Hi Dark, Audyssey
Thanks for your interesting review! Much appreciated. Sander and I are
thinking of developing an iPhone version of Extant for some time now.
Actually, we already got it running for a year on iPhone/iPad but since
Extant is not much more than a tech demo without real gameplay, we did
not yet persue this project. Our questions are these - for you, Dark,
but also the Audyssey community...
- would you be interested in an iPhone version of Extant (and then a
full version game, not just the tech demo)?
- would you be interested in audio games for (mobile) iOs (iPhone/iPod
Touch/iPad) devices?
- would you be interested in audio games for (mobile) Android (for
example Samsung Note, Galaxy) devices?
- how many of you play the adio games that are currently in Apple's
AppStore - and what do you think of these?
Thanks for your input. If there's enough interest we might want to make
Extant (or another audio game) one of our next projects! Oh, and if you
really want a full game version of Extant on PC or Mac, please let us
know too :-) And if you don't know what Extant is, check this out:
http://audiogames.net/db.php?id=Extant
Greets,
Richard
http://audiogames.net
http://creativehero.es
On 10-10-2012 13:33, dark wrote:
Well, this morning I just got a free play with an Iphone 5 running voice over.
On a basic level I was impressed. Some of the gestures I found more difficult
than others, for instance the three finger swipes I didn't quite get the kknack
of, but others were quite natural and I suspect I'd get more used to it in
time. The functions of the phone seemed fairly doable too, indeed for kicks I
tried searching the ap store for king of dragon pass, managed to find it and
read the game details, (I didn't play it because obviously the chap who's
phone I was examining didn't necessarily want the game), though sinse it's
games and gamebooks I'm mostly interested in on the Iphone, I was pleased that
was doable.
the internet I found a little more problematic, I tried searching for
audiogames.net, and had a bit of trouble navigating google correctly.
I also got a play with seri which seems a usefull system, though I was
disappointed when i was testing it's speech recognition that though it did!
know the word dalek, it didn't recognize cyberman and read it as spiderman! :D.
I also asked about commands to flick voice over on and off, lock the phone for
making phone calls etc, and all of that seemed doable.
The only thing I didn't like the sound of is the fact that I can't just copy my
music and audio books onto the phone, sinse one reason I wanted one was to
serve as an effective music and audio player, but apparently apple objects to
this so it requires silly itunes, which i'm obviously going to have to
investigate. That is the one downer I found, indeed I might considder just
buying an mp3 player separately to do that job if Itunes isn't going to behave.
Voice over did look fun though, and I'd actually love to see some audio games
that make full use of screen position in this way, for instance I can imagine
playing a stratogy battle game could be far easier with a touch screen sinse
you could get physical positional information about the various units relative
locations and the map, similarly to reading soemthing in braille but with the
information being conveyed by audio.
I'm now of course going to have to check out A, Itunes, and B, pricing, sinse
an Iphone 5 would be very expensive in the region of about 500 quid
apparently, and I'll C, check whether my current phone contract supports the
Iphone and has enough internet to make things work, (thus far I've not used
net so haven't got a very net heavy mobile phone contract, though it is a cheap
one and comes with a lot of free minutes).
it does however look like a workable solution and a lot of fun, indeed sinse if
everything goes as planned next year I should be studdying voice in Bermingham
conservatoire, I would be doing a lot of commuting on trains, and it'd be
usefull to have something small and portable.
Previously I've used my laptop, but the battery here is pretty dead, and i
would! like to try a lot of the iphone games, and more especially gamebooks.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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