Yes, thank you for this.
Speaking of high horses and things. If we can't adhere to guidelines set out by others how can we expect the mainstream populous to follow suit?
It's time for people to stop getting offended at everything and start using their heads rather than throwing tantrums. It gets us nowhere and makes us look pretty uncivilized. Leave feedback constructively rather than acting entitled to get a pass on things.
On 2019-02-03 6:56 a.m., Darren Duff wrote:
folks. why can't we all start acting like grownups and stop being so easily offended? Lory the reason the app has to have some basic visuals is because that's what apple requires! nothing less, nothing more. It's not about discrimination, it's about following guidelines.Darren Duff. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. Check out my podcast here! http://www.anchor.fm/theduffdomain amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face bookhttp://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary e-mailduff...@gmail.com Mobile e-mailmobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 2/2/2019 8:09 PM, lori duncan wrote:Ok before you verbley attack me any further, let me spell this out to you as you are obviously jumping on the moral high horse and totally missing the point I was trying to make and I'm sick of being picked up wrongly by this community!!You have a game, which when shown on a phone to someone sighted has a basic title. You have seen the desc in the app store, and know it is fully voiced, so when you single, or double tap depending on if you're a voice over user or not on the game's title, the first thing people should hear is the game's voice giving people instructions, such as "Main Menu" then a list of options to pick from. My comment about discrimination was merely that I didn't see why anything had to be shown on screen if there was an audible voice telling you what to do and how to do it. The being blind part was refering to the fact that more games have to be adapted for the blind than for the sighted, and I thought it'd make a nice change for the sighted to try to adapt to us instead. It's called thinking outside the box. and Just to be clear I am a strong person here, not a weak pathetic blind person who plays weak cards!From Lori. On 03/02/2019 00:02, Tyler Wood wrote:Hi, I seriously have to agree here. Stop playing the blind card. I'm tired of it. And I'm blind.We try and tell everyone else to set standards for accessibility. So what's the trouble with actually getting a logo and title to display on screen? Pretty hypocritical, don't you think?This is almost like the blindfold games (which I still boycott and always will) for not following apple's guidelines. There are too many blindfold games out there (and all of them basically pay to play, in theory). What is the big deal about categorizing them? No, we had to play the blind card. And the amount of money charged to play the entire catalogue of RS games on an iPhone is unapologetically money hungry. It's free on the computer - I can understand perhaps $5.00 for the entire set. Even $10.Anyway, just my $.02, which is probably getting off the topic. I apologize. I also just had to rant a little there because this is getting ridiculous.On 2019-02-02 5:51 p.m., marcio via Groups.Io wrote:Eleanor, Where can I find the games that you made? I got interested to try them. Cheers, Marcio Follow me on Twitter <https://twitter.com/firirinfonfon> Em 02/02/2019 20:58, Eleanor escreveu:Sighted folk (and I am one) frequently play with the sound turned off to prevent disturbing others that are close by. They would not hear anything and if they didn't see anything, they would think the computer died or something like that. I have played audio games, and we produced a number of blind accessible games, but we wanted everyone to be able to play the games we made. Having a blank screen would prevent anyone who has sound turned down from playing because they would not know the game was there.Eleanor Robinson 7-128 Software On 2/1/2019 10:50 AM, lori duncan wrote:That's why I said discrimination, would it kill sighted folks to use their imaginations and their ears!On 01/02/2019 11:37, Darren Duff wrote:Well sure! it might just be an audio game where nothing is happening on the screen. but you at least need a title and logo. is it really such a big deal to follow a few simple guidelines folks?Darren Duff. Colossians 3:17 And whatever you do or say, do it as a representative of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father. Check out my podcast here! http://www.anchor.fm/theduffdomain amateur radio station KK4AHX. Follow me on twitter @darren_duff friend me on face bookhttp://www.facebook.com/DarrenLDuff. primary e-mailduff...@gmail.com Mobile e-mailmobiledu...@gmail.com skype duffman31279 On 1/31/2019 4:55 PM, myTrueSound wrote:HiHere David, from myTrueSound. We have faced some issues with the review team of App Store. For few days they have been demanding more and more things on our app, asking questions like, the game doesn't work (our answer: it is an audio game, so nothing happens on the screen, just turn the volume up), the visuals are not good enough (our answer: it is an audio game and that is not an important issue, but sure, we will improve the visual aspect of the main menu), and the last why there is not a back button (our answer: the back button is implemented with a double tap with two fingers as in screen reader, which is more handy than a physical back button, but yeah, ok, we will put it).So all those things have affected the launch day. We are really sorry about that. We have worked hard to get it done, but as indie developers and neweys in this field, time took us by surprise. However, we should be up in App Stores hopefully in 1 or 2 days, if they don't discover any new thing. Today we were interviewed by the Blind Abilities podcast, so if you want to listen the whole story, you could listen it there within some few days.On the mean time, if somebody wants to play it on Android, here is the linkhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.myTrueSound.GoldGun Regards davidOn Thu, 31 Jan 2019 at 23:45, lori duncan <lori.dunca...@gmail.com <mailto:lori.dunca...@gmail.com>> wrote:I don't see it either. On 31/01/2019 20:22, Alex Stone wrote:Liam, any idea when this is going to be available in the App Store? If it is already, I can’t find it. On 28 Jan 2019, at 11:51, Liam Erven <liamer...@gmail.com <mailto:liamer...@gmail.com>> wrote:Yes, but it’s not in the app store yet. *From: *MariaRosa Chapman <mailto:bubbygirl1...@gmail.com> *Sent: *Monday, January 28, 2019 5:50 AM *To: *blind-gamers@groups.io <mailto:blind-gamers@groups.io> *Subject: *Re: [blind-gamers] Play GoldGun Episode 1 for Free HI. is the game just called golden gun? thanks. Maria On 28 Jan 2019, at 4:48 am, myTrueSound <infomytrueso...@gmail.com <mailto:infomytrueso...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello dear friends and audio game players! Only 4 days left to launch (31st January) and we bring you good news! We have decided to give Episode 1 of GoldGun completely for free, so all of you can enjoy and get a feeling of what is coming next. The game (read below Disclaimer) can be played on 97 % of working iOS and Android mobile devices, and will be available on App Store and Google Play. If you can't find it there, look for the direct link on our website https://www.mytruesound.com/games which will appear once the game is on the stores. Because the game is free, we hope to reach the 10000 downloads goal. This is necessary to show the game industry and some few investors that there is really huge potential for audiogames. Despite you like the game or not, if nobody downloads it we won't be able to address to them that there are millions of people wishing to play audio games. For more info about the game, read our Press Kit at https://www.mytruesound.com/presskit <https://www.mytruesound.com/presskit> We appreciate you share this info in your social network and to your friends. Disclaimer: 1) We are facing some issues with Apple Store we are trying to solve at the moment. Somebody there basically seems not to understand why an audiogame doesn't require visuals, or why the menu is so minimalist. We hope this doesn't affect launch date, but everything now seems too bureaucratic. Launch on Google Play seems to be problem-free. 2) This is the first episode of the GoldGun game, which is scheduled to be composed of 6 more episodes. Each episode will be better and longer than the previous, and have more playable content. Due to the complexity of this type of game, you should expect next episode to appear within two months. However, we appreciate if you play this one already, so we can reach the 10000 downloads goal. 3) This first episode worked for us as a pilot project. It is a bit short (compared to the future ones) with about 35 minutes game play. Pilot project means that it helped us to understand better the technology we use, and to make different tests. That being said, we believe the quality of many of its parts are not yet where we want them to be. We believe you all deserve better. We will work hard to improve quality of audio already in the next episode. We appreciate You are not very hard with us, and provide us with some time to improve those issues. 4) Next episode has been already written, and the story improves pretty well. As many of you know, the main character of the game, Soren, suffered an accident which turned him blind. There is a reason on the game script to why the police department thinks he might be able to destroy the GoldGun, but few betatesters appointed that blindness is a topic which should be avoided on audio games. We understood their point and blindness as a topic to talk on our game will not be appearing at all on the future episodes. We hope you all understand we are trying to constantly improve. If you read until here, then you know most of what we wanted to tell. Thanks a lot for liking, sharing, following. Best regards The team of myTrueSound working on this game Mikko Herranen, David Oliva, Jussi Elsilä, Shane Wirkes, Joshua Kennedy, Maksim Pokrovskii<http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free. www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient><#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
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