You get explosions if you have three coins of the same denomination vertically or horizontally. Also, there are bombs in the stacks. When you hear a fuse lit, you'll hear a sound when you're on that stack, and you have a limited time to make a play, if it's to your advantage. Otherwise, the coins just blow up all over the board.
HtH, Teresa "The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve."--Pete Graham On Dec 13, 2012, at 7:10 AM, Søren Jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Krister and others. > > Well, I have understood more of the gameplay so far. > > The pitch simulates, as far as I understand it, some stacks of cards which > are falling. When the pitch of the spoken cards gets deeper, that means they > are getting closer to the bottom, and the time is about to run out. > If you have a dollar card in your hand, you have to place that card on a > dollar as well. If that dollar card is at the top of other dollars, or to the > left or right of it, your added card will start an explosion, blowing those > dollar cards away. So the objective is to place cards which fits together, > which will blow them away. > > Pressing the up arrow tells the card you currently have in your hand. > Pressing the down arrow tells the card just below the card you're standing > on. If you wanna hear what card is below the card you've selected to know if > that'll start an explosion, you can press the down arrow. > Pressing the left and right shift keys tells the cards to the left and right. > I don't find this useful, because I just use the arrow keys. :) > Pressing enter discards the card you have in your hand, and pick up a new > card. That's used if your card doesn't fit at any places. > Holding down option and using the arrow keys let's you explore the whole > board. Well, I don't find this useful yet, but only find this waist of time. > :) > > The only thing which confuses me is the point system. And, where are the > coins you have to blow up? I mean, if I place 3 dimes on a row, they explode. > So where are the coins I need to blow away? Sorry for my confusion. :) > > If I'm wrong on anything I've said here, then please correct me. > Best regards: > Søren Jensen > Mail & MSN: > [email protected] > Website: > http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ > > Den 13/12/2012 kl. 11.01 skrev Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Soren. >> Don't worry, i have a quite good understanding of english and not even i did >> fully understand the rules of the game. The way i played it was like this: >> Hold the left or right arrow key in until you reach the end of the grid then >> change arrow keys, while doing this, slam the space bar as fast as you >> possibly can and pray you get some coins. >> This is a very noisy way of playing but it's the only effective way of >> playing this game i know of. And another thing, don't bother going down with >> down arrow key as this only confuses. >> /Krister >> >> 12 dec 2012 kl. 21:32 skrev Søren Jensen <[email protected]>: >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> Wow, what a huge topic I made just before I went out from my house just a >>> few hours ago. :) >>> >>> Regarding people who can't get this game to work, you should check what >>> system voice you're using. If you use a big voice which use lots of >>> resources, it might not work. And, if you use a system voice which isn't >>> english, it might not work as well. I haven't tried that, so I can't make >>> sure yet. Just something which came to mind. >>> >>> I didn't had time to play the game before I went out, but I opened up the >>> game and read the tutorial. I had some issues on turning off VOiceover >>> after I launched the game, because the system voice took over so Voiceover >>> was kind of crashed. That got fixed after the system voice has stopped >>> reading, and it all worked fine for me. >>> >>> I bought it many years ago then I was a kid. That might be a year after it >>> got released. I bought a game pack from ESP Softworks which included Monkey >>> bisness, ESP Pinball and Changereaction. My english was really not that >>> good this time, so I never understood the rules in change reaction. I still >>> don't fully understand it as I write this, but I'm sure I'll do after I've >>> tried the game a few times. >>> There is just one thing which confuses me: Where are the details of the >>> other game modes mentioned? If they are mentioned in the tutorial, I just >>> read too fast. :) >>> Anyways, thanks for a nice game guys. I've looked so much forward to this >>> moment, and I'm sure next year will be the gaming year for the blind >>> community. Keep up the awesome work, and if you need more beta testers, I'm >>> very interested. I'm very active on the Audio games forum, and I've played >>> most audio games which has ever been released. >>> Keep up the good work. that'll open up to a new world for many gamers. >>> Best regards: >>> Søren Jensen >>> Mail & MSN: >>> [email protected] >>> Website: >>> http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ >>> >>> Den 12/12/2012 kl. 19.01 skrev Josh de Lioncourt <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> >>>> The audio is at least on par with all of our old games. Technology has >>>> come a long way int he last ten years, and it is not necessary for audio >>>> games to be huge anymore. You can hear a sample of the game audio here: >>>> >>>> http://dracoent.com/audio/trailers/CRTrailer.mp3 >>>> >>>> It is very possible to use compressed audio that decompresses on demand >>>> these days for desktop machines. iOS devices are another matter, as they >>>> aren't quite powerful enough for that yet. >>>> >>>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:53 PM, "Daniel Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Josh, >>>>> >>>>> I'm finding it hard to believe that that app is self-contained in a 5MB >>>>> download. The audio must be incredibly, incredibly horrible if that's the >>>>> case. >>>>> Just my 2 cents. >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: [email protected] >>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh de Lioncourt >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 11:47 AM >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Subject: Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for >>>>> blind in the Mac app store >>>>> >>>>> Stacey, >>>>> >>>>> If you continue to have problems, you may wish to delete the app and >>>>> re-download it from the App Store. Perhaps your download was corrupted. >>>>> >>>>> Before doing that, however, we do recommend trying the solutions outlined >>>>> in >>>>> my previous email. >>>>> >>>>> The game does not download any extra components. It is entirely >>>>> self-contained. >>>>> >>>>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Mark, >>>>>> I can't get it to open at all. >>>>>> What os are you running. >>>>>> >>>>>> On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It took quite a while to come up speaking, and the first thing you'll >>>>> hear is an alert asking you if your headsets are on and comfortable, so as >>>>> not to blow out your eardrums. After that, you might as well turn VO off, >>>>> in fact it might help. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> . Mark BurningHawk Baxter >>>>>>> . AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 . MSN: >>>>>>> [email protected] . 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