@Chris, entombed 1 had plenty of rooms with multiple doors, all just part of random dungeon generation, I imagine entombed 2 is the same, indeed I'm a tad  confused what you mean about this being a bug, though I do agree with you about changing the door sounds in front or behind the character, a lower door sound for doors to the south like the lower wind sound might help here.

@Ethin,  While a check for updates option might sound a nice idea, it might cause issues later on, if people start heavily modding the game and monkeying with lua scripting, after all the last thing you'd want after creating your carefully scripted mod would be for Jason to release an update and you finding your scripts got over written by newer versions. I also confess in cases where to update it's only necessary to redownload and run the setup I always rather wonder if a "check for updates" option is overkill, though obviously it can be very handy if it can automatically download many files you'd otherwise need to add automatically, like the MushZ updater for Alteraeon.

Oh Yay! What a good news! The first entombed i loved, i finished the game completely. So a Entombed 2 would be perfect! And even more with the feature to add languages, as well the people that speak Spanish we can play without problem. I promise that we will make a good translation

I like the new layout. It took some getting used to, but I can get around rooms quite nicely. 1 question, though. Will there be a room linking system, like chris mentioned? It would be cool to have linking rooms, instead of just 1 room by itself. It would also be cool to have some rooms that are huge, and some that contain a whole stampeed of enemies when you enter the room, like 5 or 6, that you have to fight off in order to get past. This game is really awesome and I look forward to the final product when it comes out!

@garret, Some rooms do appear next to each other occasionally. In Entombed 1, a room was just a matrix of spaces that had nothing special about them. Even when you tried to pick something up, the game would first walk over all the tiles in the room and collect all the items into one pile so you didn't have to manually walk over each one.

In Entombed 2, navigating a room is only one movement (this is to prevent tedious exploration) and all items don't need to be grouped together from multiple spaces. However, where Entombed 1 didn't have anything particularly special about a room other than its size, many interactions in Entombed 2 will be tied to rooms.

It's entirely possible to enter a room and end up with a large encounter with unfriendly goblins, or worse. Rooms can also contain treasure chests and be hidden. Rooms might also have traps. They'll also have descriptions, and possibly an ambient sound so you can find them from further away.

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I like the idea that rooms have individual ambience sounds. This will make the envrionment much more interesting than it was in the original game. Also, how many floors will this game have? What do you mean when you say that the rooms are one action? I'm not quite following.

@Dingo, I could tell the water sound was moving but not to a specific location. I do however very much like the idea of rooms with interesting stuff in very much, although I do rather wonder what will happen when your in range of 5 or 6 different rooms all making sounds. One idea for this (and an expantion on the environment idea0, might be to have the ambient sounds detectable according to character ability. So for example, if you have a detect monsters, detect treasure or detect traps spell, or a rogue or thief with no abilities you hear the correct sounds from rooms around you when you use it, (assuming the ability is of sufficient level), but obviously if not you'll just have to guess. This insures that you only hear the sounds when you physically desire to, and so won't be overloaded with 3D sounds, and adds another level of environmental interaction in the game with for example the possibility of characters who are less good in combat but have very good detection/unlock/disarming skills.

You wouldn't even need that many sounds, just say a clink of coins for treasure, a gas puff or stone grinding sound for a trap, and a short growl for monsters, (indeed you could even grade this by making it detect specific to specific monsters by having it play a clip of their voice).

I think the door's perminantly open idea is a good one as well, sinse that does resolve one of the exploration issues with the game, plus it would more easily let you have locked doors that either need a key or need unlocking with a pick locks skill and distinguish them.

so, definitely sounding awsome!

Neither sapi nor Supernova spoke over each other. I'm not sure if Supernova can (at least I've used the thing for  going on 20 years and haven't heard the thing do so), but I know sapi can, though it didn't in entombed, so it must be a mac thing.

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I ghaven't had time to try the test version yet, but I hope I get time to try it later today. I would love to test a mac version as well.

As far as Mac speech goes, I don't mind it interrupting. I'm not sure how you're accessing it - just calling the say terminal app or calling the NSSpeechSynthesizer class  or speaking directly through VoiceOver, but there are some ways of fixing this. The NS Speech synthesiser class has an IsSpeaking property that you should be able to check. No idea how well it works as I've recently noticed that some games like change reaction, which used to speak properly are now interrupting their messages. Could be some kind of change in Yosemite that Draconis hasn't addressed. If you're speaking through VoiceOver, I don't think there is much you can do, short of just using the speech synth directly which wouldn't be all that noticeable. Directly supporting screen readers isn't as big of a deal on the mac as it is on Windows and the few speaking audio games there are just use the synth.
I'm definitely looking forward to trying out the mac test version, whenever it comes. There's a definite shortage of mac audio games, so the more the better.

Like Dark, I'm not seeing anywhere to manually change from NVDA to TTS, hitting escape only shows start and exit.
I'm loving the reawakening of this game.

Hello.

Here are my comments on the Mac version. The game runs just fine on my 2013 Macbook Air running Yosemite. The only thing I've noticed is that the game uses significant energy according to the battery status menu. I also noticed that it uses a lot of ram and CPU. Other than that, it works just fine.

Just for kicks, I'm going to try this on my late 2006 intel Mac Mini running Leopard and Snow Leopard. This probably won't matter for most folks since these OS X versions are so old, but I'm just going to try.

As always, keep up the great work. THe more audiogames for multiple platforms the better.