Re: [orca-list] [Support] A fun little HTML5 game.

[Josh K <joshknnd1982 gmail com>]

its always the simple games that are the most adicting! i hope we see 
more of these little games in future.

follow me on twitter @joshknnd1982

On 11/3/2015 6:00 PM, David Hunt wrote:
> Introducing Block Drop, from the people who bring us NVDA.
>
> http://www.nvaccess.org/test/blockDrop.html
>
> Block Drop
>
> A game played purely with sound (no visuals), a test of the Web Audio API
> Summary
>
> Blocks fall from the sky, landing on the ground or on top of already 
> landed blocks. Use the left and right arrow keys (On Desktop) or tilt 
> your device left and right (on phones) while a block is falling, to 
> position it where you wish it to land. The aim of the game is to play 
> for as long as you can, without a stack of blocks reaching the top. 
> When you fill an entire row, that row will disappear and you will go 
> up a level in speed. The area you are playing in is 7 blocks wide by 
> 10 blocks high.
> What you hear
>
> You start by hearing a very low constant tone. This is the ground. As 
> a block starts to fall from the sky, you hear a tone (starting quite 
> high) decreasing in pitch as the block approaches the ground. As you 
> move the falling block left or right, the sound of the block will move 
> left and right within the stereo spectrum. When the block finally hits 
> the ground, the pitch of the ground tone will then raise slightly, 
> representing the top of the just landed block (the new hight of the 
> ground at that point). As other blocks fall and you move them left or 
> right, you will always hear the height of the ground at that 
> particular horizontal position, allowing you to locate free space to 
> place a block.
> Requirements
>
>     Desktop: Mozilla Firefox 36 or later
>     Mobile: Safari on IOS 8 or later
>     Stereo headphones or adiquitly placed speakers
>
> Copyright © 2015 Michael Curran
>
>
> To play this game, using Orca and Mozilla browser, locate the 'start 
> game' button, and use 'orca+f12' to let the application control the 
> cursor.
>
>
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