well it will be said to see him not write games but I have read his guides.
They are usefull and may encourage me to do a few myself.
At 03:20 p.m. 12/04/2011, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Yeah, I know. I've talked to him off list a time or two, and for a
while he was looking into VB .Net and XNA, but
Hey, Thomas.
The reason someone should keep making games for the blind is because if
you and others don't do it then nobody will.
I do have to say that I am glad people like Jim who does
kitchensinc.net games do it for the enjoyment of making people happy to
be able to play games without
Hey, Thomas.
How could I get these games then knowing the problems people have had
with this company sending the games?
I would like to get the two games grizzly gulch and chillingham.
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Hi Thomas,
But, you forget the power of the wrestling belt.
It allows the wearer to time travel to any era and grab any wrestler at
their prime and bring them back to today, so they will have a fare fight.
I enjoyed Harry Hollingworth's baseball game where you could play Babe Ruth
against Micky
I think that computer room services still sells them.
Simon
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skype, slifinger
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From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net
To: gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 8:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A bavisoft
How much spare time do you have, Michael? Maybe you can make games for the
blind, too? I'll tell you that if you have a full time job, it's not just
the 40 hours a week you spend at it. I leave at around 7 in the morning,
get home at almost 6 at night. Then there's dinner, taking care of
Hey, Charles.
I do understand that because I am in college now. I try to find some
time to play some games at least a couple of times a week.
I hope everyone who makes games for the blind don't stop. I do respect
and think alot of those who take their time out of their daily life and
create
Hi tom.
It sounds like this project is changing rather vastly from what I originally
thought it was, sinse I originally thought you were just expanding the
initial pile driver to be easier to use and have career modes and the like.
Obviously this is no longer the case.
While I do see the
Hi everyone,
After so much time on bug fixing and implementing a major new feature, I am
pleased to finally present you with River Raiders 1.2!
Here is the complete change log:
. Added: Online score posting.
. Added: A configuration utility accessible through the main menu.
. Added: More ghosts
Hi Clement,
You forgot the part where you can't push the button while the so-called
siren is playing. I think I still have one of those, although it doesn't
work.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Behalf Of
That too... but nevertheless, it's still a whole lot of fun.
At 07:29 AM 12/04/2011, you wrote:
Hi Clement,
You forgot the part where you can't push the button while the so-called
siren is playing. I think I still have one of those, although it doesn't
work.
Best Regards,
Hayden
Hi To one and all.
Like the subject states.
I'm going to be picking up the Logitech F 510 USB hand controller like
everyone has been enjoying.
I picked up the Logitech F710 unit and I couldn't get it to work. Plus, I
had to hold down on the force feedback button so that the force feedback
Hi Ron,
Well, like I said before I haven't noticed any problems with the unit,
but then again I only have a 32-bit system running Windows 7. So
things might work differently on the newer 64-bit systems. I just
don't know about that.
However, as a game developer I'd like to know what you find
Hi Jim,
Well, you are right about that. A lot of the wrestlers like any other
star got passed around quite a lot. Once their contract was up they
generally took a walk to another federation or wrestling alliance and
got a job. Especially, if they were a big name star, and wanted a
better
Hi Dark,
Well, you are right that I started out with something like Piledriver
in mind, but since discussing it with the list it is clear people want
something more pro wrestling specific. However, I never planned on
necessarily making up your own wrestler from scratch. I was thinking
more along
Hi Phil,
Lol! Yeah, I did think that was a bit strange. However, it was a good
game all things considered.
On 4/12/11, Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net wrote:
Hi Thomas,
But, you forget the power of the wrestling belt.
It allows the wearer to time travel to any era and grab any wrestler at
Tom, I have some sad news to report.
I'm going to ask for some help from my fellow blind gamers who like myself
are looking to untie themselves from the keyboard as well.
Would you agree or disagree with the following?
We're looking for something with around fifteen to twenty function buttons,
Hi Charles,
That's exactly the point I think people often miss. It is much much
more complicated than just the 40 hours a week a person spends at his
her job. They forget people have to have some sort of personal life
too which is as equally important as the day time job. Once you put an
average
Hello Everyone,
There was a language localization issue with Three-D Velocity 1.5
(www.bpcprograms.com) which would crash the game on foreign-language systems
when the status command was issued. The update to fix this is now out and is
integrated with the original 1.5 release. Just download
Hi Dark,
Yep. I once made a Golf course with a 1000 yard hole, just for kicks.
Best Regards,
Hayden
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Behalf Of dark
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:00 PM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re:
Hi Ron.
i strongly advise you to look at the x arcade stick. Ten and 15 buttons
models are available and ones with one or two sticks.
The point of the stick is to have something much like the arcade machines of
the 80's and 90's, a stick you can really hammer around, thus apparently
it's
There is then the fact that if the developer is blind himself, everything
takes considderably more energy.
while I fully appreciate what Tom is saying, this does not seem to be half
the case with indi developers of graphical games.
odbob, webmaster of the retroremakes site and game developer
I thank you Dark.
At least now I have a lead to check out.
I reply to this letter this way so that all can get the same info that I
received.
Like I said, the products that I have that I know have USB support written
into them are the first ever hand to ear flight simulator which does have
Hey, Thomas.
Here is a idea for the wrestling game you are working on. If you
wanted you could also release the game for the iphone aswell.
There is away that you can put it on the iphone for free. You could
sell the iphone game version for ninety nine cent.
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Hi Dark,
Yeah, that's definitely a good point. Its not just the fact of the 40
hour work week, having a family life, but everything does take a
little more time just because of our disability in a lot of cases.
Here in the USA, for example, its generally assumed you can see to
drive a car. That
Hi Dark,
Could you do me a favor? Could you set your X-Arcade stick up on your
PC and test it out with MOTA beta 18. The reason I'm asking is over
the course of beta 17 and beta 18 I spent a lot of time and effort on
getting USB joystick support working, adding a custom profiler and
everything,
Actually tom, while travel and access issues are certainly a considderation,
that wasn't precisely my point.
One easy example of what I mean (and one I use in the introduction to my
thesis), is pouring a glass of water.
Betwene desire for a drink and that desire's satisfaction the sighted
Hi Dark,
Well, I'll certainly take that under advisement. Unfortunately, now
I'm not quite sure what to do. I have Jim Kitchen saying make it
self-voicing and you seem to be in favor of my original idea of
text-based. I think I'm going to have to have more feedback from the
community to make a
Hi Michael,
We will see. The big problem is I don't own an IPhone, and don't have
the development tools etc required to make an IPhone port. However,
should things change or someone out there have the necessary knowhow
to do it they are welcome to try.
Cheers!
On 4/12/11, michael barnes
I'll see if I can give it a go.
Actually it might give me an excuse to set the dam thing up on my pc, sinse
it would be rather nice to at least try some games on it.
I can't make any promises for doing it properly though, so if it fails to
work it's as likely to be me missing something in
My x arcade stick cost me about 70 pounds or about 120 dollars.
Yes, this is expensive, but sinse a bog standard joypad goes for about 30 it
wasn't too bad, and my stick does come with the lifetime guarantee.
Pluss as I said, if I want to use it on another console it will just take a
fiver
Yes, I am a fool!
I simply do not own the usb adaptter for the x arcade stick sinse as I said
I've only ever used it on my gamecube.
I believed it had a usb wire already, but it doesn't seem to, so I'll probably
have to buy a usb adapter for it from Gremlin support.
This actually wouldn't
Hi Dark,
Ah, I get your point now. Well, that may effect someones ability to
write games, plus have a wife, plus work, etc but I do disagree with
it to some point. After all, I do manage to essentually carry on USA
Games even though I have several other commitments as well each and
every day.
Hi,
Oops! Sounds like a pretty big over sight. I guess it would be kind of
hard to play anything on the PC if you don't have a USB adapter.
Cheers!
On 4/12/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote:
Yes, I am a fool!
I simply do not own the usb adaptter for the x arcade stick sinse as I said
I've only
Hi Michael,
Well, hopefully legally of course. All I can say is if you want the
games bad enough you will try and order them from Bavisoft or one of
their resellers. Although, to be perfectly honest I don't believe
either game is worth the money they charge for them. They are too
expensive with
Hi Tom.
Fair enough, it is your game.
On the self voicing issue, I chiefly like the idea of text or sapi because
of customizability and ease of play.
While I'm all for human voices in games where those voices are characters, I
don't see the need for this sort of thing in menues, reading
Hi Michael,
Well, like Charles mentioned the really big issue is time. The lack of
money may certainly be a factor why someone will stop producing games,
but the time it takes is definitely a factor. It isn't necessarily as
easy as setting time aside to create accessible games because I've
Hi Tom.
This isn't to say such things can't be got used to, only that the
accompanying effort is vastly different.
Take mobility. How easy would it be for you if you needed to go to a new
place? How much extra concentration would it take learning your way around?
However good your mental
Hey, does anyone know when the iphone game Stem Stumper is coming out
this month?
I am sure going to get the game when it does come out.
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Hi Thomas,
Well you know I think that you should write your wrestling game the way that
you want to. Self voicing via sapi5 would be nice, but you do have some good
reasons for text only. And heck you need to write a game for you, for fun.
Now please just write all of the AI in VB6 and
Hi Dark,
To me being blind does seem to take more time and concentration and add more
stress. Just little things like when I get out of my computer chair I can not
tell you how many times I was still thinking about code and did not pay
attention to where I was going and ran into the corner
Hey, Jim.
I can say alot of things about you but I will say one thing that say it all.
I enjoy all your games and have alot of highly respect for you.
As you are one of my good friends and one of my game creater I have to
say thanks for all that you do and all of your time in your games.
HI Dark,
Yeah, well one thing is for certain regardless what I do I can't
please everyone. That's true with every game a developer creates, and
it becomes more of an issue any time a game features something like
Star Trek, Star Wars, wrestling, etc as hard core fans see it as a
type of fan
Hi Jim,
Oh, I here you there. Now, that is something I think we all can
understand. I've been there, and I think most of us have at one time
or another. Losing things, trying to find them and of course the
transport time to get from place to place is simply rediculous.
For instance, I remember
Hey, does anyone know how I can get the game call westfront the trials
of guilder?
I was on audiogames.net last night and I click on the link for the game
but nothing came up.
If someone would please send me this game that would be great. I do
know from what I reaed that it is a free game so
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