[ian-reeds-games] Re: Releasing Tactical Battle 1.12 in the next few days
- From: "Allan Thompson" <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:27:02 -0500
Hi Shawn,
I am confused, do you mean win 8 uses touch screen like on an iPhone?
I do have an iPhone and I love it. The only thing I absolutely hate is trying
to type with it. I would hate to lose use of a keyboard on my regular
computeing system.
Other then typing I think voice over on the iPhone works pretty well. Used to
have mobile talk on a diffrent phone and it was a miserable experience. I
don't think I would ever go back to that. Then again I don't really game or
anything on the phone. I use it for texting and calling and of course siri is
awesome.
al
"The truth will set you free"
Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
----- Original Message -----
From: shaun everiss
To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 1:06 AM
Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Releasing Tactical Battle 1.12 in the next few
days
well zack just get classic shell go play and see what you like.
if in doubt you can still buy 7, reformat and use it.
though saying that my cousin who has been on win98 and xp all his
life has just jumped straight from xp to 8 and on his other system
from win 95-3.11 to 8 without any real issues, he has a hybrid
tablet/ keyboard unit however by sony I think or samsung and is
getting used to it.
Ofcause it helps if you are using touch already.
myself I still have keyboard and I think right now that touch devices
are inaccessable and crap, but I'm going to have to change my tune
soon with symbian dead and get an iphone.
Once I am used to touch I bet you a hundred quid I won't wana go back
to my crappy old crummy keyboard or at least I hope to.
the hybred tablet/ laptop combo does actually intreeg me.
I mean if a sighty says something is in the left corner of the screen
then its the same for me right?
What would be nice would be tech that could do tactile graphics on the screen.
it would be good to use techniques of sighted and just drag things
to folders, etc.
I mean all the apps inaccessable to us would become that much more.
on the readers front nvda should if installed handle the metro thing.
and narator has some voiceover like features.
To be honest I am seriously wandering what I can do with narator
better than nvda, ofcause nvda does have the extra voices.
At 06:26 PM 2/9/2013, you wrote:
>This is a bit off-topic but Alan, I won a laptop with windows 8 on it
>and I personally don't like it much. It has changed a lot from 7. I
>would suggest waiting until screen readers have better support for it
>than they do currently before getting it. But maybe it's just me, I
>haven't played with it that much.
>
>On 2/9/13, Allan Thompson <allan1.thompson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> > That is good advice. I am always jumping in before looking, sigh.
> > I heard bad things about vista but it sounded like win 7 was
> alright and you
> > seem to have no poblems with it. I will have to ask around.
> >
> > Thanks for keeping notes on these things. I would forget my name if it
> > wasn't on my email, lol.
> >
> > I like the item restriction flag you mentioned. It certainally
> makes sense.
> >
> >
> > Ahh, armor is one of those things RPG games always have a tough time with.
> > Some use it as a defensive value to beat on a dice roll. In Dungeons and
> > Dragons, at least the versions I used to play, each item was generally
> > considered an armor class.
> > So if I say , "You are wearing platemail" you would automatically assume
> > helmet, gauntlets bracers, etc and so forth. The shield would have a value
> > of one added to the basic armor class, as weould dexterity, magic, feats,
> > skills, etc and so forth.
> >
> > In other systems, I think palladium, the armor works not like a defense
> > against getting hit, but rather a way to soften the blow.
> > In palladium, the armor has a value, let's say ten. When the armor wearer
> > gets hit several times, each application of damage takes off the
> armor. When
> > the current value is surpassed, the armor value drops.
> > So for instance, if the armor value is 10, and some hungry ogre wants to
> > club you and does 14 points. Ten of that damage is absorbed, the four
extra
> > gets applied, and the armore value drops to nine. Then again, if another
14
> > points is done, then nine points is absorbed and 5 points go
> thru, then the
> > armor value is dropped to 8 and so on. Obviously, armor becomes super
> > important, cause damage is going to run hi in order to be noteworthy to a
> > armor wearing character, which means those not wearing armor are going to
> > suffer more damage since they don't have any, lol.
> > Over all, armor is a tough balance, it both defends against hits, like a
> > shield, but also absorbs damage, like the breastplate taking a
> hit, Then you
> > got shields like on starships which can change value as energy is pumped
> > into them, and energy is drained out of them as they absorb enemy
weaponry.
> > There you go, armor RPG 101. There is a test later, I suggest you study,
> > grin.
> >
> > You probably know most of this stuff already so sorry if I sound like I am
> > lectureing, grin.
> >
> > al
> >
> >
> >
> > "The truth will set you free"
> > Jesus Christ of Nazareth 33A.D.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Ian Reed
> > To: ian-reeds-games@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 4:27 PM
> > Subject: [ian-reeds-games] Re: Releasing Tactical Battle 1.12 in the
next
> > few days
> >
> >
> > Hey Allan,
> >
> > Thanks for the bug report. I think I've fixed it so I'll get a new dev
> > release out today and you can let me know.
> >
> > I love to hear that you found it intuitive. That buzzword is one of my
> > favorite compliments.
> >
> > In answer to a few of your items:
> > Allan said: I didn't switch over any of the main guns however. I wanted
> > to wait till items and points get all figured out before doing that.
> > I say: Makes sense. Just so you know it will probably be a while till I
> > do points for items. I think I will handle them around the same time I
> > do team wide points.
> >
> > Allan said: Is it possible to restrict items. For instance a housewife
> > isn't going to pick up an assault rifle dropped by a soldier and know
> > how to use it properly, or in a fantasy setting, someone might not want
> > their wizard to walk around in platemail.
> > I say: Very good point. I put some thought into this in the past and I
> > don't think this will be terribly hard. It may even happen soon.
> > I'm thinking something like an equip_type=chain on an item that means
> > the unit must support that equip type in order to equip it.
> > So then the Warrior unit would have this flag:
> > equip_type=plate,chain,leather,cloth
> > Whereas the Wizard would have this flag:
> > equip_type=cloth
> > Obviously you could define weapon equip types as well.
> >
> > Allan said: Creating an item might be interesting as well, or taking it
> > apart
> > I say: Converting, creating, and dismantling items are good ideas and
> > are on my list now. They are unlikely to happen near term though.
> >
> > Allan said: If someone wants to build up armor as pieces instead of a
> > single piece how do the protection values stack or should they?
> > I say: The protection values should stack currently.
> > So if you create a helment and a leather vest and equip both the unit
> > will get the combined protection of both.
> >
> > In Entombed it might not have worked this way since the game supported
> > targeting specific body parts but most games just combine all the
> > protection.
> > Alter Aeon for example has a total armor amount and as I understand it
> > even D&D uses an armor class that is adjusted by every piece of armor
> > equipped.
> >
> > A while back you asked about 2 handed weapons. I intend on supporting
> > these some day but for now they are not supported.
> >
> > I'm running windows 7 here and I intentionally got windows 7 instead of
> > windows 8 because I'd used it for a while and was comfortable with it.
> >
> > Windows 8 might be a better experience for you but I'd say that just
> > because it's newer doesn't mean it's better so make sure you have an
> > idea of how things have changed before you decide to upgrade.
> > I've never used it myself though, you might want to ask other blind
> > individuals about their experiences with it.
> >
> > Great to hear about the updates to your map pack. I love how you keep
> > updating your map packs to take advantage of the newer features.
> >
> > I'll try to get that dev version out today. Maybe I'll even fit the
> > equip_type= flags in.
> >
> > Ian Reed
> >
> >
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