Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Pranav, Well, I really dont' see any advantage in using xml over text files for storing game info. A flat database is basically nothing more than a text file with info separated by commas, and that is easy enough to implement if I wanted to. Smile. Pranav Lal wrote: Hi Thomas, Why not us

Re: [Audyssey] Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Praniv, That is basically why you would use a scripting language such as perl, javascript, or php. The scripting language can help keep track of where you've been, what adventures you have completed, and so on. You could store that info in a database or parce it out to a text file for later

Re: [Audyssey] Combat was: Creating Roll Playing Games From Scratch

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Yeah, that does sound like a really good idea. I haven't thought about things quite that way before,but now that you have mentioned it would make sense that you could find out clues about how to defeat certain types of enemies simply by interacting with other npc characters in the gam

[Audyssey] Technoshock file hosting

2009-07-24 Thread dark
Hi. Someone on the audiogames.net forum reported that the Technoshock homepage is down. I put the setup files for both the game and update patch into a zip folder and stuck them on sendspace, but obviously that's just a temporary solution. If the homepage is down perminantly, any chan

[Audyssey] BPP Flyin, July 25 2009

2009-07-24 Thread Harun
I'll be running an ATC flyin tomorrow, July 25, at 2200 Zulu / 1700(5PM) central time / 1800(6PM) Eastern. Anybody with Flight Simulator 2004, IYP, and Teamspeak is welcome to connect. You'll need to email me to get the IP address. Thanks, and hope to see you in the skies. --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] Technoshock file hosting

2009-07-24 Thread Nick Helms
I'll do it On 7/24/09, dark wrote: > Hi. > > Someone on the audiogames.net forum reported that the Technoshock homepage > is down. > > I put the setup files for both the game and update patch into a zip folder > and stuck them on sendspace, but obviously that's just a temporary > solution. >

Re: [Audyssey] BPP Flying, July 25 2009

2009-07-24 Thread Mike Maslo
Will be there -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Harun Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 4:22 PM To: gamers Subject: [Audyssey] BPP Flyin, July 25 2009 I'll be running an ATC flyin tomorrow, July 25, at 2200 Zulu / 1700(5PM) c

Re: [Audyssey] BPP Flyin, July 25 2009

2009-07-24 Thread shaun everiss
ok harun. can you pop the ip at me? As luck would have it I will not be walking tomorrow due to having friends around for lunch and so walking today. So as long as there is no system wide issue I will be making this my first live broadcast. I'll ofcause get the archive just because I like collect

Re: [Audyssey] Technoshock file hosting

2009-07-24 Thread dark
Very generous nick. As I said, could you please get back to me with the link so that I can fix audiogames.net. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Nick Helms" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 11:37 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Technoshock file