Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games -but sort of animal versions
I remember both worms and lemmings, having played both cooperatively with friends who were pretty big fans of the game. I'm not sure about the 2D interface, sinse it very much required lots of overview, but something with an overview map in the manner of Toc I see as eminantly possible, --- though i must confess if David does considder using the Toc basics to create another game, my vote would be for something like civilization, having all the war pluss developement of technology over time, trading, resources and building, the research element of civ always sounded fascinating to me, going literally from sticks and stones to nuclear weapons and beyond. 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.
Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games-but sort of animal versions
I call it 2D since while you didn't move directions like north, south east and west, you did move up down, left and right. Reason specifically liked things like worms is that they're more short term/time games - so at the end of a session, it's done with and you can start another one to play for around 20 minutes/30 minutes against various other people, whereas if we, back then played things like warcraft, starcraft, the MS age of empires games etc., we could in fact carry on for hours, etc. etc. Not a bad thing, but sometimes we just wanted to mess around for shorter time periods, to waste a bit of time, and they sort of required less concentration inbetween turns since while you kept track of what the other were doing, you literally just waited until it was your turn again, so could do something like go make coffee while the other people played, and then come back, quickly scan what had happened, and then take your turn - very informal LAN gaming. Was also just thinking about less historical, and more simple entertainment levels of content...smile Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: dark d...@xgam.org To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games-but sort of animal versions I remember both worms and lemmings, having played both cooperatively with friends who were pretty big fans of the game. I'm not sure about the 2D interface, sinse it very much required lots of overview, but something with an overview map in the manner of Toc I see as eminantly possible, --- though i must confess if David does considder using the Toc basics to create another game, my vote would be for something like civilization, having all the war pluss developement of technology over time, trading, resources and building, the research element of civ always sounded fascinating to me, going literally from sticks and stones to nuclear weapons and beyond. 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. __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4966 (20100322) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4966 (20100322) __ 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.
Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games - but sort of animal versions
grin I probably can still source a copy of lemmings scortched earth and maybe worms or at least some of those if anyone cares for it. At 07:12 a.m. 23/03/2010, you wrote: One of the games we used to play quite often on a friday afternoon in the offices as a sort of inhouse LAN gaming activity was worms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_game Here's a short version of the descriptive section of that page: ---start of content--- Worms is a series of turn-based computer games developed by British company Team17 Software. Players control a small platoon of earthworms across a deformable landscape, battling other computer- or player-controlled teams. The games feature bright and humorous cartoon-style animation and a varied arsenal of bizarre weapons. The game, whose concept was devised by Andy Davidson,[1] was described by the Amiga gaming press as a cross between Cannon Fodder and Lemmings.[2] It is part of a wider genre of turn-based combat games in which each player controls characters who duel with projectile weapons; similar games include Scorched Earth and Gorilla. ---end of content--- This was specifically for sighted guys, and it also had a bunch of funny sound options like choosing different languages/vocabularies you could let your team make use of for comments, instructions etc., but you basically navigated your teams worms around the 2D environment, sometimes making use of either parts of the environment, or certain bits of equipment like rocket packs, grappling hook ropes etc., and then let them make use of whatever weapons they had/found to attack the other teams members/environment pieces etc. to try obliterate everyone except your team, and I think you could have up to around 6 teams taking part in a session, and there were lots of different environments/stageing areas as well, along with different pieces of equipment/weaponry. This was generally turn based, I think either with a sort of time limit, or with limiting each turn to a certain amount of activity, as in move so far before carrying out a form of attack, and the weapons ranged from manual weapons to missile weapons, to some other stranger ones that came straight out of sci fi novels/cartoon serieses etc. Anyway, after looking into/trying out time of conflict, was just thinking about sort of real time strategy games based on alternative scenarios, like animals/monsters, and wondering if anyone had considered/looked into something like this ever...? Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4965 (20100322) __ 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. --- 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] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games - but sort of animal versions
I would mostly like to get hold of a copy of worms etc. so I can 'show' it to sighted people nowadays...LOL! Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: shaun everiss shau...@xtra.co.nz To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 1:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Thinking about TOC and other sorts of strategy games - but sort of animal versions grin I probably can still source a copy of lemmings scortched earth and maybe worms or at least some of those if anyone cares for it. At 07:12 a.m. 23/03/2010, you wrote: One of the games we used to play quite often on a friday afternoon in the offices as a sort of inhouse LAN gaming activity was worms: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worms_game Here's a short version of the descriptive section of that page: ---start of content--- Worms is a series of turn-based computer games developed by British company Team17 Software. Players control a small platoon of earthworms across a deformable landscape, battling other computer- or player-controlled teams. The games feature bright and humorous cartoon-style animation and a varied arsenal of bizarre weapons. The game, whose concept was devised by Andy Davidson,[1] was described by the Amiga gaming press as a cross between Cannon Fodder and Lemmings.[2] It is part of a wider genre of turn-based combat games in which each player controls characters who duel with projectile weapons; similar games include Scorched Earth and Gorilla. ---end of content--- This was specifically for sighted guys, and it also had a bunch of funny sound options like choosing different languages/vocabularies you could let your team make use of for comments, instructions etc., but you basically navigated your teams worms around the 2D environment, sometimes making use of either parts of the environment, or certain bits of equipment like rocket packs, grappling hook ropes etc., and then let them make use of whatever weapons they had/found to attack the other teams members/environment pieces etc. to try obliterate everyone except your team, and I think you could have up to around 6 teams taking part in a session, and there were lots of different environments/stageing areas as well, along with different pieces of equipment/weaponry. This was generally turn based, I think either with a sort of time limit, or with limiting each turn to a certain amount of activity, as in move so far before carrying out a form of attack, and the weapons ranged from manual weapons to missile weapons, to some other stranger ones that came straight out of sci fi novels/cartoon serieses etc. Anyway, after looking into/trying out time of conflict, was just thinking about sort of real time strategy games based on alternative scenarios, like animals/monsters, and wondering if anyone had considered/looked into something like this ever...? Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4965 (20100322) __ 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. --- 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 4966 (20100322) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4966 (20100322) __ 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
