Topic by parente 2013-06-04 03:59:32

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Hi all,

I've created a HTML webaudio port of the Descent Into Madness game released circa-2005 on Windows XP. It's online at:

http://dim.mindtrove.info

Because it uses web audio for all speech, sound, and music, it currently requires Safari or Google Chrome to run. Mobile support is also sketchy at the moment, but I'm working toward getting it running on iOS at least and possibly Android.

The original gameplay is mostly intact. I modified the menu system a bit to make it "flatter" and changed the control scheme in the spatial puzzles a tad to make them a bit more dpad-like. (For example, you press UP to go north in the maze puzzle. You don't pick north from a menu.) I added a visual component that shows the written text for all narrations in the game. I hope this will be useful and possibly more engaging to gamers with some eyesight or full vision. I also improved (imho) the ambient and music tracks at various stages of the game.

And of course, the dreaded save game bug is fixed!

Please let me know if you have any problems, find the game enjoyable, hate what I've done, want to contribute fixes, have suggestions, etc. I believe the web site is reasonably accessible and starting the game isn't too difficult, but I could really use some more feedback from gamers on the ground. (Hint: Turn your screen reader off and use the arrow keys once you start the game.)

Cheers!

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Reply by mike-tan 2013-06-04 06:27:58

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hay! does windows 7 running in xp mode support this?

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Reply by mike-tan 2013-06-04 07:04:25

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hmm. I had click the play link but nothing happen. I using google chroam right now. and has in second post. i'm using windows 7

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Reply by SLJ 2013-06-04 08:22:06

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Hi.
Nice job. It'll be totally amazing if the game can be played on an iPhone! I'll check it out and let you know what I think.

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Reply by parente 2013-06-05 03:17:00

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Thanks for the feedback so far.

Yes, the game does take a while to load. It downloads all the sounds up front so that there aren't big gaps when you're playing the game. The sounds are like 16 MB though so hopefully it doesn't take too long to start. I plan to put in a loading sound that comes up right away though, so you know it's doing something at least.

If you have any hints about how to get focus onto the body of the game, I'm all ears. I noticed it was really annoying trying to get the focus to stick on the game using Voiceover on my Mac. Did you try with JAWS? NVDA? Something else?

I'll have a look at that double speech problem. It could be a bug I introduced while trying to fix another one.

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Reply by mike-tan 2013-06-05 04:03:15

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but. do windows 7 can run this?

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Reply by mike-tan 2013-06-05 04:18:52

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okay! can run. but, I had saw an audio walkthrough on blindcooltech webside. but, I click the link it appears a 404 arer. I can't download it. who has it? upload to dropbox. thanks

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Reply by mike-tan 2013-06-05 07:49:43

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hay! I'm stuck at the part. after I go to the piano room and play c mager cord on it. than I go to hall way. and I go to the alivater. after that I go to the study room. I pick up a small key. I examin the recording. than, what should I do. and, please again. I really need that audio walkthrough. thanks for help

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Reply by Nick 2013-06-06 01:41:46

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the offline version of the game is nice.
I'm using chrome as expected.
however I complete the game because I know What I'm doing.
I also need help with a puzzle I can't find in the offline version of descent into madness.
how can I help my friend defeat the monsters in the dark?
I can't find a tunnel in the game.
What should I do?
the online version of the game is like the offline version.

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Reply by SLJ 2013-06-07 13:32:29

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Nick: Your message is a bit confusing.
You wrote:
however I complete the game because I know What I'm doing.
I also need help with a puzzle I can't find in the offline version of descent into madness.
How are you able to complete the game when you need help on completing a puzzle?

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Reply by Nick 2013-06-07 21:27:28

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I complete the puzzle by sound.
When I said I was playing the offline version, I ment the original version of the game from the sounds like fun website.
however the game is downloadable.
I don't know where to go, and how to defeat the monsters in the dark.
I'm fine since I don't need any help with this game accept for one solution.
how can I defeat the monsters in the dark?

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Reply by faelnar.christopher 2013-06-08 06:22:22

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hi. I want to play this game, but when I click the play now nothing happens. I wait how many minutes but again, nothing happens. What should I do?

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Reply by faelnar.christopher 2013-06-11 06:44:29

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Oh thanks for answering my question bladestorm. I'll try to wait untill the game will start.

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Reply by faelnar.christopher 2013-06-11 07:41:40

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I've waited for almost 1 hour, but it didn't start. Why? what happen? I did quit my screen reader.

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Reply by parente 2013-06-19 04:46:26

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bladestorm360 wrote:

Oh wait, I see what Nick is talking about. Actually I was curious about that part too. I was able to complete the game, but you're given a gun to shoot the monsters with, which actually doesn't work. When I was going through the maze, I would encounter a monster, and no matter how many times I hit the space bar, the monster wouldn't die and I would. But there's a path through the maze that gets you around all the monsters. I'm actually wondering if this might be a bug that the gun doesn't work on the monsters.

As for loading time Cristopher, it probably takes 5 minutes or so to load the first time.

Try dodging left or right before firing the gun. The game needs to give a bit more of a hint here.

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Reply by parente 2013-06-19 04:47:49

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faelnar.christopher wrote:

I've waited for almost 1 hour, but it didn't start. Why? what happen? I did quit my screen reader.

Hi Christopher,

Can you tell me a bit about what browser your using and on what system? I'm seeing some errors reported back in the logs about touch events which aren't even used yet on the desktop. I'm wondering if they're coming from your browser and preventing your game from loading.

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Reply by parente 2013-06-19 04:50:08

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bladestorm360 wrote:

I did find at least one bug though. Sometimes after you die, when you try to skip through the intro text to load your game, it starts reading things off twice, and the options don't act as they should. Like, it'll say, move, move. Then if you click on move, it'll say, where do you want to move. And you'll arrow through and it'll say something like, bathroom, move. If you hit enter on that, it brings up the move dialogue again.

bladestorm360,

I haven't been able to reproduce the double speech bug. Does it happen often for you, like every time you die? Or only after you die a couple times without refreshing?

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Reply by faelnar.christopher 2013-06-20 06:54:21

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parente wrote:

Hi Christopher,

Can you tell me a bit about what browser your using and on what system? I'm seeing some errors reported back in the logs about touch events which aren't
even used yet on the desktop. I'm wondering if they're coming from your browser and preventing your game from loading.

Hi Parente. I'm using Google Chrome and windows xp. I think I know what's the problem. Do I need to install the Web Audio API?

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Reply by Jonnyboy1991 2013-06-21 07:22:57

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Hey I didn't take a look at the game yet man, but did you use java script to mostly code it or did you use flash to play the sounds? and did you use .html 5 as well? I know some because I am a web programmer as well and I know just enough to build a site and things.

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Reply by Sebby 2013-06-21 09:10:56

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Working beautifully on OS X Safari.  Thanks.  Very cool.

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