Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-14 Thread Jessica Moss
Likewise, I've been looking for some myself; hope they will eventually come out with others. In the meantime, does anyone know where I can find other games? On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chris H wrote: Awesome! Glad to see accessible gaming coming to the mac! Christopher Hallsworth On

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Hi Soren. Don't worry, i have a quite good understanding of english and not even i did fully understand the rules of the game. The way i played it was like this: Hold the left or right arrow key in until you reach the end of the grid then change arrow keys, while doing this, slam the space bar

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
Hi. if you have say a dollar in your hand you want to put it on top of a dollar in the grid. If there are dollars in the stacks next to the coins you will blow them up. think of it like uno or dominos but with coins lol if anyone can explain this better than me, please do jump in. I used to

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
HI. it's awesome had it for windows but lost the key and stuff then i switched to a mac. kind of missed it. regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On 13/12/2012, at 8:01 AM, Josh de

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
HI. the audio is great. It sounds slightly better than the esp soft works version but perhaps Im using a better headset regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On 13/12/2012, at 5:01 AM,

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Krister and others. Well, I have understood more of the gameplay so far. The pitch simulates, as far as I understand it, some stacks of cards which are falling. When the pitch of the spoken cards gets deeper, that means they are getting closer to the bottom, and the time is about to run

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
You get explosions if you have three coins of the same denomination vertically or horizontally. Also, there are bombs in the stacks. When you hear a fuse lit, you'll hear a sound when you're on that stack, and you have a limited time to make a play, if it's to your advantage. Otherwise, the

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Teresa Cochran
In my opinion, that method of playing the game would get old for me very quickly. :) There is strategy involved. Teresa Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.--Richard P. Feynman On Dec 13, 2012, at 2:01 AM, Krister Ekstrom kris...@kristersplace.com wrote: Hi Soren.

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
Hi. yes I agree there certainly is strategy involved. Not that I've totally figured it out but I can get pretty high scores. regards Maria and crew from australia email: bubbygirl1...@gmail.com check out www.95-the-mix.com where we play lots of great music On 14/12/2012, at 4:12

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-13 Thread Maria Joe Chapman
oh yes i forgot about the bombs lol God Bless! Maria from australia Newbie mac user. bubbygirl1...@gmail.com will get you fb as well as email iMessage. skype same as email,without the gmail part. twitter bubbygirl On 14/12/2012, at 4:11 AM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Chris H
Awesome! Glad to see accessible gaming coming to the mac! Christopher Hallsworth On 12/12/2012 16:32, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi all. I am sooo excited man. I'm nearly speechless, so that's the reason for I'm writing. :) Well, now to the biggest and greatest news for Mac users wen it comes to

RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Interesting. They made a mac version of that, which was originally made for windows. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris H Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 10:36 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
I just bought this but can't get it to open. On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Chris H wrote: Awesome! Glad to see accessible gaming coming to the mac! Christopher Hallsworth On 12/12/2012 16:32, Søren Jensen wrote: Hi all. I am sooo excited man. I'm nearly speechless, so that's the

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
I just bought this and can't get it to open, has anyone else tried to get this to open? On Dec 12, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Daniel Miller wrote: Interesting. They made a mac version of that, which was originally made for windows. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
I cannot get it to open either. I just spent $10 on it too. *Unimpressed. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Mark, How do I go about getting a refund? On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: I cannot get it to open either. I just spent $10 on it too. *Unimpressed. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: •

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
Okay, I got it to open. I had to interact with the browser and VO Click on it, but it does seem to work as advertised, though Im not sure I understand how the navigation works. As for how you get a refund, I have no idea; I won't need to be asking for one. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM,

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
It took quite a while to come up speaking, and the first thing you'll hear is an alert asking you if your headsets are on and comfortable, so as not to blow out your eardrums. After that, you might as well turn VO off, in fact it might help. • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and

RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Missy Hoppe
I'm glad I didn't go with my first impulse to buy this game right away. I was going to buy it, but when I saw my bank balance, I decided to wait. If people are having trouble getting the game to work, then I'm glad I didn't waste money. I hope you're able to either get your issues resolved by

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
It works now. I repeat. The game has opened and I'l eventually have time to figure it out, but not right now. but there's NO need, I repeat NO NEED! to start a rant about this with Apple or anyone else, at least not for me, so if you do it, do please leave my name off it? heh • Mark

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Mark, I can't get it to open at all. What os are you running. On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Mark Baxter wrote: It took quite a while to come up speaking, and the first thing you'll hear is an alert asking you if your headsets are on and comfortable, so as not to blow out your eardrums.

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
I'm running Mountain Lion 10.8.2, I have a MBP15 that's about 4 years old with 4G of RAM. What I did to get it started was go to the Applications folder, Select it by thing change and then interacting with the browser and doing a VO space to click it. It said, Opening selected browser item,

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
The alert letting you know that this is an audio game, etc, only appears the first time you launch the game. it is possible that VoiceOver did not correctly put focus on the initial dialog box. If this is the case, one of the following may fix the problem for you: • Command-tab into the

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Stacey, If you continue to have problems, you may wish to delete the app and re-download it from the App Store. Perhaps your download was corrupted. Before doing that, however, we do recommend trying the solutions outlined in my previous email. The game does not download any extra

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread John Panarese
I am not having any issues here with it. I'd like to make a friendly suggestion. Instead of looking for refunds right away and such, please wait until things get sorted. It is a great game and worth the money. Like anything else new, there are sometimes problems and issues that were

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
One other thing to keep in mind is that, if you do not have a system voice set, or if you have system speech turned off for whatever reason, you may not hear anything, and the app will launch in the background. It just occurred to me that this might be the problem with thinking it's not open.

RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Josh, I'm finding it hard to believe that that app is self-contained in a 5MB download. The audio must be incredibly, incredibly horrible if that's the case. Just my 2 cents. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
Audio's excellent, and if the Draconis game engine hype is to believed, the engine itself will allow audio game play for other games. *I* personally want to see a first person shooter like AudioQuake for Windows, because I can tell you from PAINFUL experience that the AudioQuake for Mac client

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
The audio is at least on par with all of our old games. Technology has come a long way int he last ten years, and it is not necessary for audio games to be huge anymore. You can hear a sample of the game audio here: http://dracoent.com/audio/trailers/CRTrailer.mp3 It is very possible to use

RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Miller
That makes sense. I guess I'm just used to seeing 100+MB installers. Lol -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Josh de Lioncourt Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:02 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Josh, It tells me that there's some sort of system configureation problem. Will this app work with SnowLeopard. I didn't see anywhere where it wouldn't On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: Stacey, If you continue to have problems, you may wish to delete the app and

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Josh, I've tried redownloading the game and it still won't open. Will it run on SnowLeopard? On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: The audio is at least on par with all of our old games. Technology has come a long way int he last ten years, and it is not necessary for audio

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Hi Stacey, The game should run on Snow Leopard, though it does required a 64-bit machine. Do you know if your Mac is 64-bit? If you continue to have problems, you can contact me off-list, and we can try to work through it. If it is a problem on our end, we will do our best to track it down

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Josh, I don't know if my machine is 64 bit. How do I find out? On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: Hi Stacey, The game should run on Snow Leopard, though it does required a 64-bit machine. Do you know if your Mac is 64-bit? If you continue to have problems, you can

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Krister Ekstrom
Now, let's hope the old classic pinball game esp pinball makes it to the Mac as well. /Krister 12 dec 2012 kl. 17:53 skrev Daniel Miller miller...@gmail.com: Interesting. They made a mac version of that, which was originally made for windows. -Original Message- From:

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Chris H
Oh yes as well as Pinball Xtreme! Now who remembers that one plus the Party Pack! Christopher Hallsworth On 12/12/2012 18:44, Krister Ekstrom wrote: Now, let's hope the old classic pinball game esp pinball makes it to the Mac as well. /Krister 12 dec 2012 kl. 17:53 skrev Daniel Miller

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Mark Baxter
Okay, am I playing correctly, or is this a simple left or right arrow and space bar type side-scroller game? • Mark BurningHawk Baxter • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com • My home page: • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ -- You received this

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
To check if your Mac is 64 bit: Go to Apple menu-About this Mac. In the window that appears, it will tell you the type of processor that is in your Mac. If it is Core Solo or Core Duo, it is 32 bit. If it is Core2 Duo, or anything later than that, it is 64 bit. If you do have a 64 bit Mac,

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Tammy
Hi,The game's alot of fun. I have the previous windows version and love it Tammy -Original Message- From: Missy Hoppe Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 12:32 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Stacey Robinson
Josh, My processor says core2 duo. That would make my machine 64 bit, correct? How do I view the properties of a message in sl so I can write you offlist? On Dec 12, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Josh de Lioncourt wrote: To check if your Mac is 64 bit: Go to Apple menu-About this Mac. In the window

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Yes, that makes it 64 bit. Email me at overl...@lioncourt.com, and please send the text of the error message you are getting. If you focus VoiceOver on the text of the error message, then press VO-Shift-C before doing anything else, it will copy it to the clipboard and you can paste it into

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Les Kriegler
Okay, I have a 2.8 GHZ Intel Core i7 processor. Is that 64 Bit? Thanks. Les On Dec 12, 2012, at 2:01 PM, Josh de Lioncourt overl...@lioncourt.com wrote: To check if your Mac is 64 bit: Go to Apple menu-About this Mac. In the window that appears, it will tell you the type of processor

RE: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Daniel Miller
Anything beyond core 2 duo is 64bit. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Les Kriegler Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 2:06 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Changereaction: A new game from

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Really fun game. I'm looking forward to more. I actually used to play this game in Windows. Great job, guys. When I switched, games were the thing I was really missing from Windows. Thanks again! Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Dec 12, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Daniel Miller

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi. Wow, what a huge topic I made just before I went out from my house just a few hours ago. :) Regarding people who can't get this game to work, you should check what system voice you're using. If you use a big voice which use lots of resources, it might not work. And, if you use a system

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Yes, you have a 64-bit Mac. If you are running Lion or Mountain Lion, this isn't even a problem you need to worry about, because those versions of the OS only run on 64 bit. For those interested, we've gotten the error report from Stacey, tracked down the problem which only occurs on some

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Josh de Lioncourt
Hi Teresa, Have you tried either of the variations yet? LooseChange is my personal favorite. Very glad you're enjoying the game. We have more on the way! Stay tuned! Josh On Dec 12, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Teresa Cochran vegaspipistre...@gmail.com wrote: Really fun game. I'm looking

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Josh. I'm sorry if I've missed anything, but I can't find any descriptions of the different game modes in the tutorial. I only find the objective of the classic mode. I'm beginning to understand what to do, but sometimes, I find it hard to hear the difference between dollar and dime when

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Josh, I think my personal favorite is Payday. I'm a high-stakes gambler, though, because I've lost every executive level offered. Guess I just need more practice! :) Thanks, Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Dec 12, 2012, at 1:01 PM, Josh de Lioncourt

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Teresa Cochran
Hi, Søren In the main screen, up or down-arrow to the game option. Choose the game you want to learn more about. Then arrow up to learn to play, and you'll have a tutorial for that particular game. HtH, Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Dec 12, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Søren Jensen

Re: Changereaction: A new game from Draconess intertainment for blind in the Mac app store

2012-12-12 Thread Søren Jensen
Hi Teresa. Ah, of course, makes sense. :) Thanks a lot for that. :) The tutorial should say that. All game menus aren't that smart. Best regards: Søren Jensen Mail MSN: s...@coolfortheblind.dk Website: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk/ Den 13/12/2012 kl. 00.21 skrev Teresa Cochran