Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-17 Thread Jude DaShiell
soundrts is a competitor to world of warcraft only problem is or maybe was it works on Tiger but not Leopard or Snow Leopard. I just got a refurbished imac which I've been told the most it can do is Tiger so I may have me a gaming platform. I don't know what would happen if soundrts were

Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-17 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Eric, As you do have a version of WOW for the mac, i was wondering if you were actually able to get to the game world, or were stuck in the intro dialog where you choose your character. Is there any navigation possible with VO before entering the world, and once within the world is

Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-17 Thread Yuma Decaux
Hi Jude, SoundRTS is a game similar to warcraft. World of warcraft is a totally different style. Its an MMORPG meaning an online multiplayer role playing game. I've listened to the sound rts demo and it seems pretty cool, and i'm sure this could be translated spatially without the restirctions

Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-17 Thread Eric Oyen
I can tell you this: VO will not work with the client at all. once you start the client to log-in, you get no voice out of VO. The way I played before involved a very large screen and my being very close (less than a foot). made for some very hard raiding, but it was doable, just. as for the

just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-16 Thread Yuma Decaux
Here is a link about some accessiblity improvements from blizzard on their world of warcraft game http://www.ablegamers.com/game-news/blizzard-speaks-to-ablegamers-on-the-new-accessibility-options-in-wow.html I know, this is one step too far from us blind individuals, but it means that there

Re: just a thought, might be interesting for the future

2010-12-16 Thread Eric Oyen
Yuma, I played that game for a better part of 3 years before I lost my remaining sight 5 months ago. even for a low partial, it was hard, but fun. unfortunately, it is no longer playable for me (unless they can fix the sound environment). -Eric On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Yuma Decaux wrote: