*comp112* mcomp112@aol.com Posted Nov 24, 2006, 11:43 pm	Old School Fun I found this website and i love it, i found a game i used to play when i was 6 or 7 called castle, and the second game called castle 2, these games are free (most of them) and all you ahve to do is download them (its clean ive downloaded a few games myself already) so have fun, i know everyone here (all of you are older then me so you will remember alot of these oldies) will have fun.
*comp112* mcomp112@aol.com Posted Nov 24, 2006, 11:46 pm	:O Is this the game you based Dark-Wind on Sam?
*sam* Posted Nov 25, 2006, 10:15 am	Nah, the only strong influence was this: Car Wars Boardgame Other than that, it's all my accumulated ideas about what I think should be in an ideal game (online and computerised or otherwise). I started making boardgames when I was about 6 or 7 (in the 1970s) and it continued onto computers when I was a bit older.. with some time playing pen&paper RPGs too of course.. The great thing about computers is the level of detail they can manage. While boardgames need to simplify and streamline, computer games can get really anal about detail and accuracy. As viKKing pointed out to me recently, DW is more of a wargame than an RPG.
JoeR Posted Nov 25, 2006, 2:32 pm	true.  if someone wants more rpg, they could always run around the room and act that out, but when it comes to the fight scenes, they fire up the cpu. i'm actually going to play a car wars game today, based on this PBEM that i haven't started yet: http://www.cwhnj.com/tsarnj/pbem/duel14/MAIN.HTM any capture the flag events planned in the future, sam??
Jim Posted Nov 25, 2006, 4:12 pm	Speaking of oldschool fun.. I've made this today  http://www.dark-wind.com/alk/audio/alk-satiate2.mp3
*viKKing* Posted Nov 25, 2006, 9:14 pm	Hey Jim that's cool. Nice work. It's ending in a strange and too fast way, but the tempo and sounds are good.
*Toecutter* Posted Nov 26, 2006, 5:23 am	OMG Comp I used to play that autoduel game lol..it was awesome found it kinda hard tho
Jim Posted Nov 26, 2006, 12:02 pm	thanks viKKing, ye I guess it does end strange, oh well
*sam* Posted Nov 27, 2006, 9:43 am	Hmm, chippy goodness Jim!
Jim Posted Dec 11, 2006, 10:22 pm	my latest electronic musings ^^ http://www.dark-wind.com/alk/audio/alk-melodie3.mp3 hope someone enjoys it : ) Jim
*sam* Posted Dec 12, 2006, 10:12 am	Nice sounds Sombre sounding.. wintry maybe?
*viKKing* Posted Dec 12, 2006, 2:57 pm	Good one Jim. Maybe a good ringtone for a wakeup. Quite relaxing in the beginning. I like it.
scrod21 Posted Dec 15, 2006, 4:32 am	sam said: Nah, the only strong influence was this: Car Wars Boardgame When I saw this and looked at everything I thought you might have gotten your inspiration from car-wars.. such a fun game, i liked it a LOT, I think they had a computer based version of car-wars for awhile.. I use to play car-wars a ton.. such a shame that there wasn't much development for it.. something in the mineatures world that advanced it.. along the lines of hero-clix or something like it.