[Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Bowling Scores 08-05-2010 By Jim Kitchen Today's average = 161 total points in the 3 games = 483 Your bowling average now = 160.31 total points in the 35 games = 5611 Today's low game = 127 Today's high game = 194 All time low game = 124 All time high game = 208 Jim If it doesn't

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread David Chung
Jim, I would like to encourage you to post a podcast on BCt showing the blind community how to play bowling on the wii. Ciao, David On 8/6/10, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: Bowling Scores 08-05-2010 By Jim Kitchen Today's average = 161 total points in the 3 games = 483 Your

[Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread Damien Pendleton
Hi, I have seen a lot of discussions on this list about mainstream gaming, particularly most recently Wii Bowling. How can blind people play mainstream games? I used to have a Playstation many years ago and I could never get the hang of playing the games because of the small amount of audio

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Bowling Scores 08-06-2010 By Jim Kitchen Today's average = 155.25 total points in the 4 games = 621 Your bowling average now = 159.79 total points in the 39 games = 6232 Today's low game = 129 Today's high game = 168 All time low game = 124 All time high game = 208 That last game

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi David, One day I will try to record a game of WII Bowling. The thing is, it has to be a day when I am not running the AC and when I can get someone that will let me record them. I can not start the game etc by myself. I need sighted help for that. I also can not play the game as well

[Audyssey] Friday's Out of Sight events

2010-08-06 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Friday, August 6th: Word Burst 6:00 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

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Ben
How do you do that -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kitchen Sent: 06 August 2010 10:43 To: Audyssey Subject: [Audyssey] WII Bowling Bowling Scores 08-05-2010 By Jim Kitchen Today's average = 161 total points

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Ben
I could do that myself if I had a line in on my sister's wii -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of David Chung Sent: 06 August 2010 13:33 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling Jim, I would like to

Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread Ben
Hi. If we can talk privately (via gamehead2...@hotmail.co.uk as my msn) or via gamehead...@aol.co.uk, then I shal give you loads of tips, strategies and other stuff. Yours, Ben/ the destroyer -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On

Re: [Audyssey] WII Bowling

2010-08-06 Thread Charles Rivard
The pins are set in an equilateral triangle with the 7, 8, 9, and 10 pins spread out at the back end of the pin deck. All rows are numbered from left to right. Each row is centered across the lane. In front of the back row are the 4, 5, and 6 pins. In front of those, the 2 and 3 pins, and

Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Damien, Alot of it comes down to memorization and having a sighted person play with you for a while until you learn the game well enough to play on your own. Certainly it goes without saying that there are some styles of games easier to play than others. For example, the fighting games like

Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread clement chou
Since Tom just covered most o what I was oging to say, I'l just add to it a bit. Preference is the main factor whn it comes to games. Do you like action? Because if you like action there's many many games that are playable. However, if you're looking for something more lke adventure and

Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread Milos Przic
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Re: [Audyssey] Mainstream gaming

2010-08-06 Thread clement chou
Double dragon was never for windows... that game was released befire windows was even thought of. MK 3 and 4 are both for the windows platform, but MK 3 games work up to windows 98... to get them to work on an xp machine needs patching. Street fighter games... street fighter 4 is for pc, that's

[Audyssey] sfml and cross-platform game

2010-08-06 Thread Travis Siegel
Just a note for those who are interested. I've updated the chopper patrol port to sfml, and reposted it at: http://www.thesiegelsnest.us/mac/chopper_patrol_sfml.zip I added panning (for the jet, though the sound probably needs replaced since the default one doesn't pan well) This was done by

[Audyssey] BrailleSoft No Longer Supports Freedom Scientific

2010-08-06 Thread Louis Bryant
Hi all. As many of you know FS has gone lawsuit crazy this past year. There was an unsettling case in which FS filed suit against the Foundation for blind children in Arizona, as sighted by BLindBargains.com. To see it, either Google Freedom Scientific Lawsuits or go to BlindBargains.com, look

Re: [Audyssey] BrailleSoft No Longer Supports Freedom Scientific

2010-08-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Louis, Honestly I can't blame you. that's why I have not really been using or supporting Freedom Scientific products much over the past few years. One reason I will not, under any circomstances add Jaws support to my game engine, as I see no need to endorce or support a greedy and selfish

Re: [Audyssey] BrailleSoft No Longer Supports Freedom Scientific

2010-08-06 Thread Bryan Peterson
Again? What in the name of Bob do they think they're doing? I mean I hate Greedom Science Fiction but this is just a new low as far as I'm concerned. And it's stuff like that that has convinced me that if and when I start developing my own games (I'm making slow progress with BGT), and if I

Re: [Audyssey] BrailleSoft No Longer Supports Freedom Scientific

2010-08-06 Thread Oriol Gómez
Most new products are supporting NVDA nowadays. Anyway this is getting out of topic I think, so I'll stop. On 8/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Again? What in the name of Bob do they think they're doing? I mean I hate Greedom Science Fiction but this is just a new low as

Re: [Audyssey] BrailleSoft No Longer Supports Freedom Scientific

2010-08-06 Thread Charles Rivard
If any game developer is going to provide screen reader support for their games, regardless of how they feel about the screen reader developing company's policies are, I feel that you have to support what your customers are using. Otherwise, you're cutting your own customer base. ---