bmoore 2012-12-18 01:27
It was able to run on my samsung galaxy nexus running 4.1.1, but the voice recognition didn't work at all :(
Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD25 → Agents
By dr_soda
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innovation | 1 | 4.74 | ||
| Audio | 4 | 4.17 | ||
| Mood | 14 | 3.91 | ||
| Coolness | 1 | 100 | ||
| Overall | 30 | 3.76 | ||
| Humor | 44 | 3.42 | ||
| Theme | 63 | 3.79 | ||
| Fun | 71 | 3.26 | ||
| Graphics | 302 | 2.16 |
It was able to run on my samsung galaxy nexus running 4.1.1, but the voice recognition didn't work at all :(
bmoore I just tried it on one and it did work. Did you tell agent 1 to go to the sewer?
Nice idea :) Didn't have courage to install it on my phone but video looks promising! Nice idea.
I checked out the gameplay video and I was like, "holy shit these graphics are ultra realistic". Then I realized that was you.
So, it's a voice activated phone game?
@Dark Acre Jack : Yes. You play the game by speaking to your agents on your phone.
Wow, this is a killer idea. I can't wait to get decent enough android phone in my hands to give it a try.
Absolutely brilliant!
A long time ago in a distant life I used to program voxml servers. Lovely to see such a neat twist!
Deep impression left, will affect my games option choices in the next LD!
This is some great innovation and a nice interpretation of the theme. The voice recognition is a bit spotty but I'm used to that. Great work, guys! This game sets a great mood.
Brilliant idea! Never seen anything like this before! Very interesting.
I really, really wanted to play this, but couldn't get the voice recognition to work on my Nexus 7. The 'speak now' tone plays when the game starts, but after calling the agent, it doesn't seem to hear my commands. I'll keep trying and hope I can find a way around it.
@metadept : I will try this on my nexus 7 later. Thank you for the description of the bug! Honestly I was thinking that people wouldn't bother with this on a tablet since it was mimicking a phone's interface, so it didn't occur to me to test on a tablet. :)
I'm going to tinker with what's on Google Play over time and will keep the untouched LD entry hosted on my own site, but that will be later in the week.
Really really awesome idea! Had some trouble with the voice recognition but I'm not a native english speaker so it may have had some problems with my voice.
Hope you guys flesh this out more!
I didn't manage to get this running :-( I downloaded it to my Android phone (SH007), it opens the "phone" screen, but then nothing happens. Trying to call agent 1 and 2 gives no result. Trying to call HQ asks "do you want to restart the mission"? And clicking yes to that gives no results :-(
I'm not sure if that is a problem with the sound on my phone, or if the game is just failing to start. :-(
I was afraid of that caranha. I'm not at all sure how well or widely some of these apis are supported, or how well different phones will handle so much voice acting.
Did you hear anything at all? Ambient sounds? Voices? Or nothing?
Wahou ! What a concept ! I have not any mobile so i can't test your game. But your video is so thrilling that i give you some very good ratings :) Please port your game for PC or navigator !!!
TheCze : You are correct. Because I am a native US english speaker my speech processing very much assumes that it will receive unaccented english input. I have no idea how Android thinks you pronounce words, and I'm not sure I really could make such a prediction... maybe this is possible, but I do not know how I would account for accented english?
The concept is brilliant. It's like a choose your adventure game, only based on sound instead of text... It has its advantages and drawbacks, but it could definitely become a thing!
So perfect concept! I LOVE IT. Still, I can't play on my phone, i talk, i talk, i talk, but nobody answer :\ Will try again tonight. COngrats thougt for the idea!
Pitoum : What phone? What do you say? Where do you live? Is English your native language? Do you hear anything when you call an agent, or is it always silent?
wow just wow. Never seen or heard of anything like this before!
10/10
I wish there were more innovation marks I could give. This was *awesome*. I feel like a kid. If you need graphics and incidental music for this one, count me in please. And please, please do develop for iOS as well if at all possible.
Fangirl love all over the place
excellent idea!! sadly i am Without Phone to play it but it is great that you guys pulled this off!!
As above I have to say that your idea is great! Unfortunaly I could not play the game on my Samsung Galaxy sII. I could start and call the agents but when I tried to give them commands nothing happend. Excellent take on the theme aswell!
I don't have an Android, so I can't test it. However it's really cool. You can play it in public place and the people will think you are talking by phone. Totally super!
(...though I can use an Android simulator...)
The idea is really cool, and your gameplay video was great!
Tried it on my Galaxy S but couldn't get any of my instructions recognized... Guess I should work on my English skills ;)
I'm not rating the game since I couldn't properly experience it, but good concept.
A brilliant Idea, Innovation 5/5 for sure.
Unfortunatly the voice recognition didn't work at all for me but i it was fun to watch the Gameplay-Video.
None of the voice recognition worked on my Samsung Infuse / Android 4.1 :( cool concept though
crashes on my droidX2, something about unable to load the mp3 files..
Hey recursive.frog. Answering your question: I hear nothing at all. I can switch between the phone screen and the contact list screen, and the game respond to me clicking on "HQ", but other than that, no sound. I can try to provide you with any extra info you might need.
As for the "accent" issue, you might want to add an option where the game will write back what it understood to the screen. This might break the immersion a bit (thus an option), but might help people identify why they can't be understood by the game.
caranha: The way the speech recognition works, I actually receive a long list of possible candidates for what the device thinks it heard. I'm not sure I could fit 20 lines of text on the screen. ;)
HOWEVER
I have found that the newest phones (those running JellyBean) will be unable to play this game as it is now becasue my game relies on the on-device speech recognition API, but Google has disabled it in Jellybean and instead requires you to send all speech to their servers so they can decode it and send it back. LAAAAAAAME! How can you possibly have a low-latency game control scheme like that?
Oh god, fucking brilliant idea
Great idea. Had a lot of fun with this one.
I can't play this because I don't have a droid. I wish I could. It looks awesome!
I wish I could play this :( it sounds very interesting.
The game crashes on my Asus Transformer Pad TF300T (Android 4.1.1 Jellybean) on startup. Cool concept though, I remember discussing it briefly with you on IRC.
LPGhatguy : Yep, I get the same thing on TF201. The crash bug I think I have a good solution for, but there's a deeper problem in Jellybean that I'm afraid will break suspension of disbelief for players even once the TF crash bug is solved.
Sad to say but for now the game is best played on Gingerbread and (possibly) ICS.
Sadly my only Android device is an old Galaxy 551 running 2.2 and it 'ended unexpectedly' on startup of the game. Such a great idea, though. I can imagine this type of game as a new genre, for example a game version of The Bone Collector where you play as Denzel Washington's character.
Can't run it on my old phone.
The game wanted to use the Samsung voice recognition in stead of the Google one, and didn't seem to work at all.
That was a shame altough now my girlfriend doesn't have to doubt my sanity anymore ('who are you talking to?').
goerp : Which phone was it? Which OS version?
Nice idea! (though it makes me hard to decide points for graphics).
Don't have a fancy phone but its a really cool concept! I liked how you added the goat to the game :)
Tried this both on Nexus One (2.3.6) and on Galaxy Nexus (4.2.1), but speech recognition doesn't do much. Often the agents don't respond at all, and if they do, they often just ask me to repeat what I just said. Once or twice they seemed to have interpreted my words as "what do you see" even though I said something quite different. I am not a native (UK) English speaker but I don't have much of an accent. Five stars for innovation though; this could be really cool when these problems have been worked out.
I need a phone seriously, this maybe the reason I buy a fancy phone.
I really want to try this but we only have Android 2.2!
Whoa. Epic game idea and execution. Thanks a lot for the gameplay videos. Helped a lot to get the picture when you don't have an android phone at hand. I'd love to give it a try out here.
Really awesome idea and great great work. Finish this and it will become a huge hit.
The original Android build did not work on my Galaxy S3, but the latest build does. It does struggle to understand my South African accent, but it occasionally recognizes my words and works correctly. Brilliant concept!
@voidstar69 : Thank you for giving the game another shot after all this time, and thank you for the confirmation about your Galaxy S3. It's very valuable information!
Wow interesting idea, thanks for including a video so I can experience gameplay even though I don't have an android device.
Oh my oh my oh my, i saw some gameplay videos and i'm so frustrated not being able to play, i'll do so soon but i'll not be able to rate the game, gaaaaaaaaaaaah D: