Re: [Audyssey] Entombed keystrokes list

2010-03-01 Thread Dickson Tan
Hello The keystroke for battle timeline is l. Cheers Dickson -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 12:44 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Entombed keystrokes li

[Audyssey] Audyssey thread report for February 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
There were 155 thread titles. Here are the top 40. Adult games 58. programming 55. Need help fighting the Drake. 36. Early Survey Results 33. the entombed game 25. I r c 17. Entombed officially released! 16. usagamesinteractive.com down again! 16. Virus found at l-works.net blog 14. en

[Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for February 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
98 people posted 754 messages. 94 From, Hayden Presley. 69 From, Thomas Ward. 68 From, dark. 66 From, Muhammed Deniz. 41 From, shaun everiss. 31 From, Bryan Peterson. 20 From, Jim Kitchen. 19 From, Jacob Kruger. 19 From, Steve. 17 From, Charles Rivard. 16 From, Josh. 15 From, Darren H

Re: [Audyssey] Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Johnny, Yes, but in Puppy1 those are drone planes and the drones all eject before the plane crashes. But seriously Puppy1 and Battleship I think are my only war type games. Which does go against my anti war feelings, but they are not real violent I guess. BFN Jim I've never seen a

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey thread report for February 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Charles Rivard
I find it interesting that the longest threads have been going for just about the shortest time. --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: "Jim Kitchen" To: "Audyssey" Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 10:59 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Audyssey thread report for February 2010 There we

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed was Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Hi. when a limb is actually cut off it needs to be reattached by the reattach spell, which gives you a menue of missing body parts then of body parts you can put there. As for the breastplate, that is plate armour, and thus can only be worn by characters with the plate armour skill, fighters

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed was Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Assassins actually don't have plate armour skill as far as I know, just leather and possibly the option of buying chain. at an increased skill cost. fighters and paladins are I believe the only ones with it. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gam

Re: [Audyssey] Early Survey Results

2010-03-01 Thread Ryan Smith
Hi Muhammed, Producing audiogames is NOT always free. Developers need to pay for web hosting, sound effects, voice actors, background music, and depending on the game: a VPS, dedicated server or sound library. If someone puts lots of time and energy into something, they should get pay for it. If y

[Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Diana Nowlin
I'm getting monopoly version 9 put on my laptop. Do you have to turn Jaws off to play it? Thanks, Diana Nowlin --- 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,

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Greg
Hello Thomas, To target different body parts: 1 Just before you select your target hit and hold down one of the number row keys 1-8. 1 = lower left)left leg or left foot). 3 = lower right(leg or foot) 4 = left arm or hand. 6 = right arm or hand 5 = torso 8 = head. Hope this helps, Greg W. -

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed officially released!

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Yeah, he probably should add that to the wiki so people would know to do that. Although, a better alternative is if he would add some sort of versioning system to the saved games themselves so that when you upgrade the game would read the version info stored in the file, and delete it a

Re: [Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Diana, No, you do not need to turn Jaws off to play my monopoly game. You can though since it does use the sapi5 text to speech engine. And in case you have not done so, you really should before installing any of my text to speech games, down load the WinKit.zip file and run the setup.exe

Re: [Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Keao Wright
What version are you getting, Jim's? - Original Message - From: "Diana Nowlin" To: Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 1:34 PM Subject: [Audyssey] Monopoly. I'm getting monopoly version 9 put on my laptop. Do you have to turn Jaws off to play it? Thanks, Diana Nowlin --- Gamers mailing

Re: [Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Mauricio Almeida
nope, you play it with jaws. mauricio -Mensagem original- De: Diana Nowlin Para: Gamers@audyssey.org Data: Sexta, 26 de Fevereiro de 2010 17:34 Assunto: [Audyssey] Monopoly. I'm getting monopoly version 9 put on my laptop. Do you have to turn Jaws off to play it? Thanks, Diana Nowlin ---

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Thanks guys. I've got it now. I've been putting that skill to good use in my various combats. In fact it just saved my bacon in a bloody and gory battle with the Goblin King on level 6. Although, it was a case of winning the battle but not the war. On 2/27/10, Greg wrote: > Hello Thomas, > To

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Bite your tongue. I've only once made it to the Drake in tact, and in my current game a battle with the Goblin King widdled my party down to one character. And ironically not the strongest or best of my characters. She got lucky slaying the Goblin King because Cassandra softened him up enough t

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, one of the problems is I'm not finding any scrolls like that here. I once found a curse scroll, and a shrink scroll but that is it. The general store in Twilight Town absolutely sucks. All I've ever seen there is poor and dubious quality weapons, and now and then a sspell scroll. Oth

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, Oh, I wish. My weapons only do between 3 to 5 damage to the Drake. Remember all I have is pretty much junk weapons I picked up around the game. Other than the armour and weapons you get from slaying the Goblin King the rest are just dubious rated crap that is common throughout the game

Re: [Audyssey] Early Survey Results

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Exactly. There is always some misconception that writing these games is free or doesn't cost anything to produce. Nothing could be further from the truth. They usually cost a lot to produce when you add up money spend on professional sound effects, music, voice acting, web space to say the leas

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Hi Tom. Well, jason has stated that now that the last few bugs are dealt with docs are next on the list, pluss, sinse the docs are a wiki, apparently it's possible for anyone to contribute by creating an account and loguing in (I well might do so myself). As for your difficulties, well mages

Re: [Audyssey] Early Survey Results

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Sure. However, with a game like Entombed you really do need Sapi support for the simple fact of speaking character names and things like that there is no way you can prerecord those unless you basically come up with a name list to select from. That might be ok, but lacks a greater degree o

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, I do appreciate the game, and the scope of complexity. However, I am very frustrated with the fact that I can't get my questions answered or clarified by reading the documentation. I'm of an old school opinion that if you sell something you must provide the end user with quality docu

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed was Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I have to say Entombed has given me lots of ideas to help my own RPG project along. Mine will not exactly be like Entombed of course, but the combat system in Entombed is definitely something like I'd want to use. Being able to chop off a hand, arm, or leg in battle is something that could

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Hi Tom. Well, there is in fact a list of conditions and spell effects in the docs which will tell you for instance, what focus scrolls do, see http://wiki.blind-games.com/wiki/doku.php?id=entombed-conditions for details. If Jason has missed certain scrolls out of the demo, that would explain

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
Oh no, you can find them in the demo, but it's extremely hit and miss. That sort of thing is why I remain firmly convinced that defeating the Drake at least, even if not the other bosses, is based far more on luck than on skill. There's absolutely no guarantee that you'll find any of the more u

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
The Gobblin King is one reason I like to have a Mage in my party for the Shrink spell, which you should be able to max out quite easily by the time you get there. Since the Gobblin King generally inflicts the most damage it's a good idea to shrink him or even Charm him if you happen to have that

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
As I've said on the entombed list here Bryan, I'm afraid I don't agree on this point. Now that the drake is more vulnerable to magic from scrolls, any of a number, including confusion, slow, curse paralize or web will do, not to mention haste, empowerment, focus or enlightenment for your pa

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Indeed Bryan, go for the necro first. usually, If I've got a necro on my own side I find iceblasts to the head do very well against the king, and can put him down very quickly, as can using chalm and then watching him chop up his comrades. Druids are also good sinse high level lightening ca

[Audyssey] entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Josh
hi thomas, did you buy entombed yet? Josh --- 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 m

Re: [Audyssey] Ok, it may not be sporting, but. . .

2010-03-01 Thread Christopher Bartlett
I won't speak for anyone else, but I just want the full set of choices for character race and class combinations. Chris Bartlett --- 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 y

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
I've had that happen to me quite a few times. I've gotten there without finding a single scroll period once or twice, much less any of the ones that work. So in a way my argument does stand. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Well maybe the dungeon gods just like me! ;D. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 8:45 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake. I've had that happen to me quite a few times. I'v

[Audyssey] another monopoly suggestion

2010-03-01 Thread Brandon Misch
here's another suggestion. maybe you could make the password box into a box the screen reader could for instance when someone tries to log into monopoly and they type there password, the characters are echoed and i have a feeling that someone can see the text where as logging into a site like a

[Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi all, I have been having a slight problem with Entombed and I was wondering if this either is a bug or I'm not doing something write. Tonight while playing after a combat I press g to grab items from the floor and it continues to tell me there is nothing there. However, in certain cases such as t

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
That is odd. I've never had that happen. You should just be able to grab the stuff. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "Thomas Ward" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, Marc

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Johnny Tai
It's a slight bug, did you portal back to town and then walk off without portaling back to where you started? That usually causes that bug. "No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't." Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering p

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Johnny Tai
Usually what I do is just quit the game and reload the save file, taht'd fix it. "No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't." Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email t

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, How dare you say that the dungeon gods favor you? Remember--The gods do not find favor with anyone trespassing on their territory. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Monday, March

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Definitely the major complication with the Goblin King Battle is the sheer number of power opponents you have to fight. Ok, so four isn't exactly a "shere number", but if you factor in their abilities and some of their equipment you have a killer force to wreckon with. It took me at least 3 times

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Thomas, As for the General Store in Twilight town it's the seme for me, and I have bought the game. It's ridiculous in that sometimes I can't even find a healing potion in there, and now that you start withnone and seldom find any, it's extremely arguous when one or the other of your party has t

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Hmmm, stuff should certainly be there and I haven't seen this happen either, just hit g after the battle. Someone has reported this happening on the list too so it's possibly a bug of some sort, even if it doesn't crop up too much, as I said, it's one I've never seen before myself.

Re: [Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, I believe you are talking about Jim Kitchen's Monopoly, not RSGame's Monopoly. If you are, I would recommend you did so as this version of the game uses SAPI. HTH, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Mauricio Alm

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed was Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hello, That, I believe, is bizarre. If you aren't a certain class well then you miss out on a lot. The character I want always, I mean always, protected is my main character, and while I am not get nearly 30 hitpoints worth of damage at the beginning of the game this Job isn't exactly the easiest

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
Yeah, but the king is the one who generally causes the most damage outright. The Necromancer is dangerous because he has Ice Blast and then the Summon Bones spell. I tend to take out the Necro first, then either the Trickster or Shaman or sometimes even the King himself. But I always take out th

Re: [Audyssey] Audyssey babble report for February 2010

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi, What I am slightly surprised at is the ever shrinking list of message. We went down by 200 Messages this month alone...that's something. Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kitchen Sent: Monday,

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
people will probably kill me for saying so, but I've found this a surprisingly easy battle. Everyone bar the goblin king himself goes down in virtually one sneak attack or a decent blast of magic, and the king can be dealt with by targiting his noggin, that's failing fun things such as cha

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Steve
I haven't had that problem, I just hit g and then press enter to pick up what ever is there, I have had to move a step first though before I could pick up anything. The problem i have had is with speech stopping, after I finish a battle sometimes when I press the G key I have to save and restart

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
Hi Dark, About that--I don't even know why they have a Kobold Trickster, he's probably the easiest I have ever found in that battle. So much for "royal". Best Regards, Hayden -Original Message- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of dark Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Entombed was Adult games

2010-03-01 Thread dark
Well none armour wearing jobs have recieved boosts in hp to improve their durability, which imho have balanced things nicely, though I do rather wish some way of getting your big beefy fighters to stand in front and take damage rather than your mages was introduced to the game, as I s

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
I combine FIghter and Assassin with my main whenever possible and then I can up Sneak Attack, Dual Wield, Short Swords and Critical Hit. FOr Necros obviously Ice Blast, for Mages Grow and Shrink and for Healers the Heal and harm spells. All those are usually maxed out or close to it by the time

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
Apparently if you walk manually back down from Twilight Town after portalling up there this can cause that bug. That's why I never do that. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "Steve"

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Steve
How can you portal back down? Steve - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:16 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed Apparently if you walk manually back down from Twilight Town after portalling up th

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
Hit F1 again in town. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "Steve" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entom

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Johnny Tai
hit f1 again "No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't." Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interpersonal and Social Relationship Counselling-also offering private, one on one self defense training- call or email to book your appointment today! johnnyti...@shaw.ca 1-604-275-2795

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Steve
Thanks. - Original Message - From: "Johnny Tai" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed hit f1 again "No one ever kicked ass by saying I can't." Johnny ST Tai LIVE AND WALK WITH CONFIDENCE. Interperso

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread shaun everiss
its a bug. I have not played 1.0 yet but this was happening in the last beta rc with quest monsters and afterwards. At 01:03 p.m. 2/03/2010, you wrote: >Hi all, >I have been having a slight problem with Entombed and I was wondering >if this either is a bug or I'm not doing something write. Tonight

Re: [Audyssey] Monopoly.

2010-03-01 Thread Charles Rivard
Where did you get the game? In most cases, you should remove your screen reader from the memory before starting the game if the game does not need your screen reader. In the case of JAWS, for example, insert f4, then answer "yes". --- In God we trust! - Original Message - From: "Diana

Re: [Audyssey] Another Problem With Entombed

2010-03-01 Thread Sylvester Thomas
Hi Thomas! I once thought I was having a problem picking up items only to find out I had hit an arrow key and moved over from the location where I slayed my enemies. I moved back to that position and the items were there. Not sure if this is your problem but just thought I would mention it jus

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Hayden Presley
And I have another problem, and believe me when I say it makes the Drake liok like a Joke. How in the world do you get passed those blasted elementals on Level 13? It helps when they form catastrophy, but they never hold that form long enough. Then I eefeat them with all but one of my characters

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread dark
I never find grow that helpful to be honest, other than occasionally being able to knock people over, and there are generally more efficient ways of doing that. Beware the grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: "Bryan Peterson" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sent: Tuesday, March

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
It seems to depend on which one starts the combination process. if Earthquake initiates it you can do some major damage with Ice Blast. But even if you defeat Catastrophy in combined form you still have to defeat each elemental. Luckily the damage inflicted to the Catastrophy form does carry ov

Re: [Audyssey] Need help fighting the Drake.

2010-03-01 Thread Bryan Peterson
I don't use it much either to be honest, which is why I usually don't even bother to assign points to it. Homer: Hey, uh, could you go across the street and get me a slice of pizza? Vender: No pizza. Only Khlav Kalash. - Original Message - From: "dark" To: "Gamers Discussion list" Sen