Even though the utube clips I've seen of Jack didn't make the game sound
appealing to me, ---- a litle too lude and based on toilet humour for my
taste (not to mention full of very us specific questions which wouldn't
really make as much sense in this country), this is stil very good news.
it's really nice to here someone who makes a long running mainstream series
is finally taking account and maybe a playable jack attack, ---- perhaps
with sapi or recorded speech reading the choices to match, will be
forthcoming in future which will be a really nice point gained for
accessibility.
Please keep us posted on this one.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Orin" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:58 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Response from Jellyvision regarding You don't Know Jack
Hey all,
A while ago I had emailed the You don't Know Jack Jellyvision product
manager I believe he is, Mike Bilder, about the possibility of the Jack
Attack being made accessible. Mainly I emailed him to tell him that yes,
we do play and since the game wasn't out yet I had asked if there was
keyboard entry questions, as that would be an accessibility issue on
consoles. Turns out it'd be an issue for everyone. This is his response. I
like it, and usually when someone mentions to You don't know Jack on
Twitter that they're a blind player they start following us immediately
after they see it, so I think they're interested, to say the least.
Email below.
Orin
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks
Skype: orin1112
Begin forwarded message:
From: Mike Bilder <[email protected]>
Date: March 29, 2011 8:26:48 PM EDT
To: 'Orin' <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Regarding the new You don't know Jack
Hi Orin,
Thanks for your note. I have to tell you, your email has started quite a
lengthy discussion here at the office. Unfortunately I'm not sure
there's much we can do to address this in the current version. I really
wish I would have heard from you about 8 months ago. The current version
contains 3 types of questions: 1. The traditional multiple choice. 2.
The DisOrDat 3. The Jack Attack. There are no question types that
require keyboard / virtual keyboard entry. There are some variant
specialty questions that are based on the multiple choice but they are
executed in the same manner as the normal multiple choice. Given what
you've explained below, all of the game, with the exception of the Jack
Attack, should be fully accessible.
I'd love to keep in contact with you so we can take proper steps in
future versions of the game to make it fully accessible to blind players.
Best,
-Mike
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Mike Bilder
General Manager
Jellyvision Games
Email: [email protected]
-----Original Message-----
From: Orin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 8:24 PM
To: Mike Bilder
Subject: Regarding the new You don't know Jack
Hi Mike,
I visited the Jellyvision site, saw an email address and wanted to email
you guys on something regarding YDKJ in general, something you probably
never considered or thought of for this series.
I don't know if you know this, but a good number of us fans of the old
games are blind. I miss the game, and have pre-ordered the game for my
PS3 and will be playing it on Tuesday. I notice that Cookie continues to
read the questions, this is great. However, I'm concerned; will there be
question types like Roadkill? In the ride, that was inaccessible. That
doesn't annoy me more than the Jack Attack though. The reason that this
is the most frustrating is that with the new multiplayer features, we
won't really be able to compete. And the people who I'm playing against
certainly won't read the Jack Attack words as they come up, they'll just
take advantage and win. I'm just curious if there could possibly be
anything you can do to improve the jack attack experience for blind
players? Because so much of the game is accessible and playable for us
already, that's the thing. It's just that online blind people can
probably only compete against blind people and even then, we have to be
really good at the questions as we can't answer the jack attacks. If I do
crappy on the questions and get some right on the attack that's what the
whole point of the attack is, to get bonus cash. Also, I'm curious, are
there questions where you have to type in answers this time? I would
think on consoles and a virtual keyboard that'd be hard.
Thanks for reading this email if you do at least. I hope that maybe you
can figure out a way to make the attacks accessible and put it in a
downloadable patch. My first guess would be to have Cookie somehow read
them, but I guess the whole point is to see them in buzz in quickly.
Anyway, if nothing else, I'll enjoy the game and Cookie's humor, even if
I can only truly play against the computer or local.
Thanks.
Orin
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/orinks
Skype: orin1112
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