Actually I did mean to do one sooner, but things just piled up, and even now this one doesn't mention black square which i've sinse played and now has a db page.

Yeah, and there is more to come. We at USA Games are working hard on Tomb Hunter: Temple of Life which will be the first true 3d first-person adventure that will hopefully introduce some new game play elements and concepts that have never been tried in audio before. It is coming along rather well, and a lot of that is due to the fact we are simply updating the older MOTA source code with more 3d functions  and of course sounds, music, and levels to match the new story. I think 2012 is going to be a great year for audio games.

@Tom yes, I'm very much hoping 2012 will see the Usa games expedition finally reach something of a destination, albeit one several dimentions away from where they started .

@Gorthalen, As with any new dev's games I had to try black square first to see whether it came up tto standard as per the db guidelines. This took me some time I admit sinse i'm rather busy with various other things, not the least my phd, but when I did get chance to try the game it was deffinately complete enough.

I'll fix the bgt thing, that was something I genuinely was not sure of but with your comments in Bgt threads I sort of assumed it was, however I'll reserve my thoughts about black square for another topic.

Hi,

Nah, don't even start flaming here, please.

Dark: It's not an issue, sir. It was just a minor error, nothing to worry about. And if you do want to tell your thoughts, then please do! I'm still working on it, so every single message could have an impact on the game.

@Tom, while I personally am  slightly disappointed sinse I was very much hoping for a proper side scroller, I hope the 3d game works out.

I'll be interested to see what the prince of persia thing works out to be though, especially if it has ful vertical movement the way prince does. I've always thought that prince, sinse everything is based on very precise movement and logic and your jumps in that game are pretty horizontal that it'd make a perfect audio convertion.

Sounds good, however I do worry about the time issue.

Prince had a lot of fairly advanced features, indeed in some ways it is more like a puzzle than a side scroller, ----- secret tyles in the roof or floor that you could climb up or down, lots of switch and door puzzles some of them timed, ----- not to mention what was almost tantamount to a mini beat em up game whenever you ran acrosss a guard, with a completely different control set for using your sword, it actually made for a very nice break from the puzzle like gameplay.

The snes version is my personal favourite and there's actually a review of mine for it on gamefaqs (look under Dark empathy). Apart from more levels and rather good music, it added a lot to the game. It even expanded on this by adding some different bosses and enemies into the mix such as a six armed monster and an amazon woman with a sword. Not to mention a number of different traps like teleporters, crushers and escalators.

I'd be sorry if an audio prince game lost out on features or structure because it was being done in a hurry for a competition, indeed I'd rather see some other projects get finished first so that you could give an audio prince of persia the attention such a game deserves.

hi.
is there any english version of bokurano debouken?

i've fears downloading this game because of japanese whether it might freeze my computer lol.

Dark and others...
I just want to say this. me, pitermach, erion, and to a lesser extent, destroyer, have all tried the Bokurano Daibowken two game. destroyer is the forumite known as the doctor, too.
I think it's safe to say that yesterday destroyer was getting a headache on teamtalk while erion was seemingly addicted, doing a bonus game that involves letting you choose how many clones of the final boss you want to fight, and i asked him to fight ten. He actually beat all of them which lasted no less than around 35 minutes.
We had enemies being generated, and they blew each other up, plus the fact that there were objects flying all around the screen and many, many close calls it was the most hectic gameplay listening i have ever heard in my life!
Not to mention, it took erion a total gameplay time of around 30 hours (lasting several weeks) to get to stage 25 part 1, out of 4 parts, and those parts are truly! massive! and there are over 30 totally different weapons, loads of music, sounds, and as said before, unlockable bonus games when you've beaten everything. you can even unlock bonus games by playing bonus games! and even then you can still level up your hp and try to buy all of the items!
I'll just say this.... my game time is around 9 hours and I'm on stage 6 part 4, out of 25 total stages, 28 if you count bonus content (so far!)

Ah, fair enough, well that is certainly sounding good and I'll be glad to give it a try when i can.

You know, the way you say that makes me really hope that the game I've been working on for the past year (Ok, the past eleven years, but last year was the most recent time I started my code from scratch) turns out the way my outline is written. But considering that I've spent the past 48 hours not writing the simple save and load functions I need to release what I've been working on this week... *sigh*.

But, yeah, Bokurano Daibouken 2 is playable in its current form, though you miss out on the story. I think the current English patch has a few bugs still, though. I think I have the earliest English patch still... it doesn't translate things like the weapons menu, but it does get around some of the newest bugs, so hopping between the two works fine until Yukio can find and fix them.
Just on stage 2 I had already decided that this is the kind of game Dark would have good things to say about, and that was well before I'd discovered the shops and the variety of weapons and enemies in the later stages.
Now, if only BK1 had better navigation features.

[edit] Oh, yeah. Some of the tasks are a little tough to figure out do to the language barrier, but between Yukio's help and our own problem-solvers, we can probably give any necessary hints (like moving the stuff in the stage 1 house).[/edit]

The only real difficulty I'd see with that is figuring out where things are in the shops. Everything else is pretty easy to get the hang off even without the translations.