Hi, Since you sent a support ticket to us regarding this almost simultaneous with your post on the list, I thought we’d address this here for others who may be interested.
Android has made significant strides, but it is nowhere near as accessible or as well supported as iOS. We’ll continue to evaluate the platforms we support, but given the huge resources required to develop for Android, the extremely small market, and the nightmare of supporting a platform as fragmented as Android is, we don’t anticipate it will ever be commercially viable. Some hobbyist developers will surely develop for it, but I don’t see it being a viable platform for commercial accessible game makers in the foreseeable future, regardless of the accessibility factor. As far as DoItWrite…that app is a tutorial and game for using a VoiceOver feature…a feature which Android doesn’t even have…so it would be virtually impossible, and absolutely pointless, to release that for Android, so I’m a bit confused on what exactly you would want in terms of DoItWrite on Android. At this point, we’re supporting three major platforms. If the Android situation improves and we expand to the point where we could handle a fourth, we might consider it, but it does not make any sense for us at this time. There are reasons why iOS has virtually all the great apps and games, even for the sighted audience, and most, if not all, of those apply even more so to the visually impaired market. Hope this helps. Draconis Entertainment “…feel the power…wield the magic…" http://DraconisEntertainment.com http://twitter.com/DracoEnt On Jan 5, 2014, at 6:04 PM, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Thomas, it would be cool if you could make a game similar to papa sangre but > for android. I have an android nexus7 tablet. I like it better than the iPod > touch. Wish I could play the papa sangre games though. Could someone into > programming maybe make a duck hunt audio game and maybe q9 for android? put > it up on the playstore let me know when its there I'll gladly pay $4 or $5 > even $10 for such a good quality android game. or how about a droid version > of swamp? honestly droid accessibility is on par with iphone and voiceover > and nvda for windows. oh yes swamp for droid! if you make it I'll pay $10 for > that also! walk by alternately tapping first put your device in landscape > mode then tap ottom left and bottom right of screen to walk or run. to go > backwards swipe down with a finger then walk, swipe up then walk for > forwards. swipe up then down in single motion to toggle between weapons. tap > top left of screen to reload weapon if needed. tap top right to shoot, tap > and hold to shoot as in with a machine gun. slowly swipe across the middle of > the screen to turn yourself around in different directions and to center > zombies. better yet, put your headphones on and stand up. since your device > has a sensor, a compass and things you can stand up to play the game. to turn > and face a zombie hold the phone or tablet in hand and turn your body around > like when you spin in a circle. to hear current direction swipe left and > right quickly. wear headphones while playing swamp for droid works on > jellybean and above. while playing, suspend talkback by making down and right > gesture the l gesture. go near top left of screen while in swamp main menu do > this suspend talkback swamp main menu would be self-voiceing. to turn on > talkback again when done tap power button once to put device to sleep. hit it > again to wake it up and talkback will wake up too then slide to unlock. > > Josh > > -- > using windows7 laptop > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
