Bryan,

Actually, we've released 14 self-voicing games: 9 commercial and 5 freebies, since 1 Jan.

They aren't pure audio games.

And they are definitely Casual games that hard core gamers probably wouldn't want.
But all 14 are playable purely by sound.

There is no technical reason that EA and the other big shops can't create good audio games,
or even bi-modal games with audio interfaces.

It's just greed, indifference, and ignorance that makes it not so.

John Bannick
CTO
7-128 Software

Bryan,

I checked their forum. You've got a good point there.

Still, buggy software has been known to be fixed / finished.
So maybe people will use it if and when that happens.

And the Audyssey site has lively traffic among the developers and players.

Maybe all is not lost.

about that post earlier cj, maybe i've changed, maybe? maybe? Yes I have! Aha! You haven't talked to me in about lets see 3 months...

Um, unfortunately I was right!

This is sad, but audio games are dying out, we have already lost two or three companies, and there is a good chance there will be another company comming up.

I have some good news though, me my best friend michael, my girlfriend, and 3 other people are working on a project, we are launching are websight in june, of course, there is going to be a big delay, do to the fact that I am going into the hospital on friday, but it is going to be big when we finnish, but I'm not saying anything yet!

Indeed Cx2. The old companies like Gma, vipgameszone and Bsc don't seem to be working, ---- with the possible exception of Draconis who have indicated their doing work of some sort, possibly on another pinball party pack.

but then there are the new guys, smugglers 3 (and the upcoming smugglers 4), Blind adrenaline and sound rts. then, a couple of companies have done recent resurrections imho, and are coming back with more titles. Usa games being the first, and Bpc programs being the second.

I also had a vaguely encouraging word from the chap at pin interactive about a second game along the lines of terraformers, ---- nothing concrete, but it sounds as if he'd like to develope more games.

so all in all, things aren't that grim.

Tristin, sorry about the post I wrote that like months and months ago, It's okay  if you haven't released any big games or whatever, really sorry

Indeed Ryan, I actually forgot about Lworks, and of course there's spoonbill games and lighttech as well, who I know for a fact are working on things. Companies do seem to come and go, ---- but luckily there seems to be more coming than going recently, and also don't forget that even someone like Bsc could surprise us with a new game.

Back in 2006, I'm afraid I'd completely written off Usa games. I'd been to their site, seen their trailers, and thought that they were all talk and no action. Now, Tom's well and truly proved me wrong on this point.

the same is equally true of Bpc programs, ---- I mean, munawar actually completely gave up on developing any games of any sort for a while.

with audio game companies it does often seem that the show's not over until the fat lady sings. I'll admit that for Bsc Vip gameszone and possibly bavisoft, it does seem as if said fat lady is going through considerable warm up exercises, but I wouldn't count out Draconis yet, ----- and possibly not gma either.

danZ has most obviously gone, and as I said I'm pretty sure about Vipgameszone, ---- and possibly bavisoft and Bsc.

Other than that though, ---- I don't know.

Oh, and you can be sure that I'm keeping an eye on prospective programmers of audio games such as the Aura game after the news last year.

true, that happened recently with hyena, and is happening with Dingo and Copx's work I think.

Copx, what game or games are you in the process of making?
curious

If the tactical curser works out, I'd cast a vote for the roguelike plan myself, sinse this isn't something we've seen in audio thus far, and deffinately something we need imho.

While some small commercial audio game companies ---- usually only one or two individuals do exist, to develope anythin complex takes considderable time and efffort on their part, thus there aren't many complex games at all as yet. also, I do sometimes feel that audio game developement can be a bit inward looking sometimes, only considdering what's been done before and how that could be minerly improved.

If you ever felt like working on it again copx, You could considder adding a tactical curser and self-voicing capabilities to warprogue. I remember the game being very detailed in background and story, and having a quite workable layout with lots of small passages, ---- in fact I'd say that thus far warprogue has been the easiest roguelike I've found to play because of the tweaks you've already added in list commands, though it stil takes time which would be cut considderably if it was self-voicing and had the tactical curser.

I completely understand though if you really want to work on another project, ---- afterall six years is a long time, and there are certainly many roguelikes out there which also sound fantastic and which i'd love to play, (adom particularly imho).