even with window eyes alex the same problems exist
the game is cool but having it menu-based would be better but it is a
visually appealing game of course originally designed for the sighted
and i do applaud the developer for at least considering us
:)
On 22 Dec 2008, at 15:02, alex wallis wrote:
hi list.
please forgive me not replying in the smugglers 4 threads, but
because of my annoying jaws issue, I couldn't select the subject
line in a digest in order to copy it so i could paste it into my
subject of this message.
anyway, I think its great the smugglers 4 developer is trying to
make his game accessible,
however i just wish he had consulted us on what we as blind players
need.
as although i like this type of game, there are several issues with
it that for me just make the game a lot of hard work to play, in
fact i've pritty much given up playing it.#]
firstly the biggest headake is for a jfw user the combat screen when
your ship is fighting just looks a total mess, its really hard to
make sense of it and you can't easily find options as they are
berried in bits of random text about your ship, or some times split
over several lines.
my second big headake is the fact that he's just tried to adapt the
interface a little bit, i'm sure we all agree it would be a lot
easier to play if we had a conventional menu system we could use
with the pc cursor, and maybe even the ability to press letters to
activate particular options.
i'm playing on a laptop, and its probably because of the amount of
cursoring around i have to do as well as simulated mouse clicks that
just annoys me, it can some times take me 15 or 20 minutes just to
beat one ship.
mostly because after each action i do like firing a gun i have to
cursor down to the bottom of the screen, simulate a mouse click with
caps and number 8 to click ok, and then move back up the screen and
try to find the fire option again, and then if i have 1 point left
over i have to waste time hunting around the screen for the end turn
option.
your arms can get quite tired when doing a lot of simulated mouse
clicks lol.
all in all i find this game frustrating to play and i wouldn't
recommend anyone to buy it untill either its interface is radicly
altered for us, or neils designs a conventional menu system for us.
i wrote to him explaining my issues, and he wrote back complaining
sales of his game hadn't been as good as he'd hoped so it would make
it harder for him to continue developing the blind compatibility
mode. thing is though if he'd actually consulted the gamers list on
what we needed or wanted in the first place he would have been able
to design it so it would be both fun and easy to play, and would
probably get a lot more sales. so i actually have very little
simpathy for the game not selling as well as he'd hoped because he
didn't design it well for us, he just went ahead and did what he
thought we needed.
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