Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread dark
That being so, however bsc, lworks, draconis etc do stil at least support and sell their old titles even if they cannot develope more. This is where Bavisoft have fallen down severely. Beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: Nicole

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread dark
That is understandable sky, but I would've thought Jeff could at least tell us that if it is the case. Also, if his daughters' condition has progressed to the point where he can no longer maintain the company, why not do as Dan Z did and make his games abandonware? Finally, it really!

Re: [Audyssey] Your Opinion on Game Development Documentation

2012-01-21 Thread Alfredo Castaneda
Hello Thomas, I am hosting a web site full of resources that blind or visually impaired people might be interested. Would you not object if I were to link your developer site to one of my categories? I believe you can start with something simple, such as Visual Basic or HOP. May I make another

[Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients

2012-01-21 Thread dark
In this exciting game from Usa games you will play the role of the no longer famous archaeologist Triston peace, faced with the task of organizing a fumeral for his deceased colligue Angela Carter who met her end while exploring an ancient temple. Face such deadly foes as undertakers wailing

[Audyssey] Saturday's Out of Sight events

2012-01-21 Thread Charles Rivard
Good morning all! Happy 4th Birthday Out-Of-Sight! See below for all of the details about our birthday celebration for today! You won't want to miss all of the fun! Five door prizes will be handed out as well throughout the day! Here are the events scheduled for Saturday, January 21st:

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients

2012-01-21 Thread Charles Rivard
When I saw this subject line, I thought it was a typo. Sheesh. That's! funny! Trying to swipe Phil's thunder, huh? Heh heh heh. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday,

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients

2012-01-21 Thread dark
Actually charlese, someone did! in fact ask a question about tomb hunter on the audiogames.net forum with this subject heading (presumably because English isn't Her/his first language). It was so funny it was begging for a parody. Beware the grue! DArk. - Original Message - From:

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread michael barnes
Here is the thing that Bavisoft forgot, the customer is always right. That is how it is done at any kind of business. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread michael barnes
Well Jim. That may be true but that don't give them any reason for taking people money and don't give them any software. That is why I think that someone should find out who is the webmaster and tell that person what they have been doing. Then when the person takes their site down the games

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread Charles Rivard
I used to work in the credit card industry, and this is not always the case. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:25 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread Trouble
One of the top ten laws of business, and in a lot of states law. All states have laws for selling and there are also federal laws that have to be considered too. Just like in Ohio. Lots of stores have a no refund, but give exchange. Here in Ohio it states that you are aloud a total refund

Re: [Audyssey] Your Opinion on Game Development Documentation

2012-01-21 Thread Willem Venter
Hi Thomas. This is a good idea, but I'd suggest focusing on subjects that are not so widely published on, such as the things you mentioned(swt, slimDX etc). As you are currently working mainly in c#, why not start there and do some slim DX tutorials? As for vb6 tutorials, though it is popular, I

[Audyssey] For Philip re: BGT interfaces vs inheritance.

2012-01-21 Thread Christopher Bartlett
I'd post this question on the Blastbay forum, but I haven't received my approval yet. What is the use case for an interface v. classic inheritance in object definitions? I've looked through the BGT documentation and I sort of understand that you'd use an interface when you have some

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients

2012-01-21 Thread Ben
Very well done man! That was hilarious. Lol. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 21 January 2012 12:09 To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients In this exciting game

Re: [Audyssey] Tomb of hunter, misery of the ancients

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Hahaha! That's funny, but doesn't quite match the title for your mythical game. :D On 1/21/12, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: In this exciting game from Usa games you will play the role of the no longer famous archaeologist Triston peace, faced with the task of organizing a fumeral for

[Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
On the off chance someone not on audiogames.net knows the answer, does anyone know the code for the first door? I can't get the equasion to either copy or solve correctly, so I can't figure it out. It's only supposed to be a 3 didget number, but all the answers I get are 6 didgets with

Re: [Audyssey] For Philip re: BGT interfaces vs inheritance.

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Chris, I can try. As Philip says in the documentation inheritance is used when you have objects that are similar and share common variables and methods. An interface is used when you have two different classes that are very different but need to share one or more functions or variables. What

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Agreed. Caring for his daughter is an understandable reason but not an excuse for not answering e-mails, switching to downloads instead of cds, etc. He doesn't even have to add a license key to his games, because if he writes a good shopping cart in something like php he can store the

Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft

2012-01-21 Thread Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews
I agrr totally. Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 7:43 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] personal opinion of bavisoft Hi

Re: [Audyssey] Your Opinion on Game Development Documentation

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Willem, Yes, that is pretty much what I was thinking of doing. C# .NET is a great beginners language, and SlimDX does need some .NET documentation and code examples as pointing people to the C++ DirectX documentation doesn't work for new beginners just learning to program games. I was

Re: [Audyssey] Your Opinion on Game Development Documentation

2012-01-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Alfredo, Sure. I don't have anything on the developers site yet, but as soon as I get the website setup you can link to it. that's the point of creating it. :D As for downloads and things like that I definitely plan on it. I'll have links to Visual Studio Express, an up to date copy of Python

[Audyssey] swamp help for a beginner

2012-01-21 Thread michael maslo
Hi list: i was wondering if there is anyone would could help a true newbie with the swamp game get me started? I read the instructions for the game and it said that when I start I am in a hallway with my mate. However when I start the game I am in the safe zone and I do not know where to go.

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Clement Chou
How did you get to that stage if all the previous stages are locked... you shouldn't even be near stage 5. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon elementalult...@hotmail.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 4:14 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
I'm on 25-3, not 5-3. -- From: Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 06:45 PM To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3 How did you get to that stage if all the

[Audyssey] correct version of swamp

2012-01-21 Thread michael maslo
is the current version of swamp? I thought there was 1.9 but when I went to the web site it was still 1.8b. I have the beta version of 1.9 but is there a new version of it for when I launched it, I got a error saying I needed to update my version.What --- Gamers mailing list __

Re: [Audyssey] correct version of swamp

2012-01-21 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
The current official version of Swamp is 1.8b. That is the version that is running on the official Swamp server. The testing server and client were set up to allow people to play and search for bugs in the version I'm working on. That is a pre release of version 1.9. When I first posted the

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Clement Chou
Okay. Because I assumed that 2 in the thread title was refering to the game... which is actually Bokura no daibouken 2. Sorry about that. - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon elementalult...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012

[Audyssey] Another swamp inquiry

2012-01-21 Thread michael maslo
Hi everyone: One last question about swamp. I see I always start in the safe zone. I get killed there. I do not understand what to do or how to find my way out of the safe zone. I keep getting killed and I can't defend myself for I can not attack in the safe zone. Can someone help me get

Re: [Audyssey] correct version of swamp

2012-01-21 Thread michael maslo
How can I get out of safe zone? I do not understand the multiple beeps and the purposes of it. On Jan 21, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote: The current official version of Swamp is 1.8b. That is the version that is running on the official Swamp server. The testing server and client

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Shadow Dragon
Haha yeah, I wish I could go back to previous stages. I'm at the final battle now and it's just tearing me apart. So basically I either need to find an extremely awesome strategy or I'm going to have to restart my game and build up more resources before I hit stage 25. I really wish he would

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread Clement Chou
Yeah... I know what you mean there. It would've been nice to have those shielding items eh? hahaha - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon elementalult...@hotmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey]

Re: [Audyssey] swamp help for a beginner

2012-01-21 Thread Richard Sherman
HI, Some suggestions: 1. Listen to a walk thru that Valiant 66 did. The link is http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13968355/swamp%20playthrough.mp3 The walk thru is from an earlier version, but should help you a lot. 2. In the swamp folder, there are 3 files you need to check out; Readme.txt - gives

Re: [Audyssey] For Philip re: BGT interfaces vs inheritance.

2012-01-21 Thread Philip Bennefall
Hi Christopher, The use case is if you have a lot of classes that should implement the same interface, and you want to be able to work with this given interface without needing to know which type of class you're actually dealing with as long as that interface is present. Personally I don't

Re: [Audyssey] Bokurano Daiboukenn 25-3

2012-01-21 Thread ryan chou
no actually they don't help much in that fight, I find they get torn apart lol On 1/21/12, Clement Chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah... I know what you mean there. It would've been nice to have those shielding items eh? hahaha - Original Message - From: Shadow Dragon