Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
it depends on what you were brought up on. I only got into human speech in 2001 I was brought up firstly with the keynote gold, then the gemini, then orpheus1. I have been able to stand espeak for ages and actually like it over some human sounding systems, but then its the background. Dos was the only system I had for the first 5 years. then windows 9x for about 8 years still on the same setup. I never got into real voices till 2008. And it was only through fortune of getting someone's jaws8 realspeak image that I even bothered with human voices at all. Its doubtfull that I will ever get lagit voices since I don't really care but if I ever buy it will be the english, us and au and maybe uk ivonas 100 for each pack, english uk and us which supports nvda so 200. I may also get a japanese voice for some games to. But thats a major if now. At 01:35 a.m. 24/01/2012 -0500, you wrote: That's definitely unusual. In my case listening to some of the synthetic voices for a long stretch drives me up the wall. The less human the voice like Eloquence or ESpeak the more irritating I find it. I guess I've adapted to Eloquence and ESpeak, as I use them all the time with NVDA, but the more human voices like the ATT voices are definitely preferable in terms of human quality. I find games that use human voices for menus, status messages, much better. On 1/23/12, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: I don't know, for some reason hearing the same human speech over and over in a game bothers me. But hearing the same sapi5 voice over and over does not. Now if I had sight and saw a human on the screen, I would expect to hear human speech. But when I had sight, nothing on the screen looked anything like a human. BFN Jim The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some darned good ideas! j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
Personally I'm the opposite as far as eloquence goes. Its UK accent just sounds wrong to me for some reason. The interesting part though is that I totally think the reverse with eSpeak. I like its UK accent but can't stand the US one. As far as the more natural voices, my favourites would probably be neospeech Paul, acapela Peter and Ivona Geraint (that one came out a week ago or so, so it's quite new). Oh and yes, I also prefer human speech verses TTS On 2012-01-24 08:00, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Bryan, Oh, I like the U.K. version of Eloquence as well. I like to leave it set on Justin because I think he sounds better than Reed. I also agree I can put up with almost any SAPI voice for menus and things like that, but not for cutscenes and game commentary. One of the things that bothers me about the wrestling game I'm working on is commentary. Right now any time you perform a move SAPI acts as a ring side commintator. Ok, it works, but I can't get into it. I'd prefer a human to actually call out the moves rather than SAPI. Cheers! On 1/23/12, BRYAN PETERSONbpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Interestingly enough I prefer the UK English version of the Elloquence synthesizer. I don't know, I just could never stand the American one. But as far as synthes in games go I'm pretty set in my ways. Sapi for status info is fine, but never, and I mean never, should synthes be used for actual characters unless, and that being the key word, they happen to be robot or computer characters. To be qite frank tat's probably the biggest reason I can never manage to maintain my interest in the Sarah game. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Hi Dark
HI, If you can get use to a Keynote you can pretty much listen to anything after that. Lol! I had a multilingual Keynote for high school and college because at the time it was the most accurate when it came to doing French and English. The multilingual Braille N' Speaks slottered the languages and Eloquence wasn't yet a part of Jaws. So the Keynote was the best solution at the time for foreign languages, but the voice was definitely unique. To say the least unless I was working on French class that thing sat on a shelf unused and I pretty much used a Dectalk Express 24/7. It was probably the most human sounding hardware synth on the market back in the 90's. On 1/24/12, shaun everiss sm.ever...@gmail.com wrote: it depends on what you were brought up on. I only got into human speech in 2001 I was brought up firstly with the keynote gold, then the gemini, then orpheus1. I have been able to stand espeak for ages and actually like it over some human sounding systems, but then its the background. Dos was the only system I had for the first 5 years. then windows 9x for about 8 years still on the same setup. I never got into real voices till 2008. And it was only through fortune of getting someone's jaws8 realspeak image that I even bothered with human voices at all. Its doubtfull that I will ever get lagit voices since I don't really care but if I ever buy it will be the english, us and au and maybe uk ivonas 100 for each pack, english uk and us which supports nvda so 200. I may also get a japanese voice for some games to. But thats a major if now. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process? I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like Type in the developer of BGT's name. What is twenty-five plus thirty six? Type the second letter from your given username. and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on? Chris Bartlett --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Tuesday's Out of Sight events
Here are the events scheduled for Tuesday, January 24th: Cooking in the Dark 1:00 PM eastern Hosted by Debi Location: Cozy Kitchen Cooking in the Dark Where you do not need sight to cook tonight Do you ever wonder if it is just as easy to cook as a blind person? Would you like to learn the best method for measuring vanilla without spilling it? What kind of method works best for telling the doneness of chicken? Or, what is the easiest way to prepare an omelet without sight? Join us every week to find out! Our hosts, Dale Campbell and Cheryl Cumings will give us the tips, tricks, and recipies that will show us that we can, cook in the dark! Tech Talk and Tips 8:00 PM eastern Hosted by OOS Tech Team Location: Technically Speaking Join us every Tuesday for some helpful hints from our tech team. Afterwards, they will be happy to answer your computer questions. Zilch 9:15 PM eastern Hosted by Diane Location: Game Zone Roll the dice and take your chances! Try to snag as many points as possible but you better know when to quit otherwise, you'll lose it all and Zilch out! Drop by for some fun and excitement because you never know who will win until the final dice roll! No software to download and it only takes a few minutes to get the hang of the game. Polished Zilch players and new folk are most welcome! Have a fantastic day! --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
As for my favorite SAPI voice, on my PC, the default has been set to ScanSoft Tom. Of all those that came on a CD that was sent along with an earlier copy of JAWS from Freedom Scientific, it is the best in my opinion. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Pitermach piterm...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 3:03 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] game speech Personally I'm the opposite as far as eloquence goes. Its UK accent just sounds wrong to me for some reason. The interesting part though is that I totally think the reverse with eSpeak. I like its UK accent but can't stand the US one. As far as the more natural voices, my favourites would probably be neospeech Paul, acapela Peter and Ivona Geraint (that one came out a week ago or so, so it's quite new). Oh and yes, I also prefer human speech verses TTS On 2012-01-24 08:00, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi Bryan, Oh, I like the U.K. version of Eloquence as well. I like to leave it set on Justin because I think he sounds better than Reed. I also agree I can put up with almost any SAPI voice for menus and things like that, but not for cutscenes and game commentary. One of the things that bothers me about the wrestling game I'm working on is commentary. Right now any time you perform a move SAPI acts as a ring side commintator. Ok, it works, but I can't get into it. I'd prefer a human to actually call out the moves rather than SAPI. Cheers! On 1/23/12, BRYAN PETERSONbpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Interestingly enough I prefer the UK English version of the Elloquence synthesizer. I don't know, I just could never stand the American one. But as far as synthes in games go I'm pretty set in my ways. Sapi for status info is fine, but never, and I mean never, should synthes be used for actual characters unless, and that being the key word, they happen to be robot or computer characters. To be qite frank tat's probably the biggest reason I can never manage to maintain my interest in the Sarah game. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] game speech
Hi Dark, Sorry about the Hi Dark subject. Don't know how I did that. I see what you mean, but Homer Simpson is almost not like a Human voice to me. He is a cartoon voice. Kind of like if I had been more of a Flintstones fan and used Fred Flintstones voice rather than Homer's. I do see though like with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Automan and even Maggie's car horn in Homer on a Harley. It is hard though to find and edit bits of speech out of TV shows, movies etc and find everything that you need for a game. BFN Jim You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
Hi Charles, I think that all of the different accents of people and voice actors across the U. S. and the rest of the world might be part of my problem with human speech in games. Some accents do really get on my nerves. Not so much talking with a person on the phone, but over and over in a game. I like ATT Crystal for Email and in games. I also use ATT Charles, ATT Lauren, ATT Audrey and Neo Speech Kate for games. Which is really a huge improvement over what I used to play games for over a dozen years. I had a dos computer running an Accent SA for that dozen or so years. And then a Double Talk for a couple of years. And I still run a Triple Talk on my game development computer. Not for game play, but for VB6 programming and other regular computer use. BFN Jim Synthetic scotch, synthetic Commanders... -- Scotty j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi Willem, I have tried the stop bots extention in the past which is meant to do exactly that, but it turned out to be rather buggy so if I want this sort of functionality, I will probably end up writing my own. Unless, of course, I can find another similar extention to put in PunBB. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process? I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like Type in the developer of BGT's name. What is twenty-five plus thirty six? Type the second letter from your given username. and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on? Chris Bartlett --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi Philip. Hi Philip. Did the developers respond to your bug reports? The spammers won't stop, so it is either writing your own checker or dealing with bots as you currently are doing. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi Willem, I have tried the stop bots extention in the past which is meant to do exactly that, but it turned out to be rather buggy so if I want this sort of functionality, I will probably end up writing my own. Unless, of course, I can find another similar extention to put in PunBB. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process? I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like Type in the developer of BGT's name. What is twenty-five plus thirty six? Type the second letter from your given username. and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on? Chris Bartlett --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any
Re: [Audyssey] Terraformers
The communication device tells you what to do generally. Also explore, the power stations aren't hard to find. - Original Message - From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:25:46 -0500 Subject: [Audyssey] Terraformers After you get done with the training, thren what? You walk around unti you have know energy? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
Hi Willem, I think I will end up writing my own when I have the time. I didn't get in touch with the developers of the StopBots extention, because after trying it for a time I decided that I didn't really like the way it operated and I am okay for the time being with the post and registration approval extention that I put in place instead. These bots I removed had registered before I put the approval system in place and I simply hadn't realized they were actually there. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:43 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Philip. Hi Philip. Did the developers respond to your bug reports? The spammers won't stop, so it is either writing your own checker or dealing with bots as you currently are doing. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi Willem, I have tried the stop bots extention in the past which is meant to do exactly that, but it turned out to be rather buggy so if I want this sort of functionality, I will probably end up writing my own. Unless, of course, I can find another similar extention to put in PunBB. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com To: phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process? I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like Type in the developer of BGT's name. What is twenty-five plus thirty six? Type the second letter from your given username. and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on? Chris Bartlett --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
I'm not sure Jim. sinse obviously Homer though a cartoon character is intended as a human being, albeit a rather stupid one at times, therefore to me would be just the same as using the voice of Luke Skywalker, Captain Picard, the Terminator or any other character from a tv program or film. If your game includes those characters, it's best if you can have their voices, however your game might be an original project and include entirely new! characters which imho have to have their own voices. Look at Airik the clerric. Airik is a distinct person with his own voice (in fact Bryan P's voice), and now if anyone else wanted to write a game with Airik, it'd make sense that they have to have Bryan. That was why in Tdv, Munawar returned to play the agent from Treasurehunt, sinse that agents' voice was! effectively munawars. Does that make sense? Myself I'd view most game characters as just as real as characters in a film, play, or any other form of artistic expression, and obviously then you want them as well portrayed as possible. Fair enough if you prefer sapi for everything Jim, I just find that a rather strange preference myself for the above reason. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net To: dark Gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:14 AM Subject: [Audyssey] game speech Hi Dark, Sorry about the Hi Dark subject. Don't know how I did that. I see what you mean, but Homer Simpson is almost not like a Human voice to me. He is a cartoon voice. Kind of like if I had been more of a Flintstones fan and used Fred Flintstones voice rather than Homer's. I do see though like with Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Automan and even Maggie's car horn in Homer on a Harley. It is hard though to find and edit bits of speech out of TV shows, movies etc and find everything that you need for a game. BFN Jim You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
Sounds great! Thanks. -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:38 AM To: viph...@googlegroups.com; gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. _ NOD32 EMON 6823 (20120124) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com _ NOD32 EMON 6823 (20120124) information _ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system http://www.eset.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
Hi Raul, go for it!! I have the 4 s, though siri is having issues with my voice especially when texting. I've never heard of these games at all, so a podcast would be great. Best wishes from Lori. -- From: Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:37 PM To: viph...@googlegroups.com; gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
Hi, i've got an iphone too, all be it a 4, but any information on games or technology would be greatly appreciated, as you can never have enough of it, right? On 1/24/12, Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Raul, go for it!! I have the 4 s, though siri is having issues with my voice especially when texting. I've never heard of these games at all, so a podcast would be great. Best wishes from Lori. -- From: Raul A. Gallegos r...@raulgallegos.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 1:37 PM To: viph...@googlegroups.com; gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Mush Z music stil wonky
Hi. this is really for Oriol, but if anyone else can give advise that would help a lot. I've redownloaded and instaleld a fresh copy of Mush z from the website but stil! my background music and ambience aren't playing as they should. They get randomly muted as I change areas, indeed gads' landing and the arcase trailles have no music at all and whatever I do can't bring it back, while the viking village raid has no ambience. I'm not sure wht the heck is going on, and any advise would be appreciated. This happens both on my desktop and laptop, and with a fresh install, so the problem probably isn't at my end, of course I've tried looking in config, typing config music etc but once again no go. Sinse the music and ambience are things I really! appreciate in Alter, I'd deffinately like them back. eware the grue! Dark. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
I'd be interested in that to. Let us know if you decide to go ahead and when complete I'll take a listen -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Raul A. Gallegos Sent: 24 January 2012 13:38 To: viph...@googlegroups.com; gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1901 / Virus Database: 2109/4763 - Release Date: 01/24/12 --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] 2012 Top 25 List and Blind Bargains Annual awards
Sorry for my late response on this, the topic was just brought to my attention today. I would just like to thank Eleanor, Cynthia and the rest of the gang at 7128 for being open minded about their process and making changes to their list this year, allowing Blind Adrenaline to be listed in the top 25.. Also, to Dark's point, the information about Blind Adrenaline being inactive since 2009 is completely my fault. Cynthia had emailed me about a week ago asking if there were any changes that needed to be made to my listing, and I was out of town and unable to keep up with my email. It is true we're very active however, and in fact our dice game Yacht is up for game of the year voting at Blind Bargains website: http://blindbargains.com/awardvote11.php You can go to that site and vote on several categories for accessible awards of the year, including accessible game of the year. While I am shamelessly self promoting here, if you want to check out Yacht, you can play for free for 30 days, and we have two yacht tournaments every week with our custom designed tourney software, each monday at 8 PM eastern and Wednesday at 3 PM eastern. Its a very popular event. Sign up at: http://www.blindAdrenaline.com/cardRoom Thanks all, Che Owner - Blind Adrenaline Simulations On 1/22/2012 10:50 AM, dark wrote: Hi eleanor. nice list indeed, it's particularly good to see some sites like driftwood and Aprone's get a mention as they deserve. There are however a couple of points. firstly, Paulosoft, the makers of airik the clerric have changed their name and their site to www.breakerbox.games. com. they have also (as of december of last year), released another game, a cartoon 3D cutesy spy adventure called Curt wolf which has graphics and mouse control but is also fully audio accessible. I haven't tried it yet myself, but it sounds awsome. so you might want to either change that entry, or at the least update the link so that people don't get a 404. Also, though Blind adrenaline itself in terms of it's site and rail racer haven't been updated sinse 2009, work goes on constantly on the cardroom with weekly tournaments and other events. Just this year Yacht, the game best known as Yahtzee was added, along with the omahar varient of Texus holdem poker. i also think Spades was added earlier in the year too. So it is in a very different state to say Draconis that really hasn't! shown any life sinse 2009. then, Nielsbauer actually have two acessible games, sinse smugglers 3 is also accessible. They are however tyring to get interest in their Empires and dungeons game, and if they get enough from the eyeball defficient community they will make an access mode for it, so you might want to put a more prominant announcement on there. Lastly, not that it particularly matters, but the audiogames.net db is actually up to 392 games now, though sinse that'll probably be going up this week as I add some pages that isn't a major factor, I just thought I'd mention it :d. I'm actually looking forward to the big 400, which hopefully should be soon. Beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: Eleanor Robinson elea...@7128.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:10 PM Subject: [Audyssey] 2012 Top 25 List for Gamers who are Blind Hi gamers Our Top 25 Lists for 2012 have been published. In response to the comments made on Audyssey, we revised our criteria and have added a listing of online games. Although we don't feel we can adequately rank them, we listed them in one location so people who want to try online games can know where to go. The ranking criteria can be found at the end of the page. We adhere to the criteria, and where it appears that a website is not in the order you would expect, try to explain the reason they are in that location. It is a lot of work, but we feel we add value in our analysis of the sites and their offerings as well as giving you an easy way to get directly to the best sites for gamers who are blind. Please check the list out at our website, www.7128.com and select the Top 25 button at the bottom of the page. Enjoy! Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at
[Audyssey] Teraformer
Is there a walk through? You have to step out into the atmosphere? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Teraformer
Hi nicole. No, there isn't a walkthru, though I suppose I could write one, but really the game isn't too difficult provided you take note of where you are. The layout is very easy, and there are plenty of stations to go back to and recharge your energy if it drops too low. As to the atmosphere yes, that is the games' difficulty. If the dropping energy limit wasn't there it'd be way too easy, and as I said this difficulty isn't too hard as long as you make use of every recharge station. As I said, once you've finished the training, head streight north through several rooms until you get to the communicator. Listen to the messages on that, then take either the west or east path, sinse there's a computer part and a small challenge on each. to the east is a puzzle to match up sound sources to deactivate a robot, and to the west are three tone wheel controls. You'll have to do both to get both computer parts. bEware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:09 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Teraformer Is there a walk through? You have to step out into the atmosphere? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] swamp and saving
hi, just wanting to find out for sure the process here. in the older game, it seemed that you had to go to the safe zone, and hit escape twice, once to take you to the menu, and again to return to the game to save it. now i don't know if that is right, as its just what i was lead to believe at the time. but, never the less, just trying to find out exactly how your char is saved on the latest one. is it just when you walk in to safe zone its saved? or is that hitting escape twice still the way to do it. perhaps it should actually be a command on the save zone menu? best regards dallas --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8.
well I am testing a system called are you a human. www.areyouahuman.com This involves you listening to several words clearly heard but within static as an audio capcha. You can get it if you listen carefully, but if you don't, well you won't. At 11:39 a.m. 24/01/2012 +0200, you wrote: Hi philip. Have you investigated putting some test for humanness into the forum application process? I am not talking about captchas with pictures. Rather randomly ask a question like Type in the developer of BGT's name. What is twenty-five plus thirty six? Type the second letter from your given username. and other similar questions like that which most spammers won't be able to automate, but is still simple enough for most users to answer. On 1/24/12, Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com wrote: Hi again, I have now cleaned out about 6000 spam bot accounts from my forum. And, wonder of wonders, the lag is gone. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. Hi Chris, It may be that the database is getting overloaded with unapproved spam bot registrations. I will have a look and see if I can clean that up during the day tomorrow. I've noticed it being a bit slow too, though never more than a couple of seconds on this end. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Christopher Bartlett themusicalbre...@gmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:08 PM Subject: [Audyssey] blastbay forum appears to be freezing my IE8. About half the time when I go to post something on the blast bay forum, my browser completely freezes. This is happening with NVDA and JFW, so it's not a screen reader issue. I've experienced similar behavior occasionally from the audiogames.net forum site. Anyone know what's going on? Chris Bartlett --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] podcast on Storm8 games
hmmm never heard of storemate, yeah do a cast. Your stuff alsways rocks anyway. At 08:37 a.m. 24/01/2012 -0500, you wrote: Hi all. I finally got the iPhone 4S and am happily using it. I think that my son has used Siri more than I have at this point. Anyway, lately I've been playing games from Storm8 and am wondering if others here might be interested in me doing a podcast on them in case they are either playing them and need pointers, or in case they never heard of them and want to try out a new kind of game. So, over the next few days I'm going to put together a podcast which shows these great games. Cheers. -- Raul A. Gallegos A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers. Twitter: http://twitter.com/rau47 Facebook: http://facebook.com/rgallegos74 Blog: http://www.RaulGallegos.com --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
Hi Dark, Agreed. Back when I originally created STFC I scrounged the internet plus wwent through my TNG shows to get decent recordings of Picard saying things like fire photon torpedoes, fire phasers, on screen, engage, and so on. It made the game extremely realistic as the orders to perform various actions sounded like the TV show. Having a TTS voice announce those things never felt that realistic to me. I think if I were to do a new Star Trek game I'd get one of our talented voice actors to speak various commands like arm phasers, arm photon torpedoes, arm quantum torpedoes, all stop, etc as that would really make that that much better. When an enemy ship approaches having the captain ordering the crew to battle stations really would make it more realistic. I don't care if Crystal or some other SAPI voice speaks menus, status reports, etc as you'd expect a computer voice for interacting with ship functions anyway. However, a human is better for the captain and crew. Even a quick aye Sir from the helm, tactical, or ops station is realistic where SAPI voices would be out of place. On 1/24/12, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I'm not sure Jim. sinse obviously Homer though a cartoon character is intended as a human being, albeit a rather stupid one at times, therefore to me would be just the same as using the voice of Luke Skywalker, Captain Picard, the Terminator or any other character from a tv program or film. If your game includes those characters, it's best if you can have their voices, however your game might be an original project and include entirely new! characters which imho have to have their own voices. Look at Airik the clerric. Airik is a distinct person with his own voice (in fact Bryan P's voice), and now if anyone else wanted to write a game with Airik, it'd make sense that they have to have Bryan. That was why in Tdv, Munawar returned to play the agent from Treasurehunt, sinse that agents' voice was! effectively munawars. Does that make sense? Myself I'd view most game characters as just as real as characters in a film, play, or any other form of artistic expression, and obviously then you want them as well portrayed as possible. Fair enough if you prefer sapi for everything Jim, I just find that a rather strange preference myself for the above reason. Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Babisoft games crashing
Hi, I know that there has been a lot of talk regarding Babisoft's lack of contact with purchasers of their games, but I have a question regarding the actual play of the games, or rather, how they play on Win XP sp 3 machines. Chillingham will suddenly quit on me, and Grizzly Gulch will lock up and disappear from my Windows Task Manager, but when I restart my system, it asks me if I want to end Girzzly Gulch. This has been happening when I get into a gun fight in the bank, after I purchase a gun at the goods sotre. Also, I was able to play both games fine until today (i installed both games 3 days ago). Not quite sure what's going on with the games and the interaction on my system. Thanks Keith --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] swamp and saving
HI, Saving the game is still the same. First off, you must be in the safe zone to save your character. Pressing the esc key anywhere else does not save your info. Press the esc key to save your stats. Press it again to return to the game, or arrow to exit if you wish. Putting this option on the safe zone menu sounds clunky and I really don't like the idea at all. It's really just that easy, press the esc key in the safe zone twice, and then go on with your game. Much quicker and easier in my opinion. Shermanator - Original Message - From: Dallas O'Brien dallas-obr...@bigpond.com Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:48 PM hi, just wanting to find out for sure the process here. in the older game, it seemed that you had to go to the safe zone, and hit escape twice, once to take you to the menu, and again to return to the game to save it. now i don't know if that is right, as its just what i was lead to believe at the time. but, never the less, just trying to find out exactly how your char is saved on the latest one. is it just when you walk in to safe zone its saved? or is that hitting escape twice still the way to do it. perhaps it should actually be a command on the save zone menu? best regards dallas --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] swamp idea for map 3
Hi Jeremy, My random thought for another map for swamp. The whole thing is an open concept, no save zone, no buildings and no obstacles. Only a transport station. the map size is just half or maybe even smaller the current map1, about 200 by 200 or even shrink to 100 by 100. not too sure about that. The number of zombies and loots spond remains the same as the existing map. So is kind of like a survival mode where we have many concentrated at a small area. The way to enter that area is by some kind of transport or teleporter which goes back and forth regularly between a certain spot in sz to map 3 transport station. And that teleporter only activates at an interval of not less than one minute. To return to sz, we will have to wait at that transport station for the teleporter. If we are lucky, it will arrive within seconds. While waiting we still have to defend ourselves. 锦发/Steady Goh --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] swamp idea for map 3
Don't really care for the open design- cause then anyone with enough rep for ammo and a vulcan or m60 can just go in any time and power level like mad since if there's no buildings in the way, one can just hold down the trigger and sweep left to right and back again and off tons of zombies that way. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
[Audyssey] Game Design
How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Game Design
You could, possibly, use my mapData game engine to just render/generate your own game renditions - to a certain extent - for now anyway: http://www.blindza.co.za/work/#python The backend lets you generate interactive fiction maps, that can then be made use of/played around with in the front-end, and, yes, it's a bit simple for now, but anyway...smile Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:28 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Game Design How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Game Design
Hi Nicole, I am always available for contract work. I have done a few projects for clients and they've been happy with my work, thus far. Smile. I am the author of BGT that Thomas mentioned, and so if you wanted to learn to use that I'd be more than happy to help. Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:28 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Game Design How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Game Design
The games are suppose to be audio-based, isn't interactive fiction text-based? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 1:37 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game Design You could, possibly, use my mapData game engine to just render/generate your own game renditions - to a certain extent - for now anyway: http://www.blindza.co.za/work/#python The backend lets you generate interactive fiction maps, that can then be made use of/played around with in the front-end, and, yes, it's a bit simple for now, but anyway...smile Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:28 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Game Design How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Game Design
Hi Nicole. Firstly let me say that there is a big difference between a book and a game derived from that same book. You will have to decide what type of game you want to make. Interactive fiction and role playing games is closer to the book form than a strategy game or fps. When you write a story you can plan all the characters actions in advance, but with a game you need to give a player some choices and think about the results of those choices. I know I might be stating the obvious to you, but I feel I need to explain my advice. First choose the type of interaction the player should have, then decide on the plot and flow of the game. If there are actions in the game that depend on player stats or chance, give a little mind to how it might work. If you want to try programming, look at the resources Thomas mentioned. This is your best bet on getting a game from your story. If that does not work out, you might try to tempt someone on a list by sending a short outline of the story and hoping for the best, but writing a game with someone looking over your shoulder can be a challenge for a programmer. I know all this is full of generalities, but I hope it helps. Everyone works out their own methods in the end. On 1/25/12, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nicole, Well, you can try and hire one of the accessible developers to design and develop the games for you, but that would probably cost you more money than you have to spend. The best thing you could do is to write them yourself. There are a couple of options here. One,you could learn a general all purpose programming language and how to program games from scratch. I run a list specifically designed for this purpose on http://www.usagamesinteractive.com/lists.php and that is one option. the other is to buy Philip's BGT game programming toolkit which will save you time, and perhaps be a little easier. You can get that from http://www.blastbay.com as well as join the BGT forum. HTH On 1/25/12, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com wrote: How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Game Design
Roll playing audio is the game type. I've just signed up tp the list, and added Philip to my contancts along with Thomas. Your next. I'm thinking the game is based on the universe Yemora, and they pick from characters from different books and stories. Where would I get the voices, I want to use real people like like Phil Vlaysak. What about sound effects, and compilers? Or should I just concentrate on the stories and have someone else design the game? Would I be able to do both? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist - Original Message - From: Willem Venter dwill...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game Design Hi Nicole. Firstly let me say that there is a big difference between a book and a game derived from that same book. You will have to decide what type of game you want to make. Interactive fiction and role playing games is closer to the book form than a strategy game or fps. When you write a story you can plan all the characters actions in advance, but with a game you need to give a player some choices and think about the results of those choices. I know I might be stating the obvious to you, but I feel I need to explain my advice. First choose the type of interaction the player should have, then decide on the plot and flow of the game. If there are actions in the game that depend on player stats or chance, give a little mind to how it might work. If you want to try programming, look at the resources Thomas mentioned. This is your best bet on getting a game from your story. If that does not work out, you might try to tempt someone on a list by sending a short outline of the story and hoping for the best, but writing a game with someone looking over your shoulder can be a challenge for a programmer. I know all this is full of generalities, but I hope it helps. Everyone works out their own methods in the end. On 1/25/12, Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nicole, Well, you can try and hire one of the accessible developers to design and develop the games for you, but that would probably cost you more money than you have to spend. The best thing you could do is to write them yourself. There are a couple of options here. One,you could learn a general all purpose programming language and how to program games from scratch. I run a list specifically designed for this purpose on http://www.usagamesinteractive.com/lists.php and that is one option. the other is to buy Philip's BGT game programming toolkit which will save you time, and perhaps be a little easier. You can get that from http://www.blastbay.com as well as join the BGT forum. HTH On 1/25/12, Nicole Valicia Thompson-Andrews goldyemo...@gmail.com wrote: How are audio games designed, and who can I contact about designing audion games for me? I'm a budding novelist, and want to sell or have sold audio games for my universe. How would work, like would I send them the books, and they turn one into a game? Nicole Andrew Pen name Mellissa Green Budding novelist --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns
Re: [Audyssey] swamp idea for map 3
Every one you kill there is another spond somewhere. What you said is true in a way but constantly against hundreds might not be as easy as you make it sounded. The time you take to reload and healing is their chance. + weapons get broken. Have you done missions yet? From the way you said, you must be a very good guard. Anyway, after a certain point, rep won't mean much. I am at lvl 79 and have 16 rep in my 1.8 account. I can easily afford 10 of each weapons. Even so, I'm not sure i can survive the attack. Anyhow, this idea just came to mind. Jeremy might not put it in at all. 锦发/Steady Goh - Original Message - From: Johnny Tai johnnyti...@shaw.ca To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] swamp idea for map 3 Don't really care for the open design- cause then anyone with enough rep for ammo and a vulcan or m60 can just go in any time and power level like mad since if there's no buildings in the way, one can just hold down the trigger and sweep left to right and back again and off tons of zombies that way. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] game speech
Hi tom. That is absolutely true, though of course in stfc you did have the advantage of finding a synth voice that was in keeping with the game itself, sinse the one you used does sound quite a lot like the trek computer, though having human crew of course would be deffinately preferable for the atmosphere it would provide, even if you kept the synth saying things like numeric status information of ships' shields, reading menues etc. Beware the grue! dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] game speech Hi Dark, Agreed. Back when I originally created STFC I scrounged the internet plus wwent through my TNG shows to get decent recordings of Picard saying things like fire photon torpedoes, fire phasers, on screen, engage, and so on. It made the game extremely realistic as the orders to perform various actions sounded like the TV show. Having a TTS voice announce those things never felt that realistic to me. I think if I were to do a new Star Trek game I'd get one of our talented voice actors to speak various commands like arm phasers, arm photon torpedoes, arm quantum torpedoes, all stop, etc as that would really make that that much better. When an enemy ship approaches having the captain ordering the crew to battle stations really would make it more realistic. I don't care if Crystal or some other SAPI voice speaks menus, status reports, etc as you'd expect a computer voice for interacting with ship functions anyway. However, a human is better for the captain and crew. Even a quick aye Sir from the helm, tactical, or ops station is realistic where SAPI voices would be out of place. On 1/24/12, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I'm not sure Jim. sinse obviously Homer though a cartoon character is intended as a human being, albeit a rather stupid one at times, therefore to me would be just the same as using the voice of Luke Skywalker, Captain Picard, the Terminator or any other character from a tv program or film. If your game includes those characters, it's best if you can have their voices, however your game might be an original project and include entirely new! characters which imho have to have their own voices. Look at Airik the clerric. Airik is a distinct person with his own voice (in fact Bryan P's voice), and now if anyone else wanted to write a game with Airik, it'd make sense that they have to have Bryan. That was why in Tdv, Munawar returned to play the agent from Treasurehunt, sinse that agents' voice was! effectively munawars. Does that make sense? Myself I'd view most game characters as just as real as characters in a film, play, or any other form of artistic expression, and obviously then you want them as well portrayed as possible. Fair enough if you prefer sapi for everything Jim, I just find that a rather strange preference myself for the above reason. Beware the grue! Dark. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
Re: [Audyssey] Babisoft games crashing
Hi Kieth. no idea what is happening wwith chillingham, but with grizly gulch, bavisoft do have a patch they produced because apparently the game was having problems on xp. i found myself on some xp machines that if you don't have that patch in the game, gunfights will lock the game up and make weerd things happen, so I suggest havinga look at that. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Keith S hea...@mchsi.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:13 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Babisoft games crashing Hi, I know that there has been a lot of talk regarding Babisoft's lack of contact with purchasers of their games, but I have a question regarding the actual play of the games, or rather, how they play on Win XP sp 3 machines. Chillingham will suddenly quit on me, and Grizzly Gulch will lock up and disappear from my Windows Task Manager, but when I restart my system, it asks me if I want to end Girzzly Gulch. This has been happening when I get into a gun fight in the bank, after I purchase a gun at the goods sotre. Also, I was able to play both games fine until today (i installed both games 3 days ago). Not quite sure what's going on with the games and the interaction on my system. Thanks Keith --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- 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 http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
