Re: [Audyssey] Help with Classic Pipe.

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
you may need ms windows media runtime components. wmaudioredist.exe ms should have them. blindsoftware.com should have them you should wonload that its a coman file. At 02:59 PM 4/20/2013, you wrote: Hello. When I go to run Classic Pipe I get the following message. --- P

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hello Sarah, and all. As of right now the files are back up there and the links seem to all be working. I don't have a utility which checks all the links to make sure, but nothing much has changed. I did some minor tweaks to the wording of the page and that seems to be ok. I also added the Stor

Re: [Audyssey] question about the music used in troopanum classic

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen
Here is the tune I'm talking about (thank you very much total recorder!) and no I am not being paid big bucks by high criteria to plug their software Now there's a thought! http://users.on.net/whocrazy/round5.wav At 03:12 PM 4/20/2013, you wrote: I think it's a midi sequence At 03:06 PM 4/

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi Raul, wow, thanks for that! Yes, I'm quite interested in your recordings and would like if you keep that updated. *smiles* Thanks again for uploading so quickly. Best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr

Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query

2013-04-19 Thread Keith
you can look up the info on www.mudconnector.com To my knowledge, there are no soundpacks for it, for mush client at least. Keith - Original Message - From: "Jess Varnell" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query

Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query

2013-04-19 Thread Johnny Tai
The mud is at Cyberassault.org Port 1 And this is from the client related helpfile in game: VIP-SUPPORT VIP_SUPPORT BLINDPLAYERS Provided By: Virjal This is an announcement to let you all know that MTScripts built on Monkey Term has support for this mud. Monkey Term supports windows opperatin

Re: [Audyssey] question about the music used in troopanum classic

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen
I think it's a midi sequence At 03:06 PM 4/20/2013, you wrote: Hi. Trupanum Classic is an interesting little game for sure, it was last updated in 2008 with all new music, so which piece of music are you referring to, is it a midi sequence or is it a properly recorded sound? I think I know

Re: [Audyssey] question about the music used in troopanum classic

2013-04-19 Thread Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Hi. Trupanum Classic is an interesting little game for sure, it was last updated in 2008 with all new music, so which piece of music are you referring to, is it a midi sequence or is it a properly recorded sound? I think I know the piece of music you're referring to but I'm going to play thro

Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query

2013-04-19 Thread Jess Varnell
Hi. Where can I get this mud? and is there a sound pack for it? What is a good mud client to use with n v d a? Thanks. Jess - Original Message - From: "john" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query I'm not sure I

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
Hello Dark, Sarah, Charles, and anyone else interested. First off, if anyone has my recordings, please feel free to share whenever and with whomever you wish. That being said, I'm uploading the files to my server space now. I thought I had, but obviously I don't pay that much attention to my si

[Audyssey] question about the music used in troopanum classic

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen
Oh wow. Can someone please tell me Who did that rousing 8 second number just after you finish the bonus round? Where did it come from? It's. . . . Well.. It's amazing, I'm lost for words. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsub

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Ron Kolesar
Hey Charles. I would love to see the sod walk throughs. I think I might down load the demo to give it a try once again. Thanks. Ron and current Leader Dog boz who states "that a service dog beats a cane paws down any day of the week." -Original Message- From: Charles Rivard Sent: Frid

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Unfortunately, in legal battles, those who have the bucks win the battles, whether they are right or not. But I would think that if you could show how you tried to contact them and never got any responses from them, they must not be interested. If they're not interested, then they shouldn't bo

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Sigh...Sorry, but that is not a sound legal defense in my opinion. Granted I am no lawyer, and my understanding of copyright law, is based on what I have read. However, the fact that said content is inaccessible to a blind person doesn't give someone legal rights to just use it without

[Audyssey] Help with Classic Pipe.

2013-04-19 Thread michael barnes
Hello. When I go to run Classic Pipe I get the following message. --- Pipe 1.0 --- Component 'msoecmd32.dll' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid --- OK Can someone please help?

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
I think I have the 17 Lone Wolf missions, the 9 or 10 floors of Shades Of Doom, and the 6 sectors of GMA Tank Commander. Maybe a few others, too, but don't recall at the moment. -- If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling errors! - Original Message - Fro

Re: [Audyssey] Numbers in emails Re: BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread Desiree Oudinot
I certainly don't text that way. The fact that writing numbers in place of actual words is considered normal is really quite sad to me. On 4/19/13, Raul A. Gallegos wrote: > He writes emails like he's writing text messages. So, he uses 2 instead > of to or too and b instead of be. I'm certainly n

Re: [Audyssey] Can a sighted person play swamp?

2013-04-19 Thread Dakotah Rickard
Right right. I agree that accessible games need a place, and that place should be ... of course, web based. I argue, though, that Audyssey's function is to do that. Audiogames.net filled a niche that Audyssey didn't because, and no offense Audyssey guys, Audyssey sort of dropped the ball, Lost ste

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Are you also going to upload a Grue that we must beware of? -- If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling errors! - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 6:45 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have R

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
I would probably be wrong, but if they want to take someone who produces an audio game dealing with their material, could this be a defense: There is no game that blind people can play based on this material from anyone, you in particular. You have been contacted several times on this matter,

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Curt Taubert
That would probably be better because, I only had nine files. Curt Taubert skype: curt_taubert twitter: curt78Curt Taubert On 4/19/2013 9:17 PM, Sarah Haake wrote: Hi Charles, that would be great, thanks! It seems Ken does not have all, so yours would definitively help. Best regards Sarah

Re: [Audyssey] swamp and anew controller

2013-04-19 Thread Dakotah Rickard
I feel bad. I was working with Aprone at one point, trying to figure a way to get the Wii Remote to work with Swamp, but I sort of dropped the ball. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 4/19/13, James Bartlett wrote: > Hello there > > Yes joy does mouse movements. Atleast on some pads. Well atleast

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi Charles, that would be great, thanks! It seems Ken does not have all, so yours would definitively help. Best regards Sarah --- 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 sub

Re: [Audyssey] Swamp with a trackpad.

2013-04-19 Thread Dakotah Rickard
Glad I could help. I hated tap to click in Swamp. I mean, in other programs, it's pretty useful, but it screws up Swamp big time. Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 4/19/13, john wrote: > Thanks for catching the tap to click. That was my major issue > with the game, and in hindsight I really should hav

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
I have them. If nobody else does, and it Raul does not mind, I will send a dropbox link either later this evening or some time tomorrow. -- If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling errors! - Original Message - From: "Sarah Haake" To: "Gamers Discussion

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread Lisa Hayes
Yes i know about that and will purchase, but brian's right i want a true game. Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was

Re: [Audyssey] Numbers in emails Re: BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Kidding, huh? What a terrible thing 2 B doing on a list 4 blind gamers! Aren't U ashamed of yourself 4 B ing so ornery? No? That's what eye thought. Me, either. Check my spelling, or, rather, typing 2 get the orneriness. -- If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spe

Re: [Audyssey] for Sarah and, anyone else who might want these

2013-04-19 Thread Curt Taubert
hmm, wonder why? I'll try again tomorrow. Curt Taubert skype: curt_taubert twitter: curt78Curt Taubert On 4/19/2013 8:37 PM, Sarah Haake wrote: Hi, I get a 404 not found on that link. Best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mai

Re: [Audyssey] Have I told you about Heywire?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi Ken, Heywire is a pretty good idea. I just tried it out a bit. I have to get used to this concept first, but I think it can be quite a bit of fun when I get into it a bit more. And no, as far as I can remember you didn't post this game to the list yet, thanks you did now. *smiles* Best

Re: [Audyssey] for Sarah and, anyone else who might want these

2013-04-19 Thread michael barnes
What is this you are giving? Thanks! --- 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All message

Re: [Audyssey] for Sarah and, anyone else who might want these

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi, I get a 404 not found on that link. Best regards Sarah --- 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_

[Audyssey] Have I told you about Heywire?

2013-04-19 Thread Ken The PionEar
If I haven't told you, i have a game on my site at www.ThePionEar.net called Heywire. Basically, four speakers drift around and you have to put them where they need to go to get the songs they play to sound right. I won't go in depth here because the game had a manual and i'm not sure I haven't

[Audyssey] for Sarah and, anyone else who might want these

2013-04-19 Thread Curt Taubert
I happened to find a few on my vista computer. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44174816/tutorial%202.zip -- Curt Taubert skype: curt_taubert twitter: curt78Curt Taubert --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.o

Re: [Audyssey] Quality verses quantity of games.

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
just putting in something i forgot. a lot of games in mainstream you pay for have free or payed for downloadable content. in some cases the game iteself is free but extra stuff would be payed for. At 06:58 AM 4/20/2013, you wrote: Hi Shaun, Well, that idea might work for some games, but not

Re: [Audyssey] Quality verses quantity of games.

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
true my idea was to have a game which would cost a small ammount, the next section would cost the same. each section say an adventure would end on a cliff hanger of sorts or something, so you would buy it in bits. my thought was that every piece you had would load the next so once you have finni

[Audyssey] reactions

2013-04-19 Thread john
I believe, but cannot confirm, that there was something on audiogames.net talking about various sound file decrypting. A common method seemed to be an archive file type, something used on a gaming platform? A lot of the above is pretty vague, but I'm pretty sure the info is out there somewhere.

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
what about writing lotr and hobbit as tactical battle maps? true its not a full game but its less fiddling round. At 05:12 AM 4/20/2013, you wrote: Hi Phil, Right. Yeah, I forgot about that. Of course, I think an audio game developer could do essentially the same thing as the Dungeons and Drago

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reacti ons

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
what would be needed to donate the entire lot to audyssey. again I stress, I was going to put things up on my dropbox to share I need to share for backup reasons to myself anyway. after blindsoftware closes I intend to upload the games and share them with everyone. on the other hand if this is a

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Lol! There is the rub. I am so far behindit seems I will never catch up. I was pretty sick a lot last year so didn't do much programming on anything for close to 10 months so if I did a LOTR game it would just end up on the pile of evrything else to do. That's not to say I'm not intereste

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions.

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
well if you are meaning the community project, I am willing to allow full access to the community after blindsoftware closes. I have payed the 75 bucks us for the games. now if justin wants to charge a bit for the source, there is that much less for the community to fork. I am perfectly happy t

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Yes, I think starting with a simple roll playing game based in a fantasy story or world you are familiar with would be the way to go. As Dark pointed out usually all the rules, stats, and whatever is handled by the game master anyway and isn't usually up to the player to begin with. In

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
there is a lord of the rings well in a shorter version. its one of the eamon deluxe adventures. At 11:54 PM 4/19/2013, you wrote: wEll i won't hold myu breath, but it's worth dreaming and who knows someday one of our good developers might just do a lord of the rings or hobbit game. Hint HInt t

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reacti ons

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
well as it stands my funding issues are not as bad as I thought they would be, sertainly cheaper than expected. Never the less I have just used my software upgrade budget for this year and then some. At 11:10 PM 4/19/2013, you wrote: I think it was a case of poor wording in the Email. If he'd

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions.

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
not necessarily, they will apear publically at some point, it just would be nice of justin officially did the permition thing but they will appear reguardless of what happens. and if you know what to do there are ways even now. At 11:07 PM 4/19/2013, you wrote: And that would give new audio g

Re: [Audyssey] BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread shaun everiss
yeah, I know, I had the cash. It was steep as but I decided to get it. maybe after bsc closes who knows. At 11:01 PM 4/19/2013, you wrote: True. The way it was worded was basically tat it sounded like you basically have to bu all our other existing stuff in order to keep our titles alive. That'

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Sarah. i will certainly upload them if I can. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Sarah Haake" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:39 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings? Hi Dark, ok, sounds like you have

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. well that sounds a fair arrangement to me, though I'd worry that I was getting all the fun :D. Seriously I would very much like to help with that sort of thing since writing descriptively is one thing I can! do. the only thing that worries me in terms of you making a lotr game, is t

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. well donations would be fine with me, and I can understand you not taking the risk though I am reasonably certain they wouldn't take it through the legal system anyway simply because of how ridiculous it'd look, and which "thousands of dollars" couldd they claime for from an audio

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi Dark, ok, sounds like you have most of them. It would be great if you could upload them if noone else has them by thursday then, thanks for that! You are right, it would be good if these files could be hosted somewhere. I like all his recordings too, and of course I'd like to hear new ones

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Exactly my point. In a text adventure/RPG system there is more than one route a person could take. They could travel north through the Gray Mountains, they could travel straight through Mirkwood, or to the south through Guldor. Either way would offer different adventures and different sid

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi. I have his faull walkthrus for superliam, Shades, gma tank commander, pipe2, hunter and the 17 original lone wolf missions. I'm at my parents right now, while the walkthrus are on my laptop back in my flat where I will be on thursday, but if nobody has found them by then I can always bang

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Now, that is probably doable. Taking donations for sounds, music, etc but releasing he game as free fan fiction would probably not raise a stink with anyone over copyrights. I might be able to get away with selling a Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, or Star Trek game, but I don't know if I w

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Curt Taubert
Let me check on my desktop. I think I still have several of them their. Curt Taubert skype: curt_taubert twitter: curt78Curt Taubert On 4/19/2013 6:19 PM, Sarah Haake wrote: Hi, yeah, I have this review too, because it comes with the game. I'm looking for the others, there was a whole bunch o

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi, yeah, I have this review too, because it comes with the game. I'm looking for the others, there was a whole bunch of them on his website. Best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You c

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi, yeah, I have this review too, because it comes with the game. I'm looking for the others, there was a whole bunch of them on his website. Best regards Sarah --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You c

Re: [Audyssey] Swamp with a trackpad.

2013-04-19 Thread john
Thanks for catching the tap to click. That was my major issue with the game, and in hindsight I really should have remembered it, heh. My personal solution was to open the right-click menu for my mouse's system tray icon, and there was an option for tap-to-click. I'm not sure if this is universa

Re: [Audyssey] Cyber assault query

2013-04-19 Thread john
I'm not sure I understand your question fully, but I'll give it a shot. At the moment, almost everything in the game is accessable to all classes. This is going to change in the near future, and has already begun to do so. As far as commands go, the help system ingame can be quite useful if yo

Re: [Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Curt Taubert
The only one I have now is his Review of Blast chamber. I used to have a few of them. Curt Taubert skype: curt_taubert twitter: curt78Curt Taubert On 4/19/2013 5:49 PM, Sarah Haake wrote: Hi, I'm looking for Rauls game recordings. Since his website still seems to be offline, I wanted to ask

[Audyssey] Does anyone have Rauls game recordings?

2013-04-19 Thread Sarah Haake
Hi, I'm looking for Rauls game recordings. Since his website still seems to be offline, I wanted to ask if someone here on list maybe has his recordings archived and can upload them on dropbox or sendspace or something? I honestly thought I saved them myself, but I can't find them anywhere, so

Re: [Audyssey] Numbers in emails Re: BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
And it confuses screen readers. I'd hate to see that in a text adventure game LOL. But thou must! -Original Message- From: Raul A. Gallegos Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:08 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: [Audyssey] Numbers in emails Re: BlindSoftware.com Is Closing He write

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Bryan. i agree on sryth, the world and setting are great, for all I really don't! like where the gm decided to take things after such a promising start with all the adventurer tocan sinks, need to donate to the game etc. Still, the world is beautifully worked out and when the gm bothers to

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. that is one reason I don't particularly like the D&D character system. it worked for dungeons and dragons, but I always think it's interesting to see it changed. for example, in one varient of the roguelike Angband there is a really interesting barbarian class. As a barbarian they ar

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
That's one thing I like about Sryth. The GM clearly put a lot of thought into his world and the creatures and people who live in it. But thou must! -Original Message- From: dark Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 3:57 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Chi

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
Sound creation alone for such a game might be tough since you'd have to score areas from Hobbiton to Rivendell to Moria, Cirith Ungol, etc. As I said the Super Nintendo game, which was based on Fellowship of the Ring, did ann excellent job at least as far as the music went. In every other respec

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. You are right, coorporations these days just think they can push people around and exact money, despite whether it is reasonable or not. For instance, some cinemas have started disallowing people from taking their own sweets and drinks in, despite the fact that the cinema charges about

[Audyssey] Numbers in emails Re: BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread Raul A. Gallegos
He writes emails like he's writing text messages. So, he uses 2 instead of to or too and b instead of be. I'm certainly no grammar cop or anything, but that's just lazy 2 me. Just kidding. To me. -- Raul A. Gallegos Twitter and Facebook user ID: rau47 On 4/18/2013 9:19 AM, Bryan Peterson wrote

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Lol! Yeah, I think Tolkien would be pretty surprised at such Dungeons and Dragons type characters, because they were designed for a special game system and not really to tell a story the way the characters in LOTR were. None of the wizards in LOTR are strengthless wimps, and none of the w

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
HI Charlse. It sounds as if you got a bad intro to rpgs really, especially if your D&D gm didn't give you a full introduction. i'd recommend taking a look at some of the gamebooks around the net on sites like fighting fantasy project or project.aon, or maybe games like sryth, plus if you have

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi tom. well I don't mind generic fantasy concepts in games, but history and background can mean so much more. There are plenty of Eamon games (and others), which basically take the form of adventurer going into generic undergorund dungeon full of goblins, rats etc, grabbing treasure and getti

Re: [Audyssey] BlindSoftware.com Is Closing

2013-04-19 Thread Shane Davidson
I was going to buy it at the end of the month if the budgit allowed it, but if you've already done it... Shane -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Ibrahim Gucukoglu Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:07 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re:

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi tom. It's also worth noting that as far as rules and rpgs go, if you've got a good m, you don't even need to be a rules master for tabletop games either. i played six months of our mutants and masterminds campeigne before our gm bought me a copy of the rules in pdf format as a christmas pre

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, True enough. However, it is still none-the-less a personal risk. Weather anything comes of it or not is anyone's guess. That said, there is still quite a bit of wiggle room when it comes to copyrights. There are some gray areas such as fan fiction that is seriously challenging the big mo

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
Sound creation sure would be time consuming, and the north/south restrictions would be even worse, and unrealistic. And you're most likely right about the RPGs not being as I thought. -- If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling errors! - Original Message

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
I'm thinking that this would be a game I would have to try. Not that I like only easily learned games, but having never encountered an RPG other than Dungeon and Dragons and one other that was sort of similar, I've figured that they are mostly along the same idea, and I have been mistaken. A

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi tom. I deffinately agree on the text adventure and parza idea, however one problem with character picking is balancing the game. Lets say you made a lotr game. Well doing hobbiton to rivendell would be relatively easy, provided aragorn was an npc since your four principle characters are t

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I take your point, and agree with it in principle. I would feel the same way if someone took something like Star Trek and renamed all the ships, technology, and alien races in order to avoid copyrights and by doing so lose all the history, main characters, and pretty much everything else

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reacti ons

2013-04-19 Thread Stephen
Silly man throwing away his source code At 02:38 AM 4/20/2013, you wrote: Hi Charles, Well, we can still raise the money to buy the key generator and games and host them on Audyssey, but from the sounds of it getting the source code and continuing development of these games is a done deal. I got

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Agreed. I sincerely doubt any side-scroller could cover the whole of Middle Earth unless a developer wanted to dedicate the rest of his life to writing the game. For one thing you are limited to a 2d format where the only directions are left, right, up, and down. There isn't any north, so

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, I don't think Dark or I was suggesting anything quite as complex as you are talking about below. You are thinking of something like Dungeons and Dragons, which is indeed pretty extensive, but a roll playing game does not have to be nearly as complex and heavily based on rules as that.

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dennis, I certainly intend to do that. At this point using the key generator as community property was merely an idea and isn't set in stone. Obviously, Audyssey.org is here to do things legally, by the book so to speak, so we are in communication with Justin to try and see what can and can't b

Re: [Audyssey] Quality verses quantity of games.

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shaun, Well, that idea might work for some games, but not others. What I mean by that depending on how the game is designed it might not be able to be broken up into modules or separate components like that. For example, take the game Shades of Doom. You couldn't break that game up into separa

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Dennis Towne
Thomas, You may want to ask Justin how he feels about the key generator and files being community released like you're proposing. His distribution rights allow him to limit that, and it will definitely cut into his revenue to promise that the community will buy one copy and share it all over the

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Ibrahim. I've known about galbadia for a while and have got various soundtracks from them, though last I checked they didn't have the snes lotr game, but I do know stuff gets uploaded frequently so it might be worth checking again. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gam

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi charlse. This is a design issue with rpgs, however if they are properly! designed then you shouldn't have to read through the rules accept as reference occasionally, or maybe have a short introduction. Again, this is something great about eamon, since the system is so simple to understand

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi tom. another problem with generic conceptsparticularly in fantasy settings, is that they miss out on all the history, linguistic beauty and world that middle earth contains, and can often basically appear just as the standard D&D world with nothing really creatively new about it. While I

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
They don't. I checked. That particular soundtrack is apparently unrippable. But thou must! -Original Message- From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:12 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format Hi Dark and Brian. A go

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread Ibrahim Gucukoglu
Hi Dark and Brian. A good place for soundtracks of all flavours is Galbadia Hotel, http://gh.ffshrine.org though I don't know whether they'll have the game soundtrack you specifically want, their collection is very extensive. All the best, Ibrahim. -Original Message- From: Bryan Pet

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Charles Rivard
The problem I have with an RPG is the extensive set of rules. Those I have encountered seem to have been so lengthy! I don't enjoy a game that uses a large book of exceptions to a lengthy set of rules. This is why I would prefer a side scroller. There would be room for exploration if the gam

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Phil, Right. Yeah, I forgot about that. Of course, I think an audio game developer could do essentially the same thing as the Dungeons and Dragons books by borrowing generic fantasy elements of Lord of the Rings such as goblins, trolls, gnomes, etc and instead of call the Hobbits Hobbits use ha

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Exactly. A Sapi driven or text based RPG could cover so much more than a side-scroller or FPS which tend to be linier in nature. The typical action game simply goes from level to level without a lot of option to explore the world as it were and travel from town to town, level up skills, a

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Cara, Yeah, I think community driven would be better. If we could get someone to donate the key generator to Audyssey.org I'd be happy to host the setup files for the games, and generate keys for the public as a free service. As you said yourself we the community have to help each other in orde

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
Yeah. Like I said I wouldn't mind paying for it but like a lot of folks I just don't have the cash and more than likely won't before te cut-off date. But thou must! -Original Message- From: Thomas Ward Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 10:20 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Aud

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Charles, Well, we can still raise the money to buy the key generator and games and host them on Audyssey, but from the sounds of it getting the source code and continuing development of these games is a done deal. I got a message from Justin a couple hours ago where he explained he no longer ha

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Will, In theory yes. Unfortunately, I just got done talking to Justin about that very issue and unfortunately he says he no longer has the source code to any of the programs on the Blindsoftware.com site. That means although it would be nice to port these games to Mac OS, the Apple iPhone, and

Re: [Audyssey] BSC Games shutting down, and reactions…

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Bryan, I agree. In hindsight I think Justin should have said he was selling a key generator that unlocks all of your products for $75 and that probably would have been the end of it.. As it is I think he wanted to sweeten the deal by making it sound like we are buying all this great stuff when

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Jacob Kruger
Now that would be cool - to hear actual character voices for those versions of some of the guys...LOL! Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday,

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Bryan Peterson
I found an audio version of that joke Hobbit game. Pretty funy. But thou must! -Original Message- From: Jacob Kruger Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 9:47 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games Will also just say there are various interactiv

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Phil Vlasak
Hi Thomas, The LOTR books are still copyrighted. The Dungeons and Dragons books got around copyright by calling their half sized humanoids Halflings instead of hobbits. Other creatures like Elves and Gnomes are generic names that have been used for centuries and thus can't be copyrighted. Ph

Re: [Audyssey] LOTR Games was Children's Games

2013-04-19 Thread Jacob Kruger
Will also just say there are various interactive fiction format versions of the original, stand-alone IF game, the hobbit out there, including one joke version, where Gandalf smokes certain things, etc. etc. - that one's called something like The hobbit, the true story - but, some of them are in

Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format

2013-04-19 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I agree, particularly given as we've said the often very arbitrary catagorizations that are usedd to determine what is wrated as teen etc. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audysse

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