Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-04 Thread dark
he options, assuming of course the game is in a playable medium. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Che" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 3:04 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? One game t

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-04 Thread Che
interesting setup overall. Later, Che - Original Message - From: "tim kilgore`" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 3:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Love ta' ead it. Tim - Original Message -

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, If you or anyone else wants to send me story ideas, game ideas, etc go ahead and send them to me at thomasward1...@gmail.com. If I decide I like your story idea, game idea, characters, etc I'll be sure to give you full credit for the story line, characters, etc you submited. Also if the ga

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread Pranav Lal
Thomas, If you ever need someone to write such a game story, I would be happy to have a go. I have thought about writing a gamebook but cannot understand how to keep the different paths together. Pranav --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail t

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Count me in. I want to read your story when it is ready. Grin. dark wrote: Hi tim. Unfortunately, personal circumstances have made writing anything for me incredibly difficult recently (one reason I'm now doing my phd part time). I've been writing poetry, but that's not really in th

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, interesting enough there was a gaming article I read the other day, written by a sighted gamer, which said just about the same things you have been saying. Like many of us on the list he started out playing classic computer text adventures, gaming consoles, and did some paper an

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread tim kilgore`
Love ta' ead it. Tim - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hi tim. Unfortunately, personal circumstances have made writing an

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread dark
t;tim kilgore`" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 6:28 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hey dark, do you have any stuff you've written for people to read? Tim - Original Message - From: "dark" To: &qu

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread tim kilgore`
Hey dark, do you have any stuff you've written for people to read? Tim - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Agreed Tom. A well wri

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-03 Thread dark
Agreed Tom. A well written standardized dungeon crawl, as in Eamon can be a fun litle diversion, but for a true exploration setting I deffinately want more background and detail. I think many writers, (particularly of pvp heavy grinders), have been very lazy in just snipping superficial ele

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-02 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Oh, I know exactly what you are saying about game stereotypes. When I began drafting my game rpg game I started to go with a fantacy setting and realize everybody who is anybody has been there and done that so to speak. We have everything from Zork to Final Fantacy, and it is assumed

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread dark
Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 6:03 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hi Dark, Yeah, I know. It really comes down to the same old problem. If it is accessible it tends to lean to PVP combat or another space trading type game. If it is something

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread kelby carlson
I have just downloaded Fallthrough, and ow have the same issue. Does anyone know any way of getting Fallthrough to run faster? Kelby "Oh Adam's sons, how cleverly you defend yourself from all that might do you good." --Aslan the Lion - Original Message - From: "dark" Hi zack.

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread Jason Allen
Yeah, Spore uses procedural functions to create an entire galaxy. It was a great concept, but a little neutered in that game. The only other game off the top of my head that did that was a space game called Elite. Actually, the BBS game Tradewars also created a universe in that fashion, but it was

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, I know. It really comes down to the same old problem. If it is accessible it tends to lean to PVP combat or another space trading type game. If it is something we might actually like with a complete RPG story mode and setting it probably isn't screen reader friendly. It is usual

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread kelby carlson
I've been meaning to check out Fallthrough. Is there anything I need to do with JAWS to make sure everything's accessible, or will it run fine on its own? Kelby "Wake up, comrades, your compassion is killing us!" --Anonymous - Original Message - From: "dark" Hi zack. I haven

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread dark
rough. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Zachary Kline" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:51 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hi, Agreed. A friend of mine walked me through a brief s

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2009-01-01 Thread dark
2009 3:08 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hi Dark, Actually, by summer i should have something that is right up your alley. As you might recall a couple of weeks ago I was talking about a text based RPG game engine for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Over teh holidays i hav

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread dark
the person who finally pulls it off I think. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Jason Allen" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? Hi Dark, This is something

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Actually, by summer i should have something that is right up your alley. As you might recall a couple of weeks ago I was talking about a text based RPG game engine for Mac, Linux, and Windows. Over teh holidays i have taken some time to write up some initial code for it, and one of t

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread Zachary Kline
To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game? that would be interesting to create your own universe, creatures, etc, from the user point of view. I have a friend that has just got spore. You are able

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread shaun everiss
I'd like this to, all the games I have had are empires, etc. Nothing has exploration, battle, adventure, etc. st voyager I am sure was based of lost in space at least thats what I'd imagin it being based off. But yeah I'd like something like this. either as a mud or even better as a full featured

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread shaun everiss
that would be interesting to create your own universe, creatures, etc, from the user point of view. I have a friend that has just got spore. You are able to create life from components, and have a semi age of empires with it. work through the ages till you get to the space age, and then colonise

Re: [Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread Jason Allen
Hi Dark, This is something I've been interested in making. One thing I love is procedural generation. You can create an entire universe using only that. The trick of course is the game play and making it interesting. Right now it has to stay an interest only while I work on Entombed. I'm fascinate

[Audyssey] Scifi exploration online game?

2008-12-31 Thread dark
Hi. a combination of reading starwars novels, playing Eamon and Sryth, and watching my brother play Final fantasy crysis core on the psp is really getting me in the mood for something scifi, but every online game I've looked at in a scifi setting seems to be either a, galactic empire building