Category: Accessible Games
this is a great thing, note i only did the demo, for now, but love it.
http://www.terraformers.nu/index.php
Story
The game takes place in the future. Mankind has started colonisation of other planets and uses intelligent robots to create an atmosphere suitable to human
life. But on the distant planet Tellus 2 something went wrong.
Some of the robots evolved and became too intelligent and revolted against their creators. The revolting robots imprisoned professor van Lange in his lab.
The professor is the only one with enough knowledge to regain control over the revolting robots.
The robots also disassembled the main computer and scattered the parts in the area around the professor's lab. Your mission is to defeat the revolting robots,
find the parts to the computer and free professor van Lange.
To solve the quest you will use fire arms, ammunition, secret keys, audio puzzles, communication devices and other things. In order to stop you, the robots
have locked doors, hidden the computer parts and will attack you on sight. Your Powersuit use power to protect you from the planet's hostile environment
and other physical injury, and you need to find Power-up stations on a regular basis.
Features
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Powersuit: the powersuit contains all the necessary technology to protect the avatar from hostile attacks, In addition, it provides all of the accessability
feautures described below. A built-in voiced PDA is responsible for miscellaneous feedback from these features
Sound Compass: a 3D sound represents north, and a rough 8 direction spoken feedback is available by pressing a key on the numerical keyboard (north, northwest...).
Sonar: a 3D sound gives the gamer a rough perception of the distance to objects in the direction the gamer is currently facing. By pressing a key the gamer
can also check what type of object it is (door, wall, robot...). Enemies are automatically told by the PDA voice.
GPS: a global positioning system is used to get the exact positions of objectsin an area as well as the position of the avatar. A voiced menu system provides
an overview of nearby objects.
Direct orientation: using the numeric keyboard the gamer can orient the avatar directly in 8 directions (north, northeast...).
Backpack: objects are accessed using a voiced menu system with hierarchies. Sound effects can also be attached to voices dynamically.
Game objects: all game objects have voiced feedback and 3D sound icons (and 3D graphics!)
Environments: 3D graphics, ambients sounds, footstep sounds on different ground materials and voiced descriptions of visual as well as other sensory input
contribute to environmental feedback.
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Terraformers: Powersuit
Last Updated ( Thursday, 31 August 2006 )
What are the recommended system requirements?
Written by AdministratorWednesday, 12 May 2004The following specs has been tested to run OK:
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3D graphics Off:
Headphones are strongly recommended
Intel Pentium II 350 MHz or better
128 MB RAM or more (lower RAM may work but is untested)
32 bit colors (16 bit also works but doesn't look as good)
Creative SoundBlaster Live! or equivalent
Windows 98 SE, 2000, XP .
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3D graphics On:
nVidia TNT2 or better with 32 MB VRAM
The game should run well on most configurations that are equivalent or better. You may also be able to run it on lower specifications. Please also note
that there are other things that can affect your system performance in general, such as adware and other processes running in the background. Tweak your
system as much as possible to get the best game performance
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 October 2005 ) The file is 109 MB
Sounds interesting, Zentor, will check it out. What if one has no numeric keypad? I can pretend I'm one of the terraformers in The "Mars" trilogy. lol.
-Dave
there is one thing, in the demo i did not need to do this but i havent used anything before jaws 6.0, and i would turn off jaws before using the game you really don't need jaws running. "Please uninstall video intercept before running Terraformers. (Jaws version 4.5 has proven to be the cause of problems in one case). just go to the web sight listed in the first post if you want to know more, enjoy.
Thanks for the tip re: JAWS. I usually put him to sleep before starting any game. Not sure whether putting JFW to sleep unloads video intercept.
-D H.
I think it does, Dave, but this thought should not be taken as utter fact.
ya, not sure eather, but like i said, using the demo with 6.0 had no problems, there is a large comunitty growing,giving tricks and tips on playing the game, really suggest too people, at least check the web page out
I started playing the demo and i liked it and it is not necesary to use the numeric keyboard the normal numbers above the letters also work. I used them to unlock the lock by entering the code in the training.
It is a very good game and the training is very good.
cool, glad you liked it, am really surprised more have not checked it out
Yeh, heard of that game and downloaded. When I'd try to run the game my computer would reboot. This happens every time I run the program. FYI, my computer has 512 MB ram, 80 GB harddrive.