[Audyssey] Alter Aeon Official Mac client accessibility

2012-06-06 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi All, I wonder if there might be any way to work on making the official, Alter Aeon client accessible, specifically on Mac? I'm referring to the one available via the Mac App Store. I realize that it's not strictly necessary, but it would be nice to have access to something blessed by the

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I have to agree with you on that point. Accessible game developers have pretty much over developed just about everything in the card and puzzle variety except Mahjong. I've seen a number of accessible Solitaire games, two or three versions of Monopoly, there is a couple versions of Uno,

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, That would be a good idea. I recently reinstalled XP on the family desktop PC to use as a all purpose gaming machine since a lot of games won't run on Win 7 and/or Linux, and I grabbed the APH demos. I couldn't get them to run right on XP either. However, as you say its no big loss.

[Audyssey] Making open source games accessible

2012-06-06 Thread Willem Venter
Hi all. In the past I've considered making some games that have open source versions accessible, but gave up because either the source code was too complex ( 4 mb of source files) or the inserting of an access framework would take too much time for a holiday project or parts of the game would need

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong

2012-06-06 Thread QuentinC
Hello all, As I read it, mahjong would be a nice candidate game for the playroom. However, I don't know it at all. From what I remember, mahjong was only a solitaire where you had to match tiles to reveal other ones and finally clear the all field. I didn't know that it was a true game. If

[Audyssey] Strip War

2012-06-06 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi, I have put version 2 of Strip War up on my site. File name winswar2.exe File size 21 meg In version 2 I fixed the bug where a human player may not be told what article of clothing to strip off while playing war against another human player. The winswar2.exe file can be found on my free

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Quentin, The Solitaire type Mahjong is only one variation on the Mahjong game. There are actually several different variations of Mahjong with different rules. and are played differently depending on the type of game. Like a standard deck of playing cards there are a number of different

[Audyssey] Wednesday's Out-Of-Sight events

2012-06-06 Thread Charles Rivard
Here are the events scheduled for Wednesday, June 6th: Chess Chat 1:00 PM eastern Hosted by Alan and Charles Location: Chess Castle Yes, Blind and Visually Impaired People, Can, and Do, Play Chess! We will tell you How You Can Learn to Play Chess Absolutely free of cost, including receiving a

Re: [Audyssey] Making open source games accessible

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Willem, I'm currently not working on any open source games, but I have looked into it. As you discovered in most cases the game would have to be completely rewritten from scratch to add accessibility support, because the original design didn't have any room for accessibility to be bolted on

Re: [Audyssey] Achaea, MUD

2012-06-06 Thread Greg Wocher
Hello, I have found that to be any good at PVP in Achaea or any of the Iron realms games it takes some serious scripting. This is because of all the different maladictions that the various classes can hit you with. It is one of the reasons I don't play anymore. I want to enjoy a game not

Re: [Audyssey] Voices needed for the Sarah game.

2012-06-06 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Lenron, Yes the game is, Sarah And The Castle Of Witchcraft And Wizardry. You can get it from my site, http://www.pcsgames.net/downloads.htm or from the Draconis site, http://download.draconisentertainment.com/software.php - Original Message - From: lenron brown lenro...@gmail.com

[Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-06 Thread Charles Rivard
Hitting the Court, With an Ear on the Ball By THOMAS LIN WATERTOWN, Mass. - Dan Guilbeault was 3 when doctors discovered a tumor called an optic glioma pressed against his optic nerves. He continued to play the sports he loved - basketball, baseball and football - until he lost most of his

[Audyssey] to che, rail racer problem

2012-06-06 Thread Connor Moser
hello, I purchised rail racer last year. my virus program kept showing me falls alerts, but I have a better one. now, when I start rail racer, it says something about type inilasation or something. hen it says that it can't find slimdx.msi but I rann that file and it showed me that its

Re: [Audyssey] Making open source games accessible

2012-06-06 Thread Jacob Kruger
Well, FWIW, came across this open source instance of the old, elite, spaceTraders game source code yesterday, but, it's apparently in visualStudio.Net 2005 version of C#, apparently, but anyway: http://cplus.about.com/od/codelibraryfo2/ss/spacetrader.htm Aside from that, have got, and already

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-06 Thread Ian McNamara
Hi, hoping to give this a go sometime in the u k. There is no place near where I live though that plays it so currently looking around to find a place that's easy enough to travel to. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-06 Thread Scott Chesworth
I gave this a shot, but was pretty underwhelmed TBH. Has to be said that I'm no athlete, but my spacial awareness, coordination and confidence when moving aren't too shabby. I found the adaptions felt clunky, and that there was little satisfaction to be gained. Sitting in on a few games between

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon Official Mac client accessibility

2012-06-06 Thread Dennis Towne
Zack, Because of the toolkit we use, it was my understanding was that the bulk of the menus and so forth were already accessible. However, the most critical part, the main window, was completely unreadable. That's not surprising to me, as the main display window is completely custom and doesn't

Re: [Audyssey] Accessible Checkers, Mahjong

2012-06-06 Thread dark
Hi Tom. It's possible that they had partially deaf gamers in mind, though nothing like that is mentioned in the docs, and the way they seem so self congratulatory about how accessible the games are to blind people I think they probably would've. Myself, I'm more inclined to the theory that

Re: [Audyssey] Achaea, MUD

2012-06-06 Thread Jessica Arnold
Exactly Greg. I couldn't have said it better myself. Totally absolutely correct. However like I said I kind of have a love hate relationship with the iron realms games. They do have good points. Well I am not going to have much time to do anything especially play muds. So the decision has been

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread Dennis Towne
Everyone, Here's the latest batch of area updates from archais: - vikings have been releveled and raised in level - rogues have been moved to be just outside of Gad's Landing - the nurgling swamp has been updated - the djinni school near redferne has been updated - mob levels in blackwater

Re: [Audyssey] Achaea, MUD

2012-06-06 Thread Ian McNamara
Hello, the games are good but to complicated in my opinion. I had a quick go on all of them and just could not get in to them at all. I like muds but have never really found a mudding home. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon Official Mac client accessibility

2012-06-06 Thread Zachary Kline
Hi Dennis, I understand what you're saying with regard to the complexity and time involved in making the main window accessible. There is one other accessible Mac mudding client, which was just found recently, but a little choice would be nice. THat said, certainly focus on the game first. :)

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon Official Mac client accessibility

2012-06-06 Thread Karl Belanger
Which mudding client for mac is this? I'd be very interested. Karl On Jun 6, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Zachary Kline wrote: Hi Dennis, I understand what you're saying with regard to the complexity and time involved in making the main window accessible. There is one other accessible Mac mudding

Re: [Audyssey] tennis, anyone?

2012-06-06 Thread Charles Rivard
I found your input, from firsthand experience, to be interesting. Thanks. --- Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second. - Original Message - From: Scott Chesworth scottcheswo...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon Official Mac client accessibility

2012-06-06 Thread Michael Taboada
Hi, I believe it is called Mudder, and can be found in the mac app store, and if it hasn't already gone up in price it is at an introductory rate. Hth, -Michael. -Original Message- From: Karl Belanger Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:35 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread john
I must say I like the idea of scaling blackwater down quite a lot. I hadn't thought of it until now, but congrats. You've done a great job making the map changes without destroying anything. - Original Message - From: Dennis Towne s...@xirr.com To: Gamers Discussion list

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread dark
It'll be under my level, but it's fun to explore anyway, so i'll gladly look it over, sinse I've definitely enjoyed Morphius' areas on the game thus far. I'm pleased you've made the changes, it should make archais a good bit less of a chore. Not immediately, but any thoughts on the

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread Lindsay Cowell
Hi Dennis, What areas of Alter Aeon should I try? Lindsay Cowell -original message- Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss From: dark d...@xgam.org Date: 06/06/2012 7:22 pm It'll be under my level, but it's fun to explore anyway, so i'll gladly look it over, sinse I've definitely enjoyed

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread Dennis Towne
Dark, We didn't so much lower the level of the blackwater hollows as raise the recommended level range for it. Pretty much the whole area was overpowered for its old rated level. It should be a little more sane now, and we needed more areas at the upper end anyway. Regarding wilderness, if

Re: [Audyssey] Alter Aeon: Discuss

2012-06-06 Thread Dennis Towne
Lindsay, As a level 28 warrior, I would personally spend most of my time on the eastern, high level half of archais. I don't know your equipment details, but warriors are very equipment dependent in this level range - to do well, you'll have to make use of all your skills and make sure you do a