone like me. There is a big difference between an audio walkthrough and a written walkthrough. With an audio walkthrough like Philip's audio demo of Perilous Hearts a person can show off quite a bit of the game while not giving all the secrets and puzles away. However, in the written walkthrough for Sarah the solution for every single puzzle is discribed in detail and anyone who wants too can read that before they even start the game for the first time, and therefore pretty much know everything there is to know without working at it. See my point? I see your confusion here. Normally when you say walkthrough to a mainstream gamer they assume the written kind which I described above. Mention the term walkthrough to a blind gamer and apparently everyone assumed I meant audio walkthrough which was not my intent. So hope this message makes my point clear. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Charles Rivard wee1s...@fidnet.com wrote: I wonder if the kind of walk through you are thinking about is along the line of what comes as part of the documentation of Sarah and the Castle of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Phil? --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! --- 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] Swamp reflections.
Wrong protocol or connection state. That's the error that shows up with an ok button. There's another error, which I keep forgetting to look at in the log file, that just closes the program. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 11/10/11, Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com wrote: I had a hard exit to Windows crash yesterday as well. I've looked at the debug.txt file and it had registered a whole bunch of errors, but without time stamps I couldn't tell if they were a cascade failure from a single problem or small things that happened over time. Chris Bartlett -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jeremy Kaldobsky Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:26 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp reflections. Have you tried checking the debuglog.txt file after it crashes? It might give you some additional clues about the cause. Hi. My router reserves dhcp addresses, so if power goes out, what ever, it still forwards any forwarded ports to the proper target. Regarding what you said about being pretty stable, I have one strange problem I've been having. Occasionally swamp just closes for me, Can I find out what caused it? I just crashed it and haven't restarted it. The error was something about missing protocol or some such. I'm afraid I was a little flustered and didn't think to take careful attention to what it said until now. It crashed for me twice today. I wonder if it's my internet? I've been having internet issues anyway. I think it's crashing hard like tha when it loses conectivity. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi Shaun and All, I like the idea of there being a podcast for the magazine, and would be interested in helping out with it if possible. I personally believe that podcasts should be produced as professionally as possible (i.e. good editing, music, etc.) I know that's what I try to do with my own podcast and reviews. Regarding Magnatune, you can use their music in a podcast, but I believe you have to have a paid membership in order to obtain their files. Hope this helps. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia Show Host and Production Director The Global Voice Internet Radio www.theglobalvoice.info Personal Website: www.ksapergia.net Business Website: www.kjsproductions.com --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Dark, Agreed. Giving this community an exact day of release could be dangerous as there could be some unforeseen delays between now and then. It is better to give a general idea like January 2012 which gives the developer a window of 31 days in which to meet the deadline. Releasing sooner than later is not always better, because we want to make sure the game is stable, has been fully tested, and most issues and potential bugs are resolved on the release date. If you give a specific date/time to release and find out at the 11th hour there is a problem your prepaid customers will scream bloody murder if their is a valid delay due to some unforeseen bug or issue that came up at the last moment. I know my situation is different, but Montezuma's Revenge is a classic case of how the unexpected can happen litterally at the 11th hour. I had the game 90% complete, was just adding the final six levels to 1.0, when I got a letter to sease and desist development based on a copyright claim from Utopia. I royally got screwed over because of that, and I'm glad I hadn't gave a specific date/time of release because when that happened there was no way I could have met it because the situation was a complete mess. Obviously, this wouldn't happen to Philip, but there are always things that can go wrong at the 11th hour.His computer could crash, a last minute bug pops up in the game, whatever. Its always smarter to cover your backside if your a single developer, because you don't have any idea what might happen between now and your target date. Just this year I have had a horrible run of bad luck. Two unexpected deaths in the family, been sick quite a lot, as well as a few other personal issues that interrupted my own schedule. Some things like that can't be helped, and I'm glad I'm not forced into meeting some exact release date/time or I'd be screwed. Cheers! On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi Philip. Even though my last preorder, airik the clerric didn't work out particularly well owing to the stupid windows xp bug, I can be certain that perilous hearts will! run without problems sinse it uses bgt which I know is fine. On this basis I'd be happy to preorder myself. However, Might I suggest rather than saying The game will be out on this day or your money back you might want to offer something that gives you a litle more lee way in case of flood, fire, crashes or something else. Something like the game will be out by the end of January 2012 or your money back picking the month of the game release rather than a day. This covers you in case of accidents of one sort or another and will hopefully prevent all the whiners starting up if an accident does happen. Other than that, I'd hate to see the game not get it's ful attention due to lack of funds, so would be glad to contribute financially with a preorder. Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi Shaun, Well, if you need someone to do post production such as editing I can certainly do that. I have both Goldwave 5.58 and SoundForge 10. I might be able to obtain theme music etc as well assuming we actually go ahead with this. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm tom. Well I have a plantronics mic, its got low noise. I can only record it or the real tech card so I can't mix things like I can with the analog stuff. if you are thinking of handling full hosting, but need samples I have a few. Firstly check out technology.jaredrimer.net There are some casts there I did stuff in, I have some casts, and another project I semi mixed for digital talking books I never released its a bit bitty as it went with a mixture of the cheaper mics I had on the sound card, other people's stuff and so on and so forth. I guess I could send you my bits, as an early example. I have a few casts but since I recently started recording archives of my casts, there may be more around. Email t...@menvi.org and tell jared I sent you to him, i have been doing podcasts with him for the last 2 years or so though it is by no means continous. Outside this I have got a certifficate in broadcasting intro so if that means much. Equipment wise I have this box with the realtech, the plantronics, and a loud sounding ms lifecam unit. I have a soni ux60 digital recorder and some subs, though obviously full stereo is something I can't get. I don't have any mixer or know how to record 2 cards at once. I have studio recorder, and audacity, but since most of that was free or given to me I don't really have much over that. Right now I have shoved the draft to the forums. on audiogames.net. I can now you have shown interest in putting up the samples I have, However take into concideration this is a home studio, I have little space, sertainly I can't fit anymore on this desk, and I don't have the cash to really get mega good but its good enough for what I needed the mic was the only extra thing I got, but even so, we will see. Right now I am waiting for a few more takers on this idea. i will put samples up or at least pack them. Over that I have never made any real pro casts at all. At 05:30 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, I'm in a position to solve all of your problems here, but I'd like to see some samples of the show before I commit to a project like this. I think that an audio podcast in of itself is a good idea, but we need someone semi-professional to host it and someone with the right equipment to record and edit the shows. I've heard some really professional podcasts in my time, and I've heard some that sound like crap. Obviously, the more professional sounding we can get the show to sound the more I'm in favor of donating web space etc for the project. As for a subdomain of Audyssey.org I'm pretty sure that won't work. For one thing there is no space on the webserver to host the casts, unless they are hosted elsewhere, and Raul would have to grant me access to the control panel to create the subdomain and install Wordpress, etc. As for Wordpress that's no problem. As you know I have my own Wordpress blog so I've had personal experience setting up and managing a Wordpress blog. All I need to know where to put it and have access to MySQL so I can create the databases etc you'll need for the blog users and admins. Alternatively, you might consider using a wiki instead. That way users can edit the pages as needed, add articles, posts, whatever is required as long as they have edit privlages. Any thoughts on that? As for donating you'll probably want something like a Paypal IPN script which will allow people to pay via Paypal to whomever will end up running the podcast. I've got such IPN scripts written in php, but they'd have to be modified as I primarily designed them for USA Games sales and ordering rather than donations. As for your equipment problem goes I don't want to sound rude, but if you don't have the right equipment to do this then you probably aren't the right person for the job. I understand you are eager to help, interested in kicking this podcast off, etc however having the equipment and someone who can talk without interjecting ah's, oh's, um's, etc is essential in my book in putting together a semi-professional podcast. That's how I see it. For instance, I won't host the podcast myself simply because I don't fit the requirements for a commentator. For one thing I have never had something of a great voice to begin with, but a few years ago I had some nerve damage to my face which makes it difficult for me to talk clearly. Sometimes my words are slurred or come out sounding mumbled because its hard to get my mouth to speak words clearly. As a result I don't think I would make a very good commentator. In short, knowing what we each can bring to this project and what areas we aren't very good at will insure we find the right people for each
Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi Tom. Well your situation was not merely a preorder problem, but an issue with the hole game, and while certainly a very dire situation and frankly stupid, wasn't what I was thinking of particularly when making the suggestion. When Liam released judgement day. If I remember rightly, he had the game ready to go, had given a release date but literally as he was finalizing the upload, there was a massive flood in his basement which meant he had to completely move all his computer related stuff, reorganize his basement and I believe even get some new hardware in some cases. This all delayed the game by about 3 days I believe. No problem, any reasonable person would've understood, but i'd be willing to bet that if someone had paid money for the game when it didn't appear that! exact day there would be some idiot complaining, heck there were a few complaints at the time I believe and that was after Liam had merely made the announcement. A month on the other hand gives plenty of space, and should avoid these sorts of problems. Beware the grue! dark. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi, I'll add my vote both to Thomas's comment on the main menu format, I like their format and it works well for me, I believe it would be good for the community, and to Kelly and Thomas and say that I much rather prefer a professionally done podcast, I don't expect a perfect one, I mean while your making it if you ohm or drop something or whatever or the phone rings or the IM client goes off because you forgot to shut it down, that's fine, but post production edit that out, I can also help with this. I've got goldwave 5.58, audacity, and a demo of Sound forge 10. Hth Dave. On 11/10/11, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi, If all we need is a place for the podcast pages I can handle that. I can put together a cms-base, that seems to be from comments I've read what people prefer, either a wordpress or drupal site. If it's drupal I can manage that, wordpress i'm not so good at yet. We'd also have email, from the domain I can do that as well, and we can link in to Thomas's sendspace account. Dave On 11/10/11, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commands forGMAtankcommander
Hi, Um, animal trucks? Do you mean the ammo trucks? To take out the ammo trucks you need to close to 500 meters or less and shoot them with your machine gun. once they crash you can move in closer and pick up the ammo laying on the ground near the crashed truck. On 11/9/11, austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com wrote: hi all i finily managed to pass stage1 of tank commander without cheets its real fun but i am having problem in stage 2 ive distroied all the 4 tanks but cant spot and distroi the animal truks can any1 please! Help me with how to spot and distroy the animal truks On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. -- austin pinto email austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com alternat email austin.pi...@hotmail.com facebook www.facebook.com/austinpinto.xaviers orkut www.orkut.com/austinpinto.xaviers twitter www.twitter.com/austinmpinto join me on google + surch for +austin --- 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] require cheat codes and key bord commands forGMAtankcommander
Hi Dark, Yeah, I understand that to a point. I use to play various games when I was younger with cheat codes too, but I realised at some point the reason I was losing interest in said games is because the cheats took away the replay value and fun of the game. For instance, I might have been playing Star Wars: Dark Forces and use the invincibility cheat. In one way it was amusing to throw a thermal detonator and stand by it while it explodes, killing all the storm troopers and not get a scratch. On the other hand there was no challenge taking out the dark troopers when I could unload unlimited ammo into them and not take a scratch no matter what they hit me with. it got quite boring after a while and I lost interest in the game. At least until I played it without cheats and was forced to develop strategies to fight the various enemies on a even playing field so to speak. It made me think and plan through my moves carefully rather than walk into a room blasters blazing without worrying about my health. As for the people who don't get into the roll playing game's story I've seen those too. I think part of the problem there is that video games have dulled or reduced some people's sense of creativity and they play a table top game as they would a video game making the storyline and characters secondary to completing the game with this or that max skills. As for myself I take care in creating my custom character as it makes the game more fun having an alternative identity and strengths and weaknesses to deal with. I think that a lot of these gamers forget nobody is perfect, even a game character, and he/she must have weaknesses as well as strengths. For instance, let's assume the person is playing the DC Universe RPG game. Superman is undoubtedly the most powerful hero in the game. However, if you are a bad guy and whip out some Kryptonite Superman is hosed. That weakness makes it possible for human criminals like Lex Luther, the Joker, Dr. Light, etc to even the odds of landing serious damage during an attack roll. Some roll playing gamers forget the need to build in some of these weaknesses when creating a character. Cheers! On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
I'm not sure how useful this would be, but I've currently got over a terabite of unused space on my laptop and desktop, so I could hold onto some files if need be. I don't have a sharing service such as dropbox though, so that could impact thing significantly. Anyhow, let me know if there's anything I can do to help. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:53:15 -0500 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander
One thing I should probably have mentioned (thanks for the reminder Thomas) is that while you an hit the trucks with anything (cruse missile if you've got the ammo and want multiple gone at once) you can *only* pick up the ammo the truck had if you use the machine gun. With experience, you can decide whether or not you want each truck, as the contents are not random. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:35:27 -0500 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander Hi, Um, animal trucks? Do you mean the ammo trucks? To take out the ammo trucks you need to close to 500 meters or less and shoot them with your machine gun. once they crash you can move in closer and pick up the ammo laying on the ground near the crashed truck. On 11/9/11, austin pinto austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com wrote: hi all i finily managed to pass stage1 of tank commander without cheets its real fun but i am having problem in stage 2 ive distroied all the 4 tanks but cant spot and distroi the animal truks can any1 please! Help me with how to spot and distroy the animal truks On 11/9/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. -- austin pinto email austinpinto.xavi...@gmail.com alternat email austin.pi...@hotmail.com facebook www.facebook.com/austinpinto.xaviers orkut www.orkut.com/austinpinto.xaviers twitter www.twitter.com/austinmpinto join me on google + surch for +austin --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders?
that sounds fair to fill. At 09:54 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Philip, Yes, that sounds fair. Just a little extra content for preordering while not giving the entire game away. Anyway, I did get your code snip for installing the keyboard hooks. Thanks, that will be a big help. I also see as I use a lot of mouse control I might want to hook the mouse as well. On 11/10/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi Thomas, yes, that makes sense. I could allow preorder users to play two more levels that are complete at this point, for instance. That would give a clear advantage when preordering, other than just the slightly reduced price. On an unrelated note, did you receive the code snippet I sent you to install the keyboard hook? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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] walk throughs
I aggree with you dave. Also if you buy a game or pack of them like I do, you play the games in different ways. Ie sod level3 difficulty I can play ok but I do cheat at points, the guy with the 2 guns or the 2 guys with guns, the disterbence and the blobs ocationally as I like to blow people away etc. At 09:01 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hello, When it comes to me and game walkthroughs I listen to them both to see how others play the game and for an insite in to the game itself. Reading game descriptions and a manual is good for a game overview, but for me there's a lot more to a game than replay value. Some games I've looked at the quality of sound effects or voice overs has been a turn off, and listening to the walkthroughs gives me that information, telling me if the game is a purchase or not. Dave. On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: I aggree on that. At 07:04 a.m. 9/11/2011 -0800, you wrote: Although I can get tips on how to get through games by listening to them, I listen to walk throughs just to see how other people play the games, and I think they are just fun to listen to. --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! are! finished! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2011 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander Hi tom. Well as I said cheats were a thing I used fairly constantly on the amigar sinse a lot were available, but as I've grown up I pretty much stopped that precisely because it's more satisfying to play without as you said. In roleplay terms it is irritating, though to be honest the thing I dislike most in tabletop games are people who play them as if they were automated and just minimax their characters choosing only the best abilities and skills combo without any thought of what their character actually does. The interest in a tabletop game should be dynamic story and character interaction with the rules and dice used as an aide to story telling rather than them being just the point of the game as some people seem to think they are. Getting back to computer games though, I'll admit I do use walkthroughs, though usually in my case I use them to substitute for game instructions and item descriptions or as aides for game text. Mega man zero would've been impossible to play without walkthroughs, sinse it has about 70 different items all of which appear pretty jumbled on the select screen, so if I didn't check the faq and see what items were in the next level and where they were I wouldn't know what I'd found, and that's not counting the mission select, menues and dialogue sequences in the game. metroid zero mission on the other hand I finished for the first time without the aide of any walkthru, and only checked one when i was going for a 100 percent items run, ditto with super castlevania. The first game I ever read a walkthru for was mega man x 2 on the snes, however I'd got catagorically rustrated with the game up to that point after playing for a solid six months, pluss I didn't actually realize I'd already found some of the key items sinse they made the same pickup sound as when you got an extra life. These days I actually read some walkthroughs just for fun and to see how other people tackle bits of various games. All the best, Dark. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
hi kelly. Well aparently you can get it for free if you have a podcast and send it to them for review I run another tech cast that has this I think, you get a special code when buying. But thats only 1 option there is enough music round I could sertainly freely use. sites like iimusic, ptesquad, ubiktune, brainstorm or biglion to name a few. Then there is that big 7gb archive of megaman tunes I got some time back, the stuff by onj louis synthstudio, queststudios though thats in midi, arfy and probably others that I probably have round so in that reguard I have a lot of free to use material. If you want to help though thats fine, I don't have the equipment you have and you could be a great asset to the team. On that note sadly to say right now the audiogames forum has not pushed out many interested users though its early days. Though litterally I posted a topic last night, one user asked me a question which I answered. In the time I have been sleeping its moved a way down the fist page of new stuff. I'll leave it for a few days more but unless I get some major interest in the next few weeks excluding christmas and such, with only 6 people being interested right now well the market is quite small but its only a day and most are still swamping anyway. At 09:10 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0600, you wrote: Hi Shaun and All, I like the idea of there being a podcast for the magazine, and would be interested in helping out with it if possible. I personally believe that podcasts should be produced as professionally as possible (i.e. good editing, music, etc.) I know that's what I try to do with my own podcast and reviews. Regarding Magnatune, you can use their music in a podcast, but I believe you have to have a paid membership in order to obtain their files. Hope this helps. Yours Sincerely, Kelly John Sapergia Show Host and Production Director The Global Voice Internet Radio www.theglobalvoice.info Personal Website: www.ksapergia.net Business Website: www.kjsproductions.com --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
I like that idea. Its the way I structured my digital talking book project I did for archives just to see if I could do it. Unfortunately with only 1 voice contributer and 1 actual semi boring tour, a few things read by sapi, and little reviews at all even though I had 8 people interested only 3 actually contributed and only 2 actually did any work the project was put up for release but never ever came out and is quite ancient and presumed failed though it was a good try at least with what I had then which is not all I have now. Though its still not that much. At 10:29 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
My plan is to have an intro, a contents meaning I'd have to know what was going in the current file, then I'd run each file. Maybe have intros to each and comments, who rote it and opinions to all that, credits, and end. Music and such. One of the things we probably would need is an actual theme, start and end. Another thing that crossed my mind now and which is rather beyond my capabilities though probably not essentual is some sort of audio games logo. Which brings me to the next thing on the agenda for this morning. What label will we be doing this under. audyssey, blind games, audiogames.net or the ag forum, or a seperate label on podyssey. Then there is actual copywrite, I assume we really don't want to quote a list of names, nbut then we need to put this to a community label or something. There is licencing, I have had loads of stuff under the creative commans or gpl but have never bothered with actually reading and trying to understand those, so will have to decide what one we choose and what licence would be good for us. We will have to avoid any music made by large record companies etc, but over that, as I said we shouldn't have to much hastle. Regretably I don't have the equipment to make my own music, well at least not all and due to space probably won't for the forseaable futurre. At 03:43 p.m. 10/11/2011 +, you wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
wow dave this is good. I think that clears one thing off my list, we have enough for editers here. It would help me a great deal though if people started By making their stuff as good as they can at the start. That is if they can do it. Ie their stuff didn't need that much work to produce. I think dispite the level of interest being so low the comments from those that are really have inthusiasum on this thing that we may be ready to begin maybe. With this reguard we need to put out what is the best thing to do with sharing our content. My first option is dropbox. On the fly editing, etc. The pros are we can get things on the fly and edit in realtime. The cons, we could have people uploading off topic content. One major advantage with the share is that once shared anyone with the dropbox account can onshare. Ie I could give someone a shared folder, they accept it. Now they can continue to give that share out to whoever they want, we would probably have to have a set of rules like most of the test folders round the place. Another way would be to have either password protected ftp access or public ftp for content. Public means though people could upload offtopic things. However it means that you don't get everything at once, however realtime is gone. That brings up another point. We really need some sort of mirroring system like coral distribution network or something or a bunch of users that can support either fully or partually the cast. Servers go down and 2 or more mirrors are something that may have to go. Depending on the space we have to fiddle with, we will have to have some sort of time frame where casts are left up and for someone or various people to check how much space we are using, etc. Then the question arrises if we keep podcasts and work on the same server. I know dave meller has 20gb total for our use persay, and that could be the work server. Ofcause not everyone has an ftp client. I have flash fxp and that can handle ftp and sftp but did cost me a bundle. There is sendspace to but since links expire and the fact sendspace will overload at times it could slow things down some what. Ideally the best system is dropbox for what we want. We can have folders on the fly, ie a work folder for all work work. Maybe a post production folder for done work, a crap folder for all the beta stuff maybe that is not done, etc etc. and we can do that on the fly. We would have to have a few people patrolling to make sure people don't delete important files, connflicted coppies excluded, etc, etc. We would have to also have a chat folder where text files with communication would be sent its probably the best. There then comes the question of communication. For what we are doing right now it will work, but if we want to run any thing like skype or msn we will need some sort of way to have everyone that needs to be on at once and that could become a problem. My vote if we ever need this is to set a teamtalk server or have a channel in one. I know onj has a couple free servers and I can always ask for a perminant channel added to one of them if its ever needed maybe anyway. Then we need to get what exactly the website will have. My initual plan would be a blog with email posting, rss, and maybe a way to plug in to facebook and twitter for those that use that system since I don't. Then maybe a wiki for text articles though I guess we could have accounts with the right privs for those that wants to post info etc. I am still not sure if we should have our own forums, due to spam bots fouling the audiogames forum I am a bit hesitant. Due to klango forums being full of stuff, that and klango not playing youtube has pushed me away completely from that network else I'd bother with a group though people can still do that ofcause. At 10:53 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi, I'll add my vote both to Thomas's comment on the main menu format, I like their format and it works well for me, I believe it would be good for the community, and to Kelly and Thomas and say that I much rather prefer a professionally done podcast, I don't expect a perfect one, I mean while your making it if you ohm or drop something or whatever or the phone rings or the IM client goes off because you forgot to shut it down, that's fine, but post production edit that out, I can also help with this. I've got goldwave 5.58, audacity, and a demo of Sound forge 10. Hth Dave. On 11/10/11, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
Hi, Well, that doesn't really help, because we'd have to put the podcast archives somewhere where everyone could get access to them. If we used your hard drive as the archive it wouldn't work because we'd have to install an ftp server on that computer, and then since you probably have a standard account with your ISP there would be bandwidth limitations on how much could be downloaded etc. Just not a vialble solution in my opinion. As for Dropbox accounts etc you can use a free account for that. All of the file sharing services have a free user account for basic sharing services and paid accounts for pros who wish to store a lot more files than the normal user or people who download a lot of stuff from the sharing service. HTH On 11/10/11, john jpcarnemo...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how useful this would be, but I've currently got over a terabite of unused space on my laptop and desktop, so I could hold onto some files if need be. I don't have a sharing service such as dropbox though, so that could impact thing significantly. Anyhow, let me know if there's anything I can do to help. --- 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] Swamp reflections.
If you're getting that error message randomly as you play, it actually does sound like you are losing your internet connection for a short period of time. It would cause that exact error, though a few other things could also cause it, so we can't conclusively say this is due to a lost connection. Wrong protocol or connection state. That's the error that shows up with an ok button. There's another error, which I keep forgetting to look at in the log file, that just closes the program. Signed: Dakotah Rickard --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
hmmm that sounds like a plan, splitting the pages etc would be a good idea but I really have issue with sendspace. That is splitting the pages from the file storage. I guess it doesn't matter to much what we use as long as its usable. I have had sites use open cms and although I have not had any experience with a cms I can use it. Wordpress is what I have used though whatever if it has headings for everything then I guess I don't really mind. I will leave setups till later today. I will be going out for most of the day, but will leave it so those that want to can discuss things. There are loads of things to do before we even attempt to get the first content out. Sites, mirrors, shares if any. Licencing, logos, themes if any. Blog and other things if any. The actual list of people that can do things on a semi regular basis, etc, etc. Rules for the share. Rules for the general cast. Checks for what happens if say pirated content is put up inadvertantly, or otherwise. A fall back if for whatever reason it happens that something hacks in, spams us or generally gets me or others fouling the law, and the resulting mess if any. As I may have mentioned in the forum the new laws here in this country are quite harsh, and falling foul of them in the way they are designed right now means that you are guilty from the start. I would rather not get into that frame of mind. But accept that things can drastically go belly up. I just want the situation in my case its a 3 strike that if for whatever reason things go so far and totally foul without people noticing, ie I get a virus or something, etc, etc that we can handle it. I don't want the situation where something happens and I or whatever that gets it have no knowledge if something were to go a ry. At 10:57 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wroAnd if that if it does go worst case that we can either clear it up or avoid the trap if at all possable. te: Hi, If all we need is a place for the podcast pages I can handle that. I can put together a cms-base, that seems to be from comments I've read what people prefer, either a wordpress or drupal site. If it's drupal I can manage that, wordpress i'm not so good at yet. We'd also have email, from the domain I can do that as well, and we can link in to Thomas's sendspace account. Dave On 11/10/11, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name
Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders?
yeah but we're getting it before everyone else, which would be insentive enough for me. *grin* -Cary -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 07:41 To: Philip Bennefall; Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Philip, Well, I for one trust you, and would probably be willing to pay for the game as a preorder provided I have the funds to do so myself. With Christmas around the corner I'm not sure how much I'd have to spend right now on a game since I'm saving a little money for Christmas gifts as well as pay the bills, buy food, etc. The only point of disagreement I have with your plan below is you mentioned providing a public demo for preorder customers. I feel if i preorder I should get a license key or something that unlocks a little more content besides just the two levels in the public demo. Content could be the cutscenes, extra levels, but if I'm going to pay for the game I just feel I should get something other than just the public demo everyone else gets. Just my thoughts. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
I was not sugesting we use my resources for the archival. that would in fact be quite a bad idea. It being a home connection and all. Dropbox would only be for the work, any completed stuff would have to go to the places or place where it should go when finally up. I am sorry if I was unclear on that point but no, I never meant dropbox to archive the cast. For one thing, dropbox public links do overload at some point. and another I really don't want to use hard drive space for it or could run the system 24'7 even if I did. This is a home networrk and unless everyone that contributed payed me something like 20-30 bucks a month it wouldn't work anyway. At 01:16 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi, Well, that doesn't really help, because we'd have to put the podcast archives somewhere where everyone could get access to them. If we used your hard drive as the archive it wouldn't work because we'd have to install an ftp server on that computer, and then since you probably have a standard account with your ISP there would be bandwidth limitations on how much could be downloaded etc. Just not a vialble solution in my opinion. As for Dropbox accounts etc you can use a free account for that. All of the file sharing services have a free user account for basic sharing services and paid accounts for pros who wish to store a lot more files than the normal user or people who download a lot of stuff from the sharing service. HTH On 11/10/11, john jpcarnemo...@comcast.net wrote: I'm not sure how useful this would be, but I've currently got over a terabite of unused space on my laptop and desktop, so I could hold onto some files if need be. I don't have a sharing service such as dropbox though, so that could impact thing significantly. Anyhow, let me know if there's anything I can do to help. --- 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] Swamp reflections.
Jeremy what about put it so if the connection drops o for a while the system says that you timed out and return you to the main menu maybe have an error sound. Same if you try to connect but are not online the system should wait for say 20 seconds and then say something to the effect that you are not connection or have a prroblem or something rather than crashing itself fully. At 10:17 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0800, you wrote: If you're getting that error message randomly as you play, it actually does sound like you are losing your internet connection for a short period of time. It would cause that exact error, though a few other things could also cause it, so we can't conclusively say this is due to a lost connection. Wrong protocol or connection state. That's the error that shows up with an ok button. There's another error, which I keep forgetting to look at in the log file, that just closes the program. Signed: Dakotah Rickard --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi Shaun, No offense Dropbox royally sucks. As for what you have to say about Sendspace is only true if you have a free membership. Someone with a Pro or max account does not have the issues you are talking about and here is why. With a Sendspace Max account I have 100 GB of storage space.Dropbox doesn't nearly offer that amount of space for storage. With Sendspace Max it allows up to 8 GB of uploads/downloads per day. Again Dropbox doesn't even come close to allowing the volume of downloads and uploads. With Sendspace Max I can keep files as long as I want as long as I pay the bills.With Dropbox I believe files expire after acertain amount of time. Those are just some of the reasons why I would find Dropbox not very desirable for doing this podcast. Basically, I know you are gungho for this podcast idea, but if you want us to take you seriously you need to research your facts. No one likes it if someone who is directing the show doesn't know his but from a hole in the ground, and from what I've seen so far you are not the person who should be in charge of the planning. I've read several of your mis informed post, and I've finally had enough of this misinformed info you are spreading around. Either get your crap together or let someone else more competent take over. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: wow dave this is good. I think that clears one thing off my list, we have enough for editers here. It would help me a great deal though if people started By making their stuff as good as they can at the start. That is if they can do it. Ie their stuff didn't need that much work to produce. I think dispite the level of interest being so low the comments from those that are really have inthusiasum on this thing that we may be ready to begin maybe. With this reguard we need to put out what is the best thing to do with sharing our content. My first option is dropbox. On the fly editing, etc. The pros are we can get things on the fly and edit in realtime. The cons, we could have people uploading off topic content. One major advantage with the share is that once shared anyone with the dropbox account can onshare. Ie I could give someone a shared folder, they accept it. Now they can continue to give that share out to whoever they want, we would probably have to have a set of rules like most of the test folders round the place. Another way would be to have either password protected ftp access or public ftp for content. Public means though people could upload offtopic things. However it means that you don't get everything at once, however realtime is gone. That brings up another point. We really need some sort of mirroring system like coral distribution network or something or a bunch of users that can support either fully or partually the cast. Servers go down and 2 or more mirrors are something that may have to go. Depending on the space we have to fiddle with, we will have to have some sort of time frame where casts are left up and for someone or various people to check how much space we are using, etc. Then the question arrises if we keep podcasts and work on the same server. I know dave meller has 20gb total for our use persay, and that could be the work server. Ofcause not everyone has an ftp client. I have flash fxp and that can handle ftp and sftp but did cost me a bundle. There is sendspace to but since links expire and the fact sendspace will overload at times it could slow things down some what. Ideally the best system is dropbox for what we want. We can have folders on the fly, ie a work folder for all work work. Maybe a post production folder for done work, a crap folder for all the beta stuff maybe that is not done, etc etc. and we can do that on the fly. We would have to have a few people patrolling to make sure people don't delete important files, connflicted coppies excluded, etc, etc. We would have to also have a chat folder where text files with communication would be sent its probably the best. There then comes the question of communication. For what we are doing right now it will work, but if we want to run any thing like skype or msn we will need some sort of way to have everyone that needs to be on at once and that could become a problem. My vote if we ever need this is to set a teamtalk server or have a channel in one. I know onj has a couple free servers and I can always ask for a perminant channel added to one of them if its ever needed maybe anyway. Then we need to get what exactly the website will have. My initual plan would be a blog with email posting, rss, and maybe a way to plug in to facebook and twitter for those that use that system since I don't. Then maybe a wiki for text articles though I guess we could have accounts with the right privs for those that wants to post info etc. I am still not sure if we should have our own forums, due to spam bots fouling the audiogames
[Audyssey] coralcdn
Hi all. Ok just did some rresearch for the cast and indeed we can use corralcdn for free. putting .nyud.net onto any url will have the mirror network fetch the right thing from any site then mirror it. This aparently if used with a site should lower bandwidth usage quite a lot. My next research this morning is to search out and compare the creative comans and gpl licences, maybe there arre others. Over that we may be about ready to set up shares but we will just see. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
how many levels though in total? On Nov 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Philip Bennefall wrote: Hi Thomas, yes, that makes sense. I could allow preorder users to play two more levels that are complete at this point, for instance. That would give a clear advantage when preordering, other than just the slightly reduced price. On an unrelated note, did you receive the code snippet I sent you to install the keyboard hook? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Philip, Well, I for one trust you, and would probably be willing to pay for the game as a preorder provided I have the funds to do so myself. With Christmas around the corner I'm not sure how much I'd have to spend right now on a game since I'm saving a little money for Christmas gifts as well as pay the bills, buy food, etc. The only point of disagreement I have with your plan below is you mentioned providing a public demo for preorder customers. I feel if i preorder I should get a license key or something that unlocks a little more content besides just the two levels in the public demo. Content could be the cutscenes, extra levels, but if I'm going to pay for the game I just feel I should get something other than just the public demo everyone else gets. Just my thoughts. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi all, I'm really very happy with the response I received for the game audio demo of Perilous Hearts, and so I wanted to ask the community a question. Would you consider placing a preorder for this game if the possibility was there? I know that the history of game preorders has been rocky in this community, but the difference in my case would be that you would agree to a small contract before ordering that basically would say: 1. You get a slightly discounted rate when you preorder. 2. We give you a definite release date. If the game is not released on this exact date or earlier, within a 24 hour period, you are entitled to a full refund. 3. You would not have any kind of special privilege when it comes to requesting feature x, but I would certainly pay more attention to suggestions from preorder users provided that I personally thought they were good ones. Naturally, if I went down this root I would put up a playable demo of the game at the same time as I made preordering available. This would not include all the cut scenes etc that the finished game will contain and it would still use Sapi, but the game play would stretch as far as level 2 which is where the real demo will also end. The reason I am considering this is because the funds for the game are running out, and so I cannot justify spending a lot more money on it out of my own pocket. But if I had some money from preorders I would be able to invest that to make the game the best it can possibly be. I would very much appreciate feedback on this. Thanks! Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
My vote is for screen reader support. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:53 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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] licences and such
Hi. here is the link for the creative comans licences. http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/licences_explained__1 The first one sounds good but most of these will probably work. the gpl is for software but its equally as good. That should give us enough to discuss today. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Only problem with that is that I'd have to use Eloquence for speach in the game and I really don't want to do that. Because Sapi voices, particularly the quality ones, are rather sluggish when using screen readers. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:52 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
I think the dropbox thing only applied to public links. I never have used sendspace extensively, if you wish to use your max account, I have no problem with that, I've never really invested in online file storage like this so know almost nothing, I have used dropbox shared folders for quite some time and though has seemed to expire but then I have never had one expire so what do I know. Look I really don't want to end this thing over an argument on file upload storage services. If you can handle storage in general with whatever then so be it. i have only had experience extensively with private ftp servers and dropbox shared folders, and not much else. My idea was to have some mechanism where we could share stuff and post back things while in production, final cuts ofcause wouldn't be put in the share obviously. My idea was to use dropbox as a temp location for work in progress, for the convenience of users to mix things, get content, etc rither than having endless emails full of links, but again I have only used free services and not payed ones, I have never made any folders for web use just local ones using windows interfaces so am probably quite dumb in this reguard, I didn't mean to put my self over as a no it all arogent barsted which i suppose I was. At 01:32 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, No offense Dropbox royally sucks. As for what you have to say about Sendspace is only true if you have a free membership. Someone with a Pro or max account does not have the issues you are talking about and here is why. With a Sendspace Max account I have 100 GB of storage space.Dropbox doesn't nearly offer that amount of space for storage. With Sendspace Max it allows up to 8 GB of uploads/downloads per day. Again Dropbox doesn't even come close to allowing the volume of downloads and uploads. With Sendspace Max I can keep files as long as I want as long as I pay the bills.With Dropbox I believe files expire after acertain amount of time. Those are just some of the reasons why I would find Dropbox not very desirable for doing this podcast. Basically, I know you are gungho for this podcast idea, but if you want us to take you seriously you need to research your facts. No one likes it if someone who is directing the show doesn't know his but from a hole in the ground, and from what I've seen so far you are not the person who should be in charge of the planning. I've read several of your mis informed post, and I've finally had enough of this misinformed info you are spreading around. Either get your crap together or let someone else more competent take over. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: wow dave this is good. I think that clears one thing off my list, we have enough for editers here. It would help me a great deal though if people started By making their stuff as good as they can at the start. That is if they can do it. Ie their stuff didn't need that much work to produce. I think dispite the level of interest being so low the comments from those that are really have inthusiasum on this thing that we may be ready to begin maybe. With this reguard we need to put out what is the best thing to do with sharing our content. My first option is dropbox. On the fly editing, etc. The pros are we can get things on the fly and edit in realtime. The cons, we could have people uploading off topic content. One major advantage with the share is that once shared anyone with the dropbox account can onshare. Ie I could give someone a shared folder, they accept it. Now they can continue to give that share out to whoever they want, we would probably have to have a set of rules like most of the test folders round the place. Another way would be to have either password protected ftp access or public ftp for content. Public means though people could upload offtopic things. However it means that you don't get everything at once, however realtime is gone. That brings up another point. We really need some sort of mirroring system like coral distribution network or something or a bunch of users that can support either fully or partually the cast. Servers go down and 2 or more mirrors are something that may have to go. Depending on the space we have to fiddle with, we will have to have some sort of time frame where casts are left up and for someone or various people to check how much space we are using, etc. Then the question arrises if we keep podcasts and work on the same server. I know dave meller has 20gb total for our use persay, and that could be the work server. Ofcause not everyone has an ftp client. I have flash fxp and that can handle ftp and sftp but did cost me a bundle. There is sendspace to but since links expire and the fact sendspace will overload at times it could slow things down some what. Ideally the best system is dropbox for what we want. We can have folders on the fly, ie a work folder for all work
Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features
well direct reader support would reduce the size so I am all for it. I use nvda on a regular basis. At 01:52 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Well it depends what your cpu and memmory requirements are. i have high quality voices now, with my core2 and 2gb ram on xp it works but yeah things are a bit slower. On the newer systems the i series i3 and up there shouldn't be any problem. Not sure how 64 bit oses would effect as I have only had 32 bit experience and it looks good. Using something like espeak though robotic that it is would still be ok its clear enough. At 11:57 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0700, you wrote: Only problem with that is that I'd have to use Eloquence for speach in the game and I really don't want to do that. Because Sapi voices, particularly the quality ones, are rather sluggish when using screen readers. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:52 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi, Actually, doing it this way would probably be a lot better on over all system performance simply because the game is accessing an existing speech service. Sapi, for example, doesn't take up that much ram unless you are using one of the higher quality voices like Ivona Amy, Bryan, Kendra, etc but even then it is better than loading x number of *.wav files into memory for speech output. It will both save on CPU power and memory. I can't see how this would do anything but improve matters for the better. As for 64-bit that isn't really a big issue. Yes, some 32-bit Sapi voices don't play well with 64-bit versions of Windows, but there are other alternatives like switching over to your screen reader for speech output instead. So regardless if you are using Vocalizer, RealSpeak, Eloquence, Dectalk Access, whatever you can just tset that up to be the default TTS engine instead via your screen reader. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Well it depends what your cpu and memmory requirements are. i have high quality voices now, with my core2 and 2gb ram on xp it works but yeah things are a bit slower. On the newer systems the i series i3 and up there shouldn't be any problem. Not sure how 64 bit oses would effect as I have only had 32 bit experience and it looks good. Using something like espeak though robotic that it is would still be ok its clear enough. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi, Well, NVDA support is definitely working good with G3D. I'm still working on JFW, Window-Eyes, System Access, and other screen readers but NVDA does work great with the engine. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: well direct reader support would reduce the size so I am all for it. I use nvda on a regular basis. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi Thomas, I would like you to keep the Acapela Heather speech. I think her voice fits perfectly with the game and the main character. One possibility is after the side stroller version is done, you could add the SAPI to the 3D version. Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:52 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4008 - Release Date: 11/10/11 --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Ugh. I hate Espeak. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:11 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Well it depends what your cpu and memmory requirements are. i have high quality voices now, with my core2 and 2gb ram on xp it works but yeah things are a bit slower. On the newer systems the i series i3 and up there shouldn't be any problem. Not sure how 64 bit oses would effect as I have only had 32 bit experience and it looks good. Using something like espeak though robotic that it is would still be ok its clear enough. At 11:57 a.m. 10/11/2011 -0700, you wrote: Only problem with that is that I'd have to use Eloquence for speach in the game and I really don't want to do that. Because Sapi voices, particularly the quality ones, are rather sluggish when using screen readers. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:52 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. --- 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. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Side Stroller? LOL. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:20 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi Thomas, I would like you to keep the Acapela Heather speech. I think her voice fits perfectly with the game and the main character. One possibility is after the side stroller version is done, you could add the SAPI to the 3D version. Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:52 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1411 / Virus Database: 2092/4008 - Release Date: 11/10/11 --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi Bryan, I take your point, but I can say from using Sapi 5 support that Ivona Bryan or Ivona Amy is no more sluggish in a game than using wav files for speech. So your point doesn't really apply here. Yeah, if you were using a screen reader for normal input/output Sapi voices are too sluggish to keep up, but in games its not really a big issue. Jim Kitchen's games work well enough using the higher quality Sapi voices. Cheers! On 11/10/11, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Only problem with that is that I'd have to use Eloquence for speach in the game and I really don't want to do that. Because Sapi voices, particularly the quality ones, are rather sluggish when using screen readers. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi Phil, Un fortunately, that won't work. The 3d version is being developed in tandem with the side-scroller version, and they both are using the same engine, basically the same code, and I don't want to rewrite all the menus, status messages, etc for one version and maintain the wav files for the other primarily because I won't be able to share code between the projects without reworking it every time I need to add something to one or the other. So if I am going to convert the code to use screen reader support I'll do it for both or not at all. However, I do take your point that Heather does sound good for the game. Its not very flexible and not exactly the best way to get speech output, but it does sound decent. That's a good reason to hang on to it, but I'll wait and see what others have to say before making a final decision which way to swing with this. HTH On 11/10/11, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote: Hi Thomas, I would like you to keep the Acapela Heather speech. I think her voice fits perfectly with the game and the main character. One possibility is after the side scroller version is done, you could add the SAPI to the 3D version. Phil --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hello Thomas, Think on something if you are switching to real-time speech instead of prerecorded speech. Make your game translatable, for example by externalizing all sentances used into a separate text file. I know some people who might buy it if the game would be available in their mother tongue. For example on the french mailing-list about accessible games, there are some people who are very entousiastic when they hear about certain games, but when they are said that these games are only in english, the discussion suddenly stops... IF you want an example: emtombed. --- 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] Swamp questions
Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi, Yeah, I understand that. Its for that reason I have considered leaving MOTA as it currently is. Someone can record new speech files for the game in French, Spanish, italian, whatever and just over write the English files if needed. That would make it easier to modify the language in that case. The problem with what your suggesting by creating language files that can be edited is that's a whole lot more work than i have time for. I'm hoping for a Christmas, or near Christmas release, so I don't want to rework the game any more than I have to. i don't know how difficult it would be to replace all the status messages etc with text files that get passed off to a screen reader, Sapi, etc. Cheers! On 11/10/11, QuentinC quent...@cfardel.net wrote: Hello Thomas, Think on something if you are switching to real-time speech instead of prerecorded speech. Make your game translatable, for example by externalizing all sentances used into a separate text file. I know some people who might buy it if the game would be available in their mother tongue. For example on the french mailing-list about accessible games, there are some people who are very entousiastic when they hear about certain games, but when they are said that these games are only in english, the discussion suddenly stops... IF you want an example: emtombed. --- 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] sample recordings
Hi Shaun, I don't want to sound rude or overly critical, but i just don't think these samples are of the kind of quality I'm looking for in terms of a podcast. You just don't have the right kind of voice for it, and I noticed you put way to many ums and long pauses in your casts.I'm not looking for perfect, as Dave said, but I do have a fairly good idea of what I think would sound good. I can't help but think you are not cut out for this. Take a listen to Kelly's work and you'll see what I mean. Someone like Kelly Serpergia is a great example of what we need in terms of a host for the show. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Ok as prommised here are samples of my work. Take in mind that at the time I did most of this I did not have all the equipment I had now. Some of this is from a project unreleased. I made a couple files, a game sample and a voice only which should have been a game but for some reason the right device on the recording program was not set right and it never recorded right. My voice could be a little to loud so maybe I will have to fix that. You should get a clear sound from the realtech card in the box playing laser breakout of all things. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1407689/sample.zip I don't promise perfection but at least I can keep the wheels turning. If you are happy to handle hosting at least for now, that will hold the cast for a bit, I plan to look into the cdn type of stuff. at some point. I guess I'll leave the community to its business. Hopefully this won't just be me. we can figure stuff out later if I pass the first step. --- 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] Moderator Warning was licences and such
Hi Shaun and all, I know several of you, including myself, are interested in the idea of a podcast for the magazine, but this is going a little far. Posting licenses and things like that doesn't belong on this list as its drifting off of gaming and getting into a legal debate that isn't covered by this list. i suggest either create a list on google for this discussion or talk off list privately, but please take the discussion off list. Thanks. On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. here is the link for the creative comans licences. http://www.creativecommons.org.nz/licences_explained__1 The first one sounds good but most of these will probably work. the gpl is for software but its equally as good. That should give us enough to discuss today. --- 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] sample recordings
as I said I really don't have any current samples. Yes maybe with all his resources sertainly more than me, if kelly wants to be the host of the show then heck we have hardly started and I have felt like swearing at you over the file storage thing. But whatever. I was going to bring up what method we would use to submit files and what will happen for say sharing content to be put together but I guess its a mute point now. So a part from the idea I guess I don't have any real part in this, I feel a bit left out but hay its your cast I just thought about the idea. Its true I don't have the right stuff sertainly not the standard I have not done any presentation in years. Maybe I'll just have to submit things as I go or something. now. At 04:10 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, I don't want to sound rude or overly critical, but i just don't think these samples are of the kind of quality I'm looking for in terms of a podcast. You just don't have the right kind of voice for it, and I noticed you put way to many ums and long pauses in your casts.I'm not looking for perfect, as Dave said, but I do have a fairly good idea of what I think would sound good. I can't help but think you are not cut out for this. Take a listen to Kelly's work and you'll see what I mean. Someone like Kelly Serpergia is a great example of what we need in terms of a host for the show. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Ok as prommised here are samples of my work. Take in mind that at the time I did most of this I did not have all the equipment I had now. Some of this is from a project unreleased. I made a couple files, a game sample and a voice only which should have been a game but for some reason the right device on the recording program was not set right and it never recorded right. My voice could be a little to loud so maybe I will have to fix that. You should get a clear sound from the realtech card in the box playing laser breakout of all things. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1407689/sample.zip I don't promise perfection but at least I can keep the wheels turning. If you are happy to handle hosting at least for now, that will hold the cast for a bit, I plan to look into the cdn type of stuff. at some point. I guess I'll leave the community to its business. Hopefully this won't just be me. we can figure stuff out later if I pass the first step. --- 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. --- 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] Swamp questions
In regards to getting jaws to work with the game press tab twice quickly and jfw will start to work with the game. IF you press tab twice fast enough, the game won't crash. That's how I got it to work. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Ya know, I have always wondered if that cease and desist letter wasn't some sick prank played by someone? Did you ever check that out Thomas? I doubt you'd overlook something that obvious, but you could've been stressed out, or perhaps you didn't think someone would do such an evil thing, so didn't consider it. email can be easily spoofed, as we've previously discovered on here. only way to make that authentic was to receive actual signed mail correspondence by the company. which I'm pretty sure is how cease and desist works anyway. you've always made it sound like you just got a random email claiming to be the company responsible for game development telling you to stop, which sounds unlikely. how would they even know such game was available? and what are the odds of them going after an accessible game developer as opposed to thousands of other people who've most likely used a similar idea? did they even play the game? I still think a simple name change would've solved the whole problem just in case it actually was legit. Understand I'm not saying your claims are false, but that this could've easily been a prank to scare you off. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Dark, Agreed. Giving this community an exact day of release could be dangerous as there could be some unforeseen delays between now and then. It is better to give a general idea like January 2012 which gives the developer a window of 31 days in which to meet the deadline. Releasing sooner than later is not always better, because we want to make sure the game is stable, has been fully tested, and most issues and potential bugs are resolved on the release date. If you give a specific date/time to release and find out at the 11th hour there is a problem your prepaid customers will scream bloody murder if their is a valid delay due to some unforeseen bug or issue that came up at the last moment. I know my situation is different, but Montezuma's Revenge is a classic case of how the unexpected can happen litterally at the 11th hour. I had the game 90% complete, was just adding the final six levels to 1.0, when I got a letter to sease and desist development based on a copyright claim from Utopia. I royally got screwed over because of that, and I'm glad I hadn't gave a specific date/time of release because when that happened there was no way I could have met it because the situation was a complete mess. Obviously, this wouldn't happen to Philip, but there are always things that can go wrong at the 11th hour.His computer could crash, a last minute bug pops up in the game, whatever. Its always smarter to cover your backside if your a single developer, because you don't have any idea what might happen between now and your target date. Just this year I have had a horrible run of bad luck. Two unexpected deaths in the family, been sick quite a lot, as well as a few other personal issues that interrupted my own schedule. Some things like that can't be helped, and I'm glad I'm not forced into meeting some exact release date/time or I'd be screwed. Cheers! --- 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] Swamp questions
The shooting at walls thing is the last major action element problem left to be addressed. It really is frustrating, lining up a nice sniper shot on a tyrant, only to have the wall hitting sound reward your efforts. I'm not sure how to address this without a gunsight mode, which I feel would detract from the impact of the play, (though it should be an option for people who have difficulty localizing sound due to hearing loss or whatever). If I understand it, the sounds are played to everybody, and the server interprets your direction and sound level based on your position. Would it be possible to maybe have the sounds have a gating effect so that they stutter a bit if there's a wall between you and the sound source? Or maybe a reverb effect of some sort? I don't know, just some alteration that clues you in that though you hear a zombie close at hand, you've got a wall between you? Chris Bartlett -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
hi, If you go for screen reader support, then I'd then suggest you do the strings in external lng files, so we could avoid the cheating part. I see how this could help, since in Poland I also know many people who don't play a lot of audio games, simply because they don't know English. it would also help in pronouncing numbers, since in Polish (and i'm sure in other languages) the way numbers over 99 aren't just pronounced by slapping a hundred at the end of them, so letting the screen reader handle that would certainly sound considerably better. As for my actual vote though, I'd rather stick to heather, it just seems more natural this way and helps get into the atmosphere of the game. I'd have to agree with what bryan said about using eloquence. On 11/10/2011 7:52 PM, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi everyone, As I mentioned a few days back in the USA Games general news letter the Genesis 3D Engine is getting a major work over in v1.2, and I now have access to some additional features that weren't available when I ported Mysteries of the Ancients to C++ a year ago. Which brings up a question I thought I'd throw out to you, the customers, as this would drastically effect the final version of the game. One of the new features in v1.2 of the engine is direct screen reader support. I was wondering if you are in favor of using the direct screen reader support in Mysteries of the Ancients v1.0, or if you'd rather keep the Acapela Heather speech clips present in beta 22? The reason I am asking is I know there were quite a number of complaints over the past few months about being able to change the voice, speech rate, speech volume, etc and by using direct screen reader support you could do this easily. It would also make it easier for me to update an develop the game as I wouldn't have to relie upon wav files for speech output. On the downside I have already agreed to help people like Blind Games Brazil to have them convert the game to Portuguese and I'd feel as though I was cheating them by changing development of the speech output at this point. Any thoughts/suggestions here? 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. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi, Right. Well, wenever I do begin using real time speech via Jaws, Window-Eyes, I can look at adding the strings externally, but I think that's a bit too much work for the kind of schedule I've put the MOTA project on. In the meantime I'm leaning to just keeping the speech as it currently is as a lot of people like Heather. So no need to change it if the majority of people are happier that way. I can work on making the xperience a little smoother etc and just work with the wav files as is. Cheers! On 11/10/11, pitermach piterm...@gmail.com wrote: hi, If you go for screen reader support, then I'd then suggest you do the strings in external lng files, so we could avoid the cheating part. I see how this could help, since in Poland I also know many people who don't play a lot of audio games, simply because they don't know English. it would also help in pronouncing numbers, since in Polish (and i'm sure in other languages) the way numbers over 99 aren't just pronounced by slapping a hundred at the end of them, so letting the screen reader handle that would certainly sound considerably better. As for my actual vote though, I'd rather stick to heather, it just seems more natural this way and helps get into the atmosphere of the game. I'd have to agree with what bryan said about using eloquence. --- 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] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Hi, Well, weather it was a prank or not its over and done with as far as I am concerned. I felt it was legit at the time, and took it seriously. As for Montezuma's Revenge/Return I've got something in mind for that game. I've had plenty of time to rethink the problem and have plans to redo the game in such a way it offers similar game play, similar story, but doesn't infringe on any copyrights. Its just I committed myself to MOTA before the idea came along, and now I wish I had thought of the revised MOntezuma's Revenge idea sooner. Cheers! On 11/10/11, Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com wrote: Ya know, I have always wondered if that cease and desist letter wasn't some sick prank played by someone? Did you ever check that out Thomas? I doubt you'd overlook something that obvious, but you could've been stressed out, or perhaps you didn't think someone would do such an evil thing, so didn't consider it. email can be easily spoofed, as we've previously discovered on here. only way to make that authentic was to receive actual signed mail correspondence by the company. which I'm pretty sure is how cease and desist works anyway. you've always made it sound like you just got a random email claiming to be the company responsible for game development telling you to stop, which sounds unlikely. how would they even know such game was available? and what are the odds of them going after an accessible game developer as opposed to thousands of other people who've most likely used a similar idea? did they even play the game? I still think a simple name change would've solved the whole problem just in case it actually was legit. Understand I'm not saying your claims are false, but that this could've easily been a prank to scare you off. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Dark, Agreed. Giving this community an exact day of release could be dangerous as there could be some unforeseen delays between now and then. It is better to give a general idea like January 2012 which gives the developer a window of 31 days in which to meet the deadline. Releasing sooner than later is not always better, because we want to make sure the game is stable, has been fully tested, and most issues and potential bugs are resolved on the release date. If you give a specific date/time to release and find out at the 11th hour there is a problem your prepaid customers will scream bloody murder if their is a valid delay due to some unforeseen bug or issue that came up at the last moment. I know my situation is different, but Montezuma's Revenge is a classic case of how the unexpected can happen litterally at the 11th hour. I had the game 90% complete, was just adding the final six levels to 1.0, when I got a letter to sease and desist development based on a copyright claim from Utopia. I royally got screwed over because of that, and I'm glad I hadn't gave a specific date/time of release because when that happened there was no way I could have met it because the situation was a complete mess. Obviously, this wouldn't happen to Philip, but there are always things that can go wrong at the 11th hour.His computer could crash, a last minute bug pops up in the game, whatever. Its always smarter to cover your backside if your a single developer, because you don't have any idea what might happen between now and your target date. Just this year I have had a horrible run of bad luck. Two unexpected deaths in the family, been sick quite a lot, as well as a few other personal issues that interrupted my own schedule. Some things like that can't be helped, and I'm glad I'm not forced into meeting some exact release date/time or I'd be screwed. Cheers! --- 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] sample recordings
Hi Shaun, its not my cast. I'm just trying to give you advice when and where I see it. I think you know that I have a highly developed sense of what is considered to be a professional standard--some might say its too strict--but that's just how I see things. I personally feel it would be wrong of me to say this or that sounds great when I really don't feel that way. I think it is in the casts best interest if we find someone who has experience doing some kind of podcast or radio show who sounds professional. Maybe that's not possible--I don't know--but we should try to do this podcast the best we can. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: as I said I really don't have any current samples. Yes maybe with all his resources sertainly more than me, if kelly wants to be the host of the show then heck we have hardly started and I have felt like swearing at you over the file storage thing. But whatever. I was going to bring up what method we would use to submit files and what will happen for say sharing content to be put together but I guess its a mute point now. So a part from the idea I guess I don't have any real part in this, I feel a bit left out but hay its your cast I just thought about the idea. Its true I don't have the right stuff sertainly not the standard I have not done any presentation in years. Maybe I'll just have to submit things as I go or something. now. At 04:10 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, I don't want to sound rude or overly critical, but i just don't think these samples are of the kind of quality I'm looking for in terms of a podcast. You just don't have the right kind of voice for it, and I noticed you put way to many ums and long pauses in your casts.I'm not looking for perfect, as Dave said, but I do have a fairly good idea of what I think would sound good. I can't help but think you are not cut out for this. Take a listen to Kelly's work and you'll see what I mean. Someone like Kelly Serpergia is a great example of what we need in terms of a host for the show. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Ok as prommised here are samples of my work. Take in mind that at the time I did most of this I did not have all the equipment I had now. Some of this is from a project unreleased. I made a couple files, a game sample and a voice only which should have been a game but for some reason the right device on the recording program was not set right and it never recorded right. My voice could be a little to loud so maybe I will have to fix that. You should get a clear sound from the realtech card in the box playing laser breakout of all things. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1407689/sample.zip I don't promise perfection but at least I can keep the wheels turning. If you are happy to handle hosting at least for now, that will hold the cast for a bit, I plan to look into the cdn type of stuff. at some point. I guess I'll leave the community to its business. Hopefully this won't just be me. we can figure stuff out later if I pass the first step. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra
Hi tom. As someone who uses ss max that's a good plan, and a nice way of minimizing need for donations to keep the archive up. Particularly as now with a max account you can upload files of up to 500 mb, which should be more than long enough for a podcast. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm guessing we'd leave it open for contributions from everyone in the community. --- 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. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features
Since the discussion has started and since someone talked about eloquence, I have a question: is it legal or definitely illegal to let a game, or more generally, a program, connect to eloquence directly ? I'm thinking on something I saw once some time ago: sapi-to-eloquence bridges, or script/plugins or little cheats existing for certain games that make eloquence speaking instead of sapi. Note that all these things have in common that they doesn't embed a copy of eloquence themselves, they generally only use it if it has been installed by another program (i.e. jaws of course, but also IBM home page reader, older softwares that still use IBM viavoice, etc.) I know that the discussion is difficult, for example the status of using eloquence with NVDA is not very clear... but I would like very much to have a clear answer about that topic, in order to be definitely fixed on what is allowed and what is not. --- 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] Swamp questions
Another way is to open up the progress.ini file in the swamp directory and setting the value of the first line to 3. Kai - Original Message - From: Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com To: blindadrenal...@gmail.com; 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp questions In regards to getting jaws to work with the game press tab twice quickly and jfw will start to work with the game. IF you press tab twice fast enough, the game won't crash. That's how I got it to work. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
I totally think this would be the best method. keep things as they are, then for any future games, add the screen reader support. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi, Right. Well, wenever I do begin using real time speech via Jaws, Window-Eyes, I can look at adding the strings externally, but I think that's a bit too much work for the kind of schedule I've put the MOTA project on. In the meantime I'm leaning to just keeping the speech as it currently is as a lot of people like Heather. So no need to change it if the majority of people are happier that way. I can work on making the xperience a little smoother etc and just work with the wav files as is. Cheers! On 11/10/11, pitermach piterm...@gmail.com wrote: hi, If you go for screen reader support, then I'd then suggest you do the strings in external lng files, so we could avoid the cheating part. I see how this could help, since in Poland I also know many people who don't play a lot of audio games, simply because they don't know English. it would also help in pronouncing numbers, since in Polish (and i'm sure in other languages) the way numbers over 99 aren't just pronounced by slapping a hundred at the end of them, so letting the screen reader handle that would certainly sound considerably better. As for my actual vote though, I'd rather stick to heather, it just seems more natural this way and helps get into the atmosphere of the game. I'd have to agree with what bryan said about using eloquence. --- 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] require cheat codes and key bord commandsforGMAtankcommander
Hi Tom. I wasn't actually thinking about rp characters in terms of specific weaknesses like superman's criptonite, but character flaws that make the characters interesting people to play. For instance in the weakly mutants and masterminds game we play, my character was based on the idea of who would be the worst person to pickup an iron man type alien battle armour? A slightly dim, concert pianist with good intentions. he has no idea how his sute actually works (indeed interacting with the sute's ai makes for a large part of the game), he doesn't know super science or indeed magic, sinse it turns out the sute is an ancient egyptian wrelick. yet, these are things I've kept, sinse I don't want to alter him as a character specifically. he's grown and changed during the campeign, but character wise there are sitl things I'd like to keep the same, just because even though it would be dam useful to have certain skills such as science or magic, it wouldn't be in his character to have them. That for me is the interesting thing about tabletop rp, using the system dice and rules to make a character who is a distinct person on their own and reacts dynamically to various situations. interestingly enough i've just come back from a one off, just for fun game where there were no stats and system at all! the gm rolled a couple of dice to determine things like combat actions and initiative, but the game was entirely ad lib. While not something I'd want for a long period it was great fun to do for a change. getting back to computer games, it would actually be interesting to have more text walkthrough's around really. There are a couple on audiogams.net but there could deffinately be more, sinse I for one do enjoy reading them even for games I've already finished just to see what other people make of the games. This is even more true now that we have more complex games like time of conflict and castaways, where text could possibly be a clearer way of explaning tactics and stratogies coherently than trying to explain at the same time in a full on audio walkthrough. Beware the grue! dark. --- 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] Possible MOTA Features
Hi Quentin, I'm not really sure myself. Its tricky because the license for Eloquence 6 has changed from prior versions. For example, earlier versions of Eloquence that came with IBM Viavoice were built using Sapi 4, and was free to use with other Sapi 4 applications that supported Sapi 4. However, with version 6 Eloquence has become fairly proprietary in terms of its end user license agreement. However, if you are connecting to Eloquence via COM I don't think they can legally stop you from supporting the TTS engine since its using a common interface. What would be illegal is if you created a game and provided a copy of Eloquence with the game as you would illegally be redistributing the software, but just adding COM support for it in your speech API shouldn't be illegal if I got my facks straight. That's the problem with NVDA. Writing a speech driver for Eloquence is perfectly legal as far as I know, but NVDA can't ship the TTS engine with the screen reader legally because NVDA doesn't have a license to redistribute. That's my understanding of the problem with NVDA and Eloquence. HTH On 11/10/11, QuentinC quent...@cfardel.net wrote: Since the discussion has started and since someone talked about eloquence, I have a question: is it legal or definitely illegal to let a game, or more generally, a program, connect to eloquence directly ? I'm thinking on something I saw once some time ago: sapi-to-eloquence bridges, or script/plugins or little cheats existing for certain games that make eloquence speaking instead of sapi. Note that all these things have in common that they doesn't embed a copy of eloquence themselves, they generally only use it if it has been installed by another program (i.e. jaws of course, but also IBM home page reader, older softwares that still use IBM viavoice, etc.) I know that the discussion is difficult, for example the status of using eloquence with NVDA is not very clear... but I would like very much to have a clear answer about that topic, in order to be definitely fixed on what is allowed and what is not. --- 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] freeciv
Hi all. A sighted friend recently told me about a game called freeciv. For those of you who never heard of it, it is a game where you build up your tribe to conker the world by defeating the other players or sending a space ship into space to find DNA which you use to clone an alien. The game allows you to play multiple races which start off with different advantages. You start at 4000 bc and guide your civilization from a primitive level of technology to the space age while balancing diplomacy, war, technology advances, production and global warming. The information I've gathered shows that the client can be used with jaws and or Window eyes etc. Is this still true? I could not really make any headway in the game with jaws. I also tried it on linux, but reading the text inside the windows with orca 3.2 did not work. There was also a discussion on this list a few years back, discussing a custom front-end that can provide the information to us better with either sapi or something like the new screen reader library. What would the more experienced players of freeciv suggest as a good layout of a frontend? --- 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] freeciv
Hello, I am definitely interested in some more information about this game anything appreciated. Thanks. Dave. On 11/10/11, Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. A sighted friend recently told me about a game called freeciv. For those of you who never heard of it, it is a game where you build up your tribe to conker the world by defeating the other players or sending a space ship into space to find DNA which you use to clone an alien. The game allows you to play multiple races which start off with different advantages. You start at 4000 bc and guide your civilization from a primitive level of technology to the space age while balancing diplomacy, war, technology advances, production and global warming. The information I've gathered shows that the client can be used with jaws and or Window eyes etc. Is this still true? I could not really make any headway in the game with jaws. I also tried it on linux, but reading the text inside the windows with orca 3.2 did not work. There was also a discussion on this list a few years back, discussing a custom front-end that can provide the information to us better with either sapi or something like the new screen reader library. What would the more experienced players of freeciv suggest as a good layout of a frontend? --- 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] Swamp questions
I've tried this numerous times to no effect. Chris Bartlett -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Darren Duff Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:32 PM To: blindadrenal...@gmail.com; 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp questions In regards to getting jaws to work with the game press tab twice quickly and jfw will start to work with the game. IF you press tab twice fast enough, the game won't crash. That's how I got it to work. --- 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] Swamp questions
Low treble would do it! -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Bartlett Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:44 PM To: blindadrenal...@gmail.com; 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp questions The shooting at walls thing is the last major action element problem left to be addressed. It really is frustrating, lining up a nice sniper shot on a tyrant, only to have the wall hitting sound reward your efforts. I'm not sure how to address this without a gunsight mode, which I feel would detract from the impact of the play, (though it should be an option for people who have difficulty localizing sound due to hearing loss or whatever). If I understand it, the sounds are played to everybody, and the server interprets your direction and sound level based on your position. Would it be possible to maybe have the sounds have a gating effect so that they stutter a bit if there's a wall between you and the sound source? Or maybe a reverb effect of some sort? I don't know, just some alteration that clues you in that though you hear a zombie close at hand, you've got a wall between you? Chris Bartlett -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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] Swamp questions
Ah! Cool! Didn't know that's what that was! -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Kai Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:37 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Another way is to open up the progress.ini file in the swamp directory and setting the value of the first line to 3. Kai - Original Message - From: Darren Duff duff...@gmail.com To: blindadrenal...@gmail.com; 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Swamp questions In regards to getting jaws to work with the game press tab twice quickly and jfw will start to work with the game. IF you press tab twice fast enough, the game won't crash. That's how I got it to work. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:00 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Swamp questions Wow, Jeremy has done it again. Great job man. Swamp has the potential to be one of the most popular games ever for the action oriented AG community in my opinion. The sound effects especially deserve kudos. Some questions though: 1. Why the deviation from the time tested standard input method of FPS on the PC? Every FPS I played when I was sighted used the mouse in conjunction with the A S D and W keys fore movement by default, a system that works great. Why not mirror this, in other words, w moves one forward, and use the right mouse button for replicating the shift key, removing the need to stretch the fingers for shift v for example. also, having the scroll wheel move between available weapons would be great. 2. I can't get jaws to work with swamp on my system, when I hit tab, the game ends up crashing. is there maybe a config file or something that can be set to jaws so the game will launch in JFW mode, or is this just a bug that has to be worked out? 3. I end up shooting a lot of walls, because it sounds like a zombie is right there, when he is actually on the other side of a wall. can we have a mode that gives a subtle audio cue when you have a direct shot, or maybe a key to hit to ping and see if we're facing a wall directly? 4. if we could drop our own waypoint beacons, that would be way cool, maybe double tap a number to drop a beacon, then control number to turn that beacon on. being able to name the beacon when you drop it would be a great bonus as well, with the name being read out when you control numbered. thanks for another excellent release Jeremy, and awesome job on the sound efffects Chi, hope I'm spelling that right. Later che . --- 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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. _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6619 (2010) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can
Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders?
Personally I'm glad you came up with MOTA, though of course I'd have preferred that it not come with all the trouble it brought you LOL. As interested as I would have been to try the original Monte all the way through and as interested as I am to try whatever replacement project you're thinking of I'm glad for MOTA. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi, Well, weather it was a prank or not its over and done with as far as I am concerned. I felt it was legit at the time, and took it seriously. As for Montezuma's Revenge/Return I've got something in mind for that game. I've had plenty of time to rethink the problem and have plans to redo the game in such a way it offers similar game play, similar story, but doesn't infringe on any copyrights. Its just I committed myself to MOTA before the idea came along, and now I wish I had thought of the revised MOntezuma's Revenge idea sooner. Cheers! On 11/10/11, Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com wrote: Ya know, I have always wondered if that cease and desist letter wasn't some sick prank played by someone? Did you ever check that out Thomas? I doubt you'd overlook something that obvious, but you could've been stressed out, or perhaps you didn't think someone would do such an evil thing, so didn't consider it. email can be easily spoofed, as we've previously discovered on here. only way to make that authentic was to receive actual signed mail correspondence by the company. which I'm pretty sure is how cease and desist works anyway. you've always made it sound like you just got a random email claiming to be the company responsible for game development telling you to stop, which sounds unlikely. how would they even know such game was available? and what are the odds of them going after an accessible game developer as opposed to thousands of other people who've most likely used a similar idea? did they even play the game? I still think a simple name change would've solved the whole problem just in case it actually was legit. Understand I'm not saying your claims are false, but that this could've easily been a prank to scare you off. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Perilous Hearts preorders? Hi Dark, Agreed. Giving this community an exact day of release could be dangerous as there could be some unforeseen delays between now and then. It is better to give a general idea like January 2012 which gives the developer a window of 31 days in which to meet the deadline. Releasing sooner than later is not always better, because we want to make sure the game is stable, has been fully tested, and most issues and potential bugs are resolved on the release date. If you give a specific date/time to release and find out at the 11th hour there is a problem your prepaid customers will scream bloody murder if their is a valid delay due to some unforeseen bug or issue that came up at the last moment. I know my situation is different, but Montezuma's Revenge is a classic case of how the unexpected can happen litterally at the 11th hour. I had the game 90% complete, was just adding the final six levels to 1.0, when I got a letter to sease and desist development based on a copyright claim from Utopia. I royally got screwed over because of that, and I'm glad I hadn't gave a specific date/time of release because when that happened there was no way I could have met it because the situation was a complete mess. Obviously, this wouldn't happen to Philip, but there are always things that can go wrong at the 11th hour.His computer could crash, a last minute bug pops up in the game, whatever. Its always smarter to cover your backside if your a single developer, because you don't have any idea what might happen between now and your target date. Just this year I have had a horrible run of bad luck. Two unexpected deaths in the family, been sick quite a lot, as well as a few other personal issues that interrupted my own schedule. Some things like that can't be helped, and I'm glad I'm not forced into meeting some exact release date/time or I'd be screwed. Cheers! --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] sample recordings
That's precisely why I probably won't be submitting anything. I was evidently good enough for Jake's standards to do Airik's voice in Airik the Cleric but I wouldn't consider myself up to professional standards. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] sample recordings Hi Shaun, its not my cast. I'm just trying to give you advice when and where I see it. I think you know that I have a highly developed sense of what is considered to be a professional standard--some might say its too strict--but that's just how I see things. I personally feel it would be wrong of me to say this or that sounds great when I really don't feel that way. I think it is in the casts best interest if we find someone who has experience doing some kind of podcast or radio show who sounds professional. Maybe that's not possible--I don't know--but we should try to do this podcast the best we can. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: as I said I really don't have any current samples. Yes maybe with all his resources sertainly more than me, if kelly wants to be the host of the show then heck we have hardly started and I have felt like swearing at you over the file storage thing. But whatever. I was going to bring up what method we would use to submit files and what will happen for say sharing content to be put together but I guess its a mute point now. So a part from the idea I guess I don't have any real part in this, I feel a bit left out but hay its your cast I just thought about the idea. Its true I don't have the right stuff sertainly not the standard I have not done any presentation in years. Maybe I'll just have to submit things as I go or something. now. At 04:10 p.m. 10/11/2011 -0500, you wrote: Hi Shaun, I don't want to sound rude or overly critical, but i just don't think these samples are of the kind of quality I'm looking for in terms of a podcast. You just don't have the right kind of voice for it, and I noticed you put way to many ums and long pauses in your casts.I'm not looking for perfect, as Dave said, but I do have a fairly good idea of what I think would sound good. I can't help but think you are not cut out for this. Take a listen to Kelly's work and you'll see what I mean. Someone like Kelly Serpergia is a great example of what we need in terms of a host for the show. Cheers! On 11/10/11, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. Ok as prommised here are samples of my work. Take in mind that at the time I did most of this I did not have all the equipment I had now. Some of this is from a project unreleased. I made a couple files, a game sample and a voice only which should have been a game but for some reason the right device on the recording program was not set right and it never recorded right. My voice could be a little to loud so maybe I will have to fix that. You should get a clear sound from the realtech card in the box playing laser breakout of all things. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1407689/sample.zip I don't promise perfection but at least I can keep the wheels turning. If you are happy to handle hosting at least for now, that will hold the cast for a bit, I plan to look into the cdn type of stuff. at some point. I guess I'll leave the community to its business. Hopefully this won't just be me. we can figure stuff out later if I pass the first step. --- 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. --- 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,
Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features
I agree. This game's brought you enough headaches as it is. Finish it as is and worry about screen reader support later, especially given the possible complications involved in multilanguage support. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:40 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features I totally think this would be the best method. keep things as they are, then for any future games, add the screen reader support. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Possible MOTA Features Hi, Right. Well, wenever I do begin using real time speech via Jaws, Window-Eyes, I can look at adding the strings externally, but I think that's a bit too much work for the kind of schedule I've put the MOTA project on. In the meantime I'm leaning to just keeping the speech as it currently is as a lot of people like Heather. So no need to change it if the majority of people are happier that way. I can work on making the xperience a little smoother etc and just work with the wav files as is. Cheers! On 11/10/11, pitermach piterm...@gmail.com wrote: hi, If you go for screen reader support, then I'd then suggest you do the strings in external lng files, so we could avoid the cheating part. I see how this could help, since in Poland I also know many people who don't play a lot of audio games, simply because they don't know English. it would also help in pronouncing numbers, since in Polish (and i'm sure in other languages) the way numbers over 99 aren't just pronounced by slapping a hundred at the end of them, so letting the screen reader handle that would certainly sound considerably better. As for my actual vote though, I'd rather stick to heather, it just seems more natural this way and helps get into the atmosphere of the game. I'd have to agree with what bryan said about using eloquence. --- 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. --- 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] audyssey plus or extra
Hi, I'd like to make two points with regards podcasting. The easier one is I looked up podaudyssey.org and that domain is available as of now. It's $11.20 a year less for multiple years at the place I'm looking. I've also with my new server have the ability to handle dns services. I'm not saying that we would have to go with that, but it was mentioned and I thought for informative purposes I'd look up if it was available, also i'm not sure if that's the absolute cheapest cheapest, but that price isn't bad. Point 2 has more to do with the specific audio format to use. Most podcasts are encoded as mp3's although some will use .ogg files. Both ogg and mp3 are what's called Lossy compression methods, that means in both situations, working on and resaving the file you'll loose audio quality. So for example if I make a file and save it as an mp3. Then open it a bunch of times, make edits and save, I'm going to get a pretty crappy sounding file. Think of the old tapes, anyone copied a tape repeatedly the quality went down as that tape was copied, same concept. To deal with this I would recommend how a friend tought it to me, record in wave so you get the maximum audio quality, then save as a .flac file, that's a lostless compression, which means I can edit it 50 times and never loose quality. Flac files also are one quarter the size of waves. When all edits and editions such as music are done to the flac and it's ready, the last thing should be to save it as the mp3 and it's that mp3 that makes up the podcast. I hope that made sense. Also, it might not be a bad idea to standardize on the type of mp3, mono or stereo, bitrate and sample rate, the higher of which the larger the files. Just some information and food for thought. Dave. On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Hi tom. As someone who uses ss max that's a good plan, and a nice way of minimizing need for donations to keep the archive up. Particularly as now with a max account you can upload files of up to 500 mb, which should be more than long enough for a podcast. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi Dark, I've been thinking about those issues. I'm pretty sure I can take care of those issues if needed. As far as submitting content if I were the editor of the show I could take submissions via Dropbox, Sendspace, or Rapidshare, edit the submissions, and put them into an hour long show on a monthly or quarterly basis then put them on the host site. As far as archiving goes my own web space isn't quite up to holding several shows, but I could use a Sendspace Max account with 100 GB of space to store the show's archives. That would work out for everyone as there would be lots of space for archives and I would get Sendspace Max points for every archive downloaded helping to contribute to the financial needs of the podcast. Then, all we would need is a place to put up the podccasts pages and news. Any thoughts? Cheers! On 11/10/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like that idea myself, sinse then it'd be far easier to submit stuff. blind cool tech just doesn't seem as reliable as it used to, they never in fact posted my smugglers 3 review at all when I sent it and indeed some of my older game reviews have disappeared too (I'll stick them on sendspace, but stil it's irritating). Thus maybe it's time for something game specific, and the main menue format works well. My only concerns are firstly, how difficult this will be for the hoster to commit to posting every three months etc, sinse it'd not be good if the pod cast started and then stopped, and secondly whether the older episodes can be perminantly archived somewhere so that they are always available. Provided these things are dealt with I think it could be a good thing indeed and may even contribute something myself if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audyssey plus or extra Hi, I like that. A name like Paudyssey would make sense. I know there are sites like Paudio books. Which does audio books vial podcasts. This would fit in with the entire podcasting theme. How I see the show format would be something like main menu's setup. You have a host who gives the news, and then you would have game reviews, demonstrations, etc done by the community itself. Just like Main Menu's format. Its one that works out well for them, and would probably work for us as well. Cheers! On 11/9/11, Ron Schamerhorn blindwon...@cogeco.ca wrote: Hi Shaun I was actually thinking the name Podessey would be rather appropriate for a project like this. I'm
Re: [Audyssey] sample recordings
HiBryan, Please, don't take it that way. What I said doesn't effect you personally. All I was attempting to do was point out that the show's host should sound like an experienced semi-professional to professional host. That doesn't have any effect on people who submit content, reviews, etc. Now, if people think I'm being too picky, bossy, etc let me know. I'll step aside and let you guys do it your way. Just don't expect any support from me personally. Cheers! On 11/10/11, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That's precisely why I probably won't be submitting anything. I was evidently good enough for Jake's standards to do Airik's voice in Airik the Cleric but I wouldn't consider myself up to professional standards. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! --- 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] sample recordings
I know it wasn't directed at me. LOL. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:15 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] sample recordings HiBryan, Please, don't take it that way. What I said doesn't effect you personally. All I was attempting to do was point out that the show's host should sound like an experienced semi-professional to professional host. That doesn't have any effect on people who submit content, reviews, etc. Now, if people think I'm being too picky, bossy, etc let me know. I'll step aside and let you guys do it your way. Just don't expect any support from me personally. Cheers! On 11/10/11, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That's precisely why I probably won't be submitting anything. I was evidently good enough for Jake's standards to do Airik's voice in Airik the Cleric but I wouldn't consider myself up to professional standards. They're coming to take me away, ha-haaa! --- 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] Silly little bike riding simulation app...smile
This might be a starting point to me trying to do a bit more/let you actually try riding a motorbike on something like a track, or some routes, and it has a slight bit of a silly thing included as well, but, either way, should currently work on most windows machines - let me know: http://www.blindza.co.za/uploads/bikeSim.zip (6.4Mb zip file, and hit enter on bike.exe, and then when you click/hit space bar on Start bike!!! button, up and down arrows should change speed/sound, and left and right arrow keys will sort of steer left/right) Would just like to know if this causes any issues on various flavours of windows etc. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' --- 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] Recording PC sound output for things like podcasts/demo's etc. on windows7
OK, while I could just use an external microphone/device to record my computer's audio output, including surrounding sounds, maybe me talking etc., etc., while using my current primary windows7 ultimate 64 bit primary machine, on machines like windows XP, it seemed you could easily enough, sometimes use either a sort of virtual audio recording device called stereo mix, or one called what you hear, and then using something like either audacity, or 2 other recording apps have gotten hold of - see below - record just the computers actual audio output, including screenreader voices, a bit more cleanly. Anyway, on this windows7 64 bit machine, I had to firstly go and make the stereo mix recording device show up, since it sort of gets hidden by windows7 itself - in start menu search box, I type in: sound card and then hit enter on change sound card settings. Then in that dialogue box, I ctrl + tab to recording page, and in list of recording devices, it only showed microphone and audio line in - and this is linked to my PC's realtek sound card. When I then invoked a right mouse click on that list, using the jaws cursor, on the context menu item there's a menu item saying something like show disabled devices, and then I could find a stereo mix device listing, and if I invoked it's properties, I could in fact enable it, make changes to it's volume levels, etc. etc. However, even if I make it the default device - also from that dialogue, or specifically choose to use it in either audacity, or the 2 apps listed below, the sound files do have a file size, and a recorded time length, but are just silent..? Most guys who've done something similar to this on windowsXP machines reckon the device would normally be called something like what you hear, but anyway - was just wondering if anyone had any ideas related to a feasible workaround for this type of issue, asides from actually recording the PC's output using an external device/unit/microphone placed in front of speakers, since it might be nice to be able to record demo's/tutorial material related to some things like this, without having to first connect external units/cables, etc. etc. Lastly, those two bits of software found/tracked down that let you sort of record directly to MP3 files - in theory anyway - and which while not perfectly accessible, are still relatively usable are the 2 following ones: Free MP3 sound recorder http://www.nbxsoft.com/download-sound-recorder.php Digital audio recorder http://www.asoftwareplus.com/ Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' --- 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] Recording PC sound output for things likepodcasts/demo's etc. on windows7
Jacob, This is the biggest annoyance I find with recent versions of Windows. configuring sound settings is a major pain. What I did was buy an external soundcard type device that allows me to record from external sources, like my playstation 3 for example. If you want to record from the sound card, I'm not sure what to tell ya. My sound card allows me to record, but there are 2 huge issues. First it sounds like total garbage. and second, I cannot unmute the mic while stereo mix is active, because there can only be 1 audio device enabled. I haven't found a workaround for the stereo mix issue yet, although I would be interested if anyone has any suggestions. I've been looking for a good way to do this for years. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for things likepodcasts/demo's etc. on windows7 OK, while I could just use an external microphone/device to record my computer's audio output, including surrounding sounds, maybe me talking etc., etc., while using my current primary windows7 ultimate 64 bit primary machine, on machines like windows XP, it seemed you could easily enough, sometimes use either a sort of virtual audio recording device called stereo mix, or one called what you hear, and then using something like either audacity, or 2 other recording apps have gotten hold of - see below - record just the computers actual audio output, including screenreader voices, a bit more cleanly. Anyway, on this windows7 64 bit machine, I had to firstly go and make the stereo mix recording device show up, since it sort of gets hidden by windows7 itself - in start menu search box, I type in: sound card and then hit enter on change sound card settings. Then in that dialogue box, I ctrl + tab to recording page, and in list of recording devices, it only showed microphone and audio line in - and this is linked to my PC's realtek sound card. When I then invoked a right mouse click on that list, using the jaws cursor, on the context menu item there's a menu item saying something like show disabled devices, and then I could find a stereo mix device listing, and if I invoked it's properties, I could in fact enable it, make changes to it's volume levels, etc. etc. However, even if I make it the default device - also from that dialogue, or specifically choose to use it in either audacity, or the 2 apps listed below, the sound files do have a file size, and a recorded time length, but are just silent..? Most guys who've done something similar to this on windowsXP machines reckon the device would normally be called something like what you hear, but anyway - was just wondering if anyone had any ideas related to a feasible workaround for this type of issue, asides from actually recording the PC's output using an external device/unit/microphone placed in front of speakers, since it might be nice to be able to record demo's/tutorial material related to some things like this, without having to first connect external units/cables, etc. etc. Lastly, those two bits of software found/tracked down that let you sort of record directly to MP3 files - in theory anyway - and which while not perfectly accessible, are still relatively usable are the 2 following ones: Free MP3 sound recorder http://www.nbxsoft.com/download-sound-recorder.php Digital audio recorder http://www.asoftwareplus.com/ Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' --- 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] sample recordings
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Re: [Audyssey] sample recordings
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Re: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for thingslikepodcasts/demo's etc. on windows7
Would still like to be able to do it using only this PC itself, but currently the best sort of workaround have for it is I have a unit here called the boostaroo revolution - http://boostaroo.com/ (yes, think it's funny that domain name and product name are spelt differently) Main thing with it, aside from it boosting the output by 400% to help guys save battery life on things like MP3 players, is it means I can use some of my audio gadgets without using my one hearing aid as well, and another thing is it's completely portable - roundabout the size of my thumb in total - uses A A A A batteries (splitting those characters apart since otherwise something like jaws will just read the 4 of them as a triple letter combo, which it definitely isn't)- and actually has 2 output jack sockets, so you can also use it to easily split one audio signal into 2 output signals, so I could then plug headphones into one socket, to hear what was happening, and plug something like my other laptop's audio jack to its line in into the other socket to then handle the recording, but this would still require the use of the other laptop to handle the recording, which is specifically what I'd like to avoid having to do. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Yohandy yohand...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 1:56 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for thingslikepodcasts/demo's etc. on windows7 Jacob, This is the biggest annoyance I find with recent versions of Windows. configuring sound settings is a major pain. What I did was buy an external soundcard type device that allows me to record from external sources, like my playstation 3 for example. If you want to record from the sound card, I'm not sure what to tell ya. My sound card allows me to record, but there are 2 huge issues. First it sounds like total garbage. and second, I cannot unmute the mic while stereo mix is active, because there can only be 1 audio device enabled. I haven't found a workaround for the stereo mix issue yet, although I would be interested if anyone has any suggestions. I've been looking for a good way to do this for years. - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 6:42 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for things likepodcasts/demo's etc. on windows7 OK, while I could just use an external microphone/device to record my computer's audio output, including surrounding sounds, maybe me talking etc., etc., while using my current primary windows7 ultimate 64 bit primary machine, on machines like windows XP, it seemed you could easily enough, sometimes use either a sort of virtual audio recording device called stereo mix, or one called what you hear, and then using something like either audacity, or 2 other recording apps have gotten hold of - see below - record just the computers actual audio output, including screenreader voices, a bit more cleanly. Anyway, on this windows7 64 bit machine, I had to firstly go and make the stereo mix recording device show up, since it sort of gets hidden by windows7 itself - in start menu search box, I type in: sound card and then hit enter on change sound card settings. Then in that dialogue box, I ctrl + tab to recording page, and in list of recording devices, it only showed microphone and audio line in - and this is linked to my PC's realtek sound card. When I then invoked a right mouse click on that list, using the jaws cursor, on the context menu item there's a menu item saying something like show disabled devices, and then I could find a stereo mix device listing, and if I invoked it's properties, I could in fact enable it, make changes to it's volume levels, etc. etc. However, even if I make it the default device - also from that dialogue, or specifically choose to use it in either audacity, or the 2 apps listed below, the sound files do have a file size, and a recorded time length, but are just silent..? Most guys who've done something similar to this on windowsXP machines reckon the device would normally be called something like what you hear, but anyway - was just wondering if anyone had any ideas related to a feasible workaround for this type of issue, asides from actually recording the PC's output using an external device/unit/microphone placed in front of speakers, since it might be nice to be able to record demo's/tutorial material related to some things like this, without having to first connect external units/cables, etc. etc. Lastly, those two bits of software found/tracked down that let you sort of record directly to MP3 files - in theory anyway - and which while not perfectly accessible, are still relatively usable are the 2
Re: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for things like podcasts/demo's etc. on windows7
Anybody heard of Virtual Audio Cable? That might work out. But how is this related to gaming? Are you trying to produce a play through of something? --- 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] Recording PC sound output for things like podcasts/demo's etc. on windows7
Dunno about jacob, but I certainly have. been wanting to do playthroughs of lots of gaming things in fact. How does this cable thinggy work anyway? - Original Message - From: Alfredo_The_Music_maker birdlover2...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Recording PC sound output for things like podcasts/demo's etc. on windows7 Anybody heard of Virtual Audio Cable? That might work out. But how is this related to gaming? Are you trying to produce a play through of something? --- 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] Perilous hearts audio demo!
Hi well fantastic demmo would deffinatly like this game it sounds fantastic. Ian McNamara --- 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.
