[Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread 0722001794
HI all while watching my favorite soapie I heard in the story that a mother and her son is playing a psp game together. I have no idea what the genre is, I guess its 3d or side scroller. both of them have a joystick AND THEY TRY TO BEAT ONE ANOTHER. IT WILL BE VERY NICE IF 2 PEOPLE COULD PLAY

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread Munawar Bijani
Hi, I think the real challenge here is not getting two input devices to control two separate entities at the same time--this is very easily done if the game is coded properly and made to accomodate very generic input from the start--rather, preventing one player from being confused by

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, Snowball War isn't the only accessible game that has a built in two player mode. I know, for instance, Jim Kitchen's Monopoly will allow you to set it up for two player mode. I believe his Life game will also let you play against a computer or a human player. As far as two player

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Munawar, Those are some very good points. About the only way to avoid such an instance where a person would have to purchase an extra sound card or a controller is make the two player mode turn based like in the classic Atari games. Take a game like Packman. Player 1 would start out zoom

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread K. Matthew
Better yet, why not use net play. I mean come on most people now and days have two computers. Heck, I got 15 computers in this house hold alone. Any way, net play or lan play how ever you want to call it should be included in games. And have at least two keys when you buy a game if it is a two

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Matthew, I agree that network or peer to peer play is probably the best for todays multi-player games, but if you want to play against someone else in your own house hold that can be quite expensive. That would require at least two or more computers to be present on an internal lan inorder

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread shaun everiss
hmm. depends if you live in the same house as someone or you live alone. I have 3 systems here, well 4, my system and its backup, my brothers system and my dad's box and its backup. I also could if I really needed to have access to an extra laptop andaccess to another desktop if I wished. so I

Re: [Audyssey] we are far behind the mainstream market in one big aspect

2008-10-25 Thread Trouble
Your forgetting one thing on the keyboard aspect. hmm, BIOS, if you hook up two keyboards they will act as one. For it to work you would have to go keyboard specific and that is hard to do with a lot of keyboards listed as generic in the driver list. That is why joy sticks came to be. At 11:49