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Maggie |
Posted on 05/20/01 @ 12:00 AM
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Cheers Introduction: "It's the dawning of the Age of Enlightenment, and time for a grand party! Tiryns is the perfect spot, but many items need to be gathered and suitable housing built for our elite guest list. We must make our city the most beautiful and cultured in Greece. And while most of the region is peaceful, some stubborn pockets of hostility must be quelled before the world arrives at our door."
Sorry for the large download... the sound files take up a LOT of room, even zipped up.
Cheers is my first adventure, fairly simple, and created with the beginning or intermediate player in mind. Veteran players may wish to increase the difficulty level for a greater challenge. It is a leisurely adventure, with plenty of opportunities to make money, receive lots of love letters, and build to your heart's content.
Remember, to avoid the "empty bug," make a COPY of the "Cheers.pak" file and place it in the /Adventures subdirectory.
Making the sound files was a real fun project, despite all the giggling going on around my house when I was trying to record the narration.
Enjoy the adventure. Your comments, of course, are welcome.
Best,
Maggie
LisaLev@aol.com
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bobT |
Posted on 05/21/01 @ 12:00 AM
Well all I can say is great :) I downloaded the adventure earlier today and could not leave it until I was completed. What a great change to have some audio files :).
Your map work and detail was excellent and I found no bugs to speak of. The colony episodes were refreshing and yet still nicely balanced and challenging. I felt sorry for some of my sheep which were trapped in a landslide with no way out and no shepards could get to them either :(
Had to watch as they slowly dropped off. hehe
All in all excellent. Thanks for the great game play and refreshing story line.
bobT |
Maggie
File Author |
Posted on 05/21/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thanks for your kind comments, Bob! I'm SO glad you enjoyed the adventure.
I do have to admit to making the landslide-side of the meadow on Eretria much more inviting than the other side of the meadow.
I guess your poor dead sheep are a minor payback for all those long walks you made me take on YOUR maps. (Evil grin.)
Best,
Maggs
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DJF |
Posted on 05/21/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thanks for the sleepless night! Just got to the last episode, and so far this adventure is excellent. If you don't mind, what program and microphone did you use to create the mp3's? |
Maggie
File Author |
Posted on 05/21/01 @ 12:00 AM
DJF wrote:
"Thanks for the sleepless night! Just got to the last episode, and so far this adventure is excellent. If you don't mind, what program and microphone did you use to create the mp3's?"
Thanks DJF! Glad you enjoyed Cheers! For software, I used "Cool Edit 2000" (www.syntrillium.com) to record the narration. I downloaded and purchased the full program, but a free demo version is available. The program allows you to record sound and save it in all kinds of different formats. The MP3 conversion-compression is much better than any other utility I've tried, so the resulting files were much smaller (which is important, because all those files once zipped, have to come under the two-meg upload requirement here at Zeus Heaven). Thanks again to Cleavus on the forums for pointing me to Syntrillium's website. Using Cool Edit, in order to get the smallest file size possible, with the least degeneration in sound quality, I opened each new file with the following parameters: Sample Rate - 44100; Channel - Mono; Resolution - 8 bit. Then I recorded the narration. Then I hit "SAVE AS"; chose MP3 format and using the CoolEdit Presets, chose the "32 kbps for voice." After fooling around with various settings, I found the above gave me decent voice quality with the smallest file size and highest compression possible. (I was anxious to make sure the files were small enough to fit within the upload limit. As it turned out, the adventure STILL didn't fit the two meg limit, so I had to get rid of a third colony and downsize the adventure accordingly in order for it to come under limit.)
For hardware, I used a cheap microphone I purchased at Office Depot for about $10 or $12! It's a "Labtec AM-242 NCAT." A better microphone -- one that softens breath pops and exhalations on such consonents as "p" -- would definitely be nice! If anyone knows of such a mike, please share that info with us!
Have fun!
Best,
Maggs
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Sir Dumbicus |
Posted on 05/23/01 @ 12:00 AM
Disregard all the gigglings because the end results were well worth the effort. Your voice was perfect for the audio renditions and really "captured" my attention.
Have been called back to work so wont be able to finish before the weekend. Oh well! Dead sheep don't need sleep anyway. Nice landslide bit. |
Osiris |
Posted on 05/26/01 @ 12:00 AM
What can i say? Keep up the good work and create more, please.
It gave me a lot of fun to play your adventure. Thank you. |
Annie |
Posted on 05/27/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed your adventure even though it was only at beginner level. Lots of opportunities for city building as well as interesting challenges. |
Annie |
Posted on 05/27/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed your adventure even though it was only at beginner level. Lots of opportunities for city building as well as interesting challenges. |
Annie |
Posted on 05/27/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed your adventure even though it was only at beginner level. Lots of opportunities for city building as well as interesting challenges. |
Annie |
Posted on 05/27/01 @ 12:00 AM
Thoroughly enjoyed your adventure even though it was only at beginner level. Lots of opportunities for city building as well as interesting challenges. |
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HGDL v0.8.2 |
Rating |
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4.8 | Breakdown |
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Playability | 5.0 | Balance | 5.0 | Creativity | 5.0 | Map Design | 4.0 | Story/Instructions | 5.0 |
Statistics |
Downloads: | 4,494 |
Favorites: [] | 1 |
Size: | 1.78 MB |
Added: | 05/20/01 |
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