Hi Jim, That's for sure. Not being able to review the screen and check the spelling of words would be a major setback to any text adventure that primarily uses Sapi etc for speech output. In fact, I have that exact problem with Winfrotz and NVDA.
I can turn on Sapi in Winfrotz which works fine for basic reading of in-game text and entering prompts, but if I want to review the spelling of some word or other its a pain to get NVDA to focus on the text window, find the word I want, and then type it into the interpreter. However, at least it is possible to look for the spelling of the word I want the correct spelling for. A game purely based on Sapi would be impossible unless the person playing was a good speller, and sad to say many blind gamers are not. So a menu in that situation would definitely be a big help. Anyway, being able to examine anything and everything to find out what is important is fun at first, but as you say gets old in a hurry. Especially, since I only began playing text adventures after I went blind. Before that I was use to fast paced action games where the action is relatively constant, and text adventures are rather slow in comparison because you end up having to examine the desk, ceiling, floor, the door, the windows, etc which may or may not reveal anything useful to your quest. So I use to get pretty tired of that in a hurry. Cheers! On 7/12/13, Jim Kitchen <j...@kitchensinc.net> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > Yeah, and you know if you write a pure text to speech text adventure game > like my Dungeon Master with a command interpreter you would have no review > cursor to check spelling of names and objects. That could make the typing > in of the correct command even way more frustrating. > > In the text adventure games that I played, I found a bit of the exploring to > try to figure out what was important fun to some extent, but it sure can get > old in a hurry. > > BFN > > Jim > > Genuine Exploding Tagline. Acme Tagline Inc. > > j...@kitchensinc.net > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > 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.
