yes another android user helping me prove my point. please bring the
games to android. thanks. join the eyes-free list. in fact if the
blindfold games developer would join eyes-free, I will volunteer to be a
tester of the blindfold android games! I would love to test them once
porting of the blindfold games to android begins.
On 11/9/2017 12:26, Tyler Wood wrote:
There is a lot of falsehood going around as far as android goes.
Yes, it has its problems. So does apple – especially with this new iOS
11 build. Victor is on the eyes free list addressing the list at large
and is part of the talkback team, so android is climbing up the ladder
and I’d say these days is on very equal ground with apple.
And, Charles, all someone has to do is make in app purchases. Make the
game itself something like 10, 15 dollars. It does, after all contain
80 games (or adjust the price accordingly when different packs are
released, e.g. blindfold cards).
This is just my thoughts, though. Apparently I’m in the minority on this.
We should at the very least be trying to find a compromise rather than
throwing blame everywhere.
*From: *Charles Rivard <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *November 9, 2017 9:28 AM
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
I base what I’ve said on what game developers, who I figure have
researched to find the best market for their apps, have found.
If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
*From:* Josh Kennedy <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Thursday, November 09, 2017 8:57 AM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
are you sure about that? because the eyes-free android list has huge
amounts of list traffic on it from many different people, all blind,
all using android, all using talkback or some variation of talkback.
Are you on the eyes-free list? android is excellent and getting better
all the time. Whoever told you android is a tiny market has
misinformed you unfortunately I think. It's true back in 2009 through
2012 android was still getting its footing so to speak. But now
android and IOS are quite close as far as their accessibility
features. As of the latest talkback beta, talkback can label buttons
automatically for you most of the time. It has verbosity options
similar to jaws, different reading modes like those in voiceover, and
very good web support. With the latest brailleback app we now have
grade2 braille input. If blindfold games were open sourced, other
developers could help the main developer work on the android versions.
and talkback also works good with my RCA galileo pro android 6.0
tablet with physical keyboard, thanks to talkbacks many customiseable
keyboard shortcuts.
On 11/9/2017 05:25, john wrote:
Josh:
It almost certainly would not be worth it. In the blind community,
it seems that Android is actually only used by a small, if very
loyal, group of people. I'll say this platform loyalty transfers
into double sales, but even so, 5%*2=10% of original sales
figures. That's not worth it.
*From:* Josh Kennedy <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 08, 2017 22:29
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
yes it would take time. but would be worth it i think.
On 11/8/2017 21:49, Liam Erven wrote:
Josh. You realize all of his games would have to be rewritten
from the ground up right?
It’s not exactly a rainy day project.
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*From: *Josh Kennedy <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *Wednesday, November 8, 2017 8:46 PM
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or Updates
just switch to google play store so we android users can have
more games please. thanks. and a new talkback just came out
recently 6.0 beta. it works very good.
On 11/8/2017 20:37, Liam Erven wrote:
It’s unfortunate, but I’ve talked to some other
developpers who have had the same issues.
Mainly developpers who are designing apps as 3^rd parties
get hit by this.
I will certainly write and Call Apple though. Maybe enough
people can give you some sort of free pass, though I doubt it.
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*From: *Joe Quinn <mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent: *Wednesday, November 8, 2017 7:28 PM
*To: *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] No more Blindfold Games or
Updates
What does this mean for the end-user? Will we still be
able to do in app purchases?
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On Nov 8, 2017, at 5:34 PM, Marty Schultz
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I just finished talking with an Apple representative,
and Apple’s decision is that unless I merge the 80
Blindfold Games into a handful of apps, they will no
longer allow new games to be released or allow updates
to be make.
From a technology perspective, that’s extremely hard
and time-consuming. From a business perspective, that
would mean spending hundreds of hours recoding the
games, with no possible return-on-investment. Most of
the games generate sales in the first three months of
the game being released, and I’ve been building these
games for 4 years.
From a usability perspective, that means the main
menus would be ridiculously complex, and the settings
screens would be confusing and almost unusable.
If you are unhappy with this decision, you can express
your opinion to Apple. The accessibility desk is at
[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>or you can call
1-800-MY-APPLE. Thanks to everyone for enjoying my games.
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