Dark, just be careful not to turn into a couch potato.    The danger in finding a good TV show, is that it's that much harder to get other things done.  haha.

Mirage, what is the business you're trying to start?

    Jennifer and I just got back from a 2-day trip to Ohio to visit the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.  They held a workshop specifically to teach people who to play swamp, and one of their employees (Kelly) had told me about it via email.  Being only a bit more than 4 hours away, I asked if I could drop by during the workshop and maybe help with a few game related things they were trying to solve.   They agreed and we drove down.

    I brought a custom server with me, so that the workshop could take place on a private server.  That let people learn without being distracted by the normal Swamp players, plus allowed Kelly to have the experience customized.  For example, people could be handed equipment quickly without needing to spend time finding it, the amount of zombies could be lowered, and levels could be handed out so that they could run missions and things.

@Dark
Just enjoy this "driven to distraction" phase for all its worth.  The beautiful thing about life sometimes is all its phases.

@Aprone
I'm going to become a life coach.  It would be nice if I could just help people and not concern myself with the rest of it, but you have to develop an online presence, sort out all the legal financial businessy stuff, etc.  Anyway, I'm looking forward to it, because I think I have a lot to offer in this arena.  Assuming health cooperates, I'll be attending a coaching school early next year.

I am become Sloth, destroyer of Hope.

(the Swamp workshop reminds me that I miss arcades even though they were usually horrible for me--I couldn't exactly get as close to the screen as usual, there was so much background noise, and I'm use to a D-pad rather than a stick... and yet...)

@Cae Sloth distroyer of hope? I beg to differ, and if you don't believe me check out This little song on the subject.

I agree with you about lack of arcades though, particularly sinse back in the days of arcades you could have experiences with arcade games much different to those on a console, I remember being glued to the various street fighter games, as well as killer instinct, though on the rare occasions I actually played rather than watched I usually did the walkalong beatemups like turtles and double dragon. Actually an audio games type convention with lots of machines running different games and a swamp server would be amazing, though sadly difficult to organize. I've sometimes considered going to the Uk tech show Site village to show games off, though the charge for a stand there is unfortunately rather higher than Richard and Sander would go for.

@Aprone,yep, picking up swamp isn't easy, though with the custome server I'd imagine it helped people get into the game. Indeed you or someone else might consider a sort of target range type campaign script basically where you just walked around an enclosed area shooting at static targits with the mouse to get people into the very very basic methods of the game, ---- though actually thinking about it a weapons range might even be useful.

Also, when will this official swamp merchandise be available to the public? .

Hmmm, I'm not sure on that one, sinse some phases are anything but beautiful, but i certainly do enjoy this, indeed if people will allow me a moment of intensive slush, it's everything I've ever wanted, I literally can't believe it's happened.

Hi Aprone.

It was the shirt and backpack I was thinking of Swamp wise, I must've missed the actual merchandise being available, or else I forgot, but I'll admit I'm not actually in a particularly cognicent state at the moment.

Other tech shows I'm not sure about, but sight village, the Uk major one charge I believe about £300 for the day, that's roughly 500 usd, which is waaaay more than I can go to, and also why no audio game devs tend to be at these places, indeed the only audio game developer who has any exposure in this country is Azabat, mostly because I think their target audience of blind none computer users so readily match the rnib's target audience of over sixties who will leave them money in their will, though personally even as far as card/word/puzzle games go I'm afraid I'm not impressed with azabat's stuff at all, and of  course there are lots more accessible game genres out there.

Hi everyone. cool stuff! I'm still waiting to be able to buy a Seamonkey maybe one day they will be in stock. I'm finishing up my last year of undergrad school I will have my Bachelors in Psychology next May. I am planning on being a therapist or some sort of counselor for kids. Not too much else going on here. A live Swamp event sounds really cool! I always wanted to go to an audio game event. Anyone remember Nick Arcade? Maybe in the right place and time we could do that but with audio games! I just brought tickets for Mockingjay Part2 the theaters near me have audio description for every movie so I'm really excited for that. Not much else going on here.

A little late, but happy NaNoWriMo everyone! Get writing, immediately! Hmm, I wonder if there's any kind of coding equivalent to NaNoWriMo.
*schemes*
8590 words here, and although I doubt I'll hit the 50000 mark, it's still fun to try!

Hello,
@aprone: that workshop sounds really awesome! I didn't know there was also merchandise available.
As for arcades, well, I love them. I agree it's not the same as it was in the 90's, but there are still arcades around. In fact one of my local arcades has a working Turtles machine! However the best time was when this particular arcade had a section with games like final fight, r-type and such which were all 10 p to play. Yep, it was unheard of even at that time, 10 p because most of the other games were a pound. The section was open for around a year.
Another one of the local arcades has a working, moving outrun machine this is a racing game from the 80's. At least I think it does, I haven't been there for a while and anything could change.
A game I like to play which is quite new, is the pac-man smash air hockey that keeps on firing pucks onto the table and can be very fun especially if you are playing in a team of four.

Remember, remember...
the fifth of November...

Well yes I have been horribly absent and built up a massive backlog of e-mail, mostly because my lady and I have been pretty much inseparable for the last two weeks. She has to head back to the states, but I'll be going out there sooner than later, indeed I might be spending crimbo out there which will be fun.

To say it went well is something of an understatement.

I do appologise for rather neglecting all my games related duties, and I'll try and make up for things, assuming that I can actually get my mind back into my skull correctly .

Oh, and gamesmaster, I agree, the Cog and Hg stuff is amazing, I just wish I had the mental energy to play more of them, I've done several, butt unfortunately got rather distracted of late. Actually I might introduce my lady to those. She has a windows phone but the speech is less than efficient, and she'll probably have to leave it here anyway, so we've talked about her getting an Iphone, and playing the Cog and hg stuff might be a good way to get used to vo navigation.