Hi Dark,
The sad thing about all this is that all these "new" things we are currently
getting in the audio game sector are partially old school compared to
mainstream games.
Seriously, I know of a mainstream game called Uprising 2.
You wouldn't be able to play it withouth sighted assistance just to tell
that first.
What I want to say is the following:
This game was a science fiction game where you have to fight in a war
against an alien race.
You had to go to over 30 planets and your task was to destroy all alien
bases on the planet.
The player controled a futuristic tank with different weapons.
He could build factories to produce other units to call during battles to
aid you.
These units were computer controlled of course.
I have the game CD.
During these missions you gained more weapons and technology until you came
to the final level.
Every planet you had to go to was its own map file.
On the game CD (it was small enough for one CD-Rom) you had the game, the
full user manual as well as other documents.
The game itself had three extra levels which were a really big ingame
tutorial.
But that was not all the CD contained.
There was a level editor plus its own manual plus another file which
contained the technical specifications for one of the four main files you
need for level design.
And there was one last document explaining the scripting language which you
needed íf you wanted to create story events or define on what terms you won
or lost a certain mission.
This game let the user edit some but not all its files.
It did not require any form of hardware based registrations, nor was the CD
copy protected with the kind of copy protection which prevents legal use of
the product because it is buggy.
This title was released before the year 2000 and ran on Windows 98 systems
without problems.
This is just one example of what some games of the Windows 95-98 era could
do.
Or remember Doom and Quake.
You could make your own levels and mods for them.
And if you like RPGs you know what Final Fantasy is.
That series goes back before PCs were common products.
But I also knew of a Japanese Play Station game which was originally listed
in the audiogames.net database.
But up to now we had little in audio RPG titles and the two we have while
impressive currently don't have official addons/expansions, nor do they
support user created game content as far as I know.
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