[Audyssey] Blindfold Racer Championship now open (fixed web link)
Game registration now officially open. Win game credits or prizes (cash and credits) up to $1000. Become famous on TV, radio and social media. Overview at https://www.blindfoldgames.org/game-day/ Dates and contest info at https://www.blindfoldgames.org/game-day/quick-overview/ Lots of detail at https://www.blindfoldgames.org/how-to-participate/ --- 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://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.
[Audyssey] Blindfold Racer Championship now open
Game registration now officially open. Win game credits or prizes (cash and credits) up to $1000. Become famous on TV, radio and social media. Overview athttps://www.blindfoldgames.org/game-day/ Dates and contest info athttps://www.blindfoldgames.org/game-day/quick-overview/ Lots of detail athttps://www.blindfoldgames.org/how-to-participate/ --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Oops, Not clear subject, dissatisfied with my Racer Challenge Scores
When I play on the iphone, I tend to rotate it and tilt. So, to turn left, I tend to hold the phone in landscape mode with the screen facing by body, then rotate it to the left, keep the screen still facing my body. I have my left hand holding the left side, with my thumb resting on the left edge, and same with the right. Sometimes, additionally, when turning left, I will tilt the left side away from me a little, which gives it more direction to the left. The game was designed to work 2 ways: rotating the screen like a steering wheel, which people who had vision at some point, know intuitively by having driven, or watched someone else drive. It also works by keeping the screen facing the ceiling, and lowering the right side to turn right, or vice-versa. That's often used by preschool children who never drove a play car, or by people who were blind since birth. When I play the game, I combine the 2 methods. Try that and let me know. On 9/13/2016 8:26 AM, dark wrote: As I recall it wasn't one particular level, it was just occasionally while playing at random. I did wonder if it was the way (I was holding the phone, but I didn't see anything similar happen in any of the other blindfold titles I've tried, even the ones that rely heavily upon turning and reactions like breakout. all the best, Dark. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Oops, Not clear subject, dissatisfied with my Racer Challenge Scores
an 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. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2015.0.6201 / Virus Database: 4649/13007 - Release Date: 09/13/16 --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Oops, Not clear subject, dissatisfied with my Racer Challenge Scores
I would recommend increasing the split; i did that originally for some users in England who had poor hearing in one ear On 9/12/2016 7:59 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote: Hi, Well, I sent this message before adding to the Subject Line. My bad. I'm over twenty levels in practice mode, but not satisfied with my performance in the Blindfold Racer Challenge. One thing that might be making it more difficult is that I don't hear the same way in both ears, though I try to position my headset to make the sounds more balanced. But I'm wondering, would I benefit more with a higher/lower stereo split? Any other tips beside the obvious volume adjustments of sounds? Thanks, Sharon H. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
[Audyssey] Blindfold RacerChampionship
To find out more about the Championship - lots of people are signing up - follow me on twitter @blindfoldgames and follow the championship @blindfoldracer You can also join the facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/BlindfoldRacer/ On 9/7/2016 4:19 AM, Charles Rivard wrote: There won't be anything to it. What you will be doing is playing your game and submitting the result. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! -Original Message- From: Sharon Hooley Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:58 PM To: Discussion List For Gamers Subject: [Audyssey] Playing Games online with others Hi, I am preparing to compete in the Blindfold racer championship. I feel that I'm taking a daring step, because I've never played online games with other people. Can anyone please walk me through any game to practice before it all starts? I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks, Sharon H. --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold racer championship2016 event
That will be fixed in about a day or two. Just waiting for apple to approve it. On 9/5/2016 7:20 PM, joseph weakland wrote: Well when I registered I didn't have a friends URL to use so I honestly am unable to assist:( You might try hitting return after entering my user name in "friends username" field Good luck. -Original Message- From: Gamers [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Rajmund Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2016 4:10 PM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindfold racer championship2016 event Hi Joseph, Can you help, please? So, trying to register with my iPhone 5S. I answer yes at the invitation, and paste in JOSEP0709IL, making sure the comma isn't there. Whether I press return, whether I hide the field, whether I press next, it's keep asking for this question. How do I proceed, after pasting your name, please? Sent from a Braille Sense - Original Message - From: joseph weakland <josephweakl...@icloud.com> To: 'audyssey games' <gamers@audyssey.org> Date: Saturday, September 3, 2016 9:54 pm Subject: [Audyssey] blindfold racer championship2016 event in case you didn't know marty Shultz and pstarfish are sponsoring a blindfold racer championship2016. This special app is out on ios. Below is info and how to get app. Register for the Blindfold Racer Championship by downloading Blindfold Racer from this link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindfold-racer-challenge/id1147167885 "mt=8 And make sure you include my username, which is JOSEP0709IL, so that we both get $1 in Blindfold Games credit when you complete your registration. Happy racing --- 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://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://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. - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7752 / Virus Database: 4649/12951 - Release Date: 09/05/16 --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] How to use purchased Phrase Madness packs
What should happen is that the phrases will be picked from the bundle and the free group randomly. If it's not, please send an email from the game, and I can help you with it. On 7/29/2016 12:11 AM, Sharon Hooley wrote: Hi, I bought the bundle of phrase packs, but I'm not sure how to use it. Do I only have the choice for up to 26 phrases and then any random sentence come down into it from the pack, sort of like up to 26 gumball machines? (lol) Thanks, Sharon H. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] RS Games
I checked with them - you are right. The next version will have the correct number. On 7/27/2016 8:50 PM, Phil Vlasak wrote: Marty, I checked out the app page and it said that the app includes 20 games. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindfold-rs-games/id1118710108?mt=8 On the RS games page I found 19. list of 19 games 1000 Miles Apples to Apples Battleship Bingo Blackjack Cards Against Humanity Dreidel Farkle I Doubt It Monopoly Ninety-nine Pig Rummy Shut the Box Slot Machines Toss Up Uno Yahtzee Zombie Dice Is slot machines considered 2 games? --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] RS Games
If you are looking for RS Games for the iPad, expand your search to include iphone games, and you'll find it. On 7/27/2016 12:23 PM, Jason Milyo wrote: Hello is there going to be a version for the ipad or ipad 2 mini when I searched for the app in the app store there was no app for ipad, can you please get back to me 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Audio games for the blindness community Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] aboutblindfold.org
Sorry, no they cannot be. Only on ipod, iphone or ipad. On 5/10/2016 9:14 PM, corey overton wrote: Hey I’m wondering if you can play any of those blind fold games on a lap top or a desk top. I have windows 7 64 bit just wondering and if you can how do you play them on your laptop or desk top --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] why i build the games the way I do
Great idea. I am also adding sailing trip, with ripped sails,broken rudder, waves, etc. On 4/26/2016 11:51 AM, Phil Vlasak wrote: Marty, You could take one of your existing card games and alter the meaning of the cards. You could turn Blindfold Road Trip to Pirate treasure hunt. You're on a pirate ship sailing from island to island digging up treasure. Instead of calling them distance cards: call them gold pieces the object is to collect 1000 gold pieces. 25 gold pieces, 12, 50 gold pieces, 12, 75 gold pieces, 12, 100 gold pieces, 14, 200 gold pieces, 6. Total 56 hazard cards: out of wind 2, leaking ship 2, ripped sale 2, storm 3, no food 4. Total 13 remedy cards: wind 6, patch hull 6, repair sale 6, end of storm 6, stock up food 14 total 28 safety cards: constant wind 1, puncture-proof hull 1, non-rippable sales 1, no storms 1. Plenty of food 1. Total 5 --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts
Not for a while - currently I have no plans for that. On 4/25/2016 7:55 AM, Josh Kennedy wrote: will i ever be able to play these blindfold games on android or windows10 app store? On 4/19/2016 11:31 PM, Ken Downey wrote: That's why we have to come up with a way to satisfy both kinds of players. The way you do it in Pinball is perfect. By the way, if this message doesn't show up on the list, would you let the admins know? Thanks! - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts I've gotten lots of negative feedback for games that require 2D or even 3D sound, since a reasonable (i'm not sure how big, but they are vocal) part of the users have an audio issue, and they only way they can play the 2D games is via blue tooth speakers separated by several feet, so instead of using their ears to locate the sound, they turn their head so their good ear can detect which speaker the sound is coming from. And many people complained if ear buds are a requirement of the game. On 4/18/2016 2:53 PM, Kenneth Downey wrote: Agree with Dark on all points here, but I do think that abbreviating things too much could get confusing. I would stick With something like sheep northwes!, or better yet, two sheep and a dog northwest. The more these kinds of info can be concatinated the better. Alternatively, you could say, sheep 314 which would mean that there's a sheep at 314 degrees. This would be much more precise than the cardinal directions, but the player should be able to choose which method they want. Also, how far away is the animal! We could invent a new type of measurement, like a minicubit and minispan. The bigger one would be four fingers touching and laid out in a straight line on the screen. The smaller one would be one single fingertip, and the player would customize both measurements before starting the first game. Of course there is an even simpler way, a way all blind people know by the time we get out of high school, the coordinate system. You could simply say, sheep at E4 and boom, it would be very easy to find. A final method, and I am not sUre which 3D engine Bryan Smaart used for Ear Monsters, but animals would be extremely easy to find without much vocal feedback These are the ways I know for giving info about things on a screen. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:50 AM, rajmund <brajmund2...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I'd make them 2 games. I'd rather throw dice, than answer questions. Sent from a BrailleNote ----- Original Message - From: Marty Schultz <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:52:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts Thanks for all your input. I will send your comments around to the testers, and get their feedback, and implement those ideas. I haven't done much with breakout or hopper recently, since I'm building pool / billiards. I've been getting several requests for both snakes and ladders, and for more trivia games. There are already slews of trivia games that are accessible, and I imagine snakes and ladders would get boring quickly. So, I was thinking of combining those two together, but I have no idea if that would be fun. The idea would be that you could only move ahead in snakes and ladders if you answered the trivia question correctly. I could also make variants of the game more child educational by having another option to test arithmetic, or spelling. Any thoughts? On 3/31/2016 7:21 PM, dark wrote: Well as I said I've been playing through several of the games from Kidfriendly software to write up for audiogames.net, often paying for the coins and other upgrades when the game appealed to me personally. Barnyard was one that surprised me for the idea of the game and how much random fun sliding around looking for animals was, especially in the matching, indeed I like the fact that the game uses the touch screen so uniquely. I actually introduced my Fiance to the game today, sinse as an animal lover and because she's getting used to the hole touch screen concept on her Iphone, I thought it might appeal, and she really rather enjoyed it (indeed she got far more addicted than I expected and spent half an hour trying to beat her previous high score). Her first comment however (which I promised to pass on), was "why are there no dogs or cats?" As a lover of both she was quite disappointed, and in fairness I can see her point sinse while it's very cool to have Sea lions, Dolphins and rattle snakes on a farm, not to mention loons (good company for me), it would be rather logical to have a farm dog or cat :d. I also did have a couple of thoughts myself. Firstly
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold roadtrip with friends is out
You can pick up used iphones or ipods much cheaper than that on ebay. On 4/23/2016 3:48 PM, Josh Kennedy wrote: i really really wish blindfold games were windows10 apps or windows10 games or android games also. i just cannot justify to myself spending $200 on an ipod touch just to play those games when i already have devices that will play them fine. and please, no steam apps. as far as i am aware steam client is not very accessible. On 4/23/2016 3:03 PM, Charles Rivard wrote: Any step by step on working with game center will be appreciated. Thanks. If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!! -Original Message- From: joseph weakland Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2016 1:27 PM To: 'audyssey games' Subject: [Audyssey] blindfold roadtrip with friends is out Hello all blindfold gamers out there. Marty Shultz has released blindfold roadtrip with friends and it allows gamecenter play. App store link and description below. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindfold-road-trip-friends/id1099988406?mt= 8 description Blindfold Road Trip is an fully accessible audio card game where you try to to be the first player to travel 1000 miles. You and a friend are given a handful of cards. Your turn begins by drawing a card from the deck, and then either playing the card, or discarding the card. The objective of the game is to play distance cards, such as 100 miles, so that you travel a total of 1000 miles. You also want to prevent your opponent from playing distance cards, by stopping him by damaging his car, or slowing him down. Your opponent will try to do the same to you. Both of you can play cards to fix damage caused by your opponent. You play against other people via Game Center, or other people in the same room as you. Blindfold Road Trip with Friends was suggested by several blind gamers who enjoyed Blindfold Road Trip. version 2.0.4 If you have any queries etc email ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com happy gaming --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
[Audyssey] Trivia Game
I've tried to get in touch with anyone that has access to Jim's games, but no luck so far. If anyone can help, let me know. I would need the original programs (source code). On 4/20/2016 3:16 AM, Ken Downey wrote: By the way, if you do consider making a trivia game, Jim Kitchen made one on the 90s that's been growing ever since. Perhaps you could download all the trivia files he made and received, learn how their formatting works, and use them in your game. I can't imagine he would have minded. - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 1:21 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts But won't that make snakes and ladders boring after a while. It's all chance, no luck. I'm concerned the game will wear out in about 5 or 10 times playing it. On 4/18/2016 12:50 PM, rajmund wrote: Hi, I'd make them 2 games. I'd rather throw dice, than answer questions. Sent from a BrailleNote ----- Original Message - From: Marty Schultz <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:52:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts Thanks for all your input. I will send your comments around to the testers, and get their feedback, and implement those ideas. I haven't done much with breakout or hopper recently, since I'm building pool / billiards. I've been getting several requests for both snakes and ladders, and for more trivia games. There are already slews of trivia games that are accessible, and I imagine snakes and ladders would get boring quickly. So, I was thinking of combining those two together, but I have no idea if that would be fun. The idea would be that you could only move ahead in snakes and ladders if you answered the trivia question correctly. I could also make variants of the game more child educational by having another option to test arithmetic, or spelling. Any thoughts? On 3/31/2016 7:21 PM, dark wrote: Well as I said I've been playing through several of the games from Kidfriendly software to write up for audiogames.net, often paying for the coins and other upgrades when the game appealed to me personally. Barnyard was one that surprised me for the idea of the game and how much random fun sliding around looking for animals was, especially in the matching, indeed I like the fact that the game uses the touch screen so uniquely. I actually introduced my Fiance to the game today, sinse as an animal lover and because she's getting used to the hole touch screen concept on her Iphone, I thought it might appeal, and she really rather enjoyed it (indeed she got far more addicted than I expected and spent half an hour trying to beat her previous high score). Her first comment however (which I promised to pass on), was "why are there no dogs or cats?" As a lover of both she was quite disappointed, and in fairness I can see her point sinse while it's very cool to have Sea lions, Dolphins and rattle snakes on a farm, not to mention loons (good company for me), it would be rather logical to have a farm dog or cat :d. I also did have a couple of thoughts myself. Firstly, sinse the game employs time limits, it might be nice if we could make the information spoken more concise, and thus be more able to get higher scores. So instead of hearing "bullfrog to the north west" have a setting to just hear "bullfrog, northwest" or maybe even "bullfrog n w" Secondly, I wonder why some aspects of the game which are controlled in settings have not been used to create different various types of game to play? For example, instead of having the player choose how many animals, have games with increasing numbers of animals, eg, 3 minutes 5 animals, 3 minutes 6 animals. It might also be fun to have games that alter the number of animals while playing, so that players have to more quickly make judgements on the fly and cannot prepare for new sorts of animals turning up. So for example have a game that starts with four types of animals, and then add another kind after a predetermined time, say 2 minutes, then another kind after another two minutes and so on until the player messes up. Likewise, I rather wondered why both the size of animals and the spoken instructions were not factors used to create harder games to challenge the player, as opposed to be alterable in settings. Personally I'd much rather myself have the option to get higher scores on different modes of play than to have the same modes of play but need to alter a setting, sinse it creates more variation in the game and gives me more options when I start, not to mention making the game progressive by giving harder levels so that I can advance to the next hardest category when the previous one b
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold roadtrip with friends is out
two different apps: one with friends, one with robots. On 4/23/2016 4:29 PM, rajmund wrote: Hello, Can you only play this against people? No more robot players? Sent from my iPhone 5S On 23 Apr 2016, at 7:27 pm, joseph weakland <josephweakl...@icloud.com> wrote: Hello all blindfold gamers out there. Marty Shultz has released blindfold roadtrip with friends and it allows gamecenter play. App store link and description below. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindfold-road-trip-friends/id1099988406?mt= 8 description Blindfold Road Trip is an fully accessible audio card game where you try to to be the first player to travel 1000 miles. You and a friend are given a handful of cards. Your turn begins by drawing a card from the deck, and then either playing the card, or discarding the card. The objective of the game is to play distance cards, such as 100 miles, so that you travel a total of 1000 miles. You also want to prevent your opponent from playing distance cards, by stopping him by damaging his car, or slowing him down. Your opponent will try to do the same to you. Both of you can play cards to fix damage caused by your opponent. You play against other people via Game Center, or other people in the same room as you. Blindfold Road Trip with Friends was suggested by several blind gamers who enjoyed Blindfold Road Trip. version 2.0.4 If you have any queries etc email ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com happy gaming --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts
I've gotten lots of negative feedback for games that require 2D or even 3D sound, since a reasonable (i'm not sure how big, but they are vocal) part of the users have an audio issue, and they only way they can play the 2D games is via blue tooth speakers separated by several feet, so instead of using their ears to locate the sound, they turn their head so their good ear can detect which speaker the sound is coming from. And many people complained if ear buds are a requirement of the game. On 4/18/2016 2:53 PM, Kenneth Downey wrote: Agree with Dark on all points here, but I do think that abbreviating things too much could get confusing. I would stick With something like sheep northwes!, or better yet, two sheep and a dog northwest. The more these kinds of info can be concatinated the better. Alternatively, you could say, sheep 314 which would mean that there's a sheep at 314 degrees. This would be much more precise than the cardinal directions, but the player should be able to choose which method they want. Also, how far away is the animal! We could invent a new type of measurement, like a minicubit and minispan. The bigger one would be four fingers touching and laid out in a straight line on the screen. The smaller one would be one single fingertip, and the player would customize both measurements before starting the first game. Of course there is an even simpler way, a way all blind people know by the time we get out of high school, the coordinate system. You could simply say, sheep at E4 and boom, it would be very easy to find. A final method, and I am not sUre which 3D engine Bryan Smaart used for Ear Monsters, but animals would be extremely easy to find without much vocal feedback These are the ways I know for giving info about things on a screen. Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2016, at 11:50 AM, rajmund <brajmund2...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I'd make them 2 games. I'd rather throw dice, than answer questions. Sent from a BrailleNote - Original Message - From: Marty Schultz <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:52:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts Thanks for all your input. I will send your comments around to the testers, and get their feedback, and implement those ideas. I haven't done much with breakout or hopper recently, since I'm building pool / billiards. I've been getting several requests for both snakes and ladders, and for more trivia games. There are already slews of trivia games that are accessible, and I imagine snakes and ladders would get boring quickly. So, I was thinking of combining those two together, but I have no idea if that would be fun. The idea would be that you could only move ahead in snakes and ladders if you answered the trivia question correctly. I could also make variants of the game more child educational by having another option to test arithmetic, or spelling. Any thoughts? On 3/31/2016 7:21 PM, dark wrote: Well as I said I've been playing through several of the games from Kidfriendly software to write up for audiogames.net, often paying for the coins and other upgrades when the game appealed to me personally. Barnyard was one that surprised me for the idea of the game and how much random fun sliding around looking for animals was, especially in the matching, indeed I like the fact that the game uses the touch screen so uniquely. I actually introduced my Fiance to the game today, sinse as an animal lover and because she's getting used to the hole touch screen concept on her Iphone, I thought it might appeal, and she really rather enjoyed it (indeed she got far more addicted than I expected and spent half an hour trying to beat her previous high score). Her first comment however (which I promised to pass on), was "why are there no dogs or cats?" As a lover of both she was quite disappointed, and in fairness I can see her point sinse while it's very cool to have Sea lions, Dolphins and rattle snakes on a farm, not to mention loons (good company for me), it would be rather logical to have a farm dog or cat :d. I also did have a couple of thoughts myself. Firstly, sinse the game employs time limits, it might be nice if we could make the information spoken more concise, and thus be more able to get higher scores. So instead of hearing "bullfrog to the north west" have a setting to just hear "bullfrog, northwest" or maybe even "bullfrog n w" Secondly, I wonder why some aspects of the game which are controlled in settings have not been used to create different various types of game to play? For example, instead of having the player choose how many animals, have games with increasing numbers of animals, eg, 3 minutes 5 animals, 3 minutes 6 animals. It might also be fun to have games that alter the number of animals while playing, so that players have to
Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts
But won't that make snakes and ladders boring after a while. It's all chance, no luck. I'm concerned the game will wear out in about 5 or 10 times playing it. On 4/18/2016 12:50 PM, rajmund wrote: Hi, I'd make them 2 games. I'd rather throw dice, than answer questions. Sent from a BrailleNote - Original Message - From: Marty Schultz <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com To: Gamers Discussion list <gamers@audyssey.org Date sent: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:52:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts Thanks for all your input. I will send your comments around to the testers, and get their feedback, and implement those ideas. I haven't done much with breakout or hopper recently, since I'm building pool / billiards. I've been getting several requests for both snakes and ladders, and for more trivia games. There are already slews of trivia games that are accessible, and I imagine snakes and ladders would get boring quickly. So, I was thinking of combining those two together, but I have no idea if that would be fun. The idea would be that you could only move ahead in snakes and ladders if you answered the trivia question correctly. I could also make variants of the game more child educational by having another option to test arithmetic, or spelling. Any thoughts? On 3/31/2016 7:21 PM, dark wrote: Well as I said I've been playing through several of the games from Kidfriendly software to write up for audiogames.net, often paying for the coins and other upgrades when the game appealed to me personally. Barnyard was one that surprised me for the idea of the game and how much random fun sliding around looking for animals was, especially in the matching, indeed I like the fact that the game uses the touch screen so uniquely. I actually introduced my Fiance to the game today, sinse as an animal lover and because she's getting used to the hole touch screen concept on her Iphone, I thought it might appeal, and she really rather enjoyed it (indeed she got far more addicted than I expected and spent half an hour trying to beat her previous high score). Her first comment however (which I promised to pass on), was "why are there no dogs or cats?" As a lover of both she was quite disappointed, and in fairness I can see her point sinse while it's very cool to have Sea lions, Dolphins and rattle snakes on a farm, not to mention loons (good company for me), it would be rather logical to have a farm dog or cat :d. I also did have a couple of thoughts myself. Firstly, sinse the game employs time limits, it might be nice if we could make the information spoken more concise, and thus be more able to get higher scores. So instead of hearing "bullfrog to the north west" have a setting to just hear "bullfrog, northwest" or maybe even "bullfrog n w" Secondly, I wonder why some aspects of the game which are controlled in settings have not been used to create different various types of game to play? For example, instead of having the player choose how many animals, have games with increasing numbers of animals, eg, 3 minutes 5 animals, 3 minutes 6 animals. It might also be fun to have games that alter the number of animals while playing, so that players have to more quickly make judgements on the fly and cannot prepare for new sorts of animals turning up. So for example have a game that starts with four types of animals, and then add another kind after a predetermined time, say 2 minutes, then another kind after another two minutes and so on until the player messes up. Likewise, I rather wondered why both the size of animals and the spoken instructions were not factors used to create harder games to challenge the player, as opposed to be alterable in settings. Personally I'd much rather myself have the option to get higher scores on different modes of play than to have the same modes of play but need to alter a setting, sinse it creates more variation in the game and gives me more options when I start, not to mention making the game progressive by giving harder levels so that I can advance to the next hardest category when the previous one becomes too easy (I really like the setup in Hopper and Pong for this). I've actually thought the same in breakout, that the speed of the ball and whether the paddle grows when it hits the back wall should be factors that alter in different levels, however Blindfold Barnyard, sinse it is based on managing increasing levels of more complex circumstances would be a really nice game to play around with in this way. INdeed, speaking of complexity, there could be some rather fun ways to expand the game. Firstly, at the present moment there is no reason why a player cannot simply keep clearing one fence of a given animal type and accumulate more and more score on another fence. I was thinking therefore of inserting a factor which forced players to kee
Re: [Audyssey] why i build the games the way I do
I would attempt an RPG based around a card game, if someone could point me to one. More often than not, I search for either programming code for an existing game, or for extremely detailed instructions, and then rewrite the entire thing for the iphone. --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Barnyard, some thoughts
ad which may be used either instead of, or as well as the wind idea, is the idea of animal feed to earn bonus points. The basic idea would be to again give players another factor to manage according to which fence which animal got hitched to. the idea is that at times (or on specific levels), players would hear a truck sound and would be announced "insert animal name food at insert direction fence", eg "Canary food at east fence" For the next short while, say several seconds, players would get extra points for hitching animals of that type to the specific fence, say double points. of course, the problem would be that if that fence was full, or if the player already had a collection of the given animal on another fence, then it would be time for a value judgement. just some thoughts. As I said, my fiance and I really rather enjoyed Blindfold Barnyard, a very unique principel for a game and look forward to seeing any other newly designed games from Kidfriendly software (I'm planning to try out my fiance with Hopper next). All the best, dark. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
[Audyssey] Why I build the games as I do
Michael is quite correct in how I approach the games. Basically, I build the games for all visually impaired people, most of whom do not like to play RPGs. While the games don't make much money, and certainly don't pay for my time, they do offset the out of pocket costs. I tend to re-use as much as possible in each game, to make the next game that much better. By re-using the programming code, it means I can spend my time on the differences between two games, rather than build from the ground up. And it took about two years to get there. I now have a common infrastructure between all of the games, so simple things, like settings screens or posting to facebook, twitter or game center is just a matter of including a module. Creating the original infrastructure to post to facebook, etc. took 2 or 3 weeks spread out over a year. It's general rule of thumb that any program needs to be revised and rebuilt 3 times before you get it right. At this point, the infrastructure is a that point, and most of the games have gone through 3 generations of being re-created. Mastering the physics engine enabled me to spin out a bunch of games quickly, but what always happens is that the details of the game take forever. For example, pool, which will be out in a few weeks, took only 3 days to convert from vee ball. However, it was another 3 weeks before the pool game was stable, and fun to play. I had slews of issues in the game, such as using the physics engine properly to allow 15 balls to move around and make their sounds, without it getting so slow that the sound was stuttering. Then I had to design and debug several ways to select and aim your cue stick. Then I had to create the game rules for about 6 different games. And do all of this with the ability to move it to a multi-player game some time in the future. With the multi-player infrastructure, I've re-written that about 5 times, and the latest one seems to be reliable. I prototyped the latest version on crazy 8, and then moved it to wildcard. It took about 4 days to adjust wildcard to handle it, and in the process found more flaws in the crazy 8 game, and fixed those. Then I moved the multi-player ability to road trip, and that took about 3 days, and found more flaws, so I had to fix those, and re-release crazy 8 and wildcard. I'll probably make bowling multi-player next, and hopefully that will take only 2 days. Eventually, I should be able to get adding multi-player to any game in about a day. These games could actually make enough money to employ multiple programmers, but market penetration is the killer. There are at least 20,000 blind people with iphones or ipads in the USA alone, and less than 1,000 know about my games, and 80% of those people don't buy anything. --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] frogger questions - Re: a couple of new games out fromkidfriendlysoftware
One of the limitations I have is that only stereo is available; I cannot do sounds in front of you versus behind you. By varying the amplitude, I can make a sound seem further away, and it usually sounds in front of you. I licensed the Something Else 3D audio engine for the iphone, but ran into many difficulties and stopped using it. Many windows games take advantage of 3D sounds, either through having more speakers in the headphones, or by the same algorithms used n the something else 3D engine, but since it was Microsoft that provided the technology, it was far more stable. On 3/20/2016 6:05 PM, dark wrote: Hi Marty. Obviously previous games of this type haven't had analogue control, but it's a cool idea. The simplest way would be for the frog to stay static and the cars move from side to side ahead of you and then a tap to hop past each car or set of cars when the coast was clear not using analogue movement at all. That however is missing a key element of gameplay and would probably be limited in challenge. The second way might be to have a varient of the lilly pads gameplay, with your frog having to cross roads in various directions rather than streight forward, and need to first turn and face the road itself (perhaps with an audio beep when on target), then jump when the sounds of the car or cars were not in the center of the sterrio field. A more interesting, though probably more problematic idea idea might be that moving your phone left and right moved your frog along the bottom of the road with the cars in front of you, and you could jump at any point. So for example say you were hearing two cars above you, a fast car coming in from the left and a slower one from the right. Well you might want to jump at the far left to leave the maximum amount of time between the fast moving left cars, provided the right one was out of the way. On the other hand, for two fast moving cars moving at relative speed, the clearest place might be in the center. I'm not sure how much there would be to add to this in terms of audio mechanics, sinse you'd need to hear the sound of the cars in front of you and being able to move your phone left and right to alter your frog's position relative to the cars, and thus choose whether you wanted to jump in the center, to the right or left depending on the traffic's position. For example if a very fast car were coming from the left hand side, you might want to get to the far left of the playing area to give yourself maximum time between cars, while if there were two cars moving at relative speeds from opposite ends, then your more likely to have a chance in the center of the field. Just some thoughts. Btw, I appologise if this explanation isn't adequate, however if you want some ideas on this type of thing or how to do audio arcade games in general, perhaps checking out previous audio games for pc might help sinse while they don't have analogue control of the Iphone some of the audio sound design for arcade challenges was rather good, the game Hunter for example produced by Bsc programs (and annoyingly now not available sinse the developer went bust and took his games with him), has some very well put together sterrio targeting challenges which add together different elements one after another. Hopper in particular and the ethos of adding together different elements to make harder levels in audio very much reminded me of Bsc games and Hunter in particular. All the best, Dark. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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 rega
Re: [Audyssey] a couple of new games out from kidfriendlysoftware
In hopper, with the car or train, I assume you mean you would move your phone quickly to the left or right to get ahead of the train, and then jump to train number 2. Is train number 2 moving like the target lily pad moves? On 3/20/2016 8:47 AM, dark wrote: Hi MArty. Thanks for getting back to me about the feedback. With roadtrip that's fare enough, though it'd be nice if it was sorted. In terms of Hopper, well cars or trains would be fairly easy and have been done in audio before though not on Ios. Basically you hear the sound of the cars or trains moving quickly from one side of the sterrio field to the other, and have to move forward when it is at one side sinse if you hit it in the center you'd be squished. The better varients had multiple cars or trains to get past and a varying forward movement speed so you perhaps had to judge position of a couple of objects at once. Very doable in audio actually and it would be a nice eddition, espeically if the hop distance could be varied just as in the original frogger. As to racer, what I mean is I found that when trying to set settings, flick between levels etc, even find out about the upgrade, for some reason voiceover's reading of the screen was very patchy. I couldn't flick to items, often the speech would be choppy, and when moving around the screen frequently o would not speak at all. It was actually so bad it was difficult for me to set anything. When I tried just playing with the in built voice and turning vo off, I noticed a major problem with the movement and actually the same I had before, it'd be fine some of the time then for some reason just stop responding, leaving my car to pootle along and then slam into a fence. It also did seem an in game movement issue sinse even though the first couple of levels do not employ the gas peddle, the speed of the car went down to nothing and took literally five minutes to complete a stage, bouncing off fences all the way. This is why in terms of the game, I'd either do very well, or for no reason very badly, eg, scores of 0 or %100 on the first couple of races. I was hoping this bug was fixed in the newer version. I'm using an Iphone 5 with the latest build of Ios 9, so I assume there isn't a problem with the hardware there. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] a couple of new games out from kidfriendlysoftware With roadtrip, the algorithm I found to be the opponent wasn't designed for more than one opponent, so I'm not sure how good it will be. I'll look at that for the future. I'm not sure what you mean by the voice over interface was clunky in racer. I only use voiceover in the settings and menu screen, everywhere else its real voice (my daughter from 3 years ago). I have a new version due out soon with another 25 levels. I haven't heard the issue of drifting before; I think the audio positioning might have been messed up. The new version has gotten a lot of testing. If you have details and ideas for more levels in breakout, let me know. For hopper, I'm not sure how to add more types of levels to it as an audio game. If you could give me specifics as to what would happen in a car or train level, I can try. --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> ---
Re: [Audyssey] frogger questions - Re: a couple of new games out fromkidfriendlysoftware
Thanks, but I still have a question how the audio game would be played. Would the frog sit still, and wait for the right moment to move up to the next object, or would you be able to swing the phone left and right, and then jump when its the right moment? With the lilypads, you can swing left and right to move the frog. On 3/20/2016 2:13 PM, dark wrote: your frog had to pass several lanes of traffic moving from right to left without getting splatted, hence my suggestion, then when you finished hopping the traffic you had to hop onto lilly pads moving right to left in the stream. So, it went from avoiding traffic to jumping on lillies. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] a couple of new games out from kidfriendlysoftware
With roadtrip, the algorithm I found to be the opponent wasn't designed for more than one opponent, so I'm not sure how good it will be. I'll look at that for the future. I'm not sure what you mean by the voice over interface was clunky in racer. I only use voiceover in the settings and menu screen, everywhere else its real voice (my daughter from 3 years ago). I have a new version due out soon with another 25 levels. I haven't heard the issue of drifting before; I think the audio positioning might have been messed up. The new version has gotten a lot of testing. If you have details and ideas for more levels in breakout, let me know. For hopper, I'm not sure how to add more types of levels to it as an audio game. If you could give me specifics as to what would happen in a car or train level, I can try. --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold rummy is released
That's old. There was a charge initially, but everyone complained so its now free. On 12/10/2015 3:45 PM, Rajmund wrote: Hello, Hmm, I know when I tried adjusting in some card games (the ones I tried, anyway) it said to buy the basic package. - Original Message - From: Kidfriendlysoftware<ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: Gamers Discussion list<gamers@audyssey.org> Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015 8:17 pm Subject: Re: [Audyssey] blindfold rummy is released No. That's free in all the games On Dec 10, 2015, at 2:50 PM, Rajmund<brajmund2...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello, In order to adjust the speech settings, do you have to buy the app? I know in the previous games of some, you could not change voice setting, unless you pay. - Original Message - From: joseph weakland<josephweakl...@icloud.com> To: 'audyssey games'<gamers@audyssey.org> Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015 5:26 pm Subject: [Audyssey] blindfold rummy is released Blindfold rummy for IOS has been released today. I found that out when I did a search. Here is description from app store: Blindfold Rummy is a fully accessible Rummy card game for both sighted and visually impaired people, designed for rapid audio play. Blindfold Rummy comes with Gin Rummy where most or all of the cards can be combined into sets and runs and the point value of the remaining unmatched cards is low. When you have very few cards that are not in a set or a run, you can knock, and the player with the lowest points in their hand wins the round. The game is played until 100 points, or whatever target score you set, is achieved by one of the players. You play against up to 3 computer players. You can customize the game to your liking: how much extra information is spoken and how quickly it is spoken, how many sound effects are used amongst other things. And you can post your high scores to Twitter or Facebook. Blindfold Rummy was suggested by several blind gamers who enjoyed Blindfold Spades and Blindfold Hearts. --- 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://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. Sent from a Braille Sense --- 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://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://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. Sent from a Braille Sense --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers
Re: [Audyssey] Blindfold Breakout questions
Thanks for checking out the game. Calibration - I think you swipe down with 3 fingers. Let me know if you have problems. Videos should work; there's a limit to the number of videos per day and videos if they are available (that's controlled by an algorithm from the advertiser, not from us). Coins are on a per game basis. That's what supports the development of the games. On 12/8/2015 10:36 PM, dark wrote: Hi. I've just tried this out. I did mean to earlier, but my life has been sort of a bit hechtic of late, however as I'd like to see if I can do my usual december the 24th audiogames.net database upgrade, (plus I have lots of long journies ahead), I thought I'd give this a go. As to the game itself, I'm really liking how the ball moves and bounces around, actually a lot like the original, particularly getting the ball into the back corner to do the multiple brick bouncee of doom! Definitely a great remake of a classic. However, I do have a couple of questions. The first is as regards calibration. I'm not sure if I moved my arm around enough during the tutorial, is there a way to repeat calibration or do I need to repeat the tutorial level? Secondly, about these coins. I'd be quite happy to pay for the game, say by buying the extra modes out right, but I'm a little uncomfortable with the coin system. I don't know! how much I'll play the game, however 14 dollars does seem a bit much for unlimited play. ON the other hand, if I say paid just the one dollar for the 40 coins, the potential to runout is there. Are these coins usable in multiple blindfold games on the same device? I do mean to try the other blindfold games and obviously there are both other arcade games and games like poker that require coins to bet with. I'd be far more comfortable paying 14 usd if it got me unlimited plays on several arcade titles and/or some poker money. The add videos thing is okay as an idea, however my problem is that once the add video finishes I have problems getting back to the game, sinse the back button on the video's final screen is not labeled, (I believe it's at the top right hand corner but am not %100 sure on this, and the usual back scrub gesture doesn't work). Indeed, the last game I tried the add videos thing for (actually Turf wars), I ended up having to close and reopen the ap after each video, however when I tried this in Breakout I didn't get the blindfold. Of course, all of the coins thing is a sideline to the game, which i definitely like so far and expect I will like even more when I've tried some of the whackier modes. All the best, Dark. --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold airhockey is now out
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Re: [Audyssey] blindfold airhockey is now out
I just wanted to jump in quickly; I won't really participate in this android debate, but the key issue with apps created for android, is that you can install any app on an android phone without going through google play. And, google play store won't check your code for malware. That means you can install malware on your phone, and that malware touch other things on the phone just like windows malware can affect other things, and reek havoc, not just on your phone, but by sending out fake emails to people in your contact list, etc. I am often frustrated by the extent that apple goes through to keep apps clean and malware free, and as a developer, sometimes I have to jump through hoops. But, as a consumer, I trust my iphone way more than I trust the PCs or Macs on my desk. --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] The Game of "Say What"
Can someone find out if there is an accessible version of a game like that for the iphone. If not, I can add it to my list of games to build. On 11/16/2015 6:18 PM, Sharon Hooley wrote: Hi, Has anyone played the game "Say what?" It's a stand-alone portable device in which you put parts of proverbs together. Is it kind of like a madlib, where you can mix the parts and have it announce the results, or does it just say something like, "Oops, that doesn't match."? Or is it being produced anymore? 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] blindfold airhockey is now out
Maybe in the future. Not soon. Sorry. On 11/12/2015 10:05 PM, Josh K wrote: please make this game for android also. thanks. follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982 On 11/12/2015 5:58 PM, joseph weakland wrote: Hello all airhockey fans. Have you ever wanted to play airhockey on your ios device? Well, now you can cause blindfold airhockey is officially outJ. Below is description from IOS app store Blindfold Air Hockey is an fully accessible audio game that's similar to the arcade game Air Hockey. In Blindfold Air Hockey, you have a mallet or paddle, and there's a puck on the playing table. To start the game, hit the puck swiping your finger. The puck heads towards your opponent's goal, where he knocks it back to you, bouncing off of the walls as it gets closer to your goal. You block his shot, and fire the puck back at his goal. The first player to score 7 goals wins the game. Using head phones or ear buds, you hear the puck heading towards you, and you control your mallet by moving your finger left and right. When the puck is close enough, you'll hear a ding sound, and you can swipe the puck aim at your opponent's goal. Blindfold Air Hockey comes with a tutorial level, and 16 different opponents - varying from beginner to expert. Blindfold Air Hockey was suggested by several blind gamers who enjoyed Blindfold Breakout and Blindfold Bowling. The game comes with coins; you need one coin to play. To get more coins, you can listen to advertising videos, or purchase coins as an in-app upgrade. <https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/blindfold-air-hockey/id1054990351?mt=8> ...More <http://blindfoldgames.org/> Blindfold Air Hockey Support Have fun and if you have issues/suggestions/ideas email ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for theIphone thatareaccessible?
thanks On 9/29/2015 10:51 AM, Charles Rivard wrote: Sounds like one cool game for an iDevice! --- Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished! - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for theIphone thatareaccessible? Actually, breakout is the next game i'm building. Ken Downey gave me some good audio files that I need to check out. I've been kind of busy dealing with 12 games in the app store that broke due to changes in ios9 text-to-speech. Most of that work is done now, so I can get back on track. On 9/22/2015 7:09 AM, dark wrote: Hi David. This is exactly why I'm personally waiting to upgrade to Ios 9 until at least 9.1, so that all the kinks can be worked out. Personally, I'd most like an accessible version of breakout with the bat ball and blocks. not only is it an arcade classic which there are no real accessible versions of (the version on Pcs is a good game but not imho close enough to the original to really give the experience), but also it's a game where the gyro for moving the paddle to bounce your ball would add something to the play. Still, we'll see what Marty fancies doing. actually I need to play more of his games and add them to the db, although I confess my mind hasn't been on games lately. All the best, dark. - Original Message - From: "Appleman" <appleman310...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone thatareaccessible? Hi Dark, I emailed Marty recently and put forward a couple of suggestions to him, my first one for an accessible version of Packman and my second one for a space-invaders type game. I know we have a few of those already but another clone would be good, since Audio Defence doesn’t work for now under IOS 9. Marty and I discussed Packman and he thought it would be good to start with a maze game first before tackling Packman, to which I agreed. Marty was concerned about how we would know when we were approaching the ghosts in Packman so I was explaining “Packman Talks” and how it was played. Getting back to Audeio Defence, I have reported the problem I am experiencing under IOS 9 to the developer. David Sent from my iMac On 22 Sep 2015, at 7:28 pm, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: I know the developer from kidfriendly software who does all the blindfold games was asking about what games to do next, if there isn't an accessible 1000 miles on the Iphone you might suggest that one to him to add to the range. all the best. Dark. - Original Message - From: "Appleman" <appleman310...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone that areaccessible? Hi Leo, I tried “1000 miles” on my iPhone a few months ago but didn’t get very far with it. You should have been able to just double tap on a card to select it but the process was more complicated than that. David Sent from my iMac On 22 Sep 2015, at 10:05 am, Leo Cantos <lcantos...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Gamers, I am looking for any 1000 miles games for the IPhone that work with V.O? I wanted to also about any monopoly games for the IPhone. It would be preferable if they were free games but if not, I can do that too. Not looking for any online games just a computer, but if I can 1000 miles or monopoly online, that would be a bonus. Thanks, Leo Sent from my iPhone --- 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://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://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
Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for theIphone thatareaccessible?
The reason that it's non-trivial is that it requires a physics engine to control the ball, and a way to give the player a lot of information at the same time - number of bricks, position of the paddle, angle and speed of the ball, etc. Fortunately, I have a great group of blind gamers that can tell me what works and what doesn't. On 9/29/2015 8:48 AM, dark wrote: Hi. Awesome! As I said, I've never understood why there haven't been more attempts to make accessible versions of breakout. From a sound scape perspective it's not too different from pong, and yet the gameplay is far more interesting and can have far more potential variations, especially when you add analogue style control such as the gyro of Ios devices into the mix. I'll look forward to that one. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for theIphone thatareaccessible? Actually, breakout is the next game i'm building. Ken Downey gave me some good audio files that I need to check out. I've been kind of busy dealing with 12 games in the app store that broke due to changes in ios9 text-to-speech. Most of that work is done now, so I can get back on track. On 9/22/2015 7:09 AM, dark wrote: Hi David. This is exactly why I'm personally waiting to upgrade to Ios 9 until at least 9.1, so that all the kinks can be worked out. Personally, I'd most like an accessible version of breakout with the bat ball and blocks. not only is it an arcade classic which there are no real accessible versions of (the version on Pcs is a good game but not imho close enough to the original to really give the experience), but also it's a game where the gyro for moving the paddle to bounce your ball would add something to the play. Still, we'll see what Marty fancies doing. actually I need to play more of his games and add them to the db, although I confess my mind hasn't been on games lately. All the best, dark. - Original Message - From: "Appleman" <appleman310...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone thatareaccessible? Hi Dark, I emailed Marty recently and put forward a couple of suggestions to him, my first one for an accessible version of Packman and my second one for a space-invaders type game. I know we have a few of those already but another clone would be good, since Audio Defence doesn’t work for now under IOS 9. Marty and I discussed Packman and he thought it would be good to start with a maze game first before tackling Packman, to which I agreed. Marty was concerned about how we would know when we were approaching the ghosts in Packman so I was explaining “Packman Talks” and how it was played. Getting back to Audeio Defence, I have reported the problem I am experiencing under IOS 9 to the developer. David Sent from my iMac On 22 Sep 2015, at 7:28 pm, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: I know the developer from kidfriendly software who does all the blindfold games was asking about what games to do next, if there isn't an accessible 1000 miles on the Iphone you might suggest that one to him to add to the range. all the best. Dark. - Original Message - From: "Appleman" <appleman310...@gmail.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 9:11 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone that areaccessible? Hi Leo, I tried “1000 miles” on my iPhone a few months ago but didn’t get very far with it. You should have been able to just double tap on a card to select it but the process was more complicated than that. David Sent from my iMac On 22 Sep 2015, at 10:05 am, Leo Cantos <lcantos...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Gamers, I am looking for any 1000 miles games for the IPhone that work with V.O? I wanted to also about any monopoly games for the IPhone. It would be preferable if they were free games but if not, I can do that too. Not looking for any online games just a computer, but if I can 1000 miles or monopoly online, that would be a bonus. Thanks, Leo Sent from my iPhone --- 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://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. -
Re: [Audyssey] accessible video games.
Check out some of my blindfold games in the app store under Kid Friendly Software, such as blindfold racer or blindfold simon On 10/1/2015 10:05 PM, ishan dhami wrote: Hello firstly happy cleanery day for all of my friends. now let's move on to the topic. as the subject line says, I want to know is there any accessible video games for kids? in NIVH our computer teacher take the iniciative to demonstrate audio games but now he asked some accessible video games for us. Please if you have some share it in this list. Thanks Ishan --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone thatareaccessible?
nges or update your subscription via the web, at http://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone that areaccessible?
Cool idea. Once I dig myself out of the ios9 voice issues, and I finish breakout, I'll look into it. On 9/22/2015 1:19 PM, dark wrote: Hi. that would be fun, sinse it's a less usual cardgame and the stratogy can get interesting, and actually if you were doing a custom theme you could make the subject about something more unique than motor racing which you could represent in audio, for example how about a jungle expedition to get to a south american temple by travelling so many miles up the amazon with the trap cards being poisonous snakes, pit traps, jaguas and other predators and of course hostile tribes people, with cards to avoid them being things like medicine kit to counter the snake venom and of course your trusty whip for swinging across pit traps :D. Just a suggestion, but you see where I'm going with this one. All the best, Dark. - Original Message - From: "Marty Schultz" <ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:07 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone that areaccessible? We looked into building both, but they are protected by copyrights. We may be able to do a variant of 1000 miles, but it would have to be a bit different. Let me know if you are interested. On 9/21/2015 8:05 PM, Leo Cantos wrote: Hi Gamers, I am looking for any 1000 miles games for the IPhone that work with V.O? I wanted to also about any monopoly games for the IPhone. It would be preferable if they were free games but if not, I can do that too. Not looking for any online games just a computer, but if I can 1000 miles or monopoly online, that would be a bonus. Thanks, Leo Sent from my iPhone --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
Re: [Audyssey] Free 1000 miles games for the Iphone that are accessible?
We looked into building both, but they are protected by copyrights. We may be able to do a variant of 1000 miles, but it would have to be a bit different. Let me know if you are interested. On 9/21/2015 8:05 PM, Leo Cantos wrote: Hi Gamers, I am looking for any 1000 miles games for the IPhone that work with V.O? I wanted to also about any monopoly games for the IPhone. It would be preferable if they were free games but if not, I can do that too. Not looking for any online games just a computer, but if I can 1000 miles or monopoly online, that would be a bonus. Thanks, Leo Sent from my iPhone --- 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://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. -- *Marty Schultz* ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com <mailto:ma...@kidfriendlysoftware.com> Blindfold Racer - free iPhone/iPad app where you drive with your ears, not your eyes www.BlindfoldRacer.com <http://www.BlindfoldRacer.com> Learn about how we built it for blind & visually impaired kids, teens & adults as a STEM project. Follow the blog: BlindfoldGames.org <https://blindfoldgames.org> Follow us: @BlindfoldGames <https://twitter.com/blindfoldgames> --- 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://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.
