Re: [orca-list] ot programming games with an accessible interface

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Love2D is a full 2-D game engine, so absolutely it has key 
down/up-tracking, joystick controls, touchscreen event-handlers, etc.


I'll put the key-handler code up on Dropbox tomorrow and paste in a 
link. I haven't figured out how or if I'll open source my accessibility 
code for the engine, but other than the speech stuff, there's nothing 
special about much of it.




On 8/16/19 6:32 PM, Storm Dragon wrote:
> Howdy Nolan,
>
> I'm 100% interested in this. Please send me the speech stuff.
>
> Also, one thing that I have found to be essential for any kind of game 
> is, does it have the ability to track key_down and key_release events 
> and turn off key_repeat?
>
> Thanks,
> Storm
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 01:22:16PM -0500, Nolan darilek wrote:
> > I'm doing a bit of this myself. If you want something like an audio 
> > game without a UI, I'd suggest something like Love2D:
> >
> >
> > https://www.love2d.org
> >
> >
> > It's essentially a Lua interpreter with sound, graphics, physics 
> > engine, etc. linked in, and simple, well-integrated APIs to easily 
> > access all of these. The AppImage includes everything you need to 
> > start in a single file, and games you build can run under Linux, 
> > Windows, MacOS, and with a bit of extra effort, iOS and Android.
> >
> >
> > When launched, you'll get an inaccessible window. This is an empty 
> > game window. All work is done via the console, editing the main.lua 
> > entrypoint, then launching the game with something like:
> >
> >
> > love .
> >
> >
> > from the directory containing main.lua.
> >
> >
> > I've actually been doing Linux audio game development for a while 
> > with this platform, but $dayjob has had me busy enough that I haven't 
> > polished what I have for release yet. I should probably get back on 
> > that wagon. If you decide to go this route, I can share with you a 
> > speech.lua that binds to Speech-Dispatcher under Linux and Tolk under 
> > Windows, so you can speak coordinates and such. I have other more 
> > advanced code, like a simple accessibility interface over the Luigi 
> > GUI module, that I might eventually open source at some point. 
> > Currently that makes buttons, sliders, and maybe a few other widgets 
> > accessible, and eventually I'd like to do some sort of 
> > explore-by-touch interface for touchscreens, games like roguelikes, etc.
> >
> >
> > It's a nice platform, and easy to get started with for 2-D, which is 
> > essentially what audio games are anyway. We should probably take 
> > further discussions off-list as to not clog things up further. Let me 
> > know if you make any progress and I'll shoot you my speech.lua. It's 
> > kind of hard to do that sort of development if you can't introspect 
> > the game environment, and speech is probably the best/easiest way to 
> > do that.
> >
> >
> > On 8/16/19 1:10 PM, Pavel Vlček via orca-list wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to create a little game, probably in Python. I want to have 
> > > sound and graphical interface. Which interface is best to use? I 
> > > don't want to use WX and I don't know, if pygame for sound is good 
> > > idea. Distro Fedora. Can you give me some recommendations? I will 
> > > use geany as code editor.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Pavel
> > >
> > >
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