Supposedly philosophy, writing a new deffinnition of disability, though I'm getting sick of being told to do more and more corrections and add more stuff, I'd like to move on and do other things now.

Hopefully it'll be finished in a few weeks and then Mrs. Dark and I can do fun stuff like plan a wedding, do singing courses etc.
Ironically, apart! from the stupid thesis I'm supposed to be writing everything else isn't too bad though there are many things that need dealing with, still I'd so much rather do those things with my lady.

Today I have some work to do this morning, then hopefully my lady's computer will get fixed, then we're going to a great asian restaurant for lunch (they have ti, chinese, vietnamese and lots of other weerd things), and finally I'm going to try out castaways, oh, and I still have to review arrow's fall!

TJT1234, for years I've known that Jeremy Kaldobsky is fully sighted!    ROFL!

I'm not entirely sure what it means that my games seem to be made by a blind person, but I'm assuming it's a compliment.  Thank you for that. 

Years back I stumbled upon a link to the audiogames.net website, which was on some other random webpage somewhere.  I clicked it to see what it was all about, and wandered myself onto these forums.  I'm not sure where it started, but I was chatting with Mr. Dark here about something or other.  I enjoyed the conversation so I stuck around for a few days, and decided to put together an audio game of my own, just for the heck of it.  I released Towers of War shortly thereafter, and it caused me to meet and chat with even more people.  I couldn't tear myself away so I never left, and it brings us to today.

Thanks for the kind words Dark.  I hadn't heard of Ian Humphries or Daigonite, so I'm wondering how many other sighted developers are around who I didn't realize were sighted.  Is there maybe a list somewhere, though as I type this question, I hear how silly it sounds.  Why would there be a list of audio game developers based on their ability to see, hahaha!

It sounds like many sighted developers haven't stuck around, so that probably explains why they aren't as well known.  Do they typically vanish after releasing a game or two?

Yes, that comment was a compliment, and what a good thing it is that you are aware that you are sighted. Some people like Ian Humphreys and Marty Schultz have stuck around having made over thirty games. My comment was that, for me at least, Aprone's games seem to be very understanding of the preferences of screen-reader users. I've only played three of his games; my favourite is Dog Who Hates Toast. I would love to see that on iOS someday.

dark sir!
My congratulation goes to all of your family.
Let's hope for the best for your dad also.
I personally pray for him.
at aprone sir!
I like your U mart a business game but never got the concept of towers of war.
I like swamp but if it will be free then I will play the multiplayer edition.

@Ishen, nope, Swamp won't be free for multiplayer, though sinse the gamer accounts now also covers castaways 1 and the beta of 2 as well as swamp it's well worth it.

Towers of war is a nice game but one it takes getting used to. there is a path that runs across the screen down which waves of enemies will come. If the enemies reach your base at the end of the path, bad things will happen, ie, you lose lives. So, you have to build gun towers to shoot at the enemies, freezer towers to slow them down, sniper towers with low rate of fire but high damage, microwave towers that zap anything within a circle etc.

The stratogy comes in where you build your towers and which towers you build. it's a cool game, though I do rather wish Aprone hadn't lost the sauce code and we could expand it a little with different maps, tower types etc.

@James, I know you. Your name is james and you just introduced yourself now .
Feel free to say hello and let us know what's happening in jamestown .

While meeting friends you know offline is no bad thing, I will remind you audiogames.net isn't just a social network, we're a bunch of people from places as diverse as England, Canida, Denmark, Tyland, Iran, the united states of America, Italy, Germany, persia, the czech republic, Brazil, India, Egypt, France, and goodness knows where else. The one thing we have in common is that we all like audiogames, so feel free to just jump in and say hello, we're really not that scary, ---- well okay, I am scary, but most people here aren't quite as scary as I am, or at least they manage to hide their scariness under a mask of niceness, I am the only person who dares to be honestly horrifying .

Well things over here continue to be hechtic, still much work on my bloody doctorate to do, preparing for a music school in London this weekend (which I'm totally unprepared for), and still trying to get lots of stuff sorted out with respect to living together.   

On the other hand, we have got a very nice first class ticket down to london which means we'll be continually plied with lovely grub, including free tea, coffee, plus alcohol (I might treat myself to a wisky)and likely some nice grubbage as well. Sinse it's a long journey that is going to be a good thing.

Annoyingly we're also going to have to fix my lady a computer as hers has gone totally splirky without any possibility of repare, though what and which and how we're not sure currently. She says she'll give supernova a try, so will try mine out online (and sinse she never really used many of window eyes more advanced commands she might be okay), still it's a thing to sort which we really could do without.

On the plus side, my dad is indeed feeling better which is good.

Well, it appears that I'm a bit late on adding my 2 cents to this thread, mostly because real life has been getting in the way.
At the moment I'm getting back into my two favorite franchises: the Earthsea Series (currently reading book 3 of 6), and Doctor Who (currently watching classic stuff, mostly on Dailymotion.com).
Not sure if anyone noticed, but Netflix no longer carries Doctor Who. You can watch the modern series on Amazon Prime, and the classic series on www.dailymotion.com.

High Mirage.
Congratulations on getting a job, and I'm sorry you lost your friend.

@Centauri, thanks for that. Fluxworld is cool, unfortunately time and me tend to not cooperate, particularly at the moment, and particularly with a game it takes a while to just plane wander around like fluxworld, but I'd definitely recommend people give it a try.

@Mirage, As Ishen said, I'm really sorry to hear about your friend, but the job sounds good. actually I invisage myself doing something like that at some point depending upon what happens with my doctorate.
We unfortunately have had a lot of bad luck recently, with my lady's computer going poof, stress involving my thesis and other things, but that's not changed the way things are between us.

@Blindncool, which classic who? I haven't seen the new series yet, sinse my parents harddrive packed up in the middle of season 9 and I don't really care for it enough to track it down, though I probably should. ON the other hand, classic who I know well and while I can't claim to have seen every episode I have seen a fare few and read a good number of the novelizations too, though right now big finish is my favourite source of who related stuffage, last months peterloo massacre was amazing, although a bit sad given we were quite worried about my dad at the time and it's an episode he would've loved.

Well on the one hand my lady and I had a wonderful weekend at aims music school, doing various bits of singing including one hand one heart from westside story and All i ask of you from Phantom. Both were amazing, though it did irritate me I haven't had time to learn any new music. I'm at the moment reading the novelization of V, the miniseries from the late eighties which is pretty awesome, though I'm coming to the end around now and will be changing and writing more reviews.

Unfortunately, we seem to have hit a run of rotten luck recently, sinse while we were on the way back, my engagement ring slipped off and is probably on the train now!  needless to say I was pretty frantic on the subject, though right now we're having a day crashing and reading stuff.
Oh, one good thing however, whilst playing around on my phone on the way back from london I did! see spellstack is back in the ap store so will hopefully be able to create a db entry for it, though I'm not really up to that right now as two days of intensive singing tuition, albeit with much congratulations and an audition was quite tiring enough.

Ah, rememberance is cool, I love the "who are you calling small!" scene, not to mention the first instance of a flying Dalek and the Doctor finally getting the best of Davros.

There is a very silly novel which claims rememberance didn't happen and it wasn't Scaro that got distroyed, but most people forget about that one .

Mccoy I always felt was a bit too hit and miss, but stories like rememberance and happiness patrol were definitely hits.

Well things continue. My review of Arrow's fall is now submitted and should hopefully appear soon, I've also finished the novelization of V and will probably try out Guy Gavril Kay's Fionavar tapestry as it's one my lady really enjoyed and has been thinking I should read, though things will be a bit busy today.

Btw, spellstack is proving most irritating sinse I can't complete the advanced tutorial for some reason.

Happiness patrol rocks, it's the evil govenrment who want everyone to be happy or else! plus the audiobook is read by Rula Lensca (the same one who played Lintilla in the h2g2 audio drama series).

I'd agree tenant had off moments but he's by far my favourite of the new who doctors. Ecleston was a bit too! anxty  and inneffective, and anyone he was barely around, Capaldy has great potential but unfortunately is too often written as Clara's lapdog and completely ineffective, and poor Mat Smith mostly came off as a cheap copy of Tenant due to the moff's idea that the doctor's personality didn't change during regenerations (yeah I know, what series was he watching?).

So, while I don't like some of tenant's episodes, imho he's still the best bits of new who, actually I'm really looking forward to the bf audios with him later this month. They actually managed to do something I thought impossible, make River song a compelling and decent character (mostly by getting rid of all the inuendo and self obessession and other moffishness), so what they do with a doctor I for the most part really! liked I can't wait to see.

Well I just heard my phd corrections hand in date is later than expected, plus the work I've done thus far is (according to my7 tutor), going amazingly well, so I'm in a great mood today, actually had a nice day off and got some fun stuff done, lots of reading guy gavril Kay, writing up my review of Arrow's fall for fantasybookreview.co.uk, which you can read here, and playing spellstack.

Actually the problem with the level I was stuck on where you had to spell bet was not an issue once I realized two simple things, firstly, there were far more letters than I thought, and secondly, you need to submit a word by selecting the letters in the order you want them, ie, b, then e, then t.

I listened to the guide and tutorial and then kicked myself for it being so obvious, the e and the t are just above the b.

That is the advanced tutorial finished which is good, though i lost to the medium computer player I think because I'm not great at the hole spcial location thing. I'll try more of the game out to see where things go, and write a db page though at this stage I don't know whether I'll keep it around on my Iphone or not.
Actually one weerd thing, when I looked at the store in the game, vo would read hardly any of it, there were just lots of things siaying "button" with no labeles, which seems quite loopy for a game that has stuff to sell.
As I said, I'm not sure if I'll keep the game, I'll have to try it a bit more and see, though I will certainly do a writeup.