Re: [Audyssey] history of Jim Kitchen's games?

2015-05-25 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, In October 2014 Jim re-wrote his Winkit to install all his games to your My documents or Documents folder inside a kitchensinc folder. So you don't have to disable UAC anymore. Phil If I'm wrong about this, I'll let Jim answer. Phil - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward

[Audyssey] space invaders game update

2015-05-25 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. Any game programmers, give me some tips, tricks, like how to get the built in speech say from java script. That's about the only problem I have. Thanks. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can

[Audyssey] creating a web based accessible space invaders game

2015-05-25 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi. Any one done any audio games, and programmed it like html 5. Any ideas, how do I get the sound for the game play, then thinking of using the announcements via aria. Any ideas. Thanks. Need to get this nailed first. And also will ask a friend who is sighted, if he could maybe design

Re: [Audyssey] space invaders game update

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Marvin, I am assuming here by built-in speech you mean something like SAPI. Unfortunately, if so I have some bad news for you. Meaning what you want to do isn't really feasible from a programming point of view. While you can access SAPI via JavaScript SAPI objects aren't safe, and in order to

Re: [Audyssey] history of Jim Kitchen's games?

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Lisa, To disable User Account Control press control+escape, and type uac into the search box, and press enter. The UAC configuration dialog will appear. Set the notification level to 0, and press enter on OK. Restart your machine and User Account Control will be a thing of the past. Cheers!

Re: [Audyssey] creating a web based accessible space invaders game

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Marvin, Obviously, I am not new to game development as I certainly have developed a few games in my time, but to be honest programming games with HTML5 is not my forte. I have heard of people doing it by paring HTML5 with something like JavaScript , and my friend Google shows there are a

Re: [Audyssey] space invaders game update

2015-05-25 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I have seen a couple of internet based games that used sapi and to my knolige didn't require huge amounts of security shenanigans (they've been played by people on various windows systems). Some are the accessible flash games from gamevial, such as rebound, rally racer and

[Audyssey] psycho strike

2015-05-25 Thread mattias
how can it whas so bad if you have lets say 100 in health and the max health are 1000 you die so easy --- 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] psycho strike

2015-05-25 Thread Christina
Hi. You've got to either use a first aid kit on that character to heal him up or let him sit at the base for while. He'll heal something like ten points or so every thirty seconds. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of mattias Sent: Monday,

Re: [Audyssey] history of Jim Kitchen's games?

2015-05-25 Thread Lisa Hayes
Many thanks Thomas, so it's been good to be back. -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 12:09 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] history of Jim Kitchen's games? Hi Lisa, To disable User Account Control press control+escape, and type uac

Re: [Audyssey] sapi speech

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Marvin, Given the fact you are building this game in HTML5 and JavaScript the best thing you can do for speech is prerecorded speech clips. As you may recall Philip Bennefall's early games like Dark Destroyer, Tarzan Junior, and the Snowball War were all written in Javascript and rather than

[Audyssey] sapi speech

2015-05-25 Thread Marvin Hunkin
Hi Thomas. So what would you recommend Would I have to then put in all the screen reader api, and try to handle all the querks. Okay, so apart from sapi, which is the Microsoft built in speech for windows, what would you then recommend. Will go and take a look at the Quintusgame engine. Any

Re: [Audyssey] history of Jim Kitchen's games?

2015-05-25 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Phil, Actually I did not rewrite my winkit install. The games still get installed to program files\kitchensinc. What I did is to have the games read and write their files to the my documents\kitchensinc folder. And I have not converted them all yet. BFN - Original Message - Hi