Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo SLJ wrote:I don't get from the first post what platform the game is made forSorry, I put it on the Subject line: The Amazon Echo. It's not a phone. It's a standalone speaker/microphone. They've kind of aimed it as a verbal front end to the

Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Starlanes is a Sci-Fi MMORPG set in the far future. You join a faction and pilot your thoughtship from star to star deploying drones to conquer or reinforce the territory held by your team. It's pretty simple, but the fact there are other

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Sorry, forgot I had a YouTube video of the game here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8ZZ_xdN3sNot much to see because, well, it's an audio game.You might have another look at the game, Orin. It's been under continuous developer for a

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Dark wrote:Rpgs are very! sought after sinse manifestly games like skyrim aren't accessible.Cool. I'm not particularly aiming at the vi market. It's just a happy coincidence since Alexa is audio-only. Sounds like maybe I should! Gotta make

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I got to review Roger on Android in beta, but it's buggy and not that usable. I can't really release that information here. But I can ask the developer to do so once they want an open beta. It is, apparently, already released on iOS. Search

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo OK. I've got a first draft primitive interface written. You can try it here:http://tsatsatzu.elasticbeanstalk.com/sl/simple.jspThe toggle between text-to-be-read and text-to-be-spoke isn't working. But it's stuck in "screen reader" mode. So

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Thanks for having a look at it. I see some exceptions in the log, and that's probably where you got booted. I certainly needs cleaning up.The game does have sounds. However, they are embedded in the text. "Get ready to transition.

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-02-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo krishna wrote:just got my echo about 2 days ago and loving the game so farYay!krishna wrote:I'm just wondering if there is somewhere where I can  find a basic list of commands for the game.The "help" topic on the wiki has a

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Holy crap! I had this page loaded for the last week, but totally failed to notice there was a page two. My apologies for not replying sooner!I'm glad you are enjoying StarLanes, and find it one of the most engaging games for the Echo. One of

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Honestly, they've moved international far quicker than I expected. I've actually be caught flat-footed without a good structure for localization. That's part of the delay in StarLanes 4.0; I'm putting in the infrastructure necessary for

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I was considering adding a "how do I get to XXX" function. StarSquad really kind of needs a "where's the nearest enemy base". The thing is that it can change depending on your ship's capabilities and the tide.I actually wrote a mapping tool

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-27 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Yeah. Someone pointed out the configurations weren't listed in the app. That's a problem I've got to fix. The list is this:Corvette: normal range, 300 drone bay, 3400 tons of fuelCourier: long range, 10 drone bay, 10 tons of fuelCarrier:

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I'll look into What'sApp. Had me thinking though. What I'm having to adapt the game to is a conversational engine. I *think* that once I've done that, it might be easy to hook it up to anything that just reads text. So I might try a quick

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo By "map" I meant "I'll go, trace the route, and give the signposts". :-) There is no visual map, and by design, there never will be. It's part of the game play. Known the best way around for a ship of a certain capacity is advantageous

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I found the problem. It took me a while because it wasn't the game itself, but the backup and archival routines written to keep the databases clean. The computer that runs them randomly stopped seeing the backup disk, so I was running them

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Well, I'm under NDA about the most interesting one. So I can't talk about that for another month or so.But the technology that gets me there also has options for getting to services like Facebook Messenger, Slack, Twillio, Skype, Kik, LINE,

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-24 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo There's a way to add Alexa as someone you can talk to via Roger. Last I used it, it was a little clunky. It tended to chop off part of what was said. And I can't remember the instructions... But I found this article

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-11-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I don't have it released on the German market yet. I spent last night slowly extracting all the text from my code to make it translatable. Amazon never give warnings about upcoming features. I figured they were at least a year away from

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-11-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I'm not sure what's up with Rodger. The iPhone version is a bit more stable than the Android version from what I've heard. (I'm just out the door on vacation for a week. So my replies may be a bit delayed!) URL:

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-11-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo I just tried it with my Echo and it's running. But I, too, can't connect to anything on Alexa when I use Roger. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=286527#p286527 ___

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-11-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Unfortunately I have no news right now. But Google Home's SDK will be released in December. We will be making a public statement about StarLanes plans soon after that. For now we've just said that we will be aiming for SubWar to be the first

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo Sorry about the error. It was just a weird situation where there wasn't a Futatsu leader. I patch it and I should work now. What's your callsign? I'll send some talents your way.You do get currency per drone destroyed. I can't remember

Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo

2016-10-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Starlanes: Audio only MMORPG for Amazon Echo If you say "status", it should report many things, including how much money you have.You can earn some money by destroying enemy ships. You can also say "bonus" to listen to an advertisement every 8 hours (I think) and earn either some

Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Sub War released on Google Home My submarine hunting audio game has now been released on Google Home. Just say "Ok Google, talk to Sub War". The gameplay is sort of Battleship, but in 3D. You get a sub, with six torpedoes, and set sail in the Action Straights, which are 10 kilometers

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home I'll see what I can do about a telnet client. I think with the interface I'm using it should be easy.And, I hear you about the ramp up for StarLanes. Did you take the tutorial? Just say tutorial to start it.I was talking this week with the people who did

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2017-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home I don't think I'm allowed to post in the German store unless the skill has been translated into German. Do you see other skills in the German store that are in English? I'm happy to post if there are. Otherwise I'm going to need to get my phrase file

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home You can try https://echosim.io/Login with any valid Amazon ID. It's a press-to-talk emulator. So you can press and say "Enable Sub War", "Enable 21 black jack", "Enable Star Lanes" or any of my other games. (Or any other skill.) Then you press and say

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home I know this should all work for Google Assistant for Pixel. I'm less sure about Android TV. I'm pretty sure this will eventually be on all Android devices. But knowing Google, they usually do "soft rollouts". They start small and then double their user

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-21 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home hanif, I'm pretty sure you need an Amazon account to use echosim. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=290349#p290349 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list

Re: Sub War released on Google Home

2016-12-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: Sub War released on Google Home You can say "name my ship Cincinatti" to name your sub.Most of my games I put in sliding prompts. Ones that get shorter over time. I hadn't done this for this game yet. If you let me know what the most annoying prompts are, I can start with those!(Let me

6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo TsaTsaTzu is happy to announce the release of it's latest game on the Amazon Echo. You assemble a team of adventurers, explore a fantasy landscape, seek bounties from castles, fight monsters in dungeons, and bring riches back to cities to

6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo TsaTsaTzu is happy to announce the release of it's latest game on the Amazon Echo. You assemble a team of adventurers, explore a fantasy landscape, seek bounties from castles, fight monsters in dungeons, and bring riches back to cities to

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I'm surprised you can do it without linking an account!A lot of people like exploring. The roads lead to all sorts of places. Each town and village is different. Different people are available in different Hiring Halls. Different shops

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo StarLanes is our other big game. We took a break from that to do this. We wanted to try out some new ideas with Six Swords. If they work out, we'll write them back into StarLanes. It is more of a strategic territory conquest game.We

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Thanks! Any help is great. Ultimately I want to have both free content and paid content. I'll leave it up to contributors if they want theirs free or paid. Just saying there is planned to be a way to get something out of it.As far as

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo There are some audio queues in the game. Not many, and I hope to add more. The only functionally relevant one is a short cut tone that it plays to indicate you can say "more" for additional information. Other than this, everything said

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo That's a terrible user experience! I'm amazed you have stuck with it this far!I will take the outage reports from Google at face value then. I'm not a wizard at AWS and servers are not my strong point. I just tried quadrupling the

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-10 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Sure, smoothgunner, send me on your rules. I'll have a look and say what level of complexity I think it is, and how well it might work as an audio game. There's a few techniques I rolled out with 6 Swords around dealing with complexity

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Oh, hey! I didn't see it had spilled onto a second page. :-)I did do "21 black jack", but I'm not sure that really counts!Someone asked me to do chess once, but I was afraid that it would be hard to craft a good user experience. There's

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo You can always enable it right from the web page: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01GVGVSM0 URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=310250#p310250 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-16 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo It's been 24 hours since I shifted servers and I haven't seen an outage message yet from Google. So I think things are looking good there. Please report any outages you experience.supermalavox, thanks for the suggestions. Amazon just

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Good catch Tony78. I've logged an issue (#140) to recognize +1, etc, when identifying an item. However, changes to what the skill can hear have to be tied to major versions, since that requires re-certification by Amazon. So that's

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hey smoothguner. I had a quick look at Battle Cards. I need to dig into it more, but I caught a line that said an "Any" card could be played at any time. That's kind of a problem. Alexa is call-and-response. You can't interrupt her. I

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I just pushed this week's update. They major part is the first (mini) module to be released: Batrachian City. It's located due north of Village of Achnasheen. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=311831#p311831

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I had a talk with some people who know AWS better than me. Apparently I was running on a server that was the equivalent of a TRS-80 or something. So I've upgraded my production server. Let me know if that improves things. URL:

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Alexa isn't always the best, especially when it comes to names. I use fuzzy matching internally to resolve when a direct match does not work. So a tip is to say a more common name that starts with the same letter. If you say "hire

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Right now it is a single player game. I'm trying to work out how to make it multi-player, and how that would work. Suggestions welcome.One thing that I am thinking of introducing is an "arena" in large towns. You can choose to fight in

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Right now it is a single player game. I'm trying to work out how to make it multi-player, and how that would work. Suggestions welcome.One thing that I am thinking of introducing is an "arena" in large towns. You can choose to fight in

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo 6 Swords should be out on the Google Home shortly. It is currently in the third round of certification. So it could be any day. It is identical to the one on Alexa, and you can play the same team from either device (if you set them both

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-05 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I did my big update today. I put release notes here: http://starlanes.freeforums.net/thread/94/release-notesI was able to put in the "no religion" switch. Right now it's manual and done by admin request. So if anyone wants it turned on

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hmm. Leave this with me. I've been thinking on this off and on over the day. I think there are only two places in the code where temples-in-cities and ruined-temples are generated. I've created an issue (#123) to spend a bit of time

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hmm. That would cut a fair amount out of the game. I picked the Roman gods because they aren't currently worshiped in the mainstream, yet they are a familiar part of Western culture. They are really just decoration in the game. There

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-05-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I identify as a Christian, but I attend a Unitarian Universalist "church", so I do try my best to be sensitive to other views and perspectives. It is a bit challenging to create a fantasy setting with no references to the supernatural.

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-30 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Ammunition. I've opened an issue to look into it to make sure things are working as expected.Werecreatures. There are Werebears, Wereboars, Wererates, Weretigers, and Werewolves. They just aren't very common, so you don't meet them all

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Ammunition. I thought it was too much of a headache and no addition to game play to make you independently equip each character with ammunition. Instead characters pull the best ammunition available from the common pool and use that.

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Ridgedale. Names for towns are randomly selected from a list of about 3000 per culture. But, because it is random, you may get duplicates. Maybe I should change that name slot to Springfield!Elixir of Mercury. It's a potion of speed.

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo This week's updates include new feature types. And, now that we have a coordinate system, I can tip you off to where to find them!Latitude 0 degrees 1 minute south, Longitude 0 degrees, 9 minutes east: narrow cleft to dinosaurs.Latitude

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Oh, Dark, the audio model update should now be live in the UK. See if "news" and "sleep" work now. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=346186#p346186 ___

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Sorry, thought I replied. A potion of speed doubles the number of attacks the user gets in combat. Definitely a nice potion!The quests I have planned for the premium area are not so much alignment based, but politics based. The Empire

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Just give a potion to a character and they will drink it. They work for a limited time, depending on the potion. Most combat orientated potions will work for 10 to 40 in game minutes. Each round of combat takes one minute. Moving from

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-02-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Apologies for not replying sooner. It scrolled onto a 5th page and I hadn't noticed! Anyway, some good news and some bad news...Google Home seems to have a problem retaining your user ID. Your game identity is indexed based on this. For

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-02-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I've been talking with Google about the party ID problem. It appears they have a "feature" of recognizing individual voices. The problem is that if it doesn't recognize an individual voice, it generates a random ID. It's not clear to me

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-02-22 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo This game is available on Google Home (OK Google talk to 6 Swords) or Amazon Alexa (Alexa, open 6 Swords). We were kicking around the idea yesterday of making a web version using some off-the-shelf speech to text and text to speech

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Thank you for such positive comments!Sadly the skill is currently not in the German store. I wish it was. And I've set it up so that it can be localized. So far all I've done is change the names to Indian names in the India geography.

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Quick response. (I used all my vacation on a big summer trip, so I actually have to day-job work between Christmas and new year's, but still get the kids sorted and host a party today!) Dark, you're not crazy, you're just British. You

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo At the start of my time on Echo I tried many different games. Of late I have decided to mostly focus on doing one game very well. That being said, if there is an easy port that could be interesting, I'm happy to take a look. Many text

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-28 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Blessings are not used up. You need to have been blessed at least once to be able to use the healing pool. If you have been blessed three times (I think) then you can get past the pool into the infirmary. They will cure you of level

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-02 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Wooly Rhinos in a den? Too funny. That's what you get with all the procedurally generated stuff. And that's my dilemma. You've got good ideas there and I've noted them down. My choice is to create, say, a "dark fey grove" generation

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Time for the long response.Combat. As far as optimal choice of weapons, your characters will chose what makes the most sense for the combat they face. I couldn't really come up with a good interface that let you make tactical decisions

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2017-12-25 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Sorry for not responding sooner. I couldn't get through to the forum for a few months.Firstly, yes, 6 Swords is still in active development. We introduced a "news" feature to keep people abreast of the new things we've added. If people

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-01-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Exploration is definitely part of the game. I learned that in StarLanes where some players just loved roaming the outback to see what they could find. My aim is that there are enough places that you can easily find, but also hidden

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I reformatted this out of pity for those with screen readers. Found a really stupid parsing error which stopped over a hundred monsters being loaded. Expect the monster diversity to go up a lot in the near future.The full list of added

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Issue #327 was "Dragons should be multiplexed differently". So we will, indeed, get Huge Ancient Red Dragons, along with Young Small Silver Dragons, and so forth. I have "Dragon Dens" on my list, and we need that variety to make it so

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo OK. new release pushed. Please let me know if you find any bugs or wildly unbalanced monsters. Technically you can now say "about achievements" and it will give you your achievements, and after the "more" it will describe each

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo 20 Giant Wasps is the maximum! So I expect it is tough. Monsters are rated by fighting a trial mock combat against a team of six 'average' adventurers. The thing is the team is average, and the number used is the average appearing.

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Right now there are a number of new features that are present in the premium area. Roads come in multiple flavors, from paths to paved. There are also rivers. The geography is set, not generated, so there are mountain ranges, seas,

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-06 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I'm afraid I'm going to have to walk back some comments I made earlier!6 Swords has been invited to participate in Amazon's monetization trial. We have accepted because it also comes with a promotional package, which is what we really

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo This week's update has gone out. There's some behinds the scenes work on better integration with the premium content area, but I had to comment that off since Amazon hasn't rolled out their monetization stuff yet. Most of the rest was

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-13 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo You should be able to activate by voice. But it doesn't really matter either way.Don't worry about paying. You do that from within the game. And it hasn't been turned on yet anyway. I keep asking Amazon if they are ready to go, but they

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-08 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo At some point there will be tri-form arches to the premium area in each town and city in the starting world. I'm still waiting for details from Amazon about when I can release the new stuff and if it requires certification. There is,

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Just pushed the latest update. As above, the big new feature are more interesting cities in the premium section, including revamped temples. Temples in smaller cities may not have the healing pool in them. Larger cities are more likely

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-31 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I've gone ahead and reduced the damage from Dragon's breath weapons, reduced the frequency they use it with, and made Dragons more rare. See what it's like after the update and let me know what you think.This week's update is going to

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I like the idea of temples infested with demons or devils. Maybe that can be a focus for Patron Deity based missions. There could be an interesting tie in with the civil war. The first novel in the Six Books of Magic deals with invading

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo First up: latest release is live. Dragon treasure is adjusted and they can breathe fire, acid, lightning and so forth. If a beloved character gets permanently toasted, talk to me and I'll arrange a resurrection for 100,000 g.p.Those

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-26 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Surviving characters automatically loot the bodies of any fallen comrades. I think you only lose equipment if your entire party dies. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=356280#p356280

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-04-03 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I mean to look up the location yesterday, but I normally deal with the internal coordinates. It game coordinates the tri-form arch to the beta area is at 0 degrees 10 minutes North latitude and 0 degrees 10 minutes East longitude. If

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo New release today! The biggest update is "wizard shops". In major cities you should now be able to find a wizard shop that sell wishes. For the princely sum of 100,000 gold pieces you can increase one of your stats, or bring a fallen

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-17 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo I expected there would be a few mal-adjusted monsters with the new batch. Thanks for reporting this. I could nerf them down, but there are a few reasons I'd rather not.1) If I start now, I won't know where to stop. I'm trying to use the

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-19 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo To be clear: the deaths in my dragon testing were by pure physical damage. It can already happen now, it's just rare. By straight D rules, if you get knocked down to -10 hit points, then you die. It's just that there are very few things

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-18 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo There's no technical reason I can't port 6 Swords to Cortana. I haven't looked into it before because they didn't invite me onto their beta, and there seems to be a pretty low adoption rate. (My wife also thinks it is creepy!) If you

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-03-04 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Well, I'm glad there are still some surprises there that can scare the crap out of you. :-) I some point I'll be adding in Giant based locations and Dragon based ones. Those should ensure there are always challenges to overcome!There

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-11-07 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hey Chris, in large towns (or just to the North of the starting point) you can find a tri-form arch. Entering this will give you an opportunity to move to the premium content area. There's a bit of back-and-forth with Amazon and you

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2019-01-20 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hey Folks! I've done some work on a parallel game call "6 Thieves", where you play thieves in a big medieval city instead of fighters roaming the country side. I'm at the point where I'm going to open it for Alpha use. There isn't much

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2019-01-09 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Erk. Sorry about that. That's not supposed to happen. I've entered a bug to fix that and moved you back to the Enuma Elish dimension. I also bumped up one of your companion's hit points a few as a bug finding bounty!If you have gotten

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2019-01-11 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Hey Simon. Just say "OK Google, open Six Swords". We've been on Google home for about a year and a half. I was looking through my top 100 users and about 20-30% of them are on Google Home. So you are well covered! URL:

Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo

2018-12-29 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: 6 Swords - Fantasy Adventure game for Amazon Echo Huh. That's kind of odd. I'll look into it. I've got an update to post (just bugfixes) but I'm in change freeze mode due to the holidays. December 26th is the biggest traffic day of the year. So I'm waiting to watch the hump pass before

Re: StarTrade

2019-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: StarTrade I got system and star movement working. So you can explore the area. I'll try to get buying and selling cargo working next. Then there will be actually something you can play and actually do something.The style of the app is something I've developed for audio games, where

Re: StarTrade

2019-06-12 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: StarTrade TELNET!I've wrapped an experimental telnet interface around the development version of StarTrade. It probably lacks a lot of the features you expect from a text adventure game. Since it was designed for voice, it isn't abbreviation friendly. I've only used it with the command

Re: StarTrade

2019-06-14 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: StarTrade Thanks for the stack trace. Between that and the error logs I was able to replicate it on my Windows machine. It is one of those "this should never happen" errors. But when I turned on the extra debugging I have, it went away. Shrug.Give it a go again and I think it should be

Re: StarTrade

2019-06-15 Thread AudioGames . net ForumNew releases room : jjaquinta via Audiogames-reflector
Re: StarTrade Well, you are inspiring me. I put some time aside last night to see if it was practical to wrap the same sort of interface around StarLanes, since it's an already running multi-player game. I got basic connectivity going, but it doesn't seem to recognize anything said. So it

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