[Audyssey] USA Games News 7/19/2010

2010-07-19 Thread Thomas Ward
USA Games News

July 19, 2010

Introduction

Welcome gamers,
It has been a long time since we have put out a news release, and as
lots of things have been happening behind the scenes we felt it was
time to give you all a bit of news. We have some good news and some
bad news. So we’ll give you the bad news first.
As many of you know we were planning on a possible early fall release
date for Mysteries of the Ancients. Now, it appears we will have to
push our expected release date back even further do to some things
happening here on the personal side. As usual it is just another case
where things come up and take priority over developing games.
Normally summer time is a busy time for us do to the fact the weather
in Ohio is much nicer and we can go outside swim, play ball with our
kids, go to weddings, cook outs, etc. All of that is all part of the
normal summer time craziness we have to deal with. However, this
summer looks like it is going to be more crazy than usual do to the
fact my wife and I are having some problems with our apartment
management over the cost of our rent. Our three year lease is up this
month, and now management wants to raise our rent to a price we really
can’t afford. On our current budget. So we are currently out apartment
hunting and looking to see if we can find something we can comfortably
afford on our current income. We don’t know how long this will take,
but it could take a while to find a place we like. When we do find
something we like it is going to take even longer to move and get our
lives back in some kind of order. As a result of this madness game
development is officially on hold while we get things squared away
with our living arrangements.
The good news is that thanks to the past six months of constant
development and testing the new C++ version of the Genesis Engine is
more or less stable for future game development by us. That means once
things settle down I don’t think it will take long to add the
additional levels required for Mysteries of the Ancients and add some
sort of registration method.  It is more a case at this point of
finding enough time to get it done. I for one am very eager to see
this project to completion. Not only to be done with it to settle the
pre-order situation that James North left behind, but we’ve been
working on developing some new ideas for games. New ideas that really
haven’t been done before in terms of accessible games.
For example, I have always been personally interested in comic book
super heroes ever since I was able to read comics in the mid 80’s. It
goes without saying that the mainstream game industry is filled with
such games based on super heroes like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and
more recently Iron Man thanks to the new movies. Occasionally game
companies like Nintendo will create their own super hero icon such as
Megaman that becomes very popular with gamers. However, with
accessible games so far there really aren’t any games that features an
action hero that could compare to Megaman, Batman, Superman, whatever.
That’s where we come in.
Obviously, do to copyrights we can’t just use an existing super hero
from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, whatever but we can freely create our
own cast of action heroes and super villains that perhaps incorporates
some of the same powers and abilities of existing super heroes. We
just have to be careful to create an original character, original
name, and back story for that character. After all I personally know
that DC Comics and Marvel Comics have legally been copying ideas from
each other for years without getting into copyright infringement suits
over it.
For example, in Marvel Comics one of the principle X-Men heroes is
named iceman. His special power and ability is to turn things into
ice. In DC Comic’s one of the Justice League International heroes is
named ice. She basically has the same powers and abilities as Iceman,
but the storyline and character bio is different. It is different
enough that neither company has gotten into a copyright infringement
suit over it. It is all basically about knowing where to draw the line
legally and how much you can copy before it becomes a case of
copyright infringement.
The same principle applies with game companies like USA Games. There
are certain super heroes and super villains that are so generic the
same basic idea could b borrowed without really causing any legal
problems provided the author used a good bit of his or her own
originality in the creation of that super hero or villain.
For example, my wife and I took our son Shaun to see Iron Man 2
earlier this year. As we watched the movie I got to thinking how
generic the storyline for that particular Marvel super hero is.
Basically, beyond the fact we have a wealthy arms inventor, Tony
Stark, who builds a special suit of high-tech armor and calls himself
Iron Man there is nothing very unique about the storyline at all.
There have been other armored super heroes like Mantas or Commander
Steel w

Re: [Audyssey] Q9 for kids

2010-07-19 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi,
Awsome. Next we need to give a sighted person RailRacer to fiddlewith.

Best Regards,
Hayden


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well here is another example of a game made for the blind the sighted like.
I have a friend that likes sonic zoom, last crusade and decent into 
madness as well as all the kitchensinc poker and such.
At 05:39 p.m. 19/07/2010, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This note is primarily for Phil, but good read for all.
>
>My son, 9 years old and can see, loves to play q9. Hasn't even completed
the
>jungle world yet, but give him time. he especially loves the parts when Q9
>dies, and the clip that plays after that. Especially the one where Q9 has
>died from falling down a chasm, since this is how he dies the most.
>
>In fact, he has even shown it to 2 of his other friends. One said he might
>just have to ask his parents to buy him the game.
>
>Great job phil.
>
>rich
>
>
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Re: [Audyssey] pack man

2010-07-19 Thread Jacob Kruger
The other 'joke' was when Shakira was singing her theme song for the soccer 
world cup, the chorus sings waka waka - and one of the first things I heard 
about that was people wondering if she was imitating the original 
pacman...


Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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To: "Blind Gamers Discussion List" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 9:56 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] pack man



HI all
I just want to tell you all that I heard an ad last night on south African
tv where a pack man game for the sighted has been released for mobile
phones.
The sighted one  needds to sms the word eat to a certain number to get 
pack

man on his mobile.
I am glad that we have phil's pack man talks to enjoy, so we are not 
totally

left in the dark!


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[Audyssey] jim's guess the number game

2010-07-19 Thread Nicol
Hay Jim
I downloaded your guess the number game and installed it in the program
files\kitchen sinc folder with your other games.
It's a neat little game!
Cool sound effect after the number has been guessed correctly I must say!
Just one observation about this game.
When it asks: do you want to play again? Press y or n.
If I decide  no I do not want to play again, I press n but then not only the
guess game exits, the whole winkit program exits, unlike with   all your
other games, if I exit a game, the winkit program stays open.
Its nothing big, I just thought of letting you know and other who have not
yet observed it.


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[Audyssey] pack man

2010-07-19 Thread Nicol
HI all
I just want to tell you all that I heard an ad last night on south African
tv where a pack man game for the sighted has been released for mobile
phones.
The sighted one  needds to sms the word eat to a certain number to get pack
man on his mobile.
I am glad that we have phil's pack man talks to enjoy, so we are not totally
left in the dark!


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[Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Travis Siegel
Actually, there's several free dos screen readers now.
As someone already mentioned, jaws for dos is free.
There is a demo version of asap for dos which is free, though I don't remember 
it's limitations.
There's another one written by Chuck Halenbeck, which I have gotten permission 
to take over,
and can now be found at  http://www.softcon.com/speech/
(can't recall what it's called at the moment, but that page will have it 
shortly)
I was going to submit it to the freedos project, so folks would have a screen 
reader to be used with freedos

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Re: [Audyssey] DarkBasic Game programming Language

2010-07-19 Thread Bob Montowski
At the Dark Basic web site..there is alink, I think it is called showcase? 
This link points you

to a page with games created by users of Dark Basic product.
I have no idea how many of these free games are usable by a blind 
person...but some of them sound quite nice with the sound effects and the 
background midi music for effect.



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Re: [Audyssey] Q9 for kids

2010-07-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Now, if this ball can get rolling?  Sighted people playing games in the same 
way we do!  Using other senses than eyesight to play games, and being on an 
equal playing field, playing our games instead of us playing theirs.  Games 
made for blind gamers do not need to be modified to be played by sighted 
gamers.


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From: "Richard Sherman" 

To: "Gamers Discussion list" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:39 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Q9 for kids



Hi,

This note is primarily for Phil, but good read for all.

My son, 9 years old and can see, loves to play q9. Hasn't even completed 
the

jungle world yet, but give him time. he especially loves the parts when Q9
dies, and the clip that plays after that. Especially the one where Q9 has
died from falling down a chasm, since this is how he dies the most.

In fact, he has even shown it to 2 of his other friends. One said he might
just have to ask his parents to buy him the game.

Great job phil.

rich


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[Audyssey] sunday's Out of Sight events

2010-07-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Sorry for the lateness, but I send them when I get them.  (grin)

Here are the events scheduled for Sunday, July 18th:
 
 
>From the Pulpit
11:00 AM eastern
Hosted by Lee
Location:  House of Our Lord
Come listen to a live service, which will include, worship, music, preaching, 
and special singing. 
 
 
>From the Pulpit Evening Service
6:30 PM eastern
Hosted by Lee
Location:  House of Our Lord
Come listen to a live service, which will include, worship, music, preaching, 
and special singing. 
 
 
Family Feud
8:00 PM eastern
Hosted by Shelley Z.
Location:  Game Zone
Tonight, Shelley Z. will host Family Feud. Shelley will ask questions from a 
survey of 100 people and you try to come up with the 5 most popular answers.
It is loads of fun and will only take about an hour to play.
 
 
Word Burst
9:00 PM eastern

Hosted by Kathy Mertz

Location:  Game Zone

Do you love to play Outburst? Do you love words? Let's put the two together and 
play Word Burst! Word Burst is the same as Outburst, except that you don't call 
out items in categories, such as Elvis hits or makes of cars. Instead, the 
members of each team call out anagrams of the word I will give you. So come in 
and find the words within a word. Hope to see you there.

 

 


The Out of Sight main site is at:
 
http://www.out-of-sight.net
 


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Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread dark

Hi Jim.

That makes sense, however sinse it uses the Hal console window map I've 
tended to refer to it as that in xp.


Beware the Grue!

Dark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Jim Kitchen" 

To: "dark" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games



Hi Dark,

Thanks.  I just call that the command prompt.

Back in the dos days when programming games one would want to make sure 
that the game wrote the text to the bios or console.  That way all dos 
screen readers would automatically speak the text.


BFN

- Original Message -
No jim, I mean the console command prompt window in xp which emulates dos 
to some extent.


I've found dos games like fallthru and drone run fine with it, and I can 
use the dos virtual focus to read the screen.



Beware the Grue!

Dark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Jim Kitchen" 

To: "dark" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games



Hi Dark,

May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal?

Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode?

Thanks.

BFN

Jim

C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run . . .  Run\Dos\Run

j...@kitchensinc.net
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Re: [Audyssey] Discussing game ideas

2010-07-19 Thread Milos Przic
  Yes, I know that the ideas like Thomas's revenge are not very serious, 
and that is quite because I started the subject. If you wanted, you could 
have a bunch of ideas in a minute, it would be enough just to think for a 
minute about the game where Thomas would, for example, walk through some 
traps set by list members and hit the oponents with his white cane. This 
occured to m while I was writing this. But as soon as I would really like to 
program this, I would block. That is the problem that I wanted to talk 
about.

  Best regards!
 Milos Przic
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skype: Milosh-hs
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From: "Hayden Presley" 

To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Discussing game ideas



Hi Milos,

Correction...there was one idea for Thomas's Revenge, and I was hardly
serious.

Best Regards,
Hayden


-Original Message-
From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On
Behalf Of Milos Przic
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 4:22 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: [Audyssey] Discussing game ideas

  Hi all,
  Let's talk about the problem of creativity in gaming as I have big
problems with it. I want your opinions on how the game ideas come to you.
  Recently we saw some ideas like "Thomas's revenge" and similar, where we
talked about how the game could look like. Then, a while ago, Fill was
posting the messages with the subject "Games we would like to play", where
new ideas were presented. Then, how much criticism was made about those 
who
think about the ideas, but don't think about the possibility to implement 
it

in a game.
  That is where my problem comes, and it is particularly about the
interactive fiction. When I started playing if, I had a bunch of ideas. 
But

when I started programming, they all disappeared. Not that I am not a
creative person, I am (I don't say that, others said it many times), so 
the

problem is not that. Did you have similar experience when thinking what to
make?
  I hope my message was understandable enough.
  Best regards!
 Milos Przic
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Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Jim Kitchen

Hi Dark,

Thanks.  I just call that the command prompt.

Back in the dos days when programming games one would want to make sure that 
the game wrote the text to the bios or console.  That way all dos screen 
readers would automatically speak the text.

BFN

- Original Message -
No jim, I mean the console command prompt window in xp which emulates dos to 
some extent.


I've found dos games like fallthru and drone run fine with it, and I can use 
the dos virtual focus to read the screen.



Beware the Grue!

Dark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Jim Kitchen" 

To: "dark" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games



Hi Dark,

May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal?

Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode?

Thanks.

BFN

Jim

C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run . . .  Run\Dos\Run

j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
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Jim

Check my web site for my free blind accessible pc dos and windows games.

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Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread dark
No jim, I mean the console command prompt window in xp which emulates dos to 
some extent.


I've found dos games like fallthru and drone run fine with it, and I can use 
the dos virtual focus to read the screen.



Beware the Grue!

Dark.
- Original Message - 
From: "Jim Kitchen" 

To: "dark" 
Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games



Hi Dark,

May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal?

Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode?

Thanks.

BFN

Jim

C:\Dos . . . C\Dos\Run . . .  Run\Dos\Run

j...@kitchensinc.net
http://www.kitchensinc.net
(440) 286-6920
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Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread Jim Kitchen

Hi Dark,

May I ask what you mean by the console mode with hal?

Is that something with Hal, or does XP actually have a console mode?

Thanks.

BFN

Jim

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Re: [Audyssey] playing old text games

2010-07-19 Thread shaun everiss

aah.
hmm provox for windows? linux? gnome and command line.
hmmm that would be really interesting
At 10:53 a.m. 19/07/2010, you wrote:

There are a few free dos screen readers.
Asap had a demo mode though I don't remember it's limitations.
There was jaws for dos (which someone already mentioned)
and there was one called provox which I have now taken over 
development for, and it can be found at:

http://www.thesiegelsnest.us/provox/provox7.zip
That's the archive as I got it before Chuck gave me permission to 
continue development, so all docs will have his contact info in themn,
but I'll get another documentation file out there eventually with 
updated info, as this is necessary for inclusion into freedos.
I'm actually considering making a sourceforge product, so folks can 
download and hack to their hearts content, since there's really no 
official places to download it from these days.

So, there you go.,

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Re: [Audyssey] Q9 for kids

2010-07-19 Thread shaun everiss

well here is another example of a game made for the blind the sighted like.
I have a friend that likes sonic zoom, last crusade and decent into 
madness as well as all the kitchensinc poker and such.

At 05:39 p.m. 19/07/2010, you wrote:

Hi,

This note is primarily for Phil, but good read for all.

My son, 9 years old and can see, loves to play q9. Hasn't even completed the
jungle world yet, but give him time. he especially loves the parts when Q9
dies, and the clip that plays after that. Especially the one where Q9 has
died from falling down a chasm, since this is how he dies the most.

In fact, he has even shown it to 2 of his other friends. One said he might
just have to ask his parents to buy him the game.

Great job phil.

rich


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