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

[Devin Prater <r d t prater gmail com>]

There's a third, even less thought about way of doing it. What about braille support?

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> On Nov 4, 2015, at 2:44 PM, B. Henry <burt1iband gmail com> wrote:
>
> This is indeed good news. 
> I have one wish for such projects though: There should be visuals. I get that this could be expensive to do 
> well for something like the car race audio 
> game that was, maybe still is available  from and or for klango, but a block dropping game could be much 
> easier to make playable and passibly appealing  
> for sighted folk who do not want to use the sound, or who can not due to hearing loss, etc. 
> We continue to be in a world where most games are for sighted folk only, and most audio games are pure 
> audio. 
> While it's a cool idea to gete sighted folk to learn to use their ears, and some will be  willing to try, 
> many more would try a no eyes session if they 
> could first get sucked in to the game playing as they are used to, i.e. looking at and bewing hipnotized by 
> a screen.
> I'll give this a try soon.
>
>
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>  Josh K wrote:
> Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 07:18:56PM -0500
>
> > 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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