Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-08 Thread Travis Siegel
Speaking of the Chronicles of Arborel, I have received permission from the author to produce braille versions of the gaming materials. If anyone thinks that this would be something they'd be interested in, please let me know, which books, or perhaps which version of the torch game, the cards

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-08 Thread dark
to read braille on with my computer so probably can't take advantage. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Travis Siegel tsie...@lothlorien.nfbcal.org To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books Speaking

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-07 Thread David Chittenden
Hello, Just because one app doesn't work has no bearing on whether any other apps will or will not work. It is just like programs on the PC, but the chances are actually better that the app will work. I haven't tried any of the fighting fantasy apps, but I downloaded a Frotz program called

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-07 Thread Ian McNamara
Hello all, i like to play the interactive fiction games from mallange entertainment is there any way these can be played with the mac. thanks very much. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org.

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-07 Thread dark
ianandri...@googlemail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2010 7:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books Hello all, i like to play the interactive fiction games from mallange entertainment is there any way these can be played with the mac. thanks very

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-07 Thread Trouble
You will find what your looking for here, http://www.assistivegaming.com/spip.php?article44var_recherche=text At 02:04 AM 11/7/2010, you wrote: Hello all, i like to play the interactive fiction games from mallange entertainment is there any way these can be played with the mac. thanks very

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Claridge
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books Hey Dark, Thanks for all those thoughts. Picking up the old Choose Your Own Adventure books was quite the surprise. I had no idea how badly they were written. They just spiral all over the place and some of the deaths are so obscure and unexpected. In my

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread Ian McNamara
yep i would like to get in to some of these kind of games. can any one give me some addresses where i can play them. thanks very much. Ian McNamara --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread dark
Hi Richard. The arborell site is indeed very much an ongoing project, but it's a long way from being abandoned. Right at the moment the gamebook murder of crows (sequal to Shards of moonlight), is being stuck up in installments, and the 2010 ameter gamebook writing comp has just finished.

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread neophyte
Hey Dark, A quick answer for you. Sadly, the accessibility features on the iPhone alter the way that you interact with the screen, requiring double taps and three finger swipes to scroll. This seems to completely jam up the opening menu screen on the Fighting Fantasy apps. Well, at the very

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread dark
- From: neoph...@inthecompanyofgrues.com To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books Hey Dark, A quick answer for you. Sadly, the accessibility features on the iPhone alter the way that you interact with the screen, requiring

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I don't know how popular gamebook's are with the genral Vi gaming comunity but I personally love them. Gamebook's are more story driven than most games, and since it is all text/html based the author has to get descriptive about a certain scene he or shee wants to convey to the reader. It

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread shaun everiss
well the stuff at ffproject is fine but others I have seen don't do all the fancy calculations in the back ground. you can also back out of wrong choices you make. At 04:55 a.m. 7/11/2010, you wrote: Hi, I don't know how popular gamebook's are with the genral Vi gaming comunity but I

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-06 Thread dark
@audyssey.org Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:28 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Game books well the stuff at ffproject is fine but others I have seen don't do all the fancy calculations in the back ground. you can also back out of wrong choices you make. At 04:55 a.m. 7/11/2010, you wrote: Hi

[Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-05 Thread neophyte
Hey Dark, Okay, now I'm totally geeking out. I ran down those links you sent through and they were all very cool projects. I feel like I need a spare year to start exploring them properly! I played Choose Your Own Adventure books and Fighting Fantasy books heaps as a kid and have recently been

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-05 Thread dark
Hi neophyte. To be honest as a visually impared person doesn't particularly apply here if the books are accessible. Obviously I prefer them not to have graphics or graphical puzles, and equally obviously it's good for me to get them online rather than in an inaccessible print form (I've

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-05 Thread neophyte
Hey Dark, Thanks for all those thoughts. Picking up the old Choose Your Own Adventure books was quite the surprise. I had no idea how badly they were written. They just spiral all over the place and some of the deaths are so obscure and unexpected. In my opinion, ensuring that each choice is

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2010-11-05 Thread dark
] Game books Hey Dark, Thanks for all those thoughts. Picking up the old Choose Your Own Adventure books was quite the surprise. I had no idea how badly they were written. They just spiral all over the place and some of the deaths are so obscure and unexpected. In my opinion, ensuring that each

[Audyssey] Game books

2008-12-14 Thread lindsay
Do I need special software to play game books, and what do I need, and where can I get the books from? Lindsay Cowell. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription

Re: [Audyssey] Game books

2008-12-14 Thread dark
Message - From: lind...@lindsaycowell.freeserve.co.uk To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 11:26 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Game books Do I need special software to play game books, and what do I need, and where can I get the books from? Lindsay Cowell. --- Gamers mailing