hay.
downloading it now!

prowdly Ecuadorian.

Cool, I like it!
Did you make the intro with the engine as well?
The panning is very good and turning is super responsive on my end. It is like a faster version of Swamp!
Could you add in a pre-built keystroke to say what direction/s you are facing? Now I can really only tell based off the birds and it is really dizzying! (Well if one is wishing to port it to android, it may not be possible)...
What sound library did you use?
Do you think you will be releasing it? Possibly with python bindings?

hi, how much rham is needed to run this game? when I start it I get a dialog about not having enough system resorces to run the game, although I have 8gb of ram and nothing much had been used when I try to run the game.

I'm using a windows 7 64 bit with 8 gb of ram and it runs just fine. I'm not sure how to tell how much system resources it is using though.
I have NVDA as my screen reader.

Hi,

Thanks a lot for the positive feedback!

vlad25: This is off-topic, but most of the problems is due to you not having a mouse connected. This is also a problem with the current game engine of ZST. I will fix this in a minute, however, if you do not have a mouse or laptop, press Left Alt, Left Shift and Numlock together and say yes to the prompt to activate the virtual Numpad mouse.
@frastlin: The intro is prerendered, however I do not see a single problem with dynamically creating the intro with the engine.
I'm not sure if I will be releasing the engine to the open, however, if I get anywhere to the point where I could see others using this engine I will let you know. It's still in very, very early development stages.
stewie: The zombies are placed at random. The AI is scripted extremely poorly, so all they do is run towards you once they're closer than 60 feet to you. The entire board is 100 by 100 squares.
@connor142: That's weird. It uses about 30 to 40 MB of RAM on my system. Maybe a problem with your display settings? It initializes a temporary graphics window because yes, I'm thinking about visuals in a way where blind could script simple block output with sprites to map entities.

There is a NVDA Add-On that tells you how much resources your entire Computer uses. I used Anvir to check the stats of the game independently.

I'm sure that the only thing keeping me from making this a multiplayer Co-op is the community rejection, as well as Aprone killing me once he found out. LOL

Hi all. Haven't been here for a while, and may be won't be for a while. But as a fast comment: Nice job Gorthalon, I should definitely try it out when I have the time. Seems quite interesting from what I've read so far.

Just to make sure, Is Anvir?
I am trying to figure out what processes take up the least amount of CPU now I'm on a SSD and don't get the fan blowing every time my computer uses more than 1/3 CPU LOL...
Have you been reading the development forum? We were just talking about how there is a major lackage of wysiwyg editors for the blind. How hard would it be to make this into a wysiwyg editor? Kind of like unity?
Use python for the scripting language though LOL!

The reason why you don't see so many first person games is because they are so difficult to make.
I don't think you can do them in BGT and at the moment you can't do them in pygame without doing some fun math!
Where as side scrollers are just x and maybe some y coords and that is it.
Why python is so that you don't need to worry about screen reader support, networking, writing massive guides saying how things work and whatnot. It is pretty much all written for you.
My brother uses an engine that does this and he is able to make some pretty awesome games (Just not for blindies!)
I can't wait till libaudioverse comes out, it will be much nicer than OpenAl! (Although it is going to be payed for commercial use (Although you would need to talk to Camlen about it!)).
The hard stuff is:
collision detection and positioning audio objects. For me those are the two things that are a huge pain in python.
How does this engine handle those? Could you start with putting out a dll or something that we can import into our projects?

And hey, what is the one thing Swamp does not have? PK how difficult would it be to add that? RTR almost got there, but there was really no point to it other than that...

So I am not sure how to read Anvir's graph here:

100%
*****explorer.exe*****
1 gb

CPU min 0 max = 14%
4mb/s
memory min = 124 max = 136 mb

disk min = 0 max = 512 kbp/s

50%
512 mb
2mb/s

0%
0k
0k/s

So is it saying that zst can take up to 14% of my CPU? and that it is running at 4mb a second?

This is under the applications tab, I go over zst, tab to the field list, arrow over to performance and tab twice to get into the graph and use object nav. The info is exactly what that graph said.
I'm using NVDA with the latest version of Anvir.
I'm in the middle of creating an adventure game, so couldn't get to playing with the dll till later. I'm also not knowledgeable at all about how to use python with dlls, I just use the wrappers that have already been made...
It would be a good inspiration for me to get around to learning how to deal with C++ though!
Isn't adding walls and whatnot (that don't have any properties other than the hit sound) almost trivial? It is in python, but once you are cycling through three hundred or so objects every half-second, python starts to not love you anymore.

Does this game uses online system like swamp?