Hi Che, yes, I am afraid you have to put Jaws to sleep manually and separately for each application. But these are great observations. There seems to be no way how to get directly to the game manager from the actual game, not even how to get to the main menu from the game. Means that you cannot really save a game currently in progress, unless I am missing something really basic. HOwever, I've found out that you don't really need to save your current game, unless you want to start another off-line game and keep the last one unfinished for later play. You can just quit the game permanently and if you then choose continue game from the manager, you'll be right where you interrupted the game. I guess the save feature is really meant for situations when you want to start another off-line game but finish the current one later. In this case, you would just exit the game, then start it again to enter the game manager and save your incomplete game. You would then start a new game which would overwrite the current data, but as you saved it to a separate location, you can load it later. This way you could theoretically save as many off-line games as you want (have no experience with online games yet) while the game itself can only keep track of just one game session. Hope this helps. But this brings several more possible improvements for you to think about, Igor. What about making the game manager a separate window that needs to be closed manually so that you would not lose it as soon as you start the game? Or you could add a keystroke to launch the manager directly from the game instead, or at least a key to get to the main menu. What about escape? This is one of the most intuitive and standard things used in most accessible games (and not just the accessible ones) nowadays. :-) Also, by the way, would quite like either a keystroke in the actual game or an item in the game manager (if you implement these improvements to access the manager easier right from inside the game) to tell you how many free planets are remaining. Thanks. These are not meant to be flames, just constructive ideas to make the game as atractive as possible. Take care and best of luck, Lukas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Che" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To x: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 11:39 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Lords of the galaxy question
> When I first ran the game, I created a new offline game, then set jaws to > go to sleep from the main game, I never had jaws configured to sleep on > the > manager screen. > One person here said to hit tab to get to the game manager, the other said > alt tab. > When I hit tab, I get the planet info, which is what the instructions say > should happen. Alt tabbing doesn't work, as my game manager is not > showing > up in the list of programs. > Here is what the instructions say: > You can save your current offline game if you need. Hit F10 to activate > the > main menu. Select item offline and hit enter key. Select item save and hit > enter. > Type the name of the file in which the game data will be saved and hit > enter > key. You will get the message window. Hit enter to close this window. Game > will be saved and you will be in game manager program. > > This also does not work. It looks like the person that wrote these > instructions was assumeing you were already in the game manager screen. > These instructions overall are really awful, and so far this has made for > a frustrating game experience. > Am I supposed to run another copy of the game to get a seperate game > manager screen? > Isn't there a shortcut key combo to make jaws go to sleep, or do you have > to do it manually from the configurator? > Thanks for any help, > Che > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "michael feir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Lords of the galaxy question > > >>I also put jaws to sleep but have no such problem with the game manager. >>You >> just alt-tab to it and it seems to work fine. One possibility that >> springs >> to mind is that you may have accidentally made a configuration file which >> tied to the game manager so that jaws would go to sleep while that's >> showing. >> Michael Feir >> Creator and former Editor of Audyssey Magazine >> 1996-2004 >> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Che" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 4:59 PM >> Subject: [Audyssey] Lords of the galaxy question >> >> >>> So I think I have finally deciphered most of the instructions to Lords >>> of >>> the galaxy, but I still can't save a game. >>> I had to enable jaws sleep mode for this game, so my arrow keys would >>> work, but now when I hit the f 10 key to open the game menu, I get >>> nothing. >>> Is there a shortcut to turn Jaws back on temporarily so I can use the >>> menu >>> system? >>> I tried to manually turn sleep mode off with jaws configuration during >>> the >>> game, but it didn't work. >>> Or is there a way to save a game without using the screenreader? >>> This is quite frustrating. >>> Thanks for any help, >>> Che >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >>> visit >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >>> any subscription changes via the web. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> No virus found in this incoming message. >>> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >>> Version: 7.1.392 / Virus Database: 268.6.1/344 - Release Date: >>> 19/05/2006 >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can >> visit >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >> any subscription changes via the web. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can > visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > __________ Informace od NOD32 1.1454 (20060321) __________ > > Tato zprava byla proverena antivirovym systemem NOD32. > http://www.nod32.cz > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
