2012-05-23 09:01:13 (edited by SLJ 2012-05-23 09:05:28)

Hi.
I would have wrote this in the news room, but my writing skills isn't the best. smile
I just saw the news on Twitter today that a game called blindside for IOS has been released. It's a horror game which both blind and sighted people can enjoy. The game uses the phones giroscope to rotate around in the game, and I don't know how to walk as this isn't described in the describtion in the app store.
this game sounds really amazing and I can't wait to check this out later today.
Read more at:
www.blindsidegame.com

Here is the describtion from the app store and from the website:
   BlindSide is an audio adventure game, set in a fully-immersive 3d world you’ll never see. Put on headphones, hold your iPhone, and face the direction you want to go. Listen as the world rotates around you and explore the darkness.

You play as Case, an assistant professor who wakes up blind, to find his city destroyed and mysterious creatures devouring people. Will you and your girlfriend be able to find your way without sight? How will you escape? Check out the video demo here.

Run for your life, save the girl, and uncover the mystery of the apocalypse - all in the dark.

Features

Over 1000 sound effects and pieces of dialogue


Gyroscope-enabled virtual reality


New levels of audio horror


Accessible for blind and sighted users alike

• For iPhone 4S and iPad 2.

Check out the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4wodbgogtM

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2012-05-23 09:04:28

Hi,


I'll check this out, too. Maybe then I could take advantage of my ... ahem, writing skills and write my first news article. big_smile
This ought to be fun.

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2012-05-23 09:06:45

Ghortholon: I've just edited my post a cubble of times to write some more information.

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2012-05-23 09:10:39

Hi,

Damn. I'm definitely downloading this one. I love those types of games!

Should it be as great as advertised, it's gonna be really nice.

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2012-05-23 09:19:58

Hmm... I want an IPhone4S! big_smile

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence, line 1 to 4

2012-05-23 09:27:00

an iPhone is highly recommended for people who want an advanced handhold device. Seriusly, I can't live without mine. This is the most useful device I've ever owned!

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2012-05-23 13:01:43

hi all, the game sounds awesome, however i only have a 4th gen ipod touch here and see, the
description says that only iphone 4s and ipad 2+ are supported, i don't understand why iphone 4
/last ipods aren't supported, if any of you that have the iphone 4 or ipod manage to run the
game, please tell here because i'll buy it.

contact info
email:
matrheine at gmail . com

2012-05-23 13:05:18

Hi. I think the game requires too much CPU so the iPhone 4 and latest iPod touch won't run it very well, but I don't know. The game is not expensive at all, so you could just give it a try if you wants to. I think you'll at leased get something out of the game on the latest iPod touch.

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2012-05-23 13:09:45

What's the price?

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence, line 1 to 4

2012-05-23 13:28:40

hi, it costs us $3, i think that a windows/mac release is espected to release soon.

contact info
email:
matrheine at gmail . com

2012-05-23 13:33:01

OK, fine, then I won't be able to play. God dammit. sad

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2012-05-23 13:33:08

What do you mean? Have you read it somewhere that it should be released for windows too? big_smile Well, doesn't change anything, I still want an IPhone4s... Lol!

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence, line 1 to 4

2012-05-23 13:46:36

I only have an iPhone 4 ... I got mine much before the 4S came out. sad

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2012-05-23 13:47:59

I Contacted the developer and he said basically what has already been speculated, that the requirements are too demanding for earlier devices, though they are actively working to optimize things and get it working on more devices soon. I have played the game, and love it. The game is rather short, being only episode 1 of a longer story, but what it has is quite awesome.

2012-05-23 14:09:25

So you'll have to buy each episode to hear the whole story? smile

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wild flower.
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour.
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence, line 1 to 4

2012-05-23 15:45:55

o yea, I need to download it
I'll see if I can find it in the UK app store
opening iTunes
arrow down to app store
lol
kidding, I'm really going to download it and give it a try

2012-05-23 16:31:51

Hi,
I've also played it, I haven't beaten it yet though.
But what I've played so far is just amazing. It's sort of free-rome, sort of not, as you can find your next objective location info with two taps, it'll say the door is in front or whatever. but you can also explore -- i've triggered a few hidden scenes this way.
You mentioned episode 1 of a longer story? will this be an in-app purchase or a seperate game?

2012-05-24 11:45:56

Hi.
I've also played the game and it's really great. I'm looking forward to play it some more though.

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2012-05-25 08:58:58

Hi.
I hope it's okay to dobble post in the case that I wanna tell some more stuff about the game. If I edit my latest post, I don't think many people would catch it.
I have now completed the game, and I tell you it's awesome. Pretty short but great. There are features which I never had seen in any other audio game before: You can slide against walls and objects like in realtime. Here is an example: You need to find a door, so you walk up to the wall, turn right so the wall is on your left side, and then you slide your left side against the wall until you bump into the door. Amazing feature!
An other really amazing feature is when people talk, you can hear the echo between  the walls like in realtime. If there is open space to the right, you'll hear a lot of echo out in the room to the right, and just some short echo up to the wall to the left. That's really awesome. I've never seen these features before in any game.
The controls is pretty difficult to get used to, or I find myself to be lost pretty often. The controls are as follows:
press the top of the screen to walk forward one step. Hold a finger down to keep running.
Press the middle part of the screen once to get some tips on what to do, press it one more time to get your direction and to know where the object you're searching for is, and press it a third time to stop the speech.
Rotate the phone left or right to turn the character around in the game, or configure it to tilting in the settings. The rotating feature works very well when stinning in a chair which can turn around.
I find myself to get lost pretty quickly when turning around, because I don't know how much the character turns when turning around in realtime. Therefore you always have to check your direction by tapping twice on the middle of the screen. Otherwise I find the controls amazing, the game and tascs challiging and the storry and sounds really great. I hope these guys continues the story.
I hope you find this short review somewhat useful, and I hope those who don't have an iPhone can get an idea on how it works. I'm sorry if this review makes you who don't have an iphone 4S unhappy because you can't play it. I hear that the developers are working on uptimizing the game.
I haven't told anything about the story or the tascs in the game to avoid spoiling anything, and I don't hope others would do so. If you have any questions, then just let me know.

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2012-05-25 13:04:49

Hi slj,
rotating the phone is not how you are ment to play.
Here's how I play:
I stand up and turn around. Trust me this is the most immersive thing I've ever done, I can literally wheel around to face objects, and even though I am in one spot, I actually managed to end up going past my room's sofa at some stage as I was turning and wheeling around to face stuff. Honestly this thing's great to mess around with. Now I whsh they'd do an action game like this, but even if it's just an endless one, an action game where you can turn and battle would be something I'd gladly pay a little for and play for hours lol.

2012-05-26 14:28:59

Sorry, I didn't  ment rotating the phone but turn around as you say.

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2012-05-27 13:51:31

Hi. I hope that they can support the new iPod touch 4th generation soon. I have gotten the start screen to come up but every time I try and start a new game, the app crashes so yeah it is more CPU demanding and stuff.

Jonathan Candler, A.K.A, Jonnyboy

2012-06-08 08:22:56 (edited by MasterChief 2012-06-08 08:23:56)

hi guys,
I need your help
there is a sound problem in the game
for example:
when I het a wall
it's says: wall
but the sound stop and the word didn't compleet
umm, I know, what I've said is really hard to guess the problem
but I hope someone else explane it better than me
this happen with every voice in the game...

2012-06-08 10:26:41

Hi.
What device are you running the game on? I don't remember having this issue on my iPhone 4S.

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2012-06-08 12:22:17

I'm running it in my iphone 4G