Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-28 Thread dark
Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game? Hi Dark, There is really no way to put Jim Kitchen's Trivia game

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-28 Thread peter Mahach
11:55 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game? Hi Dark, There is really no way to put Jim Kitchen's Trivia game on a hand-held device unless it runs Windows. It has a lot more problems than just requiring Sapi. All of Jim's games are writthen

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, Smile. I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to mobile devices either. One of those cases where I know just enough to have a passing conversation about them. Beyond that I don't have a very large working knowledge of them. Like many programmers my main area of expertees is

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Good point. I meant the programming would be easy, but yes the development environment for Symbian phones sucks accessibility wise. For that reason I would probably target those phones running Windows Mobile which is certainly easier to program software for from an accessibility

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-27 Thread dark
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game? Hi, I extremely doubt it. For a couple of very good reasons. First, companies, Hasbro included, usually aren't too receptive when someone comes along asking for accessibility features. Especially, when those

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-27 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Dark, There is really no way to put Jim Kitchen's Trivia game on a hand-held device unless it runs Windows. It has a lot more problems than just requiring Sapi. All of Jim's games are writthen in Visual Basic 6 which is absolutely Windows specific. Since it was designed by Microsoft it

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-27 Thread Pranav Lal
Thomas, snip writing the trivia game would be a cakewalk. PL] True except that setting-up the development environment for Symbian at least would not and may be more problematical than the coding! chuckle I have not even come to the debugging; most phone emulators are inaccessible etc. Pranav

[Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-26 Thread Chastity MORSE
Hi. This question is for all the game makers/programmers out there and I'm not one, sorry. I was browsing through the web last night because I learnt about some accessible hand held games that were originally produced by the Hazbro company. Hazbro has an electronic hand held trivia game

Re: [Audyssey] Anyone thought of doing an accessible handheld trivia game?

2009-09-26 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, I extremely doubt it. For a couple of very good reasons. First, companies, Hasbro included, usually aren't too receptive when someone comes along asking for accessibility features. Especially, when those accessibility features will cost them lots of time and development. What you are in