Re: [Audyssey] Castaways, perk/flaw balancing suggestion.

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Hmm, that's a very interesting suggestion. I'll give that some thought. --- 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

[Audyssey] bug in current castaways with stocking ship

2011-07-19 Thread alex wallis
Hi. I am playing with the latest version, and the ability to close farms really is useful. one thing I noticed though is that on farms, the message is wrong it still talks about peasants bringing supplies when you close or open it, when it should talk about farmers harvesting. anyway, I just

Re: [Audyssey] super egg hunt plus

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
If such a game is to be released, I wish to as well. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jack F Sent: 18 July 2011 15:29 To: gamers Subject: [Audyssey] super egg hunt plus Hi Liam, Do you know when the first beta of super

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Or just stick your ulimited ammo and invincibility cheat on, and blast it into... stuff...! -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 18 July 2011 02:26 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Trying

Re: [Audyssey] Installing castaways?

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Greetings steven. I am not so prominent as I used to be as before but if you need me for anything, just like all the other members on this list, then don't hesitate to contact me. Ben. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

[Audyssey] rail racer question

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Hi Che, Just wondered whatever happened to rail racer. I always wanted to reobtain a key for that thing, but couldn't find the download for the full version... I also wrote to you some time ago asking for a key replacement, but didn't get a reply. Could you please inform me as to what is going

[Audyssey] problem with castaway, game timer seems to have stopped working

2011-07-19 Thread alex wallis
Hi. I am playing castaways on hard difficulty, and something really odd just happened, the game timer seemed to stop working. by this, I mean the tick sound you get when the game is unpaused and events are happening. it just suddenly stopped, and nobody did anything. I have saved the game, and

Re: [Audyssey] Jeremy's incredible programming speed and misc thoughtswas Re: Castaways, 1 week milestone reached!

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Hi tom, If you want, I could help with music and stuff, if you ever wanted to add new characters... -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 17 July 2011 01:32 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] mush patch?

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Hey dark, could you tell me something: where can I get the sapi 5 version of scansoft Daniel... -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 09 July 2011 13:24 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] mush

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, Yeah...sounds like the dull solution to the problem at hand. Much more fun to trap it. At least when it isn't in the first room of the level, which has happened to me before. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] super egg hunt plus

2011-07-19 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Ben, Oh...as far as we all know, it is going to be released. We just do not know exactly when. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Ben Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 5:43 AM To: 'Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] Startrek tng trivia error

2011-07-19 Thread Ben
Yes, you could do that, and make the mission creater a whole lot easier than that parser thing (sorry for the spelling) that g m a use -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 11 July 2011 04:44 To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] bug in current castaways with stocking ship

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
The message for opening and closing farms was Supposed! to talk about harvesting, and not about peasants restocking, but I had a typo that messed that up. I've fixed that, so in the next update the message will be correct. The saved game will be very useful, yes. What could be happening is a

[Audyssey] Destroyed Buildings in Castaways?

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
Hi. Is the message that tells you if a building is destroyed preceded by Goblins have advanced on your land at...? If it's not, I'm not seeing them. Thank you. Christina --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org.

Re: [Audyssey] problem with castaway, game timer seems to have stopped working

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Alex, had you just received an important message in the game perhaps? Important messages will pause the game automatically, to make sure you don't miss them. If this wasn't the case, please do send me the saved game file, so I can take a closer look. --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] Destroyed Buildings in Castaways?

2011-07-19 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Christina, I just found the problem. Because of a typo, the burning building messages are not being correctly added to your list of past messages. This mean, if you didn't catch it as it first happened, you wouldn't see it in the message history, using the number keys. I've corrected that

Re: [Audyssey] Destroyed Buildings in Castaways?

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
You're very quick. Thank you. Christina - Original Message - From: Jeremy Kaldobsky jer...@kaldobsky.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:03 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Destroyed Buildings in Castaways? Christina, I just found the problem.

Re: [Audyssey] mush patch?

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Hi Ben. Sadly, you will now need to buy it sinse realspeak are being very proprietorial about their products, and getting a sap enabled voice from them is really rather difficult. i'd recommend though you look into getting a decent sapi voice from somewhere sinse there are so many games

Re: [Audyssey] problem with castaway, game timer seems to, have stopped working

2011-07-19 Thread alex wallis
Hi aproan, I thought of that, and I tried pressing spacebar several times, and got the correct game pausing and unpausing sounds, but the timer didn't start. I guess you will see from the file whatever event happened before the freeze. I have given both files self explanitory names, so I hope

[Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
Hello. I am new to this list and have relatively little experience with audio games. I played Entombed and Castaways and greatly enjoy both. Can any of you recommend any audio RPG's or strategy-type games that a blind person could play by herself? Thanks. Christina --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread darren harris
Hi, What types of games exactly are you looking for. Are you looking for space strategy games? Or what types of games do you have in mind. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Christina Sent: 19 July 2011 20:53 To: Gamers

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
I'm thinking of adventure RPG's where you play a character going through a story. Or strategy management type games like Castaways, Earth2025, and Space3069. I like the civilization building games and my husband enjoys the war games. Christina - Original Message - From: darren

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Ron Schamerhorn
Hi Christina Just off the top for castaway type games there's Sound RTS. It's along the same lines but with knights, dragons and midevil setting. I can't recall the address though. but it's freeware. War type games two come to mind from GMA. Those would be Lonewolf, a submarine game set

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Hi Christina. Www.audiogames.net and www.pcsgames.net are the two places to look for games. pcs has a massive list of websites, and audiogames.net has a list of games you cans earch by catagory, - three of those catagories being stratogy, rpg and adventure. in terms of audio rpgs,

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
Hi. Thanks for the recommendations. The Sound RTS game sounds awesome. He loved Tank Commander. I'll tell him about the submarine one. He plays the miniature game Flames of War which takes place during WWII as well so he'll probably love this. Christina - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Christina
Hi. Wow, this is extensively helpful. Thank you very much. I used to play in a mud called Calindria... And one other one that I can't remember the name of. I do writing-based games online at rpol.net. This site is incredibly easy to use and is a lot less clunky than other message-board

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread darren harris
Have you tried http://www.core-exiles.com? If not then give it a go. My name in there is James t kirk. If you put my name in the recommended by section then we will both receive loads of free stuff at various points in the game. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread darren harris
You also forgot time of conflict from the same place :) -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Ron Schamerhorn Sent: 19 July 2011 21:41 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

Re: [Audyssey] Startrek tng trivia error

2011-07-19 Thread Tim Kilgore
Yes! Please develop that one! I'd love and buy it. Tim - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Startrek tng trivia error Yes, you could do that, and make the

Re: [Audyssey] Startrek tng trivia error

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi ben, I'm afraid not. The Parser for Lone Wolf is about as simple as it gets when it comes to creating new levels for a game. If I were going to add any kind of third-party mission creator for the Star Trek game it would be far superior to use a scripting language like Angelscript, VBScript,

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Well, it would be more correct to say you can destroy it rather than kill it. The temperal disturbance isn't a living thing after all. Even after 10 years I'm still not sure why people treat the temperal disturbance as a living thing when it is a trap not a monster. Cheers! On 7/17/11,

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, True, but for all intents and purposes destroying the temperal disturbance isn't really possible. Not unless you have a boat load of ammo or resort to cheat codes like unlimited ammo etc. The best way to disable it is to lock it in a room where it can't do any more damage or cause you any

Re: [Audyssey] Jeremy's incredible programming speed and misc thoughts was Re: Castaways, 1 week milestone reached!

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, That's very true, and that's why languages like Java, C# .Net, Visual Basic .Net, Python, etc exists. Most developers realise that writing an application from scratch in a language like C++ is far too time consuming for the average developer and project. In the corperate world if a

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, If you want my buest guess here, I'd say it is because it works with the m and controm keystrokes. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 7:13 PM To:

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, You forgot Night of Parasite, which comes across quite a bit as an audio RPG due to the leveling of your character, and the upgrading of weapons and such. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [Audyssey] Jeremy's incredible programming speed and misc thoughtswas Re: Castaways, 1 week milestone reached!

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
HI Dark, Well said. In fact, I've truly enjoyed the discussions we have had over the past few days as it has largely changed the direction of the USA Games Interactive marketing strategy. One of those things to come out of it is that it makes more business sense not to splash the fact I'm a blind

[Audyssey] Programming elitists was: Re: Jeremy's incredible programming speed

2011-07-19 Thread Che
Hi Thomas and all, I'm not sure what your angle is with putting down everyone that uses a different language than you do, but I think its time for a reality check man, caues I for one am sick of hearing it. In your latest post to Dark, you state that you use the language that you do

Re: [Audyssey] Programming elitists was: Re: Jeremy's incredible programming speed

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Che, I'm sorry you took my comments so negatively, but I was not trying to put down, insult, or treat other programmers as incompetent, etc. Let me say that you are reading more into what I said then was intended or implied. I'm not sure how or why I always get myself into these kinds of

Re: [Audyssey] Castaways version 1.2b

2011-07-19 Thread Matthew Alvernaz
Hi, I was wondering if this version fixed a bug in multiplayer I was having. Sometimes when I changed my main characters job, the job of the representitive in other setlements wouldn't change. Thanks, Matthew On Jul 18, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote: If you downloaded version 1.2b

Re: [Audyssey] Startrek tng trivia error

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I'm afraid I personally disagree with ben on this, I'm quite happy with the lw parza and indeed would create missions myself if I were better at the game. The 92 extra missions people like Raul have made (and I believe there are probably more), show that the system is workable at

Re: [Audyssey] Trying to beat level 7 in SD

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Probably because it moves around and can be shot like a monster, rather than is static and only must be avoided like a trap. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, July 20,

Re: [Audyssey] Jeremy's incredible programming speed and misc thoughts was Re: Castaways, 1 week milestone reached!

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. Well obviously what code you choose and for what reasons is entirely your affair, and if for instance you believe the cross platform compatibility and manual memory management is worth all the extra time, then fair enough. I freely confess, though i understand the logic of

Re: [Audyssey] Seeking Adventure or Strategy Games

2011-07-19 Thread dark
That is true Haiden, though I tend to find antivirus software has issues with nop, I've not been able to run it successfully myself for quite a long while. Also I admit I find the way it's nearly impossible to kill any monster without getting hit rather irritating. Actually i think it is

Re: [Audyssey] Jeremy's incredible programming speed and misc thoughtswas Re: Castaways, 1 week milestone reached!

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Hi tom. This sounds great. I must admit if I ever get the time to create a game, it's actually a brouser based game I'd like to make, though i admit that's mostly because of my love of exploration and reading good descriptions, so I like this suggestion. However, i do have another thought

Re: [Audyssey] Programming elitists was: Re: Jeremy's incredible programming speed

2011-07-19 Thread dark
Good grief! I never intended this to turnn into such an arguement. My intention primarily was to find out, as an end user, what difference different programming languages made and why, life concerns and legal issues aside, some games took far longer to produce than others. though I am not a