Actually Ducktale, given the amount of time betwene this thread and the last, i'm amazed at your progress.

entombed and sound rts have already showed us that it's possible to come from concept to playable game, and it wouldn't surprise me if excaliba proves the third strike on this.

As soon as you have something concrete, ----- ie, an audio demo, I'll be glad to post some news, in the mean time I'll be looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

Btw, in sound terms, even for 3D games I prefer headphones sinse it lets the sounds be placed mor precisely, so no complaints from me about the choice of sterrio.

I have decided that as of yesterday I do not like my menu system anymore. Or rather, I don't like the code that runs it. So today I will be researching things like vector<T>, derived classes and inheritance. Sounds like a frustrating day full of "Agh, why doesn't this just work!"-situations.
Anyway, I hope to have this done by tonight. Then I need to fix some musical issues and implement some more menu options to provide a more realistic demo. When this is done I will probably post an MP3-demo to the Audyssey mailing list, and post the link in this topic.

UPDATE: The menu system is fully functional again. Now all that's left is a couple of sound related issues and some features that need to be built in. Oh, and there is this rather weird bug with input delays that drives me crazy. I suppose it's time to bang some heads into some walls again...
UPDATE #2: I am really sorry for spamming you guys. It is mainly because I want to read this back later, when everything is ready to be sold, so that I can laugh at myself and then relax. I have fully rewritten the input engine today. And that is less work than you'd expect. Really, it wasn't that big of a deal at all. The whole old-fashioned DirectInput-system has been dropped. I have chosen for using the native Windows keyboard support instead. This might scare other programmers, but it definitely is an improvement. Many people recommend it nowadays, as DirectInput is slow. That is, it is slow when one uses it for keyboard input. And they have been proven right, the Windows keyboard handling has greatly improved Excalibur's responsiveness. Not that DirectInput wouldn't be able to do it, I was just too lazy to figure out why my set-up was broken. And although Sunday's generally seen as a day of rest, I shall work! Writing a number-speaking function is down the pipe. Be sure to expect more spam from me, a happy programmer with a beauty of a girlfriend (just to give the image that final touch).

hi Davy.

Very nice. I particularly like the numerical values you've got in for the various volume settings, ---- when you've got ship engine volume, targiting volume ambient volume and who knows what else, it'll be really great to be able to set those precisely.

I also did rather like your sound and music, and actually don't see the need to change them at all, sinse it has just the right feel to me of preparing your fighter to fly off into space.

Human speech in the menues is imho one of those things i can take or leave in the game, though I'd suggest if your planning to have a ship's computer voice for the targiting system, telling you wat weapons are active etc, you might considder using the same voice for the menue to give a sense of continuity.

The thing that comes across most though I think is that your really enthusiastic about the game, ---- which is incredibly good to know, sinse if the developer themselves is board or tired of the game and treating it only as part of a routine, ----- there's not much hope the players will think much to it either.

Also, the more tired a developer is, the less likely they are to go back to a game later and take up player suggestions or add new features, ---- i've actually seen this happen with Vip games zone, who seem to have no interest at all in updating any of their games, or addressing some of the fairly major balancing issues in Lords of the Galaxy.

So, the fact that your so pleased with developement bodes extremely well.

Oh and also you speak better and more grammatical English than a lot of people in England!

You were perfectly understandable and incredibly clear.

while it is true you have a slight european accent, this just makes your speach interesting to listen to, and in absolutely no way takes away from either it's clarity or diction.

Sounds good, and I'll look forward to seeing where this goes.

If you ever need any assistance in plot or dialogue writing or voice acting I'd be glad to help, ----- I do have some on stage experience and can do my own recording in wav or mp3.

I know this is a long way off at this point though.

Oh, and of course, when you've got something testable, ---- it'd be a pleasure to do that too.

For game development and related topics, I'd suggest you join the USA Games Software Development list, which is imho the best place to ask questions. For some private chitchat, I have added you to MSN, though. Oh, and I will update my profile! Yay!

I like the sound when you enter or leave a usub menu. that woosh is kinda neat. I also like the music, though if you ask me karen isn't the best voice. keep it up though! and please, when you get to the actual game add a need to start the engine! not sure why but I just love doing it lol.

Call me weird but I find Karen mildly sexy so I've no complaints. Then again some, not all, Australian accented voices appeal to me.

I'd like to put in a vote to make the in game and menu voices consistent if possible though.

hi! what happened to this game! please any ubdats btw the main menu preavu is great! wow  great job keep on the good work!