Hi Dark, You are probably right. I've never played Toodle Tiles myself, but by the childish sounding name I seriously doubt it is anything like Mahjong despite what their documentation says. APH always strikes me as treating blind users as either extremely old, or just barely above infantile. So its probably not what we expect.
However, as for writing a Mahjong game I don't have a good enough grasp of the game to develop it myself without some research. However, Linux has a couple of good open source versions which I might hack for an accessible Mahjong game. If I can get the basic rules/mechanics and the AI used I could in theory build a Windows version with Sapi support. Cheers! On 6/2/12, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi. > > You mentioned a game called Mahjong solitare. Being a matching game for a > single player, I bet toodle tiles is based on the rules of that, rather than > > the rules of actual mahjong, though it's a little bad that aph claime! it to > > be based on "the ancient chinese game" in their documentation. > > The real problem I think, is none of the programmers who have made really > good computer adaptations of other card, board, or puzzle games have > experience with Mahjong, it being a much less popular game in the west, so > couldn't write an adaptation for the computer, ---- indeed I seem to > remember in the faq for the spoonbill games Ian humphries saying that he > didn't have enough knolidge of Mahjong to make a Bg version. > > there are of course plenty of inaccessible ones, indeed I was quite stunned > > when i viewed the full! list of snes games including Japanese only releases, > > and found just how many mahjong games were released for the console, but > that doesn't really help any visually impared players who want to either > play, or learn the game. > > This is a shame. I learned Euchre and spades from the blind adrenaline > versions, and really enjoy eucher, and I learnt backgammon from the pontes > backgammon game and have just bought a tactile board to play with friends, > so a computerized accessible Mahjong would also be a nice way to introduce > the game to people like myself who hadn't played it before but might well > enjoy it. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > > > --- > 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://mail.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://mail.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.
