I agree, though: get rid of the Reach wand and shrink all the rune-style puzzles to something the size of a control panel on the wall, next to the door. The dungeoneer could touch it with their own (avatar) hands.

I don't think the causeways would work with a seeing dungeoneer - they'd just skip over it and through the door before the first level had even had a chance to fall away.

Puzzles like that must be modified to FORCE the dungeoneer to pause after a certain bit is completed. For example, the next layer will not materialise until the layer before the dungeoneer has gone.

That's certainly a possibility. It'd also be possible to make a Causeway logical sequence one that the Dungeoneer has to spend a few seconds working out for every step. Numerical calculations? The next step in a logical sequence? That'd make them have to spend a little more time rather than just leaping across.

In any case, I'm sure the production team could time it so the blocks fall just after the dungeoneer's stepped off them, however fast they go.

Puzzles like that must be modified to FORCE the dungeoneer to pause after a certain bit is completed. For example, the next layer will not materialise until the layer before the dungeoneer has gone.

I agree about the Corridor of Blades, though!

In any case, what's stopping them from having "Blind Spots"? Places in the dungeon where the dungeoneer loses his/her vision temporarily?

Identity is a big question in philosophy, and since eminent philosophers across the ages can't agree on an answer, I doubt we will. Some will claim the name is enough. Some will say that a certain "feeling" makes it properly KM. Some people will hold on to various things from the old KM as being critical in making the new animal fit the name. And no doubt some diehards will suggest any change from the old format invalidates calling it by the same name.

For my part, I'd rather look forward. Instead of focusing on all the things from the old series that must be included and the ways in which the new version would lose something, I'd like to focus on the things the new version can do better, the new challenges it can offer, the ways it can surpass its predecesor in form and style. Yes, it's difficult now, since we've only seen a few pictures. But I'm sure we'll get a better and more optimistic picture in time. I doubt they'd have dug it up if they didn't think there was something significant to be added and a great end product possibly to be had.

Every series of Km was an experiment - it's a case of The new series will either be radically different, Or there will be no new series. There is no point in trying to recapture past glories by remaking old series; what must happen is for an experimental new series to come out that is every bit as good as previous series (if not better) and that can be respected for treading new ground. I've no problem with the concept of a dungeoneer that can see - it will certainly speed things up a bit.

But the point is, should it have the name Knightmare? Personally, I don't think it wuold truly be Knightmare without certain elements that rely to some extent on the dungeoneer being blindfolded - the beam room, bomb room, corridor of blades, causeways, spike rooms, spindizzy, mills of doom, I could go on...

http://www.knightmare.com/forum/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=news;action=display;num=1038263782;start=30#37

Personally, I'd rather see them just do Timegate than besmirch Knightmare with such a radical experiment.

Can I just say what a brilliant name that is?  

Hooray for me.

Thanks! <¦-)

Who knows, my current obsession with the Chinese may have started with Ah Wok.

In any case, a lot of the time what happens in a room is more important than the process of guiding in and out (like a clue room, for example) so giving vision to the dungeoneer would speed things up nicely.

All the new series would need is a set of new puzzles that bear this in mind. I've got an idea:-

  A motion-sensitive bomb room. Move too fast and the fuse lights. The dungeoneer would have to shuffle VERY slowly forwards. Add a goblin horn to the proceedings and it would be a very good test of nerve! Lots of tension!

Can I just say what a brilliant name that is?  

Thanks.

The Dungeoneer, or whatever they'll be called, will see. It's not the same as before, I for one posted that it took away something very special, but hey, time turns. With the Dungeoneer able to see there'll be new challenges, and the game will be playable at a faster pace than before.

I think he's said that at most there would be one advisor, similar to TimeGate. So either one advisor or the Dungeoneer on their own. Carving out a suitable role for an advisor when the Dungeoneer can see may be a challenge in itself, but I think there's plenty of scope there, if they choose to follow that route. I hope they do, for reasons I've mentioned elsewhere.

We shall have to wait for a batch of new news before we can comment on anything to do with it.  We should be the first people to know

As for the Knightmare remake, it's certainly good news... but what's this about the dungeoneer not having to be guided or blindfolded? Knightmare wouldn't be the same without that. What I've read seems slightly unclear, I wouldn't want them to change the format that much (if at all).