Hi Tom, Speaking personally, I would rather see a game more closely tied to the Mac interface, and that would mean using mac TTS voices. One has to consider how easy it would be for an average user to run a program in a command line environment. Granted, there are ways to make this process relatively simple, but a native application would be ideal. I take as my model the RS Games client, which runs natively on Mac at least. Hope this helps, Zack. On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Agent Orange <agentora...@talktalk.net> wrote:
> > Tom, I'm not a Linux or Mac user but I'd rather have option 1 myself. > > Phil > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Ward > Sent: 17 October 2012 20:24 > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: [Audyssey] Text Verses TTS Output > > Hello everyone, > > Got a quick question I thought you might be interested in commenting on. > Recently I've began making plans to port a number of audio games to Mac and > Linux via Python. Basically, a lot of the games I have in mind are sports, > board, and card games such as those byJim Kitchen or Spoonbill Games. In > addition to that I'm going to work on my own games such as Final Conflict. > Yeah, I know this sounds like more of the same card, board, and other games > we already have, but its not really intended to be for Windows users > although they will certainly be Windows compatible. The basic idea here > behind the project is to port as many games as possible to non-Windows > platforms such as Mac OS and Linux since the number of accessible games for > those platforms are far fewer than those currently enjoyed by Windows users. > It so happens card and board games are the easiest place to begin such a > project. > That said, I've got a question that will effect everyone who would like to > playy them. The question is this. > > There are two ways I can design the user interface for these games. > The first would be the simplist possible interface and that would be to > write text based games with text for output plus have sound effects. As Such > you would play them in a command prompt window or terminal window using your > screen reader and would have very simple Dos style menus like press 1 for > new game, 2 to load a save game, 3 to configure settings, 4 to exit game, > etc. As a result because of the plane text interface it should be > universally accessible using any screen reader on any platform because the > interface would be a straight up text based application. However, that isn't > the only solution here. > > The other option is to write a cross-platform GUI application with Pygame, > and rather than using text I could wrap Sapi, Speech Dispatcher,and so on > using something like PyTTSX. This would allow you to scroll through menus, > have automatic speech output using the operating systems native TTS API, and > would closely resemble their Windows counterparts in features. The only > downside to this I can see is having to install more dependencies to get > everything working, but it is certainly an option. > > So to my question to you is wich format would you rather see? Would you > rather settle for a plane text based game with additional sound effects, or > do you want a self-voicing application that requires a bit more work but > otherwise would have the same features as games from Kitchins Inc, > Spoonbill, etc in terms of TTS output, Windows menus, hot keys, and so on? > > Thanks. > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, > send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
