Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-22 Thread Shane Lowe
hm good point. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:50 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hi Shane, One problem with your ring announcer idea

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-21 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, Yep, can't win for trying. But when I win the mega millions, I will hire a chauffeur-ette, cook, maid etc. grin BFN - Original Message - Hi Jim, Ahem...You are quite right. Sounds like a losing battle wouldn't you say? Cheers! On 4/20/11, Jim Kitchen

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-21 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, No, you don't. As I said any defensive actions will be automatic. Here is an example. Let's assume you are playing a match of Eve Torres vs Brie Bella. If Brie Bellla tries a missile dropkick there will be an internal calculation/roll of stats to determine if she successfully performed the

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-20 Thread Shiny protector
Hi Thomas, Will there be any defence techniques in the game? - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hi Dark, I

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2011-04-20 Thread Jim Kitchen
Hi Thomas, However without a wife and kids or family, you now have to do all of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, running errands, finding things, reading snail mail etc and stress management all. for yourself and that all takes time. So I think that it is a trade off. grin BFN

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Muhammed, Well, yes and no. If you mean can you select it from a menu/list no. However, there will be times were the oponent will try a move and your wrestler will automatically attempt a defensive move. The higher value will be the one that wins out. If the oponents roll is higher than your

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-20 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jim, Ahem...You are quite right. Sounds like a losing battle wouldn't you say? Cheers! On 4/20/11, Jim Kitchen j...@kitchensinc.net wrote: Hi Thomas, However without a wife and kids or family, you now have to do all of the cooking, cleaning, laundry, shopping, running errands, finding

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-20 Thread Shiny protector
I didn't mean in a menu. I just meant did you have to press a certain key? - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, As I've not even started programming yet, just have been taking down notes, looking for sounds, etc not for a very very long time. Considering I'm still working on MOTA and Raceway right now I'd say not until a year from now as the earliest possible release dates for any kind of beta

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Oh, dear...It does look like I'm in trouble now. I don't suppose the fact I have two prior commitments like Mysteries of he Ancients and Raceway will serve as an excuse for your deadline? Smile. On 4/18/11, dark d...@xgam.org wrote: And if he's a second out, i'll be calling out the

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, My e-mail is thomasward1...@gmail.com HTH On 4/18/11, Shane Lowe shanel...@insightbb.com wrote: Thomas, I know a guy that can help you for free! Can you send me your email? shanel...@insightbb.com --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Shane Lowe
okay will help you when I get a chanse. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:45 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hi Shane, My e-mail is thomasward1

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread burakyuksek
oo! This is a joke! l o l l o l l o l! saygilar sevgiler. - Original Message - From: Phil Vlasak p...@pcsgames.net To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hi Michael, Thomas

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread dark
Sounds awsome actually, i certainly like the diea of playing to a wrestlers styles, eg, face or heal, and what sort of moves are used, then presumably developing and training skills will play a part as well? Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread dark
Prior commitments? Well you should've thought of that before having Phil say what date you'll finish the game ;D. Obviously your not using your time efficiently. I suggest you get rid of all destractions to game developement such as family, friends, eating, all that time you spend sleeping,

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, One problem with your ring announcer idea though. You do realise if we go forth with this idea we have to scrap the idea of a custom wrestler mode. This is something I know Dark would really miss, and I know others would miss it as well. That's one reason I wasn't initially going to do

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Lol! I'd just settle for a level 25 agility scroll thank you. That way I could just do the work faster without giving up eating, which I love to do, sleeping, which I also like to do, but perhaps I'll let your pest control get rid of my wife and kids. I could focus moretime without them. That

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Ah, I wasn't thinking so much of training skills. I wasn't thinking of going that far with the RPG idea. I was merely pointing out that the mechanics are similar. Not that you can train your brawling skills up to level 100 and pound your aponent into the mat. After all, most of the people in

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread william lomas
shouldn't you finish other games first? smile On 19 Apr 2011, at 15:58, Thomas Ward wrote: Hi, Ah, I wasn't thinking so much of training skills. I wasn't thinking of going that far with the RPG idea. I was merely pointing out that the mechanics are similar. Not that you can train your

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread dark
Fair enough Tom. I was just wondering how your going to distinguish a bottom level wrestler from a more advanced one other than by some sort of training or level system, and also how you'll insure that your wrestler can't just go streight to the top of the wrankings in the first fight.

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread dark
Ah Tom, your obviously not familiar with business practice, anything you like is automatically unproductive, in fact that's a basic tennit of capitalism. Sinse an agility scroll would also increase the amount of stuff you like which you could do, well that wouldn't be good business

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-19 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I was pretty much thinking of determining that based on number of wins and losses. If you are wrestling for the raw brand and want a title shot at the WWE championship you are going to have to wrestle everybody else on Raw until you are the top contender for the Miz's title. Same goes

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. I am looking forward to the wrestling game when it is finish. Is there going to be any kind of sound effects, and any kind of music? I belive that you got a wonderful idea by trying to put the game on more then one platform. Will there be a feature to play multi player feature

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Shane Lowe
no sounds no music - Original Message - From: michael barnes c...@samobile.net To: gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hey, Thomas. I am looking forward to the wrestling game when it is finish

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, Ummm...I'd rather you not answer these kinds of questions for me. Especially, in light of the fact your answer was wrong. Please, don't give people misleading information like this. On the contrary the game will have both sounds and music. I am right now compiling a huge library of

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Yes, there most definitely is going to be sounds and music in the game. What I'm basically thinking of doing is writing something like the Smackdown vs Raw games produced by THQ, but instead of graphics and things like that the game will use text instead. Right now I'm looking at

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread dark
Hi Tom. I'm deffinately liking the sound of this, I've not tried usa blackjack (mostly because I don't have the python bits needed and am unsure of downloading components just to run blackjack), but I've never had issues with turn based textual games and Hal. One question. given that

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread dark
I must confess Tom I got this wrong as well, sinse I assumed that as the game was going to becross platform and textual, sounds and music would be at a minimum sinse I know there are issues replicating sounds on various platforms, eg, whether using direct x or some other component in playback,

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, basically what I'm going to do is give someone the option to either create a new wrestler, I.E. one that doesn't exist in the database, or select a preexisting wrestler. I've decided to do this for two reasons. First, there are hundreds of wrestlers who have wrestled for the WWE

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Actually, cross-platform audio really isn't a big problem. Not as big as it use to be a few years ago. Thank the developers over at Firelight Technologies for making such a great audio API called FMOD Ex. Right now FMOD Ex is the leading audio API for game developers, and best of all it

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Shane Lowe
I like all these ideas! And trust me that something unuaasual for me. I have one question though, How would you enter your moves? Do you type them or cellect them. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent:

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Shane, Actually, the game will be more or less menu driven. You might be given a list of general catagories of moves such as arial, brawling, submission, technical, etc and then you would select the actual move you want to attempt. For instance you might select brawling and then select

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread michael barnes
Hey, that would be cool if he added sound and music. But I'm still looking forward to playing this game. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. That sounds great! Can't wait for you to release the game. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread dark
systems on windows or mac. Glad to here that's no longer an issue. Beware the Grue! Dark. - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:36 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates

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2011-04-18 Thread dark
Hi tom. Well as someone who's only had a slight acquaintance with wrestling I like the sound of this certainly, sinse I personally liked the idea of creating my own wrestlers. Just as a suggestion though, would it be possible to have the wizard allow the possibility of tying a new entrance

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Michael, Well, given the fact that this will be an all stars type game I don't think the destinction between the Raw, Smackdown, and Tough Enough brands will matter that much here. Although, if you look up a wrestlers bio in the game it will tell you if that wrestler currently belongs to the

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Well, keep in mind here when I say you can add wrestlers at the moment my plans only allow you to add one custom wrestler. Its not like Piledriver where you can add 50 or 100 new wrestlers to the game. So in that light is it really that necessary to rename one file Custom_Wrestler.ogg to

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, I don't remember saying that, but I might have said something about SDL Mixer not being as good as Windows or Mac. That's certainly true, and SDL Mixer is only a free cross-platform mixer though. That's the difference. FMOD is a comercial library that costs any thing from $150 for a

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread michael barnes
Hey, Thomas. I like your idea of having the game play from one wrestler view. When will this game be out for download? Looking forward to it. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit www.serotek.com to learn more about accessibility anywhere. --- Gamers mailing

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2011-04-18 Thread Phil Vlasak
, 2011 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hey, Thomas. I like your idea of having the game play from one wrestler view. When will this game be out for download? Looking forward to it. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. Visit

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Shane Lowe
Thanks! - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hi Shane, Actually, the game will be more or less menu driven. You

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread Shane Lowe
Thomas, I know a guy that can help you for free! Can you send me your email? shanel...@insightbb.com - Original Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread dark
Hi tom. well if technically a single wrestler is easier that makes sense, and I admit I'd like the idea of the career mode being from the perspective of a wrstler I create. However, there might be a compromise. For instance, instead of letting the user create custom moves for their

Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions

2011-04-18 Thread dark
@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hey, Thomas. I like your idea of having the game play from one wrestler view. When will this game be out for download? Looking forward to it. -- Email services provided by the System Access Mobile

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2011-04-18 Thread Phil Vlasak
@audyssey.org Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Wrestling Game Updates/Decisions Hey, Thomas. I like your idea of having the game play from one wrestler view. When will this game be out for download? Looking forward to it. -- Email services provided by the System Access