@Tbn, I noticed the gender issue as well in the graveyard files, thus far I've had a man named Jenny and a man named Sally, I'll have to play a boy named sue befor it ges fixed .
Actually just changing "he" to "they" would do, eg "the last thing they saw was" etc.

From what Huw has said on the reddit inventory fixes are coming, and I'm guessing that will necessitate a change in the way status is displayed, I definitely like the idea of perminant key bindings such as i for inventory r s for status.

However personally I like having at least some details such as hp, weapon and xp on the screen at all times sinse it lets me keep track of conditions, weapon durability, area status  etc without extra key presses, ---- well other than reading the top of the screen. I suspect if hp wasn't available I'd end up dead more often due to not realizing when to bug out .

That aspect actually reminds me very much of one of my all time  favourite console window games, Fallthru!

Perhaps having some options on what  is   displayed on screen to give people the choice would help here?

Hello,
I'm wondering where I can find a link to the war sim game as well.

Hay all, 0.7.5 is out!
and I also have a painless way to download the game.
1. Go to
https://www.reddit.com/r/thewastes
Once their, use your heading key until you hear "thewastes."
Find the link that says download latest build.
This will take you to mediafire.
Once their, used your heading key until you hear "Company."
Move up the page with your up arrow key until you find the download link.
Now, at this point, Do Not click it, but instead, use your applications key and select copy link location within firefox.
In internet explorer, click properties then go down to the bottom, select the address starting at the "http" par and remove the "|" at the end.
Then copy the text to your clipboard.
Once one of those is done, use alt home to get back to your home page.
Finally, go to the address bar with F4 and paste the link into it and press enter!
You've now bypassed mediafire's
adds and got your file.
Hope this helps.
Now, I'm going to try out the new build...
Later.

@Gene, I suggest you reread the moderation warning, I thought I made it pretty clear that the issue was your tone, not that you found something frustrating or that you had problems, sinse you know, so has everyone else at one time or another! Things that don't work or you don't find easy to do and that bloody frustrate you are part of living with a visual imparement, get used to it!

If you cannot cope with something that is frustrating without lashing out at those around you in a bhuge negative spiral and reffusing to accept anyone's attempts to help, then you probably should leave sinse your inevitably going to step over the edge into the teretory of attacking others one of these days, and as I have said before any moderating I do is for the good of the community.

If you choose to go on believing I'm the bad guy and this is all personal, well it's up to you, one thing this topic has shown me is that you don't easily change your mind once it is made up.

Enough drama however, Now, back to  the wastes!

@Tbn, I'd personally prefer my hp and weapon stats shown utside of battle too, sinse that way I can make decisions on whether to go into a dungeon or see how badly a fall during mountain climbing has  affected me, then again sinse I'm reading with a virtual curser rather than just having the hole screen spoken, I only read the stats when I choose to read that portion of the screen. This is however why some sort of options toggle on what is displayed might be a good thing if it is possible, sinse that way everyone can have things the way they want.

@Aaron, I'd also recommend going to Thewaste's subreddit and looking at the link to warsim there sinse it leads to a youtube demonstration of the game that explains a few things. Warsim is rather more complicated to get into than the wastes, and I admit I've not done so yet completely myself , but access is already all there, no ascii and no off screen scrolling menus, so feel free to have a try.

I'll be trying the next version of Thewastes this afternoon, sinse if I try it this morning I'll not do anything else today .

@wastelander, the modifications seem perfect thus far from where I'm standing, just what  was needed, thanks a lot.

On the options and display thing, I don't know if there is a "best" for screen readers in this respect, not with a turn based game. (realtime is another story). Generally it depends upon how people are using their screen reading programs and also what people's preferences are, as I said I personally like having info such s name, hp and at least weapon displayed as well as region info, but that's me.
Hopefully you can get the ini to save people's option preferences file setup first sinse having to reset the screen prompt eachgame would be a little urcsome if it wasn't to my taste.

Good to know about mutations, it also confirms what I suspected about yellow viles (the survival guide on the submreddit mentioned the green ones butnot the yelow).

It might be good though if there was a way to reverse mutations. In my last game I got skullrot, and pretty much committed suicide sinse it seeme I could no longer advance. One idea might be to have a surgion in the towns who can remove mutations, but not lower your mutation level, (I'm thinking of the drills and knives and bolt cutters type of surgion here).

Another might be to give negative mutations a positive spin if you can survive them for long enough. For example, enough turns surviving the skinrot conditions could result in hardened skin, making you tougher. Enough living with arm or leg tumas could give you gnarled arms and   that increase your attack power and strength, or  thickened legs that give you an increased travel speed, ie, your rate of exploration of the region is faster.
Enough time living with skullrot could give you brain adaptation,ieincreased intelligence and perk points per level.
the kick however is that you wouldn't know how long you would need to live with the negative mutation until you got the positive effect, so wouldn't know whether it was a good idea to go to the surgion and get your rotting skull bolted back together or get your tumers sawn off.

Oh, and just for amusement value, it turns out A boy named Sue is unlucky (there is a surprise), sinse not only did he have a father with an ironic sense of humour, but he also got skullrot!

sue travelled through 69 places in the wasteland, he died at level 5 and the last thing he saw was a Master Brock in the region known as Harkroad Commons

sue travelled through Fred's Craters into the expansive wastes of Oldfield Crater, from there he passed into the expansive wastes of Harkroad Commons Where his journey ended.

-------------------------------SKILLS----------------------------------------
Health               - 120
Strength             - 9
Agility              - 8
Intelligence         - 12
Lockpick             - 8
-----------------------------OTHER STATS-------------------------------------
Times Mutated        - 1
Mutation Level       - 3
Money                - 258
Kills                - 9
Regions Cleared      - 2
Dungeons Cleared     - 3
Settlements Visited  - 1
----------------------------CURRENT WEAPON-----------------------------------
Weapon Name          - Modified Reinforced Pure-Aluminium Crowbar
Weapon Damage        - 35
Weapon Durability    - 45
Weapon Value         - 183
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Rest In Peace sue
(built in version 0.7.5)

Hay Wastelander, I had fun with the new build!
A few questions;
First, I agree that what happens could be placed first so we hear it first, but even so, I'm still hoping we'll get some kind of stats screen before to long.
Also, I've noticed the game creates files in a settlements folder for each town you visit.
Does this mean that you can find the same settlements in a different game if you keep the files?
Hopefully, we can save soon.
I can see how a fully dedicated game could take some time. And, not being able to save or load one is the main reason I haven't really devoted serious time to a run yet.
Also, the lock picking sound still plays when you choose a menu option.
And, finally, Why can we play music?
Odd, but, um, cool, I guess ? ?

@Dark
yeah I will work on having a settings.ini very soon

As for mutations perhaps I could add something making them not so harsh but I do enjoy the idea that a character can get fucked up by mutations because it adds a level of real danger and unforgivingness to the game

the agent-x vials were designed to fuck you over at the start because by regular game standards black is bad and green is good, so people would go for the less dangerous looking colours and would soon learn they were bad but might later discover and work out which are good and bad

I think that if every bad thing that happens can eventually be cured or undone removes the seriousness of the bad thing in the first place, I like the idea of players genuinely being worried about negative mutations and as I have done in the past, having to deal with a character with serious illnesses, ie a character with skullrot trying to level up, it makes levelling up a really battle until you can get intelligence up enough, or similarly one of the injuries that takes hp down every turn.

Maybe in the future I will add an easy mode with less harsh things in it, but for now I want the wastes to fuck you up if you aren't careful

@Firefly

I can give the menu moving a shot but it will take a lot of work due to the way the game is made, I will have to manually add new code or alter existing code in every encounter and sub part of the game (no easy job)

Day/night cycles are already in the plans, but you have the right idea, there will be harsher encounters at night

@Threeblacknoises

Nope, you can't encounter the same town twice at the moment, I used to save all town files so you could remember where you had been but it was useless and after enough playthroughs you ended up with a huge folder full of hundreds of town files, in the future I might change the way it all works but town development is on standstill atm.

I found the sound neutral enough to be both menu and lockpick to save on filespace, I'll change it soon when I bring out a new sound effects update

you can play music because of a few things, firstly I wanted to see if it were possible for me to generate random little guitar songs (and it worked, and I was happy) so I added a few bard encounters to the game, then I added the ability for player to play guitar, (there is a chance you can find a dancing titan, if you play the right notes for the song of titans then he will leave you alone) this will be expanded in the future allowing you to busk in the towns

Also I am trying to add pitch changes so you can loot guitars with different pitches and find the one your prefer

has anyone figured out what ther mercs do for you? or has that not been put in yet? also, what's this war sim thing? Is that part of the same game as well?

Hello,
I have a gravestone of a fairly passable character here, who was accidentally called jukesyt, as apposed to jukesy, but he still survived for a while in the wastes.
jukesyt travelled through 126 places in the wasteland, he died at level 10 and the last thing he saw was a Evolved Eye-faced HawkMongrel Goliath in the region known as Purebrook Mountain

jukesyt travelled through Harmbrook into the small stretched waste of Darville Craters, from there he passed into the far expanding wastes of Purebrook Mountain Where his journey ended.

-------------------------------SKILLS----------------------------------------
Health               - 135
Strength             - 26
Agility              - 8
Intelligence         - 7
Lockpick             - 39
-----------------------------OTHER STATS-------------------------------------
Times Mutated        - 1
Mutation Level       - 5
Money                - 182
Kills                - 132
Regions Cleared      - 2
Dungeons Cleared     - 9
Settlements Visited  - 1
----------------------------CURRENT WEAPON-----------------------------------
Weapon Name          - Legendary Electric Blessed Impure-Silver Sawblade on a Stick
Weapon Damage        - 1663
Weapon Durability    - 238
Weapon Value         - 7796
----------------------------NOTABLE KILLS------------------------------------
jukesyt Killed Master Daryl in Purebrook Mountain
jukesyt Killed Raging Tamed Strengthened Rad-Rat Titan in Purebrook Mountain
jukesyt Killed Master Ross in Purebrook Mountain
jukesyt Killed Baby Sickly Smelly Partially Invisible Three-Eyed Vulture Goliath Titan in Purebrook Mountain
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       Rest In Peace jukesyt
(built in version 0.7.5)

@Frastlin you made a console game? is it available, i'd love to give it a try. Also don't doubt yourself, I though the same about the wastes, it was a shitty little project I made that had 0 depth and three little encounters, I can't remember why I expanded it but It was only ever for coding practice, something lead me to make a subreddit for it to ask for some encounter suggestions and it blew up from there and within a week I had over 100 people on the sub and thousands of visits and downloads.

It's been a fun two weeks because for the first time I feel like a developer and not a hobbyist which after six or seven years of making little games here and there is a great feeling.

@Krishna Mercs don't work at the moment but when companions are coded into the game I will add the ability to hire mercenaries, with the addition of the companion system will also come random encounters that give companions, the chance to encounter hirable mercs on the road and the chance to hire slaves from slavers as well as dogs and other companions

Warsim is a game I worked on between november/december - january last year, I have pretty much abandoned it for the time being but I did get quite far and at the time I was my biggest project and the wastes has only recently exceeded it.

As it stands at least by amount of lines in the code

WarSim - 29014 lines of code
The Wastes - 29860 lines of code

WarSim is a kingdom management game with a whole heap of things to do, it is the result of my love of mount and blade / my love of randomly generated content and my hatred for the lack of control players get as king of a land, I hated that in some games as ruler of my lands I couldn't do shit. In warsim as king you can set laws, maybe you want to tax the arena or banks in the kingdom (doing so will reduce the amount of gold you can bet and will reduce bank interest but will give you money each turn) maybe you want to outlaw the local mercenaries (you will have to fight them) maybe you want to allow outlaws back into society and ban goblin slavery, well you're in luck because you can.

In WarSim you can, open trade routes with the five randomly generated kingdoms, or you can attack them and steal their lands, you can send your men to fight bandits/rebels or goblins, you can hire mercenary armies to do your dirty work, you can buy farms, slaver dens, fight pits and training grounds, you can pay for a huge tournament to be held in which the greatest warriors from all living territories and kingdoms will come to fight for glory, you can hire units and sell units, you can send your men to hell, bet on fist fights and arena fights, invade little castles within your lands and explore the realm, it's an ambitious game and the vast majority of the core features are done so its worth a try if you like that kind of game.

@Krishna

What is Jaws? is that your text reading software?

@aaron RIP Jukesyt

@Dark yeah I can see how skullrot would have been annoying, I do love the idea of the game throwing a spanner in the works that you can't really defend against but have to try and live with, I remember the game being too easy for one of my characters, there was no challenge and then I got skull rot and something that kept lowering my hp, I managed to quickly level up and got regrowth enough to balance out my health but my xp was being dropped so I kept having to find the best ways to up my xp while trying to stay alive, it was a great challenge.

I will also be adding more things to screw with you when you get to higher levels and skills like mirror mutants, the latest addition, mirror mutants copy all your stats, so don't miss

I'm glad you like it, and I really appreciate all the support I get from audiogames and reddit, seeing people enjoy the game is what makes me want to keep pumping out updates, you are all very motivating!

I will hopefully keep expanding the randomness of the game so the replayability gets stronger! including random plants/armor/books/ect and obviously more dynamic loot and towns!

Happy to answer any more questions!

As i can say i dont have this problem krishna mentioned. I am using NVDA. its another text reading software.
Oooh and i have to say it again! I love warsim! Even you can see that it is a little bit unfinished.