Hi,

That's a weird question but I understand where you're coming from. The Audio Game Maker will be developed, that's for sure

Greets,

Richard

http://www.audiogames.net
http://www.game-accessibility.com
http://www.accessibility.nl

That's a question that even the developers haven't worked out an answer to yet as far as I know. It may be free but I kinda doubt it. Even if it's not, hopefully it won't be too expensive. I've noticed that audio games don't tend to be all that expensive with a few notable exceptions. GMA's titles tend to get a bit on the pricy side, but they are the ones who've brought us the most complex titles so far. Monty has a great deal of potential. I'm just glad that Thomas decided not to totally revamp the game into a Tomb Raider style game. People paid for an accessible version of the original Atari title (or as close to same as can be done without visuals), and thankfully that's exactly what they'll be getting. There was some heated debate on the Audyssey list about that. A few of the guys wanted Thomas to scrap the side scroller and turn it into a 3-D game with all kinds of bells and whistles. They kept after him even after he'd made his decisions. Apparently they felt that Monty was too old so it needed to be updated or it would have no replay value. Now don't mistake me for a minute, I'm all for bringing a  healthy measure of complexity to the AG market. Goodness knows it needs it. But the majority voted and so Thomas is going with that. I kinda got the feeling he was hoping they would vote the way they did. But as to the Audio Game Maker, as long as it'll allow us to put some really challenging games out there, games that really offer an enriching experience instead of the same what? I already beat it? type scenario that seems to be dismayingly common in current titles (I beat Descent into Madness in less than an hour), I'll get it whether it's free or not. Granted if it turns out to be a hundred bucks I might have to wait a while, but let's just see if they're going to charge for it at all before we start griping about the price.

Well, fortunately for me even the Gma games aren't too expensive, working out at only about 22 pounds or so, where as for comparison Gba games can be as much as 25 or 30, and some Gamecube games have gone up to 40, though not from the nice shops I buy games from hehe.

About monty I can't speak, but I'm all for more complexityin audio games. Descent into madness hasn't been the only audio game that's comparatively short and easy, there have been several great games that just weren't all that long. Tarzan Jr (good but short), Bavisoft's games (fun though they were), Pipe2 blast chamber, Super football (which I could beat on the super difficulty within one day of downloading the game), and Hunter also come to mind, at least in my case.

Games like Hunter are stil fun to play, for the rich sound effects if nothing else, but a bit of exploration and longer game play wouldn't come ammis.

It also gets up my nose that some audio games (particularly in Sapi adaptations), get repeated by various people. Ian humphries is now developing Yahtsy, which Jim kitchen has done already, and how many accessible Sudocu games are there now?

Hopefully the audio game maker will remedy this problem to some extent. I don't think it'll end up being too expensive, sinse if only some people could afford it, that would defeat the purpose of making game creation open to all.

I for one don't mind paying for audio games most of the time, and often I buy games like Dyna man that I wouldn't normally considder, simply because they're cheap. Unlike in my main stream game buying, I do sometimes buy audio games more for the contstruction of their sound effects and environments than for their game play (the Pyrate memory game was one of these). I will admit I am a bit prone to buy audio games on a whim if they seem good enough to me, which I certainly don't do with main stream games. Perhaps if the markit increased I might have to change my habbits.

Hi
If you're going to make that RPG with the same music as the mainstream game, do you think you can get some of the same sound effects?
Game Man

Translations onto Gb ports were always dodgy music wise. The two Mega man Xtreme games which were bought out on Gameboy colour both had fairly atrocious wrenderings of the Snes (and in the case of Mega man X 3), even Playstation music from the original game series. Suffice it to say, that the music was a disappointment to say the least.

I like the idea of accessible Rpg's, particularly if the class system can be made flexible enough. My one concern with any class system in a roleplay setting is that you get locked into charactors being "I are fighter, I hit things with sword" and "I am cunning magical wizard, just don't hit me"

From a plot point of view it's not exactly fantastic, and it also imho makes completing tasks in the game a lot more automated and less fun.

to say that though, i've got the final fantasy 4 script which does (according to my friend), utilize a class system, and the plot is rather cool ---- accepting that Sessil has to be the least heroic name for any charactor ever devised (grin).

I do slightly worry when people talk about rpg games that we'll end up with something that is basically constant dungeoning and stat crunching with no actual plot ----- similar to some of the early zelda games, who's plot is basically:

"Evil wizard is taking over the land, you must go through lots of dungeons to stop him"

My favourite Rpg of all time is Xenogears for the playstation, which had such an impressive plot I'm progressively novelizing it (check my website link if your interested), though I suspect that we'll have to wait a good few years before audio rpg's can get up to that standard.

that sounds awesome Richard!

applauds richard and blows trumpet! that's fantastic, to be honest the speed of the developement of this project is rather staggering, when set against things like Chillingham 2, but then again, I suppose there's not as much mucking about with sound files involved.

brian, I did actually have an idea for an online text based game, based around making successful friendly contact with alien races. The idea was to have a game which is a cross betwene Fighting fantasy and the Sryth random encounters system. But as one big aspect of the game was going to be letting players create their own encounters and submit them to the game, I don't believe it'd be possible to impliment with the audio game maker ---- though of course I could be wrong.

Oncemore, if anyone's interested in the idea please let me know.

Hi,
Thanks for the information Richard!
I have one question:
What kinds of games can this Game Maker actually creat?

If you hate reviving this, then just don't. you had to revive a 13 years topic, are you crazy. you could create a new one.

The reason why I want to revise this topic is because I would like to contact the developers. They haven’t really said anything on stop updating. and I also tried this thing out, and, the sounds don’t seem to load

Or maybe a feature where you can revive topics that are really old, but the mods have to review your post to make sure it's a good reason.