A lot of things must be made accessible in a bowling game:
Where the ball is in relation to the gutters.
What pins are left standing after the first ball is thrown.
If a sighted bowler must time his or her stroke during an approach, so must
a blind person, so audio cues must be sounded.
What is your current score?
What frame are you bowling?
Everything that a sighted bowler must do should be presented in audio format
for blind bowlers.
It sure is a lot to consider.
I am willing to help in any way that I can. If interested, contact me off
list, please. I would really love to see an app that blind bowlers can
enjoy. I bowled for over 30 years on both 30-week winter leagues and
10-week summer leagues, carrying a 110 average for the last 10 of those
years. A guide rail was used on the approach, and there were no bumpers in
the gutters.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Allen" <evildi...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2014 2:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Galaxy Bowling was audio games popularity
Hi Phil,
That's a great concept. My bowling game is currently physics based, but
your message gave me some ideas. Right now Galaxy Bowling models 13 game
types from across the world and a few fictional ones (like 100 pins mode.)
I'm thinking about making an audio cue where the ball is on the lane
before
you roll it. You can then spin it left or right as it goes down the lane.
I'll see if I can make some headway on this in the next few days.
Cheers!
Jason
On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:27 AM, Charles Rivard <wee1s...@fidnet.com>
wrote:
I would really like to see this game, or one like it, available for
iDevices.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Vlasak" <phi...@bex.net>
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Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2014 6:29 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] Galaxy Bowling was audio games popularity
Hi Jason,
I worked on Ten Pin Alley with Draconis. It is a Windows based bowling
game that is totally accessible.
The concept is simple. Your screen is the width of the bowling alley
from
left to right. Instead of aiming your ball to the pin, the ball scans
from
the left gutter to the right gutter and back again. As it passes the
position of a pin at the other end of the alley, it makes three click
sounds, at the exact position of the pin representing the left side of
the
pin, the center of the pin and the right side of the pin.
You bowl by hitting the space bar which sends the ball down the alley
and
if you timed it right, it knocks over pins.
The more pins you knock over the more you hear pins knocked over, as the
game has the sounds of from 0 to 10 pins knocked over in sound files.
You then get a verbal report as to what pins are left standing, and only
those pins make the three clicks as you scan the alley.
You can hear an audio demo of the game at
http://dracoent.com/Windows/TenPinAlley
Phil
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Allen" <evildi...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 19, 2014 4:54 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] audio games popularity
To joseph,
I wrote Entombed. A rogue-like RPG game. It was a lot of fun to make
and
remains one of my favorite projects.
To Scott,
My mobile games aren't accessible, but I'm curious if I could make them
that way. The only one I think might be doable is Galaxy Bowling. It's
a
bowling game with many modes and variations. You'd need some way to
know
where any remaining pins are and what your score is. Are there any
existing
bowling accessible bowling games? How did they manage it?
Thank you,
Jason
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 11:39 PM, Josh k <joshknnd1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
the only one you could do that with is provox, because provox is open
source.
On 12/18/2014 11:33 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
Hi Josh,
Simple answer is no. Dos screen readers and other 16-bit applications
will not run on modern Windows platforms. I've tried running them in
Dosbox with a Dectalk Express and got absolutely nowhere with them.
So
I don't think running a Dos screen reader on modern Windows is really
possible.
The only thing I can think of, and I have thought of this for a while
now, is embedding a screen reader into Dosbox itself. That way the
screen reader can use Sapi and other text to speech services native
to
the platform while performing screen reading tasks. By making the
screen reader an integrated part of Dosbox it would save the end user
all the trouble of trying to install some old screen reader into
Dosbox and then still require a hardware synth or similar device to
run it.
Cheers!
On 12/18/14, Josh k <joshknnd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
hi phil, I tried using dosbox and its not working for me. is there
any
way to use a dos screen reader anymore at all?
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