Re: [blind-gamers] Exciting News from AudioCat - Pre-Sale Still Open!

2024-04-07 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Behind that wonderful marketing speech, I still don't understand what audiocat actually is. When I go to the website, there is just a marketing video and a form to register for a newsletter. What am I supposed to do ? Why should I register ? What should I expect if I register ? Ca

Re: [blind-gamers] robo e

2024-03-21 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Following your description, it looks like a game in the sokoban or boulderdash family, rather than chess. Le 21.03.2024 à 21:48, Charles Rivard a écrit : I don’t any similarity to chess, either, and I am a chess player with an approximate ELO of 1,400. When you think you’re finis

Re: [blind-gamers] (Forza Motorsport and onboard graphics,

2023-11-11 Thread QuentinC
Hello, I would be interested to know the answer as well. I have heard that Intel integrated graphic cards aren't supported, but I don't know if it's true, or if there is a way to turn graphic options to the minimum to make it work. I don't want to pay for the game if I finally can't play,

Re: [blind-gamers] QuentinC: Anyone else have troubles registering?

2023-06-17 Thread QuentinC
y. On 16/06/2023 12:48, Day Garwood wrote: Hi there, Just tried to register on QuentinC Playroom, which told me rather tersely that my "email address is invalid". I was very puzzled, as I had double-checked and triple-checked my address. I then went to contact them regarding the bu

Re: [blind-gamers] Draconis Games

2023-05-28 Thread QuentinC
Hello, I think this is a bad decision to not turn old windows games into freewares, or make a final last chance bundle discount for a while, but keep reading, ?ill try to tell you why. If people want to have something, they will do it, no matter what, even if the company don't want it. If th

Re: [blind-gamers] A Dragon Reborn

2023-05-17 Thread QuentinC
Hello, IF you don't want to upgrade your old windows titles any longer, making them freewares is a good thing to do. This will let people who are under windows for whatever reason to continue enjoying your games. If I'm under windows today, what should I do if I want to play your game ? If y

Re: [blind-gamers] Looking for accessible IOs games

2022-08-10 Thread QuentinC
Hello, You may also have a look at Sonar Island. However, it isn't free, you ahve to pay a subscription. There is also A blind legend. It is free, but if you lose too much, you may need to buy extra lives. The rest of the games I know about have already been listed. Note also that you can play

Re: [blind-gamers] crazy party

2021-09-13 Thread QuentinC
Hello, AS far as I know, in the elevator game, you don't need to use left and right arrows. Just use up and down to adjust your speed, stop when you are at the right height and press F to open and close the door. How have you managed to crash ? I didn't know it was possible. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: [blind-gamers] !spoiler alert!! Manamon 2 boulder puzzle problem

2021-04-25 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > A very good friend of mine wrote out very detailed instructions for several manamon II areas. Do you have a link or something to these walkthroughs ? I have recently restarted a new game after a finished game to master stadium, but I certainly missed a lot of things (especially ches

Re: [blind-gamers] Connection problem to the playroom

2021-01-25 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > Thanks for the heads-up. Do you have any estimate as to when the encrypted connection will be available again? As soon as possible, but not really yet. It will be available again with the version 3.0 beta, but first I need to make that new version a minimum usable. If you absolute

[blind-gamers] Connection problem to the playroom

2021-01-24 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Following an important update independent of our will, secure connection to the playroom won't work anymore starting the 25th of January 2021 onwards. You will need to use the unsecure connection from now on, by choosing that option in the connection dialog box (once Shift+Tab starting

[blind-gamers] 10 years of playroom!

2020-09-08 Thread QuentinC
Hello all, I have released this evening a new program to play card games online in an accessible way. I have called this program the playroom. Yes, that's a room where you can play games, hance this very simplistic name. Ten years ago, smart was the one who could predict that the above innoc

Re: [blind-gamers] moving the log and the rocks in manamon 2

2020-03-11 Thread QuentinC
Hello, That cave is probably the first place in the game where exploration is getting really serious. Everybody got lost for one hour or two there. Personally I waste two hours, also because I went back regularly to the city in a safe place to heal my manamons. There will be more and more o

Re: [blind-gamers] Manamon 2 - yet more questions

2020-03-04 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > 1. I just got the pocket-coptor back and am unsure where to go. The game doesn't seem to provide any indication as to what part of the world I need to travel to. Normally, you have been sufficiently far enough to guess by yourself where you need to go, when no NPC gives you any cl

Re: [blind-gamers] Games for everyone

2019-12-23 Thread QuentinC
Hello, @Charles> Although I agree with a lot of what you point out, I have to say that, in my opinion, audio games are totally accessible to sighted gamers as long as they can hear. In thoery you are perfectly right. However, do you know any sighted person seriously playing at least one aud

Re: [blind-gamers] Games for everyone

2019-12-23 Thread QuentinC
Hello again, This time, a second message more oriented about board/tabletop/in real life games. I don't know how to call them in english. IN French we call this jeu de société, for the general term. As you know, unless you were in a deep cave for the last past 9 years, I'm the author of the

Re: [blind-gamers] Games for everyone

2019-12-23 Thread QuentinC
Hello, About digital games, thank to mobile devices and web technologies in general, we have nowadays more accessible games than before, and it's potentially easier for developers to make them accessible. However, the games that can be done that way are only a subset of all available genres. A

Re: [blind-gamers] the shadow ghost

2019-12-22 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Your goal is to defeat it before you have only a single manamon left. Otherwise it uses that spell and you are dead. ** Spoil ahead ** *** ** An interesting trick I used to beat the ghost is to change your party to have less type variety. The ghost only synchronize with types you

Re: [blind-gamers] manamon 2 and eloquence

2019-11-14 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Your progress in the adventure and what you have set for options are stored in two different files. And your license is again somewhere else, as far I have understood. So I suggest to delete appdata\roaming\manamon2\settings.dat and configure again voice settings. Make a backup fi

Re: [blind-gamers] manamon2 and climbing

2019-11-14 Thread QuentinC
uy, but I have had a stone team and aparently thats a nono, there is a mega uber topic with everything in it but its the size of a country. I wish someone would write a guide for this game. Some of the puzzles and chars while simple in their design are sometimes a little hidden. On 15/11/20

Re: [blind-gamers] manamon2 and climbing

2019-11-14 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > i had a team with a few types on it. in the market place where the power plant is it says stiff robe not rope or is it a isstake I have bought that item, and either I haven't understood  know how to use it, or it isn't ment to climb on trees. It does nothing if I have it in my i

Re: [blind-gamers] manamon 2, bugs or features?

2019-11-13 Thread QuentinC
Hello, For the 1st bug, I also noticed something strange of the same sort, with the move desool. This move sucks the health of the opponent each turn. But it kept going after my manamon defeated, giving the health to the manamon who took the place. IT was cool and in my advantage, of cour

Re: [blind-gamers] help with shadow canyon on manamon 2 please?

2019-11-13 Thread QuentinC
v 2019, at 20:32, QuentinC wrote:  Hello, Have you already fought the boss of the manor ? If yes, then you shouldn't be long before finding the hammer. Le 13.11.2019 à 21:21, Darren Harris via Groups.Io a écrit : Ok I’m seriously stuck here. I’m guessing that I have to break that ro

Re: [blind-gamers] help with shadow canyon on manamon 2 please?

2019-11-13 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Have you already fought the boss of the manor ? If yes, then you shouldn't be long before finding the hammer. Le 13.11.2019 à 21:21, Darren Harris via Groups.Io a écrit : Ok I’m seriously stuck here. I’m guessing that I have to break that rock on the southern end of the map but I ha

Re: [blind-gamers] Welcome back to the world of Manamon in Manamon 2: The Eternal Requiem!

2019-11-12 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > The issue I have now is with the musical boss, aparently with the webs white is physical and red is magic, but when the webs burst, the snapback destroys my team so its no good really. I found it easier to beat that boss than the ghost. You have understood the trick, then the only

Re: [blind-gamers] Welcome back to the world of Manamon in Manamon 2: The Eternal Requiem!

2019-11-12 Thread QuentinC
Hello, It isn't that hard to beat the ghost in the castle once you know how to proceed. SPOIL ALERT *** 3 ** 2* ***1 *** 0 ! To maximize your chances to be able to attack the ghost, try to make a team with a few different types as possible. It worked for me with a team having only th

Re: [blind-gamers] moving on with manamon 2, spoilers

2019-11-10 Thread QuentinC
Hello, It seems that we are both more or less at the same place. I'm trying to find a good team for the stadium because right now I only have a single manamon that makes a good fit for shadows and ghosts. My main team has levels between 19 and 25. Before going to the stadium, there's something

Re: [blind-gamers] manamon II getting out of the cave

2019-11-08 Thread QuentinC
Hello, I'm currently also stuck in the cave, but in the 3rd floor. That's quite a labyrinth! In fact you need to systematically explore all the complex maps to find out your way. Think that the cave may be 10 times bigger than the power plan, and there are at least 4 floors. I also took quit

Re: [blind-gamers] I'm stuck in the beach world in crazy party

2019-10-18 Thread QuentinC
Hello, As far as I remember, the crabs island is a bonus mini-game. A bonus mini-game has the basic definition of being quite hard, but you can't make a negative score; at least you get 0. This is more or less what Pragma himself says. Most of bonus mini-games are on paralel paths where you

Re: [blind-gamers] What's going on with the audiogames.net forums.

2019-05-28 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Although nothing is displayed, I think the problem is the "too many database connections" error, as it already occurred several times in the past. Given that the page is blank already since a couple of hours, I assume that it would have been already be back to normal if it had been an

Re: [blind-gamers] Minecraft accessibility?

2019-05-08 Thread QuentinC
Hello, > I seem to remember a game in the late 1990s called pacman talks. Yes, correct; but it was quite different from the original pacman, because of the 1st person view and all what it imposes. It was uselessly overcomplicated for that kind of game and the experience wasn't at all comparabl

Re: [blind-gamers] Minecraft accessibility?

2019-05-08 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Even if I would like to play again that kind of game, let's stay realist: I doubt that minecraft could become acessible one day. All those games where you need to have a global view in realtime everywhere at the same time are impossible to accessibilize, or would need to rethink about

Re: [blind-gamers] Star Wars-based or Star Wars-like games

2019-04-29 Thread QuentinC
Hello, IF you don't find the game in audiogames.net, you may try on the audiogame archive at agarchive.net. They have been quite good at finding again games that were believed to be lost. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online

Re: [blind-gamers] crazy party beta 65, the princess's gifts

2019-04-17 Thread QuentinC
Hello, If I remember correctly, the arrow keys aren't in the order of a circle in this game. Otherwise it would be exactly the same as the great snowball. Pay attention to the instructions. However, effectively, pressing randomly all the arrows quickly equally work... it is probably not inten

Re: [blind-gamers] Playroom seems to have stop working

2019-02-15 Thread QuentinC
Hello, It was an unplaned outage. It seems that problems started this night at about 2 AM Paris time. Now everything seem to be up again, but be cautious during the next 24 hours; we still need to analyse what happened. Have fun on the playroom ! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: Yo

Re: [blind-gamers] Play GoldGun Episode 1 for Free

2019-02-03 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Having a logo is a bare minimum for sighted people, I don't see a problem with this. But you don't imagine sometimes how sighted people, even theoretically sensibilized to the blind question, are stupid. A few years ago, I had submitted the playroom to a french contest of accessible g

Re: [blind-gamers] a new developer Ebon sky studios

2018-09-10 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Good luck in starting your business. It seems that we are currently more lacking in action games rather tan RPG. If we take crazy party aside, the three or four last majorr popular titles that have been released are solo RPGs: Echos of Libvia, A hero's call, Manamon... I'm not saying

Re: [blind-gamers] its back

2018-09-09 Thread QuentinC
Hello, You know what we usually say about backups in computer science: you never realize it doesn't work until you really need it. That being said, you are right, DNS problems doesn't make you lose data. The problem is something else. Perhaps just a disk crash. In which case both the host an

Re: [blind-gamers] Audiogames.net seems to be down.

2018-09-04 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Notice that the same happens again and again about once a year: whether a 503 or a message in netherland language. Don't worry, the site will be back in a few hours or days. As far as I know, audiogames.net is on a classic php shared hosting. There are at least two reasons not to switc

Re: [blind-gamers] Gaming Platforms

2018-08-22 Thread QuentinC
Hello, I think you are wrong with JavaScript. 5 years ago or even only 3, I would have said that you were right. However, in the last few years, JavaScript has enormously improved. Async and promise-based programming, the strong tendance to uniformization across browsers (if you exclude IE), n

Re: [blind-gamers] Where is all the developers.

2018-08-21 Thread QuentinC
Hello all, IF you don't know me, I'm the developer of the playroom. IF I don't release as many new games as I did before on the platform, that's essentially because I now have a job as a developer. I have started making audiogames and then the playroom when I was teenager, student at highsch

Re: [blind-gamers] Should video games have accessibility features?

2018-06-04 Thread QuentinC
Hello, In tehory, of course they should. In practice, they usually don't, whether by ignorance, or because they estimate that the cost to add such features don't cover the benefits that they could get in blind people buying the game. Go explain them how many we are in the world... However,

Re: [blind-gamers] bgt

2018-05-21 Thread QuentinC
Hello, IF you want to to good js, yes, it's not that easy as it is said to be. For sure, asynchronous programming and some basics of functional programming are something new that you have to learn. But it is probably no harder than well done object-oriented Java, C# and other with all their de

Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.

2018-05-21 Thread QuentinC
Hello, For the question concerning anti-viruses and BGT, the problem doesn't target BGT only. With the playroom, I have the same problem, many players have already reported that the installer mysteriously disappeared just after they have downloaded it. Having data appended to the executable is

Re: [blind-gamers] bgt

2018-05-21 Thread QuentinC
Hello, As far as I know, A blind Legend and A Hero's Call have been made with Unity. So, some people successfully used it to create audiogames. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119197): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/

Re: [blind-gamers] not impressed with support I have received for a heros call

2018-05-06 Thread QuentinC
Hello, IF you really don't want to quit Jaws, you could do the following: 1. Start AHC 2. Set the speech mode to SAPI in the game. You have no choice but doing that, sorry. 3. Press Insert+F2, go to the setting center, and activate sleep mode for AHC Now you can play, unfortunately with SAPI

Re: [blind-gamers] question about using jaws in a heros call

2018-05-01 Thread QuentinC
Hello, In fact you can't use Jaws with AHC. You must start NVDA instead, or use SAPI. As already pointed out, that's because of keyboard hook. Many games don't properely work with Jaws. If you want to use arrow keys, you must always press insert+3 before you can press an arrow key. Of cour

Re: [blind-gamers] crazy party city world

2018-04-13 Thread QuentinC
Hello, You have to make 20 points in the mosquito game, and then a new path will be available. Note that we are now at version 58. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119005): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/1190

Re: [blind-gamers] Coming up with ideas for a new game project.

2018-02-11 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Would you be interested in developing audiogames that would run inside the playroom ? IF yes, you may contact me privately for more details -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#118721): https://groups.io/g/blind-game

Re: [blind-gamers] searching poker game

2017-08-04 Thread QuentinC
Hello, Just in case, poker is available on the playroom. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#117582): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/117582 View All Messages In Topic (2): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/topic/573