Hmm All of my ships were vertical. How do you change orientation. there was a random ally place ships but I could not find away to place them down manually or change the orientation. this made me loose big time. On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:19 PM, Esther wrote:
> Hi Krystal and Matthew, > > Naval Combat is an accessible iOS battleship game, which can be played either > as a single user against the program on an iPhone or iPod Touch, or in group > play through the Game Center. I hadn't actually tried this game until > Krystal posted her question about using it on the iPad. I downloaded this > app onto my iPad by treating it as though I were doing a new purchase from > the App Store. The behavior with VoiceOver is odd. I was able to get this > into full screen mode, but although the game displays in portrait mode, just > like for the iPhone, VoiceOver announces this as "landscape" -- even when I > have orientation unlocked when I start this up. Further, in order to flick > to the controls I have to flick up (instead of right) or down (instead of > left). But the descriptions are still for the portrait mode play. This is > extremely weird. I think that someone who actively plays this game, and who > also has an iPad should write to the developer. > > Matthew, the game has a board or 10 rows (labeled 1 through 10) and 10 > columns (labeled a through j) on which 5 ships of different lengths are > placed either horizontally or vertically. You'll hear announcements like > "ship, aircraft carrier, vertical, from i3 to i7" or "ship, battleship, > horizontal, from c4 to f4" that announce the random placement of these ships > on your board. The positions and orientations of your ships are hidden from > your opponent, who will try to launch hits at various squares on your board > in attempts to get a hit on one of your ships. You, in turn, will move about > your board, firing in an attempt to sink his ships, at their unknown > positions. When you get a hit, you then try to follow up by striking > adjacent squares until you cover all parts of that ship. You need to decide > whether the ship is horizontally or vertically oriented, based on your > current position on the board, and the positions of your previous misses or > strikes. You each get points for each successful strike. When you sink a > ship, you'll be told what type of ship you destroyed, and the positions of > your strikes. Each round ends when either you or your opponent succeeds in > sinking all five of the other's battleships. > > HTH. Here's the URL if you're interested. It was free for the day on July 4, > 2012, so I posted it to the list. Hadn't tried playing this myself until > Krystal's question. > • Naval Combat by Jonas Eckhardt, Tobias Muehlbauer, Wolf Roediger GbR > ($0.99) > http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/naval-combat/id408833350?mt=8 > > Krystal asked about contacting the developer for iPad use, and according to > their support web page, you can write to the developer at: > [email protected] > They also have a twitter account: @mindrecursion > > Cheers, > > Esther > > On Jul 12, 2012, at 3:35 AM, krystal watson wrote: > >> it will work on i phone i pad and i pod i think >> On 12/07/2012, at 11:08 PM, Matthew Chao wrote: >> >>> What is Naval Combat, and on which systems will it work? >>> >>> Matthew Chao >>> >>> At 02:01 AM 7/12/2012, you wrote: >>>> it was much worse that that i can not even get the app to synk to the i >>>> pad i am afraide > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > [email protected] > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to [email protected] You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
