[Audyssey] golfCan someone please tell me how to get golf from kitchensinc? I'm not sure how to spell it, and i can't find it on audiogames.net. thank you.

2009-07-17 Thread Robyn Bowskill
- Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch Hi Dark, Regardless if I create the game as a stand alone

Re: [Audyssey] entumbed?

2009-07-17 Thread Jason Allen
The Entombed message board has replaced the forum. You can sign up here: http://groups.google.com/group/entombedgame/ Also, the download is always available here: http://www.blind-games.com/EntombedSetup.exe Thanks! Jason On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 6:45 AM, piotr machacz piterm...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed stuff

2009-07-17 Thread Jason Allen
Let me know what email you signed up under and I'll see if I can add you manually. Thanks! Jason On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Allan Thompson allan1.thomp...@cox.netwrote: Hi Jason, I have been waiting for google to send me a response back to set up an account for me since that pesky type

Re: [Audyssey] golf Can someone please tell me how to get golf

2009-07-17 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Robyn, To get my golf game, just go to my web site. The file name is wingolfx.exe and The file can be found on my free windows sapi5 text to speech games page. Please do first get the winkit.zip file and run the setup.exe in it before installing the golf game. The winkit.zip file is the

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed stuff

2009-07-17 Thread Allan Thompson
Sure thing. thanks for the help. It is... allan1.thomp...@cox.net - Original Message - From: Jason Allen evildi...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 5:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Entombed stuff Let me know what email you signed

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Shadow Dragon
I wasn't really suggesting anything. Mostly I was just rambling about my take on roleplaying games. Certainly the only way I can think of to do skills checks and such is through dice rolls or other forms of random number generation, aside from leaving all skill and strategy up to the player as

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom, That copyright stuff sounds like a mess. With the litigious nature of companies and people today, I can understand why you want to avoid that mine field as best you can. When it comes to which game to make, there is nothing saying that you couldn't create both over time. If I

[Audyssey] science fiction was Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Allan Thompson
Hi Tom and Dark, I really like where you guys are going with the topic, and I was hoping to throw in my five dollars(inflation, you know, grin). My only concern about a scifi universe like what dark explained was that the primary purpose might get overshadowed with all the very cool things a

Re: [Audyssey] Combat was: Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Yeah, I agree that the way combat is presented in Sryth and other rpg style games like it is pretty dull. This is one aspect of roll playing games that is much better in a human moderated paper and pen game. The combat was just so much different with a human gm to decide things. For

Re: [Audyssey] Combat was: Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris, That's a good idea. As I touched upon in my previous e-mail back in the day when I was into the paper and pen games the gm would let us pick a maneuver or course of action. If the character happened to be a martial artest he or she might be able to choose from a list of attacks like

[Audyssey] music pitch test

2009-07-17 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi folks, Here is an on-line way to check your sense of pitch. They play 27 tunes and ask you if they are in pitch or slightly distorted. This test sounds interesting but with IE7 and Jaws, I was unable to get it to work http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/tunetest --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread dark
Well A long time ago in a galaxy far far away is ambiguous enough for it to be set anywhere, ;D. But that was my point. An Sf setting can include fantasy elements, where as it's much less plausable to have a fantasy setting including sf elements like robots, lasers space ships etc. The

[Audyssey] role playing game for the blind

2009-07-17 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, Carl and myself were working on a role playing game when he got the job at IBM. Our combat system gave you several choices depending on your class and level. Such as , aim your sword for your enemy's head, slash straight down, Poke at them with the point, and so on. The key to the

Re: [Audyssey] role playing game for the blind

2009-07-17 Thread Phil Vlasak
Adding to my last message, we tried this turn based combat system out but was not satisfied with it as it took too long to make your choices. We ended up withan 8 key attack system using the six pack keys for different types of attacks and the up and down arrow keys for attack and retreat. The

Re: [Audyssey] science fiction was Creating Roll Playing Games FromScratch

2009-07-17 Thread Ryan Strunk
I think you have an awesome idea for a series of novels, a mud, or any massively multi-player game out there. Can I have your autograph? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Allan Thompson Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:36

Re: [Audyssey] golf Can someone please tell me how to get golf

2009-07-17 Thread Charles Rivard
Also, don't forget to download and install all of the files of additional golf courses that people have created for the game. There are loads of golf courses to play if you get them all. It's sort of like the user created missions of Lone Wolf, if you play that game. You get 17 missions with

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Shadow Dragon
Magitech is by far my favorite genre, especially when you get things like soldiers from ff7, highly-enhanced humans infused with energy from the planet and bread spacifically for battle and war. I also like how it leaves open several interesting posibilities, for example combining the gun and

Re: [Audyssey] music pitch test

2009-07-17 Thread Simon Jaeger (laptop)
I can't get this to work. I'd personally love to have it working as I want to know whether I *actually* have perfect pitch or not. It's quite frustrating. I'm going to try wit hfirefox now, and see if that works. Simon On Friday, July 17, 2009 6:55 AM, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote:

Re: [Audyssey] science fiction was Creating Roll Playing GamesFromScratch

2009-07-17 Thread Allan Thompson
LOL...sure, anything for my quadrillions of adoring fans, grin. Would you like that printed, cursive, in braile, or can I just send it to you telepathically, grin. LOL. Actually I've done RPGs off and on for a good thirty years so hopefully something good came out of all that dice rolling

Re: [Audyssey] golf Can someone please tell me how to get golf

2009-07-17 Thread Robyn Bowskill
Thanks for that. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Robyn Bowskill Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] golf Can someone please tell me how to get golf Hi Robyn, To get my golf game, just go to my web site. The

Re: [Audyssey] BPP: ZOA Flyin ON SCHEDULE

2009-07-17 Thread Harun
I'm going to nab this nearly verbatum from one of Zack's previous posts, since he put it so well. Hope ye don't mind, Zack! :) Harun will be running an ATC flyin today, July 17, at 05:00 central time, 6 Eastern. Anybody with Flight Simulator 2004, IYP, and Teamspeak is welcome to

[Audyssey] BPP Flyin, July 17 2009 RESCHEDULED

2009-07-17 Thread Harun
Ahoy. The Flyin for July 17th has been postponed to Saturday July 18th at 22Z / 17CST / 5PM. Cheers, --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at

Re: [Audyssey] BPP: ZOA Flying ON SCHEDULE

2009-07-17 Thread Mike Maslo
Can you do another trip tomorrow?? I just got home from work and was unable to make it -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Harun Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 4:17 PM To: gamers Subject: Re: [Audyssey] BPP: ZOA Flyin ON

[Audyssey] FW: BVI Forum

2009-07-17 Thread Mike Maslo
Lets use this it could be useful and helpful -Original Message- From: Blind Pilots [mailto:b...@itsyourplane.com] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 3:20 PM To: Helen Cooper Cc: Lars Peter Hammer Subject: BVI Forum Hi, I've setup a BVI Forum on our servers.

[Audyssey] I could use a tip

2009-07-17 Thread Scott Shade
Okay folks, because I like a challenge I'm trying to land the smaller aircraft and this is what happens for sure on the smaller planes and to a lesser extent on the lear. I'm making my landing just fine to the runway but when I hit using its your plane, the aircraft hits and bounces and comes

Re: [Audyssey] BPP Flyin, July 17 2009 RESCHEDULED

2009-07-17 Thread shaun everiss
hmmm probably for the best slept through the flyin. keep putting em out, if I am active around the time of the flyin I'll try to be there, although I will try to be on all of them if I can I sertainly will be listening to them. just keep emailing me the ips when they come around, and I will try

Re: [Audyssey] music pitch test

2009-07-17 Thread shaun everiss
phill I just tried with ie6 and jaws. I got the buttons worked out but no links to play anything. it said you need windows mediaplayer or quicktime. I have mediaplayer classic quicktime alternitive and windows mediaplayer 11 so I had one of the supported players. the links sertainly did not work.

Re: [Audyssey] I could use a tip

2009-07-17 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Scott, Most of the planes I've seen land have their nose pointed up as if they were taking off and their wing wheels touch down first then the nose lowers and touches last while the plane slows down. Maybe you don't have the nose Pointed up enough. - Original Message - From: Scott

Re: [Audyssey] I could use a tip

2009-07-17 Thread Mike Maslo
Phil: You are absolutely right. Scott needs t hit the bottom or the arrow down between 8 to 12 times. I had the same problem and doing that fixed the problem to have a perfect landing. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Audyssey] Combat was: Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread dark
Sounds cool Tom. The way you describe the x men battles actually reminds me of some of the fights we have each weekend when I am playing the mutants and masterminds rp game with friends, and some of our tactics. In one fight for example, we were up against a guy who had both a corrosive

Re: [Audyssey] role playing game for the blind

2009-07-17 Thread dark
Hi Phil. The only worry with that sort of system of combat moves I have is that either your specific class or level has one optimum attacking stratogy which you use in all situations. I've played several online games where this in fact happens. Given the options you describe, I'd personally

[Audyssey] entombed request

2009-07-17 Thread Valiant8086
Can a notification be added so we know for sure when we wield or unwield a two-handed weapon? Weapon wielding seems to be a little tricky. I found that I was using a weapon I wasn't able to use. I heard already that the developer knows about that. I used a bow for a while and I wanted to

Re: [Audyssey] Combat was: Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, I think it should be possible. Obviously, a computer based roll playing game couldn't offer the same range of possibilities as a live roll playing game played with human players, but it doesn't need to. I am sure a competent programmer can come up with a limited number of

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Valiant8086
I'm interested in being able to play this game on my braille plus. As a browser based game I believe this could be achieved easily. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward To: Gamers Discussion list Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll

Re: [Audyssey] science fiction was Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Allan, I do think you have a decent story line that could be further developed into a roll playing game. Although, there are a few miner issues where I differ with you on the story line. First, your story line proposes assembling a team of brave adventurers to explore the galaxy for the

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Al, Yeah, copyrights can be a serious pain in the backside sometimes. It all really depends on how strongly the company wants to press the issue, and weather or not the content is in the public domain. For example, in the 1990's there was a show called Hercules the Legendary Journies.