I can't say I've ever particularly had an urge to play Skate boarding games, but if somebody developed one I'd be willing to try it out ----- maybe Sk8kid could give us a bit of real life Skateboarding experience?

Reguarding a track editor for light cars, I'm afraid I'm a litle confused, sinse in Light cars you just head streight forward and don't turn, I'm not certain what there would be to eddit, other than maybe the enemy speed and the number of holes, and both of those things seem to be covered by the increasing level of the game.

though then again, including track differences in the game could be a fun update ----- though it might change the game significantly from the way it is at the moment.

I still think it'd be cool to be able to design your own tracks in Light Cars. It'd be just like the old Excitebike game. You could make your track as easy or hard as you wanted simply by the number and frequency of obstacles and powerups you decide to put on it. Come to think of it, I wouldn't say no to an accessible Excitebike style game as long as it were done right. The track creator was probably one of the coolest features of Excitebike, not to mention the five available tracks. Think I'll get me an NES Emulator and a copy of Excitebike. Then again not a lot of the NES emulators are accessible to blind people anymore. Nester used to work fine with JAWS as long as you were just in the program and didn't have a ROM loaded, but it didn't support Game Genie and I'd kinda like to get my paws on an emulator that does. I used to have a version of FCE Ultra that, while it didn't work well with JAWS if the sound was enabled, its menus were straightforward enough that you could navigate through it fine without JAWS if you knew the hotkeys for the menus and the commands they contained. Anyway I'm getting seriously off topic.
  Another game idea that I think could work well would be an accessible game based on the old NES game Demon Sword. Demon Sword was a side-scrolling Adventure/RPG in which you played the roll of Victar, a young warrior from a farming village in the High Hills, who came on a quest to find and vanquish a powerful demon who had seized control of the region and was seeking to control the entire world. Victar bore upon his person the hilt of a mysterious sword that was said to possess the power to slay demons. He needed only to find the two other pieces of the Demon Sword and journey to the fortress of the Dark Fiend to put an end to his wicked plans. Victar also carried with him a magical Shurakin that would return to its owner when thrown and could be used to target enemies at a distance. He could also find and use various magical items with a variety of effects.
  Well, that's my ramble for the morning.

Hmm, interesting topic again.
At first, light cars.
Since it is really randomised, when the power ups will appear, and when a car will come, i don't think so we'll achieve much with a track creator.
Second, the skate board-game.
In tony hawk, you can make tricks, and you'll get points for them, but in an audio game, how will you know what tricks is for what? It is in my opinion, quite boring when you just go forward, avoid things, and thats it.
If you love skate-style games, you can create a mod for light cars,
Best regards,
Robjoy

Hmmm.  I never played THPS, butI used to love 1080 on my N64!  It's basically the same thing only snowboarding instead.  If you knew the key combos for the tricks, the announcer would tell you when you did one.  Once I did 6 1080's on the half pipe and got a rediculously high score for it.  Good times...  So, a skateboarding game like that would be awesome!

There are so many different kines of games, and everyone likes and wants different ones.  I'm waiting for a good audio football or basketball  game, and one with good human voices and not that Microsoft  text to speech stuff.  Maybe not something as complex as Madden (although that would be cool), but maybe something like NBA Jam on the SNES.  Hey, I can dream can't I? LOL

Bryan, as for your comment about NES emulators, I use FCE Ultra and it works reasonably good with JFW.  It took a bit to configure, because I had to use the JAWS cursor, but it wasn't bad.  Not near as hard as it was to configure my SNES emulator.  I used to have to get the game started and then unload JAWS so that I could use the keyboard for the game.  Now that I have a gamepad though, I can run FCE Ultra and leave JFW running.  I love that!  There's nothing like good ol Super Mario Bros.

Zhtfreak, what version of FCE Ultra do you use? I forget which version I had but I never had trouble with it. All I remember is I downloaded it back in 2002 when my own computer was still working. Unfortunately I don't think I like the latest version. I downloaded it, set up the computer so it would automatically load .nes files using FCE ultra, but when I loaded the game I didn't get any sound. The version I used to have would disable the sound if I loaded it while JAWS was still running, but it would allow me to go to the configuration menu and reenable the sound and then run games with no problems. It also rather annoys me that when I select the Game Genie option in the configuration menu and then load a game I get the message "Error loading Game Genie ROM image!" Since I have no programming knowledge I wouldn't know where to go to correct this. It's like I said. I wish I could still locate that version that I used to have. It never gave me any of the problems I'm having with the newer version.

hello ,
you've all brot on some interesting ideas, though you should keep some things in mind:
as for a skaitboard game, that sounds quite revolutionary, though as robbert and dark empathy sed, if it has to be another avoid-the-obstical game, I'd rather consentrate on something more chalenging and interesting, so to make out of sucha consept something truley worthwhile, some thinking needs to be dun about the "hows", and some questions need to be asked about the potencial a sirten game can have

as for modding our games, feell free to mod our games as you like, as long as you read our lisence and agree to it's turms, and dont forget to put a 2 word line in your documents about the orijjin of the game.

as for complicated chalenging games and keystrokes, well I can't say alot, but our next game to be out will keep your hands nailed to the keyboard as you take the position of a gunner and pilot in a ... have I sed too much?
happy gaming!
yakir arbib

You two really! need to sort this contacting each other out! I can't wait to see audio Metroid, especially sinse Nintendo seem to have given up on 2D Metroid games after Zero Mission for the Gba.

I'd say Light Tech is my favourite audio games company at the moment ----- with Gma games slightly behind (though it's been five months sinse I've seen any activity from them).

While a bit of piloting certainly sounds fun, the game I'm really! waiting for is Light Saber Battle!

Vrwiiiiing! Vrwiiiiing! take that you horrible sith!

i don't usually post on this kinda thread, i don't like all these racing games, i've tried them, but i prefer side scrollers and general adventure and sci-fi.
but as i was reading i thought up how you could do a good skate game.
you could call it something like half-pipe city.
i don't mind telling you this, for although i intend to use my game ideas in the future, i don't mind letting this one go.
as long as if anyone uses i get credit for creation and design.
so, your on a skateboard, and must get through 5 levels, all in the city avoiding obsticles.
points taken off or added for those missed and or hit.
level1.
park level.
your skating through a park, it's mid afternoon on the weekends.
for ease this game would have to be like the monty setting where your going forward.
with only a little way to go either left or right.
park, natural obsticles, small bushes and trees to jump, avoiding the tree tops all together gives you points, taking half the branches with you 10 point deduction.
you have to avoid pets, children, benches and to make it really difficult a huge duck pond with only a fallen tree inside it to give you any hope of rebounding your self to dry land.
then if you get past all of that you course gently through the park gates, leaving chaos behind you.
i'll write up the other levels on my comp and keep them should someone want to make this game.
p.s i have a paypal account, but i would really rather have credit for future games if one of you or light-tech interactive make it.
best reg.
archer.

Archer, I'm curious with your other levels. I would like to see them if you could send them or post them. A little on the down side, it's kinda fake. I'd like something a bit more realistic, but it would still make a pretty hard and good game.

It's a bit different, arcade skateboarding. Since I'm not sure how safe it is to post my email in a post, check on dragonslayer. The contact link will give you my email. Sorry for the inconvinence, don't want stupid spam.
In regeards to lighttech, audio metroid would be great! I've always wanted an audio classic such as mario or metroid

i like your ideas archer. would be a pretty fun game to play. although the items could have been different for each level such as branches for the park, and an airplane you have to catch for the airport or something lol.