Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions
No, they have many many many heads. I think whoever killed it (which ever one of the many heroes from greek mythology) I think it got buried under a cliff or something. I can't really remember -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of clement chou Sent: 06 June 2010 01:58 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Tom, I can't get passed the spikes I always die on the second jump. It's a really hard game on level 2. I'll just say, the viewing is, in most peoples opinion, strange. You'd see the first set of spikes then be able to stop looking (control key) then jump those then see the second setg and then the set you just jumple -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: 07 June 2010 03:12 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Hayden, Well, it is more like the gorgon was one of a number of possible bosses I was trying out for the game. Anything above level 2 is pretty much subject to change as most of that content is still notes and hasn't been added to the game officially yet. On 6/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Looking at the sounds, I see you have a gorgon as one of the bosses? Hmmm...this could interesting real quick. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Not so: tartarus was the deepest pit in hell where the damned who had committedthe most heinous crimes were condemned to eternal punishment! -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 07 June 2010 14:42 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually if I recall my mythos, Hades was the god of death, with pluto being his latin name. Tartarus I believe just a specific part of the realm of death, the plane of tartarus where special punishments happened. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Oh, the Sirones were definitely a type of mermaid. They would lore sailing ships to their doom by singing a song that would mesmerize the ship's crew. Anyway, anyone who has ever read classic Greek poetry etc would know a siren and a harpy are two completely different creatures. Harpies are generally under the domain of Hades, and guard the gates to Hades. Smile. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Actually, if i remember rightly, it was hercules that killed the hydra. the problem was, whenever he cut off one head, two more grew in it's place, so he worked out a stratogy with his cousin 9who's name I unfortunately forget), where by whenever hercules chopped off one head, his cousin would stick a flame on the hydra's severed kneck to prevent more heads from growing. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions No, they have many many many heads. I think whoever killed it (which ever one of the many heroes from greek mythology) I think it got buried under a cliff or something. I can't really remember -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of clement chou Sent: 06 June 2010 01:58 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Hi Dark, A slight correction. Heracles did indeed kill the hydra, but not exactly in the way you said. What actually happened was that he asked someone to give him his firebrand (which, actually, was why Hera didn't call it a valid labor) and it was Heracles who burned the necks shut on yhe hydra. It wasn't made any easier by the giant crab trying to kill him at the same time. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:38 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually, if i remember rightly, it was hercules that killed the hydra. the problem was, whenever he cut off one head, two more grew in it's place, so he worked out a stratogy with his cousin 9who's name I unfortunately forget), where by whenever hercules chopped off one head, his cousin would stick a flame on the hydra's severed kneck to prevent more heads from growing. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Ben gamehead...@aol.co.uk To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions No, they have many many many heads. I think whoever killed it (which ever one of the many heroes from greek mythology) I think it got buried under a cliff or something. I can't really remember -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of clement chou Sent: 06 June 2010 01:58 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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
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H, I did think tartarus was the grecian name because it's referenced with a lot of specifically griek charactuers such as tantalus and ciciphus (both also mentioned often by griek philosophy). Of course, i've only ever read translations of plato or epicurus and not the original so I might well just be picking up on the translators mistake. I thought though the realm of hades was just a shortened way of saying the place that hades ruled rather than a specific name, though again, I might not have this correct. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions The god Hades was indeed called Pluto in the Roman myths. I was saying that the actual realm of Hades was also often called Tartarus, though that may have been a Latin translation. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Brian, This was in Roman? Usually, Hades is referred in Roman as Pluto. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:05 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Like I have mentioned a time or two before there are a number of different translations out there. It really depends on weather or not the text was translated from Greek or Latain. That's why you end up with names like Cerberus, Latain, and Kerberos Greek. Same creature different name. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Yeah, but if I'm not mistaken he does end up becoming the Olympians' porter and married to Hera's daughter Hebe. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:11 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Yeah, something tells me the Greeks didn't believe in the happy hear after endings to stories. They usually ended in tragity were the hero ends up totally screwed in the end. Probibly the most famous of them Hercules dies a pretty miserable death in the end after seamingly living a pretty invincible life. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Actually I believe he did, unlike a lot of Greek heroes. I've seen only a few Greek myths where things ended up more or less happily, where the hero or heroine didn't screw things up after seemingly winning it all. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
Hi Thomas, Yes, it was almost laughable. Heracles goes as far as tricking Atlus into giving him an appel from the Garden of the Hesperides, and how does hedie? He drops an arrow on his foot. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:12 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Yeah, something tells me the Greeks didn't believe in the happy hear after endings to stories. They usually ended in tragity were the hero ends up totally screwed in the end. Probibly the most famous of them Hercules dies a pretty miserable death in the end after seamingly living a pretty invincible life. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Actually I believe he did, unlike a lot of Greek heroes. I've seen only a few Greek myths where things ended up more or less happily, where the hero or heroine didn't screw things up after seemingly winning it all. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, True, but I'm sure that's little confortfor the userper who got usurped. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 11:19 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Right. Shows what loyalty Zues and his two brothers had for their father. Just stick him in a bottomless pit to be forgotten until the end of time. Oh, wait Chronus is the god of time so until he dies time won't end. Lol! On 6/7/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Dark, Yes, Tartarus was the bottomless pit in the underworld of Greek Mythology. It was where the titan Chronus was cast after the gods won the war and became the dominating figures. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Oh, the realm of Hades was sometimes shortened to Hades as well, it goes both ways. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:41 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions H, I did think tartarus was the grecian name because it's referenced with a lot of specifically griek charactuers such as tantalus and ciciphus (both also mentioned often by griek philosophy). Of course, i've only ever read translations of plato or epicurus and not the original so I might well just be picking up on the translators mistake. I thought though the realm of hades was just a shortened way of saying the place that hades ruled rather than a specific name, though again, I might not have this correct. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 4:38 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions The god Hades was indeed called Pluto in the Roman myths. I was saying that the actual realm of Hades was also often called Tartarus, though that may have been a Latin translation. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Brian, This was in Roman? Usually, Hades is referred in Roman as Pluto. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:05 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Like I have mentioned a time or two before there are a number of different translations out there. It really depends on weather or not the text was translated from Greek or Latain. That's why you end up with names like Cerberus, Latain, and Kerberos Greek. Same creature different name. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, True that, in that case it sounds like a sound idea. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:35 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Hayden, Oh, I see your point. Still it really isn't that big a deal. There are a couple more torches in the beta 13 demo and that is actually more than enough for what you need, and keep in mind you can still do things while Angela is healing such as jump over traps or enter an area that you know is relatively safe based on past adventures. On 6/7/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Sorry, I should've clarified. About Angelacooling her heels, as you said... I believe we can safely assume that while she's waiting for her consummation of phoenix tears to take total effect, we're watching our torch burn down to nothing? That's an issue for me, since those torches go--while not fast, fast enough. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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In one version of the oddyseus myth I heard, the syrens were sort of vampire mermaids with green skin scales, and big fangs! I thought that was rather cool. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:48 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Oh, the Sirones were definitely a type of mermaid. They would lore sailing ships to their doom by singing a song that would mesmerize the ship's crew. Anyway, anyone who has ever read classic Greek poetry etc would know a siren and a harpy are two completely different creatures. Harpies are generally under the domain of Hades, and guard the gates to Hades. Smile. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually if I recall my mythos, Hades was the god of death, with pluto being his latin name. Tartarus I believe just a specific part of the realm of death, the plane of tartarus where special punishments happened. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Oh, the Sirones were definitely a type of mermaid. They would lore sailing ships to their doom by singing a song that would mesmerize the ship's crew. Anyway, anyone who has ever read classic Greek poetry etc would know a siren and a harpy are two completely different creatures. Harpies are generally under the domain of Hades, and guard the gates to Hades. Smile. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Ah yes. Then I believe Elisian was where the good folks went to. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 7:41 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually if I recall my mythos, Hades was the god of death, with pluto being his latin name. Tartarus I believe just a specific part of the realm of death, the plane of tartarus where special punishments happened. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Oh, the Sirones were definitely a type of mermaid. They would lore sailing ships to their doom by singing a song that would mesmerize the ship's crew. Anyway, anyone who has ever read classic Greek poetry etc would know a siren and a harpy are two completely different creatures. Harpies are generally under the domain of Hades, and guard the gates to Hades. Smile. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Well you obviously wouldn't want to get to close to her hair seeing as it's composed of live, possibly poisonous, snakes for one thing. I've also heard in some legends that she had at least some skill as a swordswoman. I've also heard that some Gorgons could fly. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Right. Medusa would be a rather tricky boss to recreate as she does have powers beyond her doom gaze that turns people to stone. It is my understanding she was fairly skilled at swords and other weapons. Plus her hair consisted of live snakes. She would be a fairly complex boss to recreate in a vidio game. Yes, she has been added to games like Castlevania, but that Medusa wasn't at all true to form. For one thing she was a real push over and is one of the miner bosses in the Castlevania games. If I add her at all to the game she would have to be more realistic which is somewhat difficult to add seeing is my engine uses a generic AI for enemies. On 6/6/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, That's correct. Speaking of Pluto I always thought it was funny that Mikey Mouse's faithful dog was named after the god of the underworld. Kind of funny considering the cartoons were made for small kids and young adults. Although, I understand Walt Disney was naming the dog after the newly discovered planet, Pluto, and may not have been aware of the fact that also was the name of the Roman god of the underworld. On 6/7/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually if I recall my mythos, Hades was the god of death, with pluto being his latin name. Tartarus I believe just a specific part of the realm of death, the plane of tartarus where special punishments happened. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Bryan, Right. That's basicly where I got the idea of the shield from. In fighting someone like Medusa you'd probibly have to take her on with a shield and sword combo attack. That's a slightly more advanced combat system than I've put in place into the engine so far. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Bryan, Like I have mentioned a time or two before there are a number of different translations out there. It really depends on weather or not the text was translated from Greek or Latain. That's why you end up with names like Cerberus, Latain, and Kerberos Greek. Same creature different name. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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While I know you want to keep things relatively accurate to griek myths, perhaps a modification here for gameplay purposes might be helpful. In Castlevania Iv, you fight medusa the Gorgon in the 2nd world. It's obviously an action (allbeit one with extensive exploration anbd several interesting environments and weapons), so having something like a polished shield which you need to equip and use wouldn't be appropriate to the rest of the game as there is no equipping or specific item use. So instead, Medusa has two attacks. She pulls snakes from her hair which slither along the ground at you, and fires a fireball from her eyes which turns you to stone. Perhaps taking this idea of making the gaze attack a projectile instead, you could actually have the shield employed as a weapon used to bounce the attack back at her a number of times, - but obviously you'd have to be pretty quick with the shield to avoid her fireballs and stop becoming a statue. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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
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I would probably think that's the best wayto go. Though that would involve a big amount of recoding, it seems. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions While I know you want to keep things relatively accurate to griek myths, perhaps a modification here for gameplay purposes might be helpful. In Castlevania Iv, you fight medusa the Gorgon in the 2nd world. It's obviously an action (allbeit one with extensive exploration anbd several interesting environments and weapons), so having something like a polished shield which you need to equip and use wouldn't be appropriate to the rest of the game as there is no equipping or specific item use. So instead, Medusa has two attacks. She pulls snakes from her hair which slither along the ground at you, and fires a fireball from her eyes which turns you to stone. Perhaps taking this idea of making the gaze attack a projectile instead, you could actually have the shield employed as a weapon used to bounce the attack back at her a number of times, - but obviously you'd have to be pretty quick with the shield to avoid her fireballs and stop becoming a statue. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http
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Although Tom, I've been wondering.. would te AI even have to change if you put her in as a boss? Most enemies have one attack, so would two more variations be possible? And as for a more advanced combat system, seems to me all you would need is some sort of guard button. The tricky part would be choosing to guard with the shield or the sword, depending on situation or something. I think that also fits since you said you have to fight Athina in a sword duel at the end, according to the manual. - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions While I know you want to keep things relatively accurate to griek myths, perhaps a modification here for gameplay purposes might be helpful. In Castlevania Iv, you fight medusa the Gorgon in the 2nd world. It's obviously an action (allbeit one with extensive exploration anbd several interesting environments and weapons), so having something like a polished shield which you need to equip and use wouldn't be appropriate to the rest of the game as there is no equipping or specific item use. So instead, Medusa has two attacks. She pulls snakes from her hair which slither along the ground at you, and fires a fireball from her eyes which turns you to stone. Perhaps taking this idea of making the gaze attack a projectile instead, you could actually have the shield employed as a weapon used to bounce the attack back at her a number of times, - but obviously you'd have to be pretty quick with the shield to avoid her fireballs and stop becoming a statue. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions But if you were to have that shield, and if it did prevent Angela from being petrified, that could be the only thing it would do, couldn't it? Because if I remember right, Medusa would also have diferent powers other than that... thouh that seems to be the most well-known. The shield wouldn't necessarily have to protect against everything. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 5:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions That was what Perseus did if I'm not mistaken. He used a shield to look at Medusa's face and then cut off her head. I mean there would have to be some way for Angela to tell where the Gorgon was, even if she didn't use a shield to block her gaze. And anyway the shield wouldn't necessarily turn the GOrgon herself to stone, just keep Angela herself from becoming petrified. That would definitely be way too easy. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding
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Hi Brian, This was in Roman? Usually, Hades is referred in Roman as Pluto. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:05 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Like I have mentioned a time or two before there are a number of different translations out there. It really depends on weather or not the text was translated from Greek or Latain. That's why you end up with names like Cerberus, Latain, and Kerberos Greek. Same creature different name. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Yes, Tartarus was the bottomless pit in the underworld of Greek Mythology. It was where the titan Chronus was cast after the gods won the war and became the dominating figures. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 2:54 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, That's correct. Speaking of Pluto I always thought it was funny that Mikey Mouse's faithful dog was named after the god of the underworld. Kind of funny considering the cartoons were made for small kids and young adults. Although, I understand Walt Disney was naming the dog after the newly discovered planet, Pluto, and may not have been aware of the fact that also was the name of the Roman god of the underworld. On 6/7/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually if I recall my mythos, Hades was the god of death, with pluto being his latin name. Tartarus I believe just a specific part of the realm of death, the plane of tartarus where special punishments happened. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, While not hearing that myth, I'd bet he didn't listen once he was resurrected. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:32 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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HiBrian, I'm sure you * could * just jump over it, however aside from the challenge I see no benefits of passing up that kind of protection. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:27 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Yes, the bronze breastplate will be available on all game levels. However, it really comes in handy on expert which is a good deal more difficult than beginner. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Will the armor be available on Easy? It might come in handy at least for new players, though I suppose anyone who didn't want to wear it could just jump over it. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, Sorry, I should've clarified. About Angelacooling her heels, as you said... I believe we can safely assume that while she's waiting for her consummation of phoenix tears to take total effect, we're watching our torch burn down to nothing? That's an issue for me, since those torches go--while not fast, fast enough. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:46 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Hayden, What's wrong with the torches? On 6/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Only problem I have with this is the torches. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Hayden, Oh, I see your point. Still it really isn't that big a deal. There are a couple more torches in the beta 13 demo and that is actually more than enough for what you need, and keep in mind you can still do things while Angela is healing such as jump over traps or enter an area that you know is relatively safe based on past adventures. On 6/7/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Sorry, I should've clarified. About Angelacooling her heels, as you said... I believe we can safely assume that while she's waiting for her consummation of phoenix tears to take total effect, we're watching our torch burn down to nothing? That's an issue for me, since those torches go--while not fast, fast enough. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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The god Hades was indeed called Pluto in the Roman myths. I was saying that the actual realm of Hades was also often called Tartarus, though that may have been a Latin translation. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:22 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Brian, This was in Roman? Usually, Hades is referred in Roman as Pluto. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 3:05 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, Like I have mentioned a time or two before there are a number of different translations out there. It really depends on weather or not the text was translated from Greek or Latain. That's why you end up with names like Cerberus, Latain, and Kerberos Greek. Same creature different name. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That must have been a Latin thing then since according to Circe in the Odyssey they were Harpies...at least from the version I read in High School. They also called Hades Tartarus and of course Kerberos Cerberus. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually I believe he did, unlike a lot of Greek heroes. I've seen only a few Greek myths where things ended up more or less happily, where the hero or heroine didn't screw things up after seemingly winning it all. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, While not hearing that myth, I'd bet he didn't listen once he was resurrected. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 9:32 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Bryan, Yeah, something tells me the Greeks didn't believe in the happy hear after endings to stories. They usually ended in tragity were the hero ends up totally screwed in the end. Probibly the most famous of them Hercules dies a pretty miserable death in the end after seamingly living a pretty invincible life. On 6/7/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Actually I believe he did, unlike a lot of Greek heroes. I've seen only a few Greek myths where things ended up more or less happily, where the hero or heroine didn't screw things up after seemingly winning it all. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Right. Shows what loyalty Zues and his two brothers had for their father. Just stick him in a bottomless pit to be forgotten until the end of time. Oh, wait Chronus is the god of time so until he dies time won't end. Lol! On 6/7/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Dark, Yes, Tartarus was the bottomless pit in the underworld of Greek Mythology. It was where the titan Chronus was cast after the gods won the war and became the dominating figures. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, Looking at the sounds, I see you have a gorgon as one of the bosses? Hmmm...this could interesting real quick. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, You, the ultimate master of the tomb, got your butt kicked on expert? shock Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:43 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Thats a good idea, but one I think I will add to the next game in the Tomb Hunter series. Main reason is my inventory list is getting quite full with guns, swords, whips, a dagger, bow and arrow, etc. As it happens I just added a bronze brestplate to the game to help even up the odds on higher difficulty levels. I royally get my butt kicked on expert, and I hope this will help even up the odds some as enemy attacks won't do quite as much damage while Angela has it on. On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, Only problem I have with this is the torches. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:22 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, That's basicly what i was thinking of. Any time I take some kind of medication I have to wait a few minutes for it to begin taking effect. I would think healing potions would similarly have to take some amount of time to take effect. It could be something as short as a minute or two for game time, but the basic idea is that you won't drink it down and magically be restored to full health. Especially, considering Angela gets stabbed with daggers and swords, hit with lightning bolts, shot with arrows, etc and those kinds of wounds won't heal instantly no matter what you use. Also this may force you to rethink your game strategy. If you are getting killed in battle you might have to retreat from the battle, hide somewhere, and drink a potion and wait until your health is restored enough to jump back into the fight. That gets rid of those battles where you are getting pounded, drink apotion, and keep right on fighting. Nobody can do that in real life. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Healing potions should behave just as swallowed medication. I like your approach. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:48 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Thomas, Looking at the sounds, I see you have a gorgon as one of the bosses? Hmmm...this could interesting real quick. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Will the armor be available on Easy? It might come in handy at least for new players, though I suppose anyone who didn't want to wear it could just jump over it. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com To: 'Gamers Discussion list' gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2010 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Thomas, You, the ultimate master of the tomb, got your butt kicked on expert? shock Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 11:43 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Thats a good idea, but one I think I will add to the next game in the Tomb Hunter series. Main reason is my inventory list is getting quite full with guns, swords, whips, a dagger, bow and arrow, etc. As it happens I just added a bronze brestplate to the game to help even up the odds on higher difficulty levels. I royally get my butt kicked on expert, and I hope this will help even up the odds some as enemy attacks won't do quite as much damage while Angela has it on. On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 6:58 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:00 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Charles, Yes, it will be. Since people have had a lot of questions about the various monsters and bosses that appear in the game I'm going to be writing a sort of monster guide chapter that describes each monster in detail, what it is, what special attacks it has, etc. Since not everyone here is up on Greek mythology I think it might help to explain to the average player what exactly a hydra is, or that a harpies claws are poisoness on contact. All of this is straight out of mythology, of course, but there are plenty hear that probibly don't know that so the guide will be a handy guide for the game. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Hayden, Well, it is more like the gorgon was one of a number of possible bosses I was trying out for the game. Anything above level 2 is pretty much subject to change as most of that content is still notes and hasn't been added to the game officially yet. On 6/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Looking at the sounds, I see you have a gorgon as one of the bosses? Hmmm...this could interesting real quick. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Oh, the Sirones were definitely a type of mermaid. They would lore sailing ships to their doom by singing a song that would mesmerize the ship's crew. Anyway, anyone who has ever read classic Greek poetry etc would know a siren and a harpy are two completely different creatures. Harpies are generally under the domain of Hades, and guard the gates to Hades. Smile. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: That depends on the version of the story. Some sa they are and some not. Some say the Sirens were Mermaids while others say they were Harpies. Certainly in the old NES game Battle of Olympus, which I'm toying with the idea of remaking using BGT, the one Siren you faced was a Harpie. I didn't like the way the Hydra was portrayed though since it apparently only had two heads. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Yes, hydras generally live underwater. The one in the game is no different. It shows up in an underwater chamber you have to swim into inorder to exit the level. Unfortunately, there is a big mean looking hydra in the water which will try and keep you from leaving the level. On 6/5/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: ah... you're planning to throw a hydra in there eh? I'm looking forward to that one. Based off little what I know from greek mythology, I thought hydras were underwater creatures? --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Bryan, Yes, the bronze breastplate will be available on all game levels. However, it really comes in handy on expert which is a good deal more difficult than beginner. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Will the armor be available on Easy? It might come in handy at least for new players, though I suppose anyone who didn't want to wear it could just jump over it. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Bryan, I was thinking something like a shiny shield. You could hold it out in front of you and when the gorgon tried to turn you to stone you could block the attack and turn it back on her with the shield. However, in a way that is probibly too easy, and now that I just mentioned an idea I had for defeating her there goes the puzzle element to the battle. On 6/6/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: A Gorgon eh? Should be an interesting boss since you'd have to have some sort of mirror or other means of avoiding her gaze. And if I'm not mistaken didn't Esclepeus (SP?) at one point use Gorgon blood to restore the dead to life? For those who don't know, he was a son of the god Apollo. Hades complained to Zeus that someone was stealing his subjects and Zeus killed Esclepeus with a thunderbolt, but later restored him to life with a warning not to tamper with the natural order. We are the Knights who say...Ni! --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Hayden, Yes,in deed. The expert level is extremely tough even for me. Since I've made some updates to beta 13 I've gotten my butt kicked more than once on beginner as well. Lol! As I said before those harpies are mean. Their initial attack isn't so bad, but if they poison you that can turn out to be a pretty serious issue. I've gotten attacked more than once without a potion, and before i could find one I ended up stone dead from poisoning. On 6/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, You, the ultimate master of the tomb, got your butt kicked on expert? shock Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Hayden, What's wrong with the torches? On 6/6/10, Hayden Presley hdpres...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Thomas, Only problem I have with this is the torches. Best Regards, Hayden --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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- Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Philip, The way I invision this working is having the potion gradually increase Angela's health over a certain period of time before it is expended. So if she comes under attack she will probably lose more health than she gains using that potion as it will only restore a certain amount of health over x amount of time. Another thing to consider here is I've updated some enemies in the game as well. For example, the harpies are now more true to the harpies from Greek mythology as well as many RPG type games. Instead of throwing lightning bolts they have claws that do considerable damage to the human body when they attack. Besides the contact damage they inject Angela with a toxic poison that will kill her gradually over time unless she drinks a potion to counter act the poison. Between body damage and poison you may need to drink more than one potion to get back up to full health. Does that answer your question? On 6/1/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote: Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D. Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and in fact playing the dk country games myself. I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per level! 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just Mario Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported to the NES as well as other platforms. But that game was much more similar in stle to Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and avoiding enemies and things like that. Then after every two or three levels or so you got a timed bonus level where you grabbed as many coins as possible. I played the Arcade version once or twice and used to frequently borrow the NES version from a friend. Then when I got my Game Boy Advance it came with Super Mario Advance, which I eventually traded in. But that contained the original Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of the same sound effects as the original NES version but with some weird, that just being extremely out of place, background music. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D. Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and in fact playing the dk country games myself. I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per level! 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I probably ought to get mario brothers advanced and play it on my gba player actually. in terms of the original mario game, it was also included as an extra on the remake of Super mario brothers 3 in super mario all stars along with various other minigames, and in fact I was also playing the nes original at my friends' a bit ago who had it on wii ware. An amusing fact I do remember eading once, is that apparently Ice climbers was released two weeks after that game, which was (according to the author of the ice climbers faq I read), the reason why the ice climbers never got a come back until smash brothers melee. I must confess, it's quite a shame, sinse I have the nes classics gba version of ice climbers, and it's actually a really fun game, pluss, it'd make a cool audio remake, especially given that most threats to the character are horizontal to you and the only vertical scrolling is upwards. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just Mario Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported to the NES as well as other platforms. But that game was much more similar in stle to Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and avoiding enemies and things like that. Then after every two or three levels or so you got a timed bonus level where you grabbed as many coins as possible. I played the Arcade version once or twice and used to frequently borrow the NES version from a friend. Then when I got my Game Boy Advance it came with Super Mario Advance, which I eventually traded in. But that contained the original Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of the same sound effects as the original NES version but with some weird, that just being extremely out of place, background music. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D. Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and in fact playing the dk country games myself. I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per level! beware the Grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr
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Ah yes, Ice Climber. I believe they were a creation of Rare. I didn't know the game was released two weeks afrter Mario Brothers, but that would certainly explain why they never got their turn, so to speak. Interesting note is that if you pay close attention their jump sound is more or less exactly the same sound as Mario in big form in the original Super Mario Brothers. The music is very similar at least in sound to what little music you hear in Excitebike. Hmmm, another possibly interesting audio remake, though the track editor might be problematic. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions I probably ought to get mario brothers advanced and play it on my gba player actually. in terms of the original mario game, it was also included as an extra on the remake of Super mario brothers 3 in super mario all stars along with various other minigames, and in fact I was also playing the nes original at my friends' a bit ago who had it on wii ware. An amusing fact I do remember eading once, is that apparently Ice climbers was released two weeks after that game, which was (according to the author of the ice climbers faq I read), the reason why the ice climbers never got a come back until smash brothers melee. I must confess, it's quite a shame, sinse I have the nes classics gba version of ice climbers, and it's actually a really fun game, pluss, it'd make a cool audio remake, especially given that most threats to the character are horizontal to you and the only vertical scrolling is upwards. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just Mario Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported to the NES as well as other platforms. But that game was much more similar in stle to Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and avoiding enemies and things like that. Then after every two or three levels or so you got a timed bonus level where you grabbed as many coins as possible. I played the Arcade version once or twice and used to frequently borrow the NES version from a friend. Then when I got my Game Boy Advance it came with Super Mario Advance, which I eventually traded in. But that contained the original Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of the same sound effects as the original NES version but with some weird, that just being extremely out of place, background music. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey
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heh that hero VS villin game would be huge! what with the sounds, voices, code and instructions On 6/4/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: Ah yes, Ice Climber. I believe they were a creation of Rare. I didn't know the game was released two weeks afrter Mario Brothers, but that would certainly explain why they never got their turn, so to speak. Interesting note is that if you pay close attention their jump sound is more or less exactly the same sound as Mario in big form in the original Super Mario Brothers. The music is very similar at least in sound to what little music you hear in Excitebike. Hmmm, another possibly interesting audio remake, though the track editor might be problematic. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 2:09 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions I probably ought to get mario brothers advanced and play it on my gba player actually. in terms of the original mario game, it was also included as an extra on the remake of Super mario brothers 3 in super mario all stars along with various other minigames, and in fact I was also playing the nes original at my friends' a bit ago who had it on wii ware. An amusing fact I do remember eading once, is that apparently Ice climbers was released two weeks after that game, which was (according to the author of the ice climbers faq I read), the reason why the ice climbers never got a come back until smash brothers melee. I must confess, it's quite a shame, sinse I have the nes classics gba version of ice climbers, and it's actually a really fun game, pluss, it'd make a cool audio remake, especially given that most threats to the character are horizontal to you and the only vertical scrolling is upwards. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 8:20 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Then there was the original Mario Brothers game (no, not Super, just Mario Brothers), wich was originally an Arcade game and then got ported to the NES as well as other platforms. But that game was much more similar in stle to Donkey Kong since it involved a lot of jumping and avoiding enemies and things like that. Then after every two or three levels or so you got a timed bonus level where you grabbed as many coins as possible. I played the Arcade version once or twice and used to frequently borrow the NES version from a friend. Then when I got my Game Boy Advance it came with Super Mario Advance, which I eventually traded in. But that contained the original Arcade Mario Brothers with a lot of the same sound effects as the original NES version but with some weird, that just being extremely out of place, background music. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 12:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic
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Hi Dark, I guess i was thinking of DK 64. That's one you didn't mention below. Not sure if Mario was in that or not, but I thought he was. In any case I know what you mean by the different environments etc. We've got a long way to go in the ag market in even producing a side-scroller on par with the NES, Super NES, and Nintendo 64 platforms let alone anything more modern. That's why I am working on my fantacy game that will be something like Golden Ax, but not an exact clone. Conceptually the same, I guess, but will have its own story, characters, and unique style of game play. For example, instead of Greek Amazons my female villains will be German valkyries which, by all accounts, were very ruthless fighters in combat historically. There will be enemy knights and foot soldiers, skeleton warriors, and of course the ocational giant or two. Still hammering out the rest, but it is part way through the conception stage. On 6/4/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D. Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and in fact playing the dk country games myself. I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per level! 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Well tom, Dk 64 was unfortunately 3D again and thus unplayable for me, however I also know it starts the dk country crew, batling against the Kremlings, in fact it's almost a best of game sinse you get to play as almost everyone from the previous ones. As regards golden axe, well the amazons in the game weren't particularly greek at all, just women with armour and axes that clobbered you (you can find a description in the faq i mentioned). I think they just called them Amazon as to mean female warrior and give a bit of back story to Tyris flair, rather than having any set myth in mind. In fact Tyris is probably more like a valkyri, sinse she uses a longsword. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Friday, June 04, 2010 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, I guess i was thinking of DK 64. That's one you didn't mention below. Not sure if Mario was in that or not, but I thought he was. In any case I know what you mean by the different environments etc. We've got a long way to go in the ag market in even producing a side-scroller on par with the NES, Super NES, and Nintendo 64 platforms let alone anything more modern. That's why I am working on my fantacy game that will be something like Golden Ax, but not an exact clone. Conceptually the same, I guess, but will have its own story, characters, and unique style of game play. For example, instead of Greek Amazons my female villains will be German valkyries which, by all accounts, were very ruthless fighters in combat historically. There will be enemy knights and foot soldiers, skeleton warriors, and of course the ocational giant or two. Still hammering out the rest, but it is part way through the conception stage. On 6/4/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually Tom, a miner correction. Marrio's first game was indeed the original Donkey Kong, = apparently he began as a carpenter working on construction sites and was renamed from his japanese name of Jumpman to appeal to Americans as a nice italian sterriotype! of course, with nes graphics the way you make someone Italian is to make them fat, ie, round, thus causing the double pun sinse maru is Japanese for ball shaped, and give them a mustache, ;D. Also, apparently his original gf in the donkey kong games who he rescued was called pauline. then, in the 2nd donkey Kong game, you actually played donkey kong jrrescuing a caged dk from the evil mario (yes! he was the villain in that game). In the third, for some crazy reason, apparently mario got lost entirely and the main character became Stanley the bug man, who had to stop donkey kong descending onto potted plants in a greenhouse by, , spreying insecticide up his behind! The only one of these I've actually played is Dk Junior (the one with evil mario), sinse once my sister was in hammersmith Hospital having some tests done and they had a nes with super mario bros and that game. I am however very! familiar withe the Donkey Kong country games on the snes Released in 1994 onwards, in fact I remember using the games as revision breaks for my gcse's when I was 14 ;D. A company called rare got the rights to donkey Kong, and actually completely revamped the series. You now played as Donkey and his litle friend diddy kong, running through their own platform game on Kongo island trying to stop a bunch of evil crocodiles called Kremlings who'd pinched their banana hoard! I love these games! the environments, music, and gameplay are fantastic, in fact some of tarzan jr rather reminded me of dk country sinse they involve a lot of swinging across vines. Also amusingly enough, they feature the original Donkey Kong, now known as Cranky Kong, who turns up, gives hints, and goes on about how the young kids should be lucky to get all these fancy shmancy colour graphics and how when he was young he was lucky to get a single shade of grey! ;D. Btw, how I know all this is a combination of said mario character faq, and in fact playing the dk country games myself. I'd love to see some audio platform adventure games with the sort of variety of environments and ambience (not to mention music), which dkc has. Everything from jungles to mine cart riding to factories, pirate ships and wimming through caves, and at least two hidden bonus rooms per level! 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org
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Fair enough Tom. I must admit, action games with extra add ons in the way of powers, weapons and places to explore have been probably my favourite genre, one reason I like the mega man series so much sinse you have many weapons to play with, and things to find, in fact in the later mmx games, you even get a choice of characters and character armour that has a huge effect on gameplay. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, Oh, I know. I happen to agree with you that the idea is pretty far fetched for a game like Mysteries of the Ancients as it seams unlikely that a normal person like Angela Carter could pick up magic gemstones or scrolls and start wielding magic. Plus it just doesn't fit the treasure hunting type genre either. However, as I mentioned before I am working on a fantacy roll playing adventure similar to fantacy games like Golden Ax where magic scrolls and magic stones would be fairly par for that style of game. In Golden Ax instead of the magic pots you get from the robed dudes you could get magic scrolls or magic stones that give you special abilities like casting fire, ice blast, lightning bolts, etc. So I guess you could say I've been turning my thoughts to my next game of late and the magic scrolls and magic stones idea is floating around in my head. Plus I've greatly been influenced by Entombed. Suddenly the idea of being able to pick a ddwarf, amazon, or barbarion like in Golden Ax doesn't seam all that impressive as it once did. It would be cooler to be able to custom create your character such as gender, class, and race. Then embark on your own Golden Ax type adventure. Toome having a grater number of heroes to choose from would ad a lot of replay value as each hero would add a slightly different feel to the game as he/she would have different abilities and strengths. Smile. On 6/2/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like the magic gems and puzles notion, for instance an ice crystal could give you temporary immunity to fire allowing you to leg it through some inconveneint flames. However, Having a modern day archaeologist suddenly spouting spells from ancient scrolls she just runs across in a tomb? - hmmm, That seems a bit too far out to me especially with guns blazing and bullits flying the rest of the time. Making use of magical devices currently in the tombs, eg, a magic sword gem or key seems okay sinse afterall these are ancient artifacts, but reading spells from scrolls implies that Dr. Carter herself has the ability to cast magic, which just seems bizarre! Afterall, the lady's name is Angela Carter, not potter! ;D. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Well if that's what your going for Tom. As I said though, my primary concern is that it'll just serve to slow down gameplay as I've found in other games with health restores over time. though this might just be that I'm a victim of my own habbits of preparation, sinse if there's a health restore over time, I'll just stand and wait for it to refill. In shades I frequently just stand around outside the elivator to the down level waiting for my health to fill back up. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Ugh, no one would want that. My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know holidays but that's only in easter holidays or know holidays. If you want to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Lori, Well, the traps are that way to make the game more challenging. If someone actually landed in a spike pit for real they would probably suffer a long painful death. The way those pits were designed in ancient times they were a deep dirt pit with spikes in it, and if you fell into it you couldn't climb back out of it. Not to mention you would probibly have several major organs run through by several spikes so couldn't get up out of there if you wanted too. Smile. On 6/2/10, Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Tom I agree with that, could you make it sililar to SOD in that your health recovers slowley over time, then if you do find potions you could conserve some of them for later on in the game. Also could I make a suggestion about spikes? I thought if you accidentally land in iether spikes or fire you wouldn't die at once, you'd have a few seconds to get out, like in some games if something like a trap hurts you and you get away fast enough you just use a med kit or potion to see if that will help. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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How about a wand? My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know holidays but that's only in easter holidays or know holidays. If you want to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions I like the magic gems and puzles notion, for instance an ice crystal could give you temporary immunity to fire allowing you to leg it through some inconveneint flames. However, Having a modern day archaeologist suddenly spouting spells from ancient scrolls she just runs across in a tomb? - hmmm, That seems a bit too far out to me especially with guns blazing and bullits flying the rest of the time. Making use of magical devices currently in the tombs, eg, a magic sword gem or key seems okay sinse afterall these are ancient artifacts, but reading spells from scrolls implies that Dr. Carter herself has the ability to cast magic, which just seems bizarre! Afterall, the lady's name is Angela Carter, not potter! ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Right. That's not the only game where that sort of thing is happening either. I know over the holidays I was playing the Wii Olympics game with my family and I noticed you could pick one of a handful of Nintendo characters like Mario, Sonic, whatever. It was really cool being able to pick which action hero you wanted to be before you took to the slopes. Although, I got to admit I never imagined Mario as a sports figure. seriously, though, a lot of newer games are providing a lot more in customizable content. You can either select from a handful of characters, or create your own character from scratch. In games like Tomb Raider Legend you can't change Lara Croft herself, but you can change her outfit and dress her up the way you want in the game. Unfortunately, nude isn't an option. Lol! Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Actually tom, Marrio is quite the sportsman. There's a pretty fantastic Mario characters' faq at gamefaqs, which lists all the games he's been in, --- and some were very surprising, including Golf, tenis, various party mini games and of course Marrio cart and it's sequals. I think the most amusing playable game character I've ever heard of was in One of midway's nba Jam games, where as a specialty you could play as Raiden from Mortal combat! The 10 thousand year old, six foot six robe wearing, lightning throwing God of thunder slam dunking a baskit ball? That was just weerd! One idea Brian had once which I rather liked given the smallness of the Audio games community and the way releases are so landmark was an audio smash brothers type game in which the likes of Superliam, Sarah, Commander Ather, Dr. Carter and old man stanley could all get together and beat each other up! Obviously there are copywrite issues through the roof, but if the various parties could agree enough to provide appropriate character sounds and permission to whoever actually developed the game, it could be amusing, and a nice testiment to how far audio games have come. I don't imagine this sort of cooperation is possible, but it's a fun thought none the less. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, Right. That's not the only game where that sort of thing is happening either. I know over the holidays I was playing the Wii Olympics game with my family and I noticed you could pick one of a handful of Nintendo characters like Mario, Sonic, whatever. It was really cool being able to pick which action hero you wanted to be before you took to the slopes. Although, I got to admit I never imagined Mario as a sports figure. seriously, though, a lot of newer games are providing a lot more in customizable content. You can either select from a handful of characters, or create your own character from scratch. In games like Tomb Raider Legend you can't change Lara Croft herself, but you can change her outfit and dress her up the way you want in the game. Unfortunately, nude isn't an option. Lol! Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I was just going to mention that again, since although you wouldn't imagine Mario as a brawler he does manage to pull that off. Of course I don't play him since I'm more of a Metroid and Zelda fan, not to mention his voice clips make him sound disturbingly like Sonny the Cucu from those Cocoa Puffs commercials. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually tom, Marrio is quite the sportsman. There's a pretty fantastic Mario characters' faq at gamefaqs, which lists all the games he's been in, --- and some were very surprising, including Golf, tenis, various party mini games and of course Marrio cart and it's sequals. I think the most amusing playable game character I've ever heard of was in One of midway's nba Jam games, where as a specialty you could play as Raiden from Mortal combat! The 10 thousand year old, six foot six robe wearing, lightning throwing God of thunder slam dunking a baskit ball? That was just weerd! One idea Brian had once which I rather liked given the smallness of the Audio games community and the way releases are so landmark was an audio smash brothers type game in which the likes of Superliam, Sarah, Commander Ather, Dr. Carter and old man stanley could all get together and beat each other up! Obviously there are copywrite issues through the roof, but if the various parties could agree enough to provide appropriate character sounds and permission to whoever actually developed the game, it could be amusing, and a nice testiment to how far audio games have come. I don't imagine this sort of cooperation is possible, but it's a fun thought none the less. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, Right. That's not the only game where that sort of thing is happening either. I know over the holidays I was playing the Wii Olympics game with my family and I noticed you could pick one of a handful of Nintendo characters like Mario, Sonic, whatever. It was really cool being able to pick which action hero you wanted to be before you took to the slopes. Although, I got to admit I never imagined Mario as a sports figure. seriously, though, a lot of newer games are providing a lot more in customizable content. You can either select from a handful of characters, or create your own character from scratch. In games like Tomb Raider Legend you can't change Lara Croft herself, but you can change her outfit and dress her up the way you want in the game. Unfortunately, nude isn't an option. Lol! Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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wow I'd like that smash bros game haha On 6/3/10, Bryan Peterson bpeterson2...@cableone.net wrote: I was just going to mention that again, since although you wouldn't imagine Mario as a brawler he does manage to pull that off. Of course I don't play him since I'm more of a Metroid and Zelda fan, not to mention his voice clips make him sound disturbingly like Sonny the Cucu from those Cocoa Puffs commercials. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Actually tom, Marrio is quite the sportsman. There's a pretty fantastic Mario characters' faq at gamefaqs, which lists all the games he's been in, --- and some were very surprising, including Golf, tenis, various party mini games and of course Marrio cart and it's sequals. I think the most amusing playable game character I've ever heard of was in One of midway's nba Jam games, where as a specialty you could play as Raiden from Mortal combat! The 10 thousand year old, six foot six robe wearing, lightning throwing God of thunder slam dunking a baskit ball? That was just weerd! One idea Brian had once which I rather liked given the smallness of the Audio games community and the way releases are so landmark was an audio smash brothers type game in which the likes of Superliam, Sarah, Commander Ather, Dr. Carter and old man stanley could all get together and beat each other up! Obviously there are copywrite issues through the roof, but if the various parties could agree enough to provide appropriate character sounds and permission to whoever actually developed the game, it could be amusing, and a nice testiment to how far audio games have come. I don't imagine this sort of cooperation is possible, but it's a fun thought none the less. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, Right. That's not the only game where that sort of thing is happening either. I know over the holidays I was playing the Wii Olympics game with my family and I noticed you could pick one of a handful of Nintendo characters like Mario, Sonic, whatever. It was really cool being able to pick which action hero you wanted to be before you took to the slopes. Although, I got to admit I never imagined Mario as a sports figure. seriously, though, a lot of newer games are providing a lot more in customizable content. You can either select from a handful of characters, or create your own character from scratch. In games like Tomb Raider Legend you can't change Lara Croft herself, but you can change her outfit and dress her up the way you want in the game. Unfortunately, nude isn't an option. Lol! Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Muhammed, I'm going to be exploring an ancient Greek tomb. Oh, almost forgot my wand! How unlikely is that scenario? Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Muhammed Deniz Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:11 AM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions How about a wand? My audio games for the blind group. Discussions off topic are welcome in the holidays. Talking about games is welcome, talking about computer problems is welcome when their are know holidays but that's only in easter holidays or know holidays. If you want to joyn, just send a blank email to. audiogamesfortheblind+subscr...@googlegroups.com With the subject subscribe in the subject line. Contact infermation. email: muhamme...@googlemail.com msn: muhammed123...@hotmail.co.uk Skype: muhammed.deniz Klango username. muhammed - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions I like the magic gems and puzles notion, for instance an ice crystal could give you temporary immunity to fire allowing you to leg it through some inconveneint flames. However, Having a modern day archaeologist suddenly spouting spells from ancient scrolls she just runs across in a tomb? - hmmm, That seems a bit too far out to me especially with guns blazing and bullits flying the rest of the time. Making use of magical devices currently in the tombs, eg, a magic sword gem or key seems okay sinse afterall these are ancient artifacts, but reading spells from scrolls implies that Dr. Carter herself has the ability to cast magic, which just seems bizarre! Afterall, the lady's name is Angela Carter, not potter! ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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
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Hi, Invisibility, I don't think, would work like that. In Entombed, when you attack, you have to come out of hiding as such, so of course you wouldn't be hidden anymore. The best way, I think, to do invisibility is to have it set to a time limit, say, 30 seconds, or possibly more, since that's almost useless. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of clement chou Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:09 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Right, agreed. I just go this idea from games like onimusha, where you would hit start to pause the game and l1 and r1 move you through different tabs. You start on weapons, and to equip one you scrol down and hit x. Ten if you hit r1 it moves yu to health items, magical items, keys, etc. But I think it wouldn't unbalance the game to much to have different potions. So long as there was a way to keep them from being overpowering... say, if you had an invisibility potion, only have you be invisible up to a certain distance, or when you started attacking. Invincibility I could see being harder though. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Oh, and don't forget Donkey Kong. Mario is the lead character in those games as well. Anyway, I know what you mean. Mario is in several Nintendo titles, but after seeing him running through the jungle on Kong Island in Donkey Kong or racing to rescue Princess Toadstool from King Coopa in Super Mario Brothers it sort of seams funny seeing him playing golf, taking the ski slopes, or racing around in Mario Cart. Guess that is what he does on his days off. Lol! As for playing Raiden in an NBA game that is down right funny. I imagine if he gets mad at anyone steeling his ball he is liable to blast them into dust. So he is one dude you wouldn't want to mess with out there on the court. As for the idea of mixing accessible game characters in an all in one title that sounds pretty cool to me. I could just imagine a game were the heroes would be taking on the super vilains. Angela Carter, Super Liam, Sarah Good, etc taking on the likes of Commander Athiar, X1, and Lord Vector. That would be a blast. On 6/3/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: Actually tom, Marrio is quite the sportsman. There's a pretty fantastic Mario characters' faq at gamefaqs, which lists all the games he's been in, --- and some were very surprising, including Golf, tenis, various party mini games and of course Marrio cart and it's sequals. I think the most amusing playable game character I've ever heard of was in One of midway's nba Jam games, where as a specialty you could play as Raiden from Mortal combat! The 10 thousand year old, six foot six robe wearing, lightning throwing God of thunder slam dunking a baskit ball? That was just weerd! One idea Brian had once which I rather liked given the smallness of the Audio games community and the way releases are so landmark was an audio smash brothers type game in which the likes of Superliam, Sarah, Commander Ather, Dr. Carter and old man stanley could all get together and beat each other up! Obviously there are copywrite issues through the roof, but if the various parties could agree enough to provide appropriate character sounds and permission to whoever actually developed the game, it could be amusing, and a nice testiment to how far audio games have come. I don't imagine this sort of cooperation is possible, but it's a fun thought none the less. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Dark, Right. That's not the only game where that sort of thing is happening either. I know over the holidays I was playing the Wii Olympics game with my family and I noticed you could pick one of a handful of Nintendo characters like Mario, Sonic, whatever. It was really cool being able to pick which action hero you wanted to be before you took to the slopes. Although, I got to admit I never imagined Mario as a sports figure. seriously, though, a lot of newer games are providing a lot more in customizable content. You can either select from a handful of characters, or create your own character from scratch. In games like Tomb Raider Legend you can't change Lara Croft herself, but you can change her outfit and dress her up the way you want in the game. Unfortunately, nude isn't an option. Lol! Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I'm afraid Tom, while I very much take your point on this, I can't really see what it would add to the game. Personally, I use healing potions after fights when I've got beaten up. If they were slow acting, all I'd do is use one and wait a minute for my health to restore before continuing, which to be honest is not a great way of playing games. Personally, if you want to change the potions system, I'd much more be in favour of having them as limited health restores than time delayed, particularly sinse this would take some management on the part of te player. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, Yes, waiting a minute or two is a good idea. However, what if you then get attacked in that minute or two? Do you stop healing or do you continue to be healed? Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Philip, Wow, great minds think alike. Grin. Regards, Damien. - Original Message - From: Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2662 - Release Date: 02/01/10 12:37:00 --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, What happens if after drinking a potion she is attacked and her health goes below 0 while the potion is still working? I believe in Dungeons and Dragons you can go below 0 hit points by negative 10 but if below 0 you are unconscious and can not move. If you hit negative 11 you are dead and only a priest can bring you back. If a working potion or spell restores you back to 1 health, then you wake up. I think the sound effect of her feeling better should wait until the potion is finished working. To be more realistic, after being poisoned, a lower pitched walking sound will make it seem like she is walking slower due to the poison. Phil --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Tom I agree with that, could you make it sililar to SOD in that your health recovers slowley over time, then if you do find potions you could conserve some of them for later on in the game. Also could I make a suggestion about spikes? I thought if you accidentally land in iether spikes or fire you wouldn't die at once, you'd have a few seconds to get out, like in some games if something like a trap hurts you and you get away fast enough you just use a med kit or potion to see if that will help. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 1:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Lori, Well, the traps are that way to make the game more challenging. If someone actually landed in a spike pit for real they would probably suffer a long painful death. The way those pits were designed in ancient times they were a deep dirt pit with spikes in it, and if you fell into it you couldn't climb back out of it. Not to mention you would probibly have several major organs run through by several spikes so couldn't get up out of there if you wanted too. Smile. On 6/2/10, Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Tom I agree with that, could you make it sililar to SOD in that your health recovers slowley over time, then if you do find potions you could conserve some of them for later on in the game. Also could I make a suggestion about spikes? I thought if you accidentally land in iether spikes or fire you wouldn't die at once, you'd have a few seconds to get out, like in some games if something like a trap hurts you and you get away fast enough you just use a med kit or potion to see if that will help. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I like the magic gems and puzles notion, for instance an ice crystal could give you temporary immunity to fire allowing you to leg it through some inconveneint flames. However, Having a modern day archaeologist suddenly spouting spells from ancient scrolls she just runs across in a tomb? - hmmm, That seems a bit too far out to me especially with guns blazing and bullits flying the rest of the time. Making use of magical devices currently in the tombs, eg, a magic sword gem or key seems okay sinse afterall these are ancient artifacts, but reading spells from scrolls implies that Dr. Carter herself has the ability to cast magic, which just seems bizarre! Afterall, the lady's name is Angela Carter, not potter! ;D. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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And if you're on fire you're not likely to think rationally, assuming you think at all. We are the Knights who say...Ni! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 4:44 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Lori, Well, the traps are that way to make the game more challenging. If someone actually landed in a spike pit for real they would probably suffer a long painful death. The way those pits were designed in ancient times they were a deep dirt pit with spikes in it, and if you fell into it you couldn't climb back out of it. Not to mention you would probibly have several major organs run through by several spikes so couldn't get up out of there if you wanted too. Smile. On 6/2/10, Lori Duncan lori_dunca...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Tom I agree with that, could you make it sililar to SOD in that your health recovers slowley over time, then if you do find potions you could conserve some of them for later on in the game. Also could I make a suggestion about spikes? I thought if you accidentally land in iether spikes or fire you wouldn't die at once, you'd have a few seconds to get out, like in some games if something like a trap hurts you and you get away fast enough you just use a med kit or potion to see if that will help. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Phil, Well, the way the game mechanics works if Angela's health reaches 0 or less she's stone cold dead regardless if she just drank a potion or not. As for the feeling better message I've already rewritten the game to play that particular message file after she reaches 100% health. Not before then. So that's already done. Smile. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Oh, I know. I happen to agree with you that the idea is pretty far fetched for a game like Mysteries of the Ancients as it seams unlikely that a normal person like Angela Carter could pick up magic gemstones or scrolls and start wielding magic. Plus it just doesn't fit the treasure hunting type genre either. However, as I mentioned before I am working on a fantacy roll playing adventure similar to fantacy games like Golden Ax where magic scrolls and magic stones would be fairly par for that style of game. In Golden Ax instead of the magic pots you get from the robed dudes you could get magic scrolls or magic stones that give you special abilities like casting fire, ice blast, lightning bolts, etc. So I guess you could say I've been turning my thoughts to my next game of late and the magic scrolls and magic stones idea is floating around in my head. Plus I've greatly been influenced by Entombed. Suddenly the idea of being able to pick a ddwarf, amazon, or barbarion like in Golden Ax doesn't seam all that impressive as it once did. It would be cooler to be able to custom create your character such as gender, class, and race. Then embark on your own Golden Ax type adventure. Toome having a grater number of heroes to choose from would ad a lot of replay value as each hero would add a slightly different feel to the game as he/she would have different abilities and strengths. Smile. On 6/2/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I like the magic gems and puzles notion, for instance an ice crystal could give you temporary immunity to fire allowing you to leg it through some inconveneint flames. However, Having a modern day archaeologist suddenly spouting spells from ancient scrolls she just runs across in a tomb? - hmmm, That seems a bit too far out to me especially with guns blazing and bullits flying the rest of the time. Making use of magical devices currently in the tombs, eg, a magic sword gem or key seems okay sinse afterall these are ancient artifacts, but reading spells from scrolls implies that Dr. Carter herself has the ability to cast magic, which just seems bizarre! Afterall, the lady's name is Angela Carter, not potter! ;D. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Well, the way I just added it to the engine the moment you start taking damage it stops healing and you begin taking damage. I could however change it for this instance to put it on a timer to heal for a certain length of time regardless of damage since this is a magic potion and not a normal revive like a med kit. On 6/2/10, Damien Pendleton dam...@x-sight-interactive.net wrote: Hi Thomas, Yes, waiting a minute or two is a good idea. However, what if you then get attacked in that minute or two? Do you stop healing or do you continue to be healed? Regards, Damien. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Dark, Well, i guess what I'm aiming for is a greater degree of realism. It doesn't really add much to the game per say, but it would make it more realistic in that having a potion take some time to completely heal Angela rather than an instant reset of health and strength values back to default. On 6/2/10, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: I'm afraid Tom, while I very much take your point on this, I can't really see what it would add to the game. Personally, I use healing potions after fights when I've got beaten up. If they were slow acting, all I'd do is use one and wait a minute for my health to restore before continuing, which to be honest is not a great way of playing games. Personally, if you want to change the potions system, I'd much more be in favour of having them as limited health restores than time delayed, particularly sinse this would take some management on the part of te player. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Ryan, Well, I can say for sure that Mysteries of the Ancients won't allow you to take items from fallen enemies. Although, I do have a game in the works where this feature will get used in order to get arrows, potions, etc as you progress through the game world. However, since it isn't off the drawing board, so to speak, I'm not going to get too much into detail about it yet. On 6/2/10, Ryan Chou rc4896...@gmail.com wrote: I like that idea and also, what about adding some realism as in if you successfully hit the monsters, they would get knocked back a little bit? and I also like the idea of items sometimes dropping off enemies --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Right, agreed. I just go this idea from games like onimusha, where you would hit start to pause the game and l1 and r1 move you through different tabs. You start on weapons, and to equip one you scrol down and hit x. Ten if you hit r1 it moves yu to health items, magical items, keys, etc. But I think it wouldn't unbalance the game to much to have different potions. So long as there was a way to keep them from being overpowering... say, if you had an invisibility potion, only have you be invisible up to a certain distance, or when you started attacking. Invincibility I could see being harder though. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, I don't think that would be very hard. To me I think it is more a matter how far would we actually take this idea. If we put the healing potions off in a menu by themselves that means we could also put several different types of potions in that menu like an invincibility potion or an invisibility potion in there. In such a case then we are talking increasing the amount of work involved as well as perhaps unbalancing the game too much. Yet having a variety of different potions would make the game a bit more interesting. Then again, we could do something similar with the scrolls and gems. Right now they aren't really important items. Just treasure items really. What if the gemstones were magic stones and could be used to perform certain magical tasks, or a scroll could be used to cast a new spell. All kinds of ideas could come from this suggestion of yours. Smile. On 6/1/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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HMMM THATS GOOD. i MUST SAY i LIKE THAT FEATURE MYSELF. IF A MONSTER IS USING A RATHER COOL PIECE OF ARMOUR OR A WEAPON ETC THEN BY RIGHT IT SOULD BE MINE. At 11:28 a.m. 3/06/2010, you wrote: Hi Ryan, Well, I can say for sure that Mysteries of the Ancients won't allow you to take items from fallen enemies. Although, I do have a game in the works where this feature will get used in order to get arrows, potions, etc as you progress through the game world. However, since it isn't off the drawing board, so to speak, I'm not going to get too much into detail about it yet. On 6/2/10, Ryan Chou rc4896...@gmail.com wrote: I like that idea and also, what about adding some realism as in if you successfully hit the monsters, they would get knocked back a little bit? and I also like the idea of items sometimes dropping off enemies --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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that way where it takes time to restore is ok by me it just means I need to wait some. ONe issue I have is when you press control t for torch numbers but don't have any torch a torch will be used. if you are telling it that you want to check the numbers but you use a torch it doesn't probably because you can't use more than one torch. At 12:04 p.m. 2/06/2010, you wrote: Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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I like your approach to the issue. Medication does not take immediate effect when you swallow it, and healing potions should act the same way. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:04 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2662 - Release Date: 02/01/10 12:37:00 --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Charles, That's basicly what i was thinking of. Any time I take some kind of medication I have to wait a few minutes for it to begin taking effect. I would think healing potions would similarly have to take some amount of time to take effect. It could be something as short as a minute or two for game time, but the basic idea is that you won't drink it down and magically be restored to full health. Especially, considering Angela gets stabbed with daggers and swords, hit with lightning bolts, shot with arrows, etc and those kinds of wounds won't heal instantly no matter what you use. Also this may force you to rethink your game strategy. If you are getting killed in battle you might have to retreat from the battle, hide somewhere, and drink a potion and wait until your health is restored enough to jump back into the fight. That gets rid of those battles where you are getting pounded, drink apotion, and keep right on fighting. Nobody can do that in real life. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Healing potions should behave just as swallowed medication. I like your approach. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, That works provided the room you are exploring has no enemies in it. The way the game is randomized now you never really know who is going to be behind door number 1, door number 2, and door number 3. So as far as I am concerned Angela better cool her heals somewhere safe until she is healthy enough to continue the adventure. Smile. On 6/1/10, Charles Rivard woofer...@sbcglobal.net wrote: How about just exploring the rooms until the healing potion restores you back to health, then go back to where the action is, provided you don't get followed, that is? --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Philip, The way I invision this working is having the potion gradually increase Angela's health over a certain period of time before it is expended. So if she comes under attack she will probably lose more health than she gains using that potion as it will only restore a certain amount of health over x amount of time. Another thing to consider here is I've updated some enemies in the game as well. For example, the harpies are now more true to the harpies from Greek mythology as well as many RPG type games. Instead of throwing lightning bolts they have claws that do considerable damage to the human body when they attack. Besides the contact damage they inject Angela with a toxic poison that will kill her gradually over time unless she drinks a potion to counter act the poison. Between body damage and poison you may need to drink more than one potion to get back up to full health. Does that answer your question? On 6/1/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote: Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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H Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 4:04 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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A thought: Will that bit about the poison that the Harpies inject be in the user's manual? If so, it'll eliminate a ton of questions about a bug in the game that is not a bug in the game. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Philip Bennefall phi...@blastbay.com; Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi Philip, The way I invision this working is having the potion gradually increase Angela's health over a certain period of time before it is expended. So if she comes under attack she will probably lose more health than she gains using that potion as it will only restore a certain amount of health over x amount of time. Another thing to consider here is I've updated some enemies in the game as well. For example, the harpies are now more true to the harpies from Greek mythology as well as many RPG type games. Instead of throwing lightning bolts they have claws that do considerable damage to the human body when they attack. Besides the contact damage they inject Angela with a toxic poison that will kill her gradually over time unless she drinks a potion to counter act the poison. Between body damage and poison you may need to drink more than one potion to get back up to full health. Does that answer your question? On 6/1/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote: Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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hmmm probably not. though I'd probably have a potion after I emptied a room of monsters and when I was not in any danger. ofcause monsters don't come after you if you leave their room. At 12:15 p.m. 2/06/2010, you wrote: Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. Internal Virus Database is out of date. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.432 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2662 - Release Date: 02/01/10 12:37:00 --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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hmmm wow thats hard. I just hope angela can shoot long range. right now your weapon can really get ammoed out quite soon. I have had to get my pistol at extremely close range to be effective at all. At 12:49 p.m. 2/06/2010, you wrote: Hi Philip, The way I invision this working is having the potion gradually increase Angela's health over a certain period of time before it is expended. So if she comes under attack she will probably lose more health than she gains using that potion as it will only restore a certain amount of health over x amount of time. Another thing to consider here is I've updated some enemies in the game as well. For example, the harpies are now more true to the harpies from Greek mythology as well as many RPG type games. Instead of throwing lightning bolts they have claws that do considerable damage to the human body when they attack. Besides the contact damage they inject Angela with a toxic poison that will kill her gradually over time unless she drinks a potion to counter act the poison. Between body damage and poison you may need to drink more than one potion to get back up to full health. Does that answer your question? On 6/1/10, Philip Bennefall phi...@u7142039.fsdata.se wrote: Hi Thomas, This sounds like a good approach indeed, however I have one question. How do you react to a situation where the good lady falls under attack whilst healing? Does she keep gaining health until she is up to full health, or do you set a maximum increase amount that it will not go above before the healing potion is expended? In other words, do you give a certain healing amount that is done gradually, rather than restore her to full health regardless of attacks during restoration? Kind regards, Philip Bennefall --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi, Thats a good idea, but one I think I will add to the next game in the Tomb Hunter series. Main reason is my inventory list is getting quite full with guns, swords, whips, a dagger, bow and arrow, etc. As it happens I just added a bronze brestplate to the game to help even up the odds on higher difficulty levels. I royally get my butt kicked on expert, and I hope this will help even up the odds some as enemy attacks won't do quite as much damage while Angela has it on. On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Hi Shaun, The pistol has a fairly decent range. I believe it is set to 100 which is around 33 meters in real measurements. Since there are no rooms currently that large you shouldn't have to get in too close to attack any enemy. However, as of beta 13 enemies can dodge attacks and centaurs can run extremely fast. Harpies can swoop down on you before you really expect it. Let us just say the enemies in beta 13 are fast, mean, and a lot tougher then their beta 12 counterparts. Oh, and did I mention don't get within kissing distance of a harpy or she'll rip your throat out if she gets a chance? On 6/1/10, shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz wrote: hmmm wow thats hard. I just hope angela can shoot long range. right now your weapon can really get ammoed out quite soon. I have had to get my pistol at extremely close range to be effective at all. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
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Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Thats a good idea, but one I think I will add to the next game in the Tomb Hunter series. Main reason is my inventory list is getting quite full with guns, swords, whips, a dagger, bow and arrow, etc. As it happens I just added a bronze brestplate to the game to help even up the odds on higher difficulty levels. I royally get my butt kicked on expert, and I hope this will help even up the odds some as enemy attacks won't do quite as much damage while Angela has it on. On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
I like that idea and also, what about adding some realism as in if you successfully hit the monsters, they would get knocked back a little bit? and I also like the idea of items sometimes dropping off enemies On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiocity, would it be too much hustle to say devide up the inventory into separate parts? Or even just a separate menu for potions. Like, if you hit a certain key, a list of potions would come up as the gameplay was paused. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi, Thats a good idea, but one I think I will add to the next game in the Tomb Hunter series. Main reason is my inventory list is getting quite full with guns, swords, whips, a dagger, bow and arrow, etc. As it happens I just added a bronze brestplate to the game to help even up the odds on higher difficulty levels. I royally get my butt kicked on expert, and I hope this will help even up the odds some as enemy attacks won't do quite as much damage while Angela has it on. On 5/31/10, clement chou chou.clem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tom. While your idea is great about having the health meter slowly regenerate after drinking a potion, I think that you should do what a lot of games also do. Have different levels worth of potion, so that one has to choose which one to use. Say, one potion that restores 25% health, another that restores 50, and another one that regenerates. But have diferent conditions... say you can have potions worth more have to be reached by passing through obstacles, or they can get droped off tougher enemies. Just a suggestion. --- 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@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] Thoughts About Healing Potions
I like your alternative option where it would take a bit of time to apply it's effect, but also that it shouldn't necessarily restore full health - old one is if you're very thirsty, drinking half a glass of water won't do the same as a whole glass. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 2:04 AM Subject: [Audyssey] Thoughts About Healing Potions Hi everyone, As I have mentioned before I'm currently doing a major revamp of Mysteries of the Ancients this week, working on some game mechanics, adding a bit more here and there to the levels, etc and there is one issue that has been on my mind for a while now and that regards the healing potions themselves. As it stands now if you pick up a healing potion and drink it you instantly regain all of your health, air, and strength at once. This is a throwback to the old arcade game days when if you drank a healing potion all of your health bars etc were completely restored. While that is great for an old arcade game such as Montezuma's Revenge more modern games don't necessarily do it this way prefering more realism over a quick health boost. For example, one thing I've commonly seen done in mainstream games is if you use a health restore like a med kit or something it only restores 20 to 25 percent of your health. This means it requires multiple med kits to restore you back to full health. Another way I've seen it done, and the one I'm considering here, is if you use a health restore such as drinking a potion it doesn't take full effect right away. In other words if you drink one of the healing potions your health meter will slowly start going back up and it might take a minute or so for your health, strength, etc to be fully restored. If we take it into consideration it does take the human body a little while to react to a healing potion this would be the most realistic approach to using health restores in games. What do you think? 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 messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5164 (20100601) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5164 (20100601) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
