I would just like to add here that Monster Breeders will not be updated any
time in the near future. If you check in with the site you'll see that the
last update pronounces the current version dead. The developer says that he
may be working on a newer version and it may be accessible to the blind, but
he makes no promises. So basically if you're going to play monster breeders,
be prepared to dead-end somewhere, and also be prepared to deal with the
fact that the story, in it's current form, will never be completed.
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From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 06:28 AM
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any sword and sorcery games for the blind?
Well a guru would make me an ancient wise and learned teacher, but a grue
would make me a mysterious creature who gets to guzzle adventurers in dark
tunnels!
I think I know which one I'd rather be, ---- mmmmm, adventurers! khhhhh!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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From: "Keith S" <hea...@mchsi.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any sword and sorcery games for the blind?
Thanks so much for your help Dark. You are a true guru, and not a
grue!!!
Keith
----- Original Message -----
From: "dark" <d...@xgam.org>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 4:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Any sword and sorcery games for the blind?
Hi Kieth.
Wow what a question! and probably one that requires a long answer.
Asking whether there are any sword and sorcerery themed games is a
little like asking whether there are any games that use guns :d.
firstly, I suggest you go to http://audiogames.net/dbindex.php and
search the audiogmaes.net by the genre catagory of rpgs (you might also
want to look under adventure games and gamebooks too), that's probably
the best way to get an overview.
Broardly speaking, there are four types of games that might fit the
bill.
1: Audio rpgs, ie, role playing games that just use sound as interface.
There aren't many of these, but what there is is pretty good. The two
best in that genre are entombed, a full scale tactical turn based combat
audio roguelike dungeon hack with many random elements and literally
hours of playing even in the demo, see the entombed page on the
audiogames.net database for more details, and Airik the clerric, a more
action rpg title sort of like an audio version of Zelda, with lots of
exploring and an on going plot (though note you'll neeed windows 7 for
that one).
There is also Sarah and the castle of witchcraft and wizardry. Though
strictly an adventure game more than an rpg, it is set in the harry
potter universe, is a full first person audio adventure, with many
puzzles, magic artifacts, and great stounds. If you like Harry potter
you should try that.
Lastly, there id castaways. Though strictly speaking a stratogy game
more than rpg, it does have much more of plot and mission structure than
most other stratogy games, involving controlling a small number of units
in more detail rather than controlling many hundreds of units.
For instance, the first mission involves being shipwrecked on a shore
and having to build a village, farms and sustain your population in
order to create soldiers and knights to fight back the hoards of
attacking goblins, and eventually build and stock a ship to hopefully
sale back from where you have come.
Further rpg games, such as another installment of the airik the clerric
may well be in the works too.
2: Muds.
These are similar to interactive fiction, accept that everything in
them, all events are real time sent from the mud server to your
computer. So you'll get into combat, and combat rounds will happen
whether or not you attack a monster, but typing in commands will let you
do things like use special attacks, cast spells etc.
Like interactive fiction you wander through rooms and areas, but many
muds do more than just offer puzzles. You can craft items, go on quests
that might involve killing monsters or talking to npcs, join together
with other players to form a party or fight against them.
all you need is a mud client to connect to the mud, such as vipmud from
www.gmagames.com.
Another point about muds however is that some muds can have sound and
audio, this is accomplished by creating a special script where your
client will play sounds when certain events in the mud happen. .
Alteraeon, a game we've been discussing on list recently, and imho one
of the best and probably most accessible muds ever, has a special sound
pack created by Oriol gomez that has so many sounds, keys to do one
thing instead of typing commands, helpful options and such that it
virtually turns alteraeon from a text game into an audio rpg. See the
audiogames.net db page for alteraeon for more details.
3:Brouser rpgs.
These are text games played in your web brouser, and are played online
against many other people. Rather than typing commands interactive
fiction style, you click on links to make stuff happen. So there could
be a description of your location and a link called "attack monster"
Most brouser rpgs have strong competative elements, many players online,
but also quests and other things to do as well. I'd personally recommend
the game's warriors 2, Sryth, Monster breeder (though that one hasn't
been pdated in a while), metroplexities and the comedy games Twilight
heroes and Kingdom of Loathing.
See the audiogames.net db for more information.
Another catagory of games that you can play online are gamebooks. These
are superficially similar to brouser rpgs, but you don't have other
players, just linked sets of html pages that run together to create a
story your charaacter progresses through based on your own choices and
sometimes dice rolls.
Occasionally you have to fill out your own character sheet and roll your
own dice for these, but for especially good gamebooks such as the
chronicles of arborell or the Project Aon lone wolf series (nothing to
do with the submarine game), it is worth it.
Combat and choices that involve death abound, and of course you clicking
links to choose what happens not typing commands , so though technically
gamebooks are fiction you can interact with, they are not interactive
fiction in the strict sense.
5: If style text rpgs.
there are actually some games, ---- even some written in if languages,
which, though using a similar interface to interactive fiction like
Zork, have full combat mechanics, learnable skills, lots of exploring
etc. though many of these are old dos programs like fallthru or
westfront, they can be great fun if done properly, indeed I've been beta
testing a new example of such a program myself, Eamon deluxe which is an
entire adventure system with over 200 adventures in it all with combat,
treasure etc.
Even if you can't run old dos style programs though, there are some
games like this written in the if languages, like the tads games idols
of war and magocracy, the glulks game Kirkircroup, or the zcode game
wumpas 2000.
I think that is a sufficiently good overview. As I said, for more
information see the db at www.audiogames.net, or the fantastic games
like at www.pcsgames.net.
Hth!
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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