Re: Alternative to Forge for Magic: the Gathering

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dan_c: You can go with the Auto button, that taps mana for you, but when you play with two or more colors it is oftenly useful to tap it yourself to be sure that you'll be using the sources you want to. If you have, for example, Forest, Forest, and Stomping Ground (a green/red land), and you have two cards in hand, one costing {1}{G} and the other costing {R}, you will want to use the Forests for the first, and leave the Stomping Grounds to generate the R. Most times, however, you can just hit Auto and go ahead.zenothrax: Pauper and Commander can be much cheaper, of course, but Arena is one of the most honest free to play games I've ever played. My wife is sighted and she plays there and interacts with the screen for me so I can play too (currently I'm on ranking Platinum 3 this season). To build some competitive decks you will spend some money or a lot of time, sure, but to build your first strong, competitive deck it takes around one month of play and perhaps five dollars to buy the very valuable Welcome Bundle. To dive into competitions you will surely need to spend a lot of cash, but to play and have a lot of fun you just need the time to do it. And accessibility, of course, it would be just amazing to play Arena on my own. Until then, Forge is serving me alright.By the way, you can all go to the Wizards of the Coast's Magic the Gathering website, click on contact and send a request for screen reader accessibility on Arena. It begins with requests.

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Re: Alternative to Forge for Magic: the Gathering

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About good introductory decks, I normally recommend Mono Red aggressive decks, usually named "Red Deck Wins", not because they are the best (in fact, there's no such thing as the best deck of all) but because they are very straightforward, no subtle playing nuances, you drop your lands and throw as much damage as you can each turn. In the preconstructed decks that come with Forge, Lightning Aggro and Cavalcade Charge are two good examples.Another thing that made me angry for a while and rzkline generously explained: If you accidentally hit F11, the game will go to full screen mode, and NVDA's Golden Cursor will not work. Just hit F11 again and things get back to their place.About the card references, it depends. If I just want to read some card's details, I go to scryfall. Just typing the card's name and the word scryfall on google will return it on the first result. Scryfall is great because it presents card details as text and puts the card title and cost in a page header, very easy to navigate to. Now, if I'm researching cards, looking for something that has this effect and that cost and this rarity and that color, then I use Forge's deck editor, for it can filter cards in many, mny ways.Everyone can feel free to ask me questions about how to use Forge. I surely don't know everything, and sometimes I go for one or two days without opening this forum, but I'll be glad to help as I can. Magic is a wonderful game and the more blind people learn to play, the more it gets possible to push Wizards of the Coast to make MtG Arena accessible.

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Re: Alternative to Forge for Magic: the Gathering

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I had a better luck by navigating the UI myself with objectnav and creating my own GoldenCursor marks than using the pre-made one, not because mine is better or worse but because this way I got to familiarize with everything that's onscreen. I would love to write a guide, but time is scarse and so I'll just drop some tips I learned in the past months:1. The only things you really need changed in the forge.preferences file areUI_SR_OPTIMIZE=trueUI_ENABLE_MUSIC=false (you can leave this out if the music doesn't bother you)UI_SHOW_CARD_OVERLAYS=trueWith this and Java Runtimes and Java Access Bridge enabled, you should be able to navigate the UI with NVDA's ObjectNav.2- You navigate to an object, then press your shortcut to move mouse cursor to focus (mine is Caps+Shift+m, it deppends on what keyboard layout you are using in NVDA), then you press the Golden Cursor shortcut to add a bookmark. Put a name in it, think of different names beginning with different letters to facilitate use). Now with Golden Cursor you can move the mouse to this point and press your NVDA shortcut to do a left click (mine is Caps+[). You should do this to every single place on screen that's relevant, and there are a lot.3- When you first launch Forge, main screen will be of Constructed game mode. I won't get into different game modes in this post, but Constructed is the most popular anyway. Before we get to the important places, let's take a look in the menu bar and game modes bar.3.5- Many things can be navigated with tab and alt+tab, but most of them need ObjectNav, so unless I state otherwise, whenever I say "navigate to" I mean with ObjectNav.4- Navigate all the way to the left and you will find the menu bar. Interact with it (in my keyboard layout, where caps+shift+arrows navigate, I do this with caps+shift+down), and you will find the options "Home", "Deck Editor", and others. Bookmark all that you think is necessary, but specially the Deck Editor option. You can also bookmark the Concede option, but it does have a very simple keyboard shortcut anyhow.5- Going right from the menu bar, you will go through the many game mode options. Forge is a very cool application with a lot of different features. The first, Constructed, Booster Draft and Sealed, are the most popular. We will start with Constructed, which is the first mode when you first launch Forge.6- In the Constructed mode screen, you will need to navigate around and find and bookmark some stuff. First, find the fields name and deck for the first player, and be sure it is set to Human, not AI. Do the same for the second player, although you don't need to bookmark the second player's name field, for the game can generate a random one every time. So, bookmark with Golden Cursor the following objects:- First player's deck- Second player's deck- Preconstructed Decks, which is the list of pre-constructed decks that come with Forge7- Left from the preconstructed decks list you will find a drop-down menu. If you change it, it will give you different deck listing options. To use the decks you will create on deck editor, choose Custom User Decks. Right from the decks list you will find checkboxes to view the deck, call a random deck, play in singleton mode, and the button to Start Game. So, every time you go to your deck's bookmark, click it, then go to the deck list, click it, choose your deck, go to your opponent's deck bookmark, click it, go to the deck list, choose his/her deck, then go to Start Game.8- In deck list, in cards list, in almost every list, you will find, left from the list, viewing options. Always click the List Mode, for Image Mode is not accessible. Navigate in lists with arrows, pageup, pagedown, home and end.9- Deck Editor is quite self-explanatory. In any list of cards, including the enormous Catalogue, you can press Control+F to find cards. Find cards will search your text in card's name, type and text. Pressing space in the Catalogue sends a copy of the card to the deck, and pressing it on the deck takes it away. By moving mouse cursor to a card in a list you can right-click and get additional options. Left from the deck card listing you will find a drop-down menu, where you can switch from main deck to sideboard. Navigate around and get familiarized with the many many filtering options that both deck list and catalogue list have. Decks you construct and save will be, in Constructed Mode screen, on the Custom User Decks.10- When in a game, the most important places to find and bookmark for easy access are:Your HandYour FieldOpponent's FieldYour Life (which is just next to your Avatar)Opponent's Life (likewise besides his/her avatar)Stack/Combat/Log (explained below)Your zones (Hand, Library, Graveyard, Exile, etc)11- Stack, Combat and Log options. What really matters here is: 11.1- When you click the Log, the UI will show a series of text fields, one after another starting right from the Log button, 

Re: Alternative to Forge for Magic: the Gathering

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As far as I went, to play with the new Kaldheim set cards you need to run a daily snapshot. I tried to download the latest assets but they won't load on the latest stable release. The latest snapshots are a doozie, because you can download today a version that has this or that card scripted wrong (the other day I cast an Elven Warchief and it went on and on creating infinite Elf tokens), and when this happens you need to wait a couple days and try to download the newest daily snapshot (now, for example, this Elven Warchief bug is already fixed). This said, the daily snapshots carry on all rzkline's accessibility improvements, and are quite stable. You can download them at https://downloads.cardforge.org/dailysnapshotsit is the GUI Desktop file, with tar.bz2 extension. The daily snapshots also add some inconvenient rollbar buttons to the navigation, but aside from that they work just like the stable version.

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Re: Alternative to Forge for Magic: the Gathering

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None that I know of. Currently I am trying to mobilize as many sighted and visually impaired people as I can to write to Wizards of the Coast and ask for accessibility for screen readers in MtG Arena. Maybe it never happens, maybe it takes five years like netflix's audiodescription did, but we gotta start by trying. Until then, I'm dealing with Forge, it's not easy to use but it's playable.

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Re: Need help starting with Fighting Games

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Re: Need help starting with Fighting Games

I'm running on PC/Steam. I'll try Killer Instinct and MK also.

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Re: Need help starting with Fighting Games

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Hey, I said I was a competitive player, I never said I was a good competitive player lolBut knowing that it is actually possible to locate yourself in the scene and react properly is already a great first step. If there are no titles with easier gameplay for blind players, I think I'll start with Street Fighter V.

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Need help starting with Fighting Games

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Hi, folks.Long story short: I was a competitive fighting games player until I got blind when I was 19-years old in end 2000. My favorite titles were back in the days SF Alpha 3, Tekken 3 and Tag Tournament, The King of Fighters from 97 to 2000 and Mortal Kombat 2 (never really liked 3, UMK3 and 4).Well, now I am blind and so I read many people here posting about playing mainstream fighting games on PS and PC, and I would really, really love to give it a try. So here I am with some questions for you wise blackbelts:1. Is it (enphasis) REALLY (ends enphasis) playable? I mean, there are essentially two kinds of players in fighting games, the ones who know what they are doing and the button smashers who repeat the same one or two moves again and again and sometimes end up winning a round or match. No problem at all with the second kind of player, word, games should be for fun, but I used to have fun being the other kind. So, honestly, I can spend some hours in trai
 ning modes, but will I eventually be really knowing what's going on on the screen in order to react appropriately? I need to talk to great players here lol2. Where to start? Which games are best for a blind player to master? Menus are not a biiig problem, as I can easely ask for visual assistance, I am concerned more about gameplay, for me right now it seems very difficult to determine wheter my opponent is standind, crouching or jumping towards or away from me. So, for mercy of a poor newbie, please, show me the way thanks a lot

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Re: Recommended Audiogames for Newbies

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Alright, some cool stuff listed above.I tried Swamp, Paladin of the Sky, Castaways, Top Speed 3 and Manamon. Swamp is, for me, the best one by far, although I was never really a big FPS fan. Manamon is cool, but I preferred Paladin of the Sky, if it had Manamon's sound quality it would be awesome. Top Speed, hm, nice game, but I felt like it could use an update with new gameplay and better sound. Castaways kinda bored me.Ah, I also tried Crazy Party, the card game seems cool, but I really miss some tutorial on how to create and use good decks to beat the first gym.I'll try more. Keep sending your Top 10's, please, and thanks a lot.

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Re: Recommended Audiogames for Newbies

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First of all, thanks a lot, guys, I'm taking note of everything, tonight I'll start downloading and trying some of them. Keep shooting, there ain't such a thing as too many games to play.I was wondering if, for both practical and playful reasons, people would prefer sending their Top 10 best audiogames of all times, what do you think?

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Recommended Audiogames for Newbies

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Hi, folks.Suppose that I'm a newcomer who's got blind recently and know nothing at all about audiogames, except that they exist and can be played without vision; never even heard about any titles, old or new.Now, what would be your recommendations? It can be old games, new games, free games, paid games, browser games, PC games, iOS games, the only restriction is: I want only the good ones, not the average, definetly not the boring ones, just the golden stuff.Show me what you know.

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Re: I miss Hearthstone...any replacement?

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Re: I miss Hearthstone...any replacement?

Pokémon Showdown is accessible on the website interface. I couldn't catch the link when I made the first post, but now here it is, this guide will put you running on the game:https://gamemadnessinteractive.wordpres … ity-guide/Two worthy notes: First, the user interface is responsive, so it will give you one interface on larger resolutions such as 1600x1200 and another one when you run on smaller screens, I personally don't like the compact version where you have to switch between chat and battle log. Second, if you want to learn how to play in order to eventually have some fun winning some battles, then go to Smogon University and start reading, Smogon is your friend. Although the competitive community is a harsh desert of stone, when you are not playing against those guys they tend to be nice teachers. Enough of that, though, for this is not a Showdown topic 

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Re: I miss Hearthstone...any replacement?

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Pokémon Showdown is indeed a harsh terrain, I spent weeks just reading and studying the metagame, going through lots of team analysis, and even so it took me three months to start winning more than loosing, it's a really wild competition environment, but it's all accessible, the reason why I'm not a top player is that I am lame, not that it's difficult for the blind I have and old project about Magic the Gathering, one that would require someone with real programming skills, not the poor ones I have. There is/was an application for Windows which I used when I was sighted, the name is Apprentice. Apprentice was a server-client app that would connect via IP and allowed you to play Magic the Gathering. The graphics were greatly simplified, with no card illustrations, and the rules were kept by the players rather than by the app. So, if you take 3 damage, you gotta deduce 3 life points from your total, the game won't do it automatically. All that said, it was a great way to play Magic, and it had no complex interface, just a list with your cards, a tabletop, a chat and some buttons.It would be just wonderful if we or somebody could create it for the blind. I tried some years ago with BGT, but got stuck on it and in the end it seems that an app made in Python, with an interface that sighted players could use too, would be a nicer pick.

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Re: I miss Hearthstone...any replacement?

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As many and more of us, I feel your pain, dude. I was a Magic the Gathering addict before I got blind and I still want so bad some way to play it online again.My small contribution is: Search the forum for pokémon showdown, I apologize for not linking the topic here, but it is pretty accessible and it gives you access to a raging competitive community, believe me, those guys are wild. I've been studying competitive pokémon battling for months now, I play a couple hours everyday, and I still feel a newbie. It's not a card game, but it is certainly the competition environment you are looking for.

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