Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi everyone,I just wanted to give you complete transparency with the slowdown: I took a short extension of a contract for producing music for an 8bit/retro game from a few months ago. (Here's one of the pieces if

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Cody, thanks man! I listen to the soundtrack for that game when shopping for groceries lol. I really like it.I use two free vst plugins - peach and magical 8bit plugin. Those are their exact names. I generally layer

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike You're welcome Cody, but also... I've struggled in the games industry to make it as an audio designer and composer for years. I can't tell you how refreshing and validating it is to find a group of people that like my

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Thanks Ironcross!! The game is struggling in development so you're officially the first sale lol. I put up two more soundtracks not because I want you to buy them (leave your email and I'll just send them for buying

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey Jeffb, yes it is.This update has a LOT of polish and bug fixes and the snow level is almost done. I wanted to make this a big update instead of a few little ones. I can't work on it this weekend but I estimate

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey Jeffb, yes it is.This update has a LOT of polish and bug fixes and the snow level is almost done. I wanted to make this a big update instead of a few little ones. I can't work on it this weekend but I estimate

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi Mojsior, Good feedback! I'm going to see if I can make the core of the trail a little louder than the edges of it. That will help. Some people have beaten it, it's just a somewhat hard skill. When you beat it, the

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey Crashmaster, really awesome points, particularly mentioning Mudsplat and Teraformas. I agree with you completely. I'm using something called "scalability" in Unreal Engine, and it's how you can tweak graphic

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Update - FINALLY. This one was a long time coming.Important things:Video settings - press 1 on the number pad, or F1, for the lowest setting. You can do this in the menu. The menu is narrated but requires a mouse. If

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Update - FINALLY. This one was a long time coming.Important things:Video settings - press 1 on the number pad, or F1, for the lowest setting. You can do this in the menu. The menu is narrated but requires a mouse. If

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi SLJ, I am still working on that. I have one more thing to try before I duplicate all the maps with all of the textures, meshes and lighting completely removed. I don't want to do that because any time I need to go

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike No you're right, but it's the last step I can take in terms of optimizing the game. Beyond that, there's really nothing more I can do. I think it's the engine. Unreal is a really, really powerful games engine so I

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Update - FINALLY. This one was a long time coming.Important things:Video settings - press 1 on the number pad, or F1, for the lowest setting. You can do this in the menu. The menu is narrated but requires a mouse. If

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey everyone, update on the update.I'm about 95% done with it. It's a huge gameplay update particularly regarding the behaviour of the NPC victims. Before, I was relying on a trait called "pawn sensing" which is very

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Update - FINALLY. This one was a long time coming.Important things:Video settings - press 1 on the number pad, or F1, for the lowest setting. You can do this in the menu. The menu is narrated but requires a mouse. If

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike If everyone could give me feedback on the optimization and if it helped, that would be awesome. And let's get more people playing this, it'll only make the game better. Spread it around! URL:

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Ironcross,I'm still getting there with disabling. I'm working on trying to make it a function, so that everyone plays one level, as opposed to every single level having a duplicate with no visuals. I think I'm almost

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Is it playable right now? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=328496#p328496 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi Nick, yes there is a new version, it was linked in comment #64 but also here below. I'll check the front page, apologies if I didn't update it. Huge optimization update is immediately in effect, and to further

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi Stefan, I've done quite a bit of optimization but now I just asked in a few forums how to disable graphics 100% without doubling every level. I'm hoping I'll get a good answer, if not I will have to remove all

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Sure Stefan my twitter is https://www.twitter.com/lostandhound1, do you use twitter? URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=328677#p328677 ___

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi everyone! It's been quiet the past week or so because I had to travel for a few days, and then catch up on some audio contract work but now, it's back to development!I'm behind on my last update. Sorry about

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Ok Jeffb, I will lower the storm a bit. Also you're right I have these logs in the beginning to indicate a parking area but they serve no real purpose I bet you got stuck on them. I'll take the, out. Good feedback man

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Looking into it, Wightfall. It might be something you have to do outside of the game, update your DirectX but I'll ask around on the forums.Ironcross, we're all pretty bad at it man. I really struggle to follow the

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Thanks Jeffb, I think you're right. I'm checking out the F11 problem right now. Crashmaster, I agree with everything you have said. I feel guilty when I pride myself on making a game accessible by all, but if it

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Sightless Kombat wrote:@128In all honesty, I think you're taking accessibility to all a little too literally.  By this, I do not mean that you shouldn't try and make it run on every computer, but I'd sugges you face

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey everyone, so you probably noticed that development has slowed to a crawl temporarily. This is because I got a really incredible (temporary) new job, doing sound and voice dialogue for an upcoming software

Demo Release - Lost and Hound, a tracker dog RPG for blind and sighted

Demo Release - Lost and Hound, a tracker dog RPG for blind and sighted Hey everyone, I introduced this game in the general section and got some enthusiastic feedback so I cranked out a demo today. This game has visuals, and all the mechanics are through audio, just like tracking/rescue

Demo Release - Lost and Hound, a tracker dog RPG for blind and sighted

Demo Release - Lost and Hound, a tracker dog RPG for blind and sighted Hey everyone, I introduced this game in the general section and got some enthusiastic feedback so I cranked out a demo today. This game has visuals, and all the mechanics are through audio, just like tracking/rescue

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey Nick, I am glad you're engaging and getting interested in the game world I've made. In terms of the alternative ending suggestions, in a dog search, it can really only end two ways, life or death, and both will be

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Update is up, both 32 and 64 bit windows systems. x32 http://daisyalesoundworks.com/Lost%20an … %20x32.rarx64 http://daisyalesoundworks.com/Lost%20an … %20x64.rar URL:

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Nick, I haven't forgotten about your audio demo. I've been working on the game all day and need a break otherwise I'm going to start hating developing it. I'll do an audio demo sometime tonight, within a few more

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike I updated the first post so new people wouldn't have to go all the way to the bottom to get the recent version of the game. Should I leave the older versions in the top post, do you think? URL:

Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Hey everyone! Sorry for the long post, there's a bit of backstory that needs explaining. You're a fledgling rescue dog standing in for the local canine unit that has its hands full. The world's soundscape is incredibly lush and

Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Hey everyone! Sorry for the long post, there's a bit of backstory that needs explaining. You're a fledgling rescue dog standing in for the local canine unit that has its hands full. The world's soundscape is incredibly lush and

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Note: links were broken for about 5 minutes after post. They're fixed now. The're here if you don't want to read the whole post again. x32: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5p5tf2pshgt61 … 2.rar?dl=0x64:

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Simba, you're exactly right. You *will* run into an alternate scent trail in this game and I hope you follow it. There are no time limits, and it's my plan to put in these dense little audio vignettes, mini stories and musical

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike It's curved. I don't know about raycasting but it sounds like something I need to learn! Looking it up now, thanks! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=327806#p327806

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Thanks Mayana!You're right. The keystroke to skip levels involves shift but it isn't up or S. Holding down shift is running but I think I'll disable running because it's meant as a pitfall for overconfident sighted people. I'm

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike It's up! Here, if you don't want to do the top post over again. https://www.dropbox.com/s/v1uo7zmitpx2v … 4.rar?dl=0 URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=327855#p327855

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike

Re: Lost and Hound, Rescue Dog RPG for blind and sighted alike Apparently dropbox has a traffic limit. Uploading it to my audio website. Bear with me, everyone, sorry! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=327865#p327865 ___

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Death time - updated it with a 32 bit version. It's also here. http://daisyalesoundworks.com/Lost%20an … %20x32.rar URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=327960#p327960

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi Atlan, yes you can. Controls are above but I'll repeat them here too. W/Up arrow is move forwardS/Back arrow is backwardsA is strafe left, left arrow is turn leftD is strafe right, right arrow is turn rightE is

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Version 1.02 fixes from 1.00:Autorun bug is goneLevel skip bug is goneScent trail is a little wider and a little louder - might not be a good thingScent trail is optimized for land height - wasn't beforeTent visual

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Yes message 1 has an updated linke to 1.02 but also here is the 32 bit link. http://daisyalesoundworks.com/Lost%20an … %20x32.rar URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=328042#p328042

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Yes, sorry Orko! I uploaded it but did not update the 32 bit in message #1. Here is the link. It's updated above too. http://daisyalesoundworks.com/Lost%20an … %20x32.rar URL:

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Yes sorry Nick. There is one executable to run the game, called MyProject2 in the first folder. There is no install, it just runs immediately so unzip everything into a folder and run MyProject2. URL:

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey everyone, sorry for the long bit of silence there. I'm finishing up my contract and will have a LOT more time to develop this.Things I've fixed: the scent trail is much easier to follow, as the falloff range of

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi Nick, that's really interesting, your computer is just a little bit underneath mine in terms of processing power. I'm running an intel-core i5 at 2.71 gb, while you're running an i3 at 2.1 gb.  Your native

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike NEW UPDATE! This is a polishing update, meaning no new content but I've made the game a *LOT* easier to play, and more satisfying. I've added cues to when you reach certain important points in the game, and improved

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey everyone - sorry for the radio silence.I got married! And then moved 600k away! Still moving things in but the PC is up and running which means development for Lost and Hound is full speed ahead again. Speaking of

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey Dark, I did see your latest post. The newest sound processing changes are NOT implemented in the latest build because I'm still getting them right. It's a huge step forward for us but it's not perfect yet. I hope

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi everyone! I didn't make the last deadline I set for myself, but I've got a few breakthroughs in the game regarding audio directionality that I think you'll really dig! Check out this video. It's somewhat loud.

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hey LordLundin, yes that's right. You can still bark, but the auto-follow is fixed now, and was broken before. In future levels bark will be used to call his attention to something, but only a few times at most per

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike @191 Do you hear footsteps? There are some area restrictions in the tutorial. Can you keep following the trail to the end? If you follow it to the end, the guy should say he's going to do something else that requires

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike Hi everyone, exciting announcement: I've been quiet for a while because I've been doing things to expand the game and prepare for it's eventual launch. One of those things is to secure funding: I have been awarded a

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike

Re: Lost and Hound Demo - Rescue Dog RPG for the sighted and blind alike @194 I've had mixed messages about the sock part - I'm told that some people are really getting stuck there and some people are having no problem at all. I'll need to do some more testing, can you elaborate on the