Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games The soundtrack is live! It can be purchased at the following locations. Remember that it has also been submitted to major platforms like iTunes, Amazon, Google, etc., and will be available once they finish processing it—if

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Yeah re: the Volume 2 comment, what I was suggesting was that in a perfect world, where we have all the money we could ever want, we'd contract Steven to compose music for all those events and locations we'd talked about

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Yep. I don't know for sure about 7.1, but I just had a conversation the other day with the sound designer about how I want to get my machine hooked up to my home theater so I can hear it on 5.1 (I do all my playing/testing

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games That's alright; like I said, there were a number of tracks that we would have loved to add, but simply didn't have the funds. The soundtrack as it stands is the best compromise we could strike. With the budget we had,

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games The cost on Bandcamp will be $9.99 for the full score, or $1 per track if you want to buy them individually. We don't have direct control over prices on other marketplaces—essentially we set the price through our

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games No—the soundtrack that will be available for purchase starting tomorrow is the full game score. What I meant was that we had several other ideas for music—other locations or events we would've liked to give unique tracks,

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Rory: We can't tell you system requirements yet for the simple reason that we aren't at a final beta stage yet. We're still working on things that have a direct impact on CPU use and memory management. Once we are done

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey Rory,Good questions. The combat is all turn-based, but with an emphasis on immersive audio design. The audio isn't just stereo, but actually uses HRTF with headphones and full 5.1 surround if available with speakers to

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Some happy news for those of you who don't want to eait for iTunes, Google Music, etc.: the soundtrack should be up for sale on Bandcamp on Friday. I will post the link here when it goes up, and we'll also add it to our

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-10-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Yeah we've actually looked into Bandcamp and are planning on releasing there as well—just haven't gotten to it yet. We'll probably have it up on Bandcamp by the time it hits any of the other major marketplaces, i'd guess.

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Sadly there isn't. The problem being that we haven't done this before. We actually just talked about this at a team meeting last night—that sometimes we think something is going to take us "a lot of time" and it gets done in two days; other

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" This is all coming from someone who's been learning all this stuff the hard way. Everything in the process of developing AHC has taken more time and/or money than we'd expected. And where contracted work is concerned, time and money are

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Assault: That may say more about your assumptions about the cost of game development than anything. Especially if you think about the fact that people working on a game probably want to make something for their time. Once you take into

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" In fact if you go to www.outofsightgames.com you should be able to find the cinematic trailer and a handful of audio demos. Hope that helps!assault_freak, I thought I remembered reading something about A Blind Legend having run a crowdfunding

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-07-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games For anyone who is interested, here's a little Kickstarter update—nothing most of you don't know already, just letting people know about our ability to take donations and apologizing for the delays that are preventing us

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Just to clarify some of the debate—by saying AHC isn't triple-A we aren't saying anything about the quality. We're talking about the size of the developer, and resources involved in the game's creation. Like assault_freak said, $10k could

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Well again, it's little surprise that people would be willing to pay more—because the audio game pricing model is, in general, a good deal steeper than it is in the indie marketplace at large. It's a question of supply and demand. We have a

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" [ a-t ]#120: That may seem crazy, but to the indie game market at large, outside the audio game world, seeing $30-$40 for an indie game is practically unheard of. If we were pricing based simply on the amount that people pay for other audio

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-07-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" That's the goal. We don't want A Hero's Call to be the pinnacle—we want it to be the stepping stone.Just a quick note on price: we haven't set anything officially yet, but in our conversations we've come to the conclusion that it probably

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-07-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey all,First off, sorry for our silence as of late. I've been absolutely flooded with messages from our beta team, and keeping up with those has really monopolized my time.I just wanted to make a quick mention that we can

Re: Teaser for Everdark Clash

2017-06-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Teaser for Everdark Clash CAE_Jones: This sounds like it has a lot of potential. And while people may still be active on the AHC Kickstarter thread, that's just because it's become the central location for discussing all things AHC-related; it's not like the campaign itself is still

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil, re: voice samples: I actually do hope to do some other little demos like you heard in "Voices of Farhaven." But I wouldn't want to demo unprocessed samples, so when those come will depend on when VO gets processed.

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey gang,First off, it really does my heart good to read the kind words on this thread—both in regards to how excited you are about the game, and your patience and understanding in spite of how eager you are. It's honestly

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Hey Phil,I'd rather not give specific numbers. Not trying to be evasive, just don't want to fuel any of the fires of discontent more than I have to. But yes, I've held onto the applications that didn't make the team and already have a list of

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" I want to reply to SirBadger's questions, not because I feel that we have any obligation to justify our decisions, but because I want to make sure that what we said isn't unintentionally misrepresented. First off, yeah, we did a stock reply

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" I want to reply to SirBadger's questions, not because I feel that we have any obligation to justify our questions, but because I want to make sure that what we said isn't unintentionally misrepresented. First off, yeah, we did a stock reply

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Would you mind sending me a forum message with your email address, that way I can search and see if we received it? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=316599#p316599 ___

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Ha, grad school. So on the one hand, not as bad as my undergrad because it's not full-time. But on the other hand, they make us read and write more than should ever be expected of a reasonable human being...so there's that. URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games It's an inside joke, guys. Way back when, Kai (sarcastically) said something about wanting a 2d12 + 20 Sword of Indomitable Might (I think that was it, anyway) and now we're just being goofy. And yes, D100s are a

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hmm, new idea for a character: Kai the Robot, who wields a 2D12+20 Sword of Indomitable Might...Aaron is right; the standard means of acquiring the game will be through digital download. The collectors' edition, offered as

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Ha, we definitely do not have that kind of money. That said, I think she's definitely good enough to be in triple-A games, but nobody in our cast has made it to that level of commercial success...yet! URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games I won't say anything about the specific skill set of the necromancer class—I think that for a lot of people, discovering the different abilities of the different classes will be one of the most fun parts, so I don't want

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Hey we're certainly not going to hold it against anyone for not signing up. In fact, if you honestly don't think you'd be a killer tester, then not signing up is one of the best things you can do to help. Saves us one more application to have

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Yeah we don't really have an official closing date, mostly because if someone applies later who we'd absolutely love to have on the testing team, there's nothing stopping us from adding them, whatever the date may be. But in general I'm

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Well if you sign up (and get selected) and it does get quarantined, that is in and of itself valuable testing feedback for us. We'd rather know that's happening now, then have someone purchase the game when it's released only to find out that

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Hey guys—just so you know, you really don't need to post here that you've submitted your application. The reason we asked for a specific subject line to a specific address is so that we can easily see what applications we've received. I mean,

Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" Hey, you guys are the ones we should be thanking. Tester feedback will be crucial in squashing as many bugs as we can before release, as well as in dialing some gameplay balance issues in to the best of our ability.BryanP, I totally get your

Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call"

2017-06-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Beta Tester Application for "A Hero's Call" As we close in on the release of "A Hero's Call", we would like to expand our group of beta testers. However, we aren't prepared to simply open this beta up to anyone—partly because we have to keep the number of testers to a reasonable limit so

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Haha, when I first heard Gary's voice (the mercenary at the end) I was like, "Daang." I asked him if his voice is naturally that deep—it is, by the way. Glad you liked it. URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil: Actually no, these are all taken from conversations with NPCs. So what you're talking about are what we'd refer to as "ambient dialogue" which is placed in the stereo field at the unit's location. But then when you

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Thanks for all the kind words, guys. Here I was worrying that this demo was going to fall flat because it's such a small sample of the range of voices and characters in the game. Instead, you're all hyping the game so

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey, for anyone who doesn't follow us on Twitter and isn't subscribed to our Youtube channel, we just posted a short demo with a little bit of dialogue from the game. Just a little something out of the first batch of

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Thanks for sharing this. I'm definitely glad it won't be $5,000. Of course since they haven't announced when this switch is happening, it's possible that when we are at the point of pursuing a Steam release they'll still

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-06-01 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games That would be great, because we could just make 1/4 of a game because nobody would ever beat it, hahaha. Everybody wins! (Or loses, technically...)... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=313508#p313508

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Oh I see. The engine runs on C#; I'm not a programmer, so that's the extent of my knowledge... URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=313280#p313280 ___

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games No problem. I may not have been as cautious in the past with how I phrased things as I'm trying to be now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=313260#p313260

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Thanks for fielding the question, AF, but I actually want to answer with a little more nuance. While I can say that at present the game runs fine on Windows 7, until all changes to the code base are finalized, we can't

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Sito: The initial release will be locally hosted through outofsightgames.com. For the full-graphics release, we will be looking into other platforms and distributors. Nothing is for sure, and much of it will depend on

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Ha, actually the hard drive would be at Drew's house if we had, but no, I think we went with some other options. He said something about the sounds on that library being more pre-designed, and preferring to have the

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Yes, Windows for sure, which will be the only platform for the initial audio-only release. Hopefully the game will be playable on Mac using Wine—it worked that way fairly early on, and we'll be sure to do some in-depth

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Kai, you're actually hinting at something that's been pretty central to our design philosophy. For this game, we want to make the finished game as universally accessible as possible. That means considering not only blind

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Kai, you're actually hinting at something that's been pretty central to our design philosophy. For this game, we want to make the finished game as universally accessible as possible. That means considering not only blind

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil: Actually one of our beta testers had some very good additional class recommendations, and one of them was bard. Unfortunately new classes would mean lots of additional time and effort for our sound designer, in

Re: Tactical battle: Reaching out to the developer

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Tactical battle: Reaching out to the developer Craig, please also feel free to reach out to me if you need a message delivered to Ian. I'm in fairly regular contact with him, so I can always help with passing along reminders or whatever, if need be. URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Regarding auto-equip: I guess it would work in a game with a simple enough armor mechanic, such as simply an armor rating with no other effects. It's when you get into pros vs. cons that it wouldn't work out well.Regarding

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Regarding classes: Someone was definitely paying attention, as that was originally the list of classes. However during a major overhaul of the skill system, we actually combined mage and battlemage into a single class. So

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil, fortunately for you all, you won't be hearing me in the game. I suppose technically I am playing Will the Minstrel, as he doesn't speak but you can hear him playing the Irish penny whistle, which is a recording of me

Re: Tactical battle: Reaching out to the developer

2017-05-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Tactical battle: Reaching out to the developer How long ago did you send this message? I know Ian's been on vacation recently so that could explain why he never got back to you. He has a lot of other stuff going on that can sometimes make it difficult for him to respond to all his

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games @Jason: Ha, we definitely don't have any "famous" actors—we can't afford anyone famous. These are folks who are active in the indie game and modding communities. We posted auditions online and got a ton of submissions, and

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil, I laughed out loud when I read the words "A Chef's Call."Thanks for the encouragement as always, everyone!SLJ: Yes, every character will be fully voiced for the initial audio release. We're currently getting the

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games DD: Yeah you can follow us on Twitter @OutOfSightGames and can also follow our Kickstarter campaign page, linked at the beginning of this thread. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=312611#p312611

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games I think you missed your calling as a satirist, Kai. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=312609#p312609 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Gaming Through New Eyes short documentary

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Gaming Through New Eyes short documentary Oooh, so excited to see that this is up! The filmmaker actually reached out to me during or shortly after our Kickstarter project - it was really cool to get to know him a little and to hear his passion for this project The fact that he made

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil, you're correct about volume control, and we're planning to expose some of the volume control to players. The decision mostly comes down to which sounds are controlled by the volume adjustments and which aren't, or if

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Phil: Sadly I'm not going to have the available vacation time to make it to any of the conventions you mentioned. Ian might be at one of them—not positive—though he wouldn't be there specifically as a representative of Out

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Kickstarter campaigns only run for a limited time—our campaign ended back in February. Sometime in the future we will be adding a donations widget to our website and people will be welcome to offer more support if they

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Flame_elchemist: Actually priests can use weapons just like anyone else—just the number of offensive skills available to them are significantly limited compared to other classes. But I wouldn't say that they are harder to

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Sigh. You're correct. Remind me to always copy the text of a long post before submitting...Anyway, basically I wanted to respond to the questions we continue to receive about "It's almost June—when's the game coming out?"

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey all,For those of you who follow us on Twitter, I wanted to follow up on our last tweet with more detail than I can give in 140 characters. We've been getting a lot of questions about release date because, despite our

Re: Interview with outofsightgames

2017-05-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Interview with outofsightgames The Gaming for Everyone award doesn't work quite the same way as the other IGF awards; rather than submitting nominations for the judges to consider, these are simply selected by the ID@Xbox Gaming for Everyone team. So basically they just keep an eye on

Re: Interview with outofsightgames

2017-05-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Interview with outofsightgames Jeffb: We're currently working hard on trying to nail down a release window—this involves getting estimates from the composer and VO editor about how long the work on the score and VO processing will take, investigating some work that needs to be done to

Re: Interview with outofsightgames

2017-05-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Interview with outofsightgames Oh thank you, Ian. Now everyone gets to see my super-eloquent (insert sarcasm here) interview, haha. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=311649#p311649 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games I had a suspicion you guys would enjoy this. Glad I wasn't wrong!Arq, I'll take that as a personal compliment, since the overall structure of the song is my work—melody, chord structure, basic compositional structure, etc.

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Oh man, sorry guys—I don't know why only part of the post went through.He said it'd be ok if I shared his "audition" for the gig. Basically this is a demo of the first half of the main theme for "A Hero's Call" which

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey guys,While Steven hasn't begun work on the soundtrack yet—we're still working out details regarding all the licensing legalities, etc.—he did say it'd be fine if I shared his URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Threeblacknoises: Ok, lots to respond to in that post but here goes...- Yes, we will be providing some samples of Steven's work on the soundtrack as things progress.- Steven isn't exclusively a TV composer—in fact he's

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games At this point I can't answer either of those questions in detail—the truth is I don't know how the registration system will work, nor do I particularly care, because I don't know anything about that sort of thing, and so

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Ok, that's a promise I do feel comfortable making: I promise you will not have to wait five or six years!!! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=309581#p309581

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey Phil,We have a small squad of beta testers at present, and plan to expand that squad for a larger scale, intense beta testing period when we're a little bit closer. The reason we haven't had more people beta testing

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games BryanP: That'd be awesome if we could get it out for your birthday—what a way to celebrate! And yeah, we definitely don't want to lose the goodwill of the community...but at the same time, I hope that if we do push release

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Aaron, that post meant more than you know—thank you. It's definitely a lot of time, and that makes sense when you think of the scope of the work involved. Take a single simple facet, like getting the voice work implemented

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Yeah, PayPal will almost definitely be the payment method for purchasing the game from our website. And we're always happy to work with people if there's an issue. URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Follow-up: I hope my last post didn't sound harsh. I know most of you are being very positive about the whole release date question. It's just become something of a sore subject for the team because we want to release so

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey all,Wanted to share the full text of the recent update posted on our Kickstarter page. More to come, and please feel free to ask any questions.Also, as a matter of housekeeping—I have been trying to remind people of

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-04-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Do you have a smart phone with a screen reader? The Kindle app is very accessible. Anyway, I'm not sure if there's an audio version, but I'll ask him. If there isn't, he should totally narrate one. URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-04-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games You should totally leave a review on Amazon—I'm sure he'd appreciate it tremendously. Anyway I don't want to let this thread get hijacked with publicity for his novella, but I did want to give him a shout-out :-) URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-04-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Oh man, I am so sorry—I keep meaning to get back to you about that. Expect an email from me by the end of the week, and shoot me a line to bug me if you don't get it by then. I don't have access to my Out of Sight Games

Re: What is a Heros call, and when will it be released?

2017-04-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: What is a Heros call, and when will it be released? Thanks for catching this, guys. This topic went up while I was taking a necessary hiatus from AG.net to keep up with a busy time at work and school. I'm always happy to answer questions, though—assuming they aren't spoilers or things

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-04-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey all,Nothing specific to inform you of, but we've definitely been waiting a little longer than preferred on some information from one of our outside contractors—but it looks like we'll be getting that within the week.

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

2017-03-23 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Out of curiosity, Dark, why did you use XP until recently? Did you try the other OS releases and go back, and if so what didn't you like about them? Or did you have another reason for not upgrading until recently? URL:

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-03-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Guitarman: I'm glad Ian is working on this project too, haha. And if you ask me, he is definitely very cool, though maybe not so mysterious.Muhammad: At this point, I can't say much about release date. Please bear in mind

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

2017-03-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP This is all really interesting. I'm surprised that thus far, the only people who are using XP are those running Windows in a VM on a Mac. That's really fascinating. Obviously this is a very small sample size—but maybe it's not as important to

Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

2017-03-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Ok, thanks for the info. Jack, I imagine your situation is a little unique, but I'm mostly wondering about Windows users who are still using XP. Maybe it's not actually as common as I thought. I guess we'll see—I hope a lot more people will

Question for Gamers Running Windows XP

2017-03-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Question for Gamers Running Windows XP Hi all,I know a lot of audio games players are still running Windows XP. For those of you who are, I was wondering if you could answer a simple question: why? In your personal situation, why haven't you upgraded to a newer version of Windows? Is it a

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-03-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey guys,Sorry I've been quiet—last couple weeks, life has kept me pretty busy. (Side note: it is really hard to be productive as a game developer when everyone on the team has a day job, and some of us are doing graduate

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-03-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games So, short answer: if we can overcome some technical hurdles that we're facing, there is the possibility that we could publish "A Hero's Call" on Xbox. However, those technical challenges are pretty significant, and there's

Re: Monumental news out of GDC

2017-03-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monumental news out of GDC Assault: Correct, but a win for accessibility is a win for accessibility, and should be celebrated. Because of the multifaceted nature of accessibility for the blind, it's probably one of the more difficult types of accessibility to pull off as there's no

Re: Monumental news out of GDC

2017-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monumental news out of GDC I don't recall if Sony themselves made any noise about accessibility, but one of their proprietary titles (Uncharted 4) is definitely making waves in the accessibility world, and I know there were people from Sony at the inaugural Game Accessibility

Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games

2017-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Kickstarter Project for "A Hero's Call" from Out of Sight Games Hey everyone, thank you so much for the excitement and congratulations. Phil, thanks for posting—yes, we've all been pretty busy ^_^ It was an incredible week, and a tremendous honor, and has opened up so many

Re: Monumental news out of GDC

2017-03-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumGeneral Game Discussion : Joseph Westhouse via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Monumental news out of GDC So, I want to chip in to the conversation and lend my voice both in support of those who are excited, and in support of those saying let's not get too excited. Here we go...Let's not get too excited: I think it's unrealistic to expect too much retroactive

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