As he pointed out the buttons are programmable. If a dev wants to use the buttons as arrows they can program 4 buttons to move up, down, left, or right. That in my ipinion is quite medioker as just about every gamer is used to having arrows as either a d-pad or laptop style arrows.

I apologize for my absence on the forum for such a long time, changes in my personal life have slowed the Sonus's development quite drastically but development still pushes on regardless.

Thanks to the priceless feedback and opinions you all share with me, I have added more buttons to the Sonus. As mentioned, all buttons are programmable by the developer but now i intent to have four buttons as a d-pad and 5 actions buttons along with a dedicated pause buttons that isn't programmable.

The Sonus has reached its foundation level where I am happy with all tests, and functions are all working as they should (object collisions, button responses etc) and work has now begun on what I call the GDE (Game Development Environment).  I intend to develop them both parallel to each other but possibly make the GDE available early to catch any bugs and tweek it after collecting user feedback.

As always thank you all for your input. you are a valuable resource that ensures this projects success

Wow, this sounds way cool! (Yeah, I'm from the 70s)

Before I lost my vision, my favorite games were first person games. Except for Blindside, I have yet to try any first person audio games like Swamp, but plan to as soon as I get some decent headphones.

I'm becoming more interested in action and role playing games than I have been in the past, especially if they are done with a first person perspective, .

What I wanted most to say was to respond to remark you or someone else made about listening to the same voice over a long period of time. I recently encountered several games that solved this by having several narator that switched off as appropriate to the game. In Blindside, you follow a couple, you play the game as the guy. The guy does most of the naration, but occasionally his girl friend would chime in.

ok. so, let us see hear, what is to become of this?  i do realize it takes alot of time and time is deffinitly went in to this creation however  there have been no post or info sense sometime in june and the sight sad to say is closed.   are we at all getting close to a release date?   etc?   it seems this this was good idea gone bad.    i've heard nothing in short of gaming etc or anything.   and i've kept up with sight and hear.  infact when reading, i saw the same info hear and at sight when sight was opened.   yet that was sometime in june.   i'd like to know is there more or something we can look forward to?   or is this a destroyed project.   i'm so ready to see this creation, etc.   ready to hear pricing, and hear some demos etc.   but from the looks and sounds of it and what i'm learning, it doesn't look like that is gona happen.

Hello. I enjoy handheld games as well.  Is this console  going to be for the iPhone? Because I have a certain game in mind that should go with it. And audio version of the popular game puzzle and dragons. Where we can drag certain pieces together to make combinations.  I've actually seen a couple of Playthru's and I actually think that blind people can drag-and-drop pieces with the help of voiceover.  Voiceover would describe the colors and then all we would have to do is drag and drop the colors together. Making a combination.

Also it would be cool to have a legend of Zelda game that would work with it as well. I've always wanted to see what the legend of Zelda game would be like with descriptions and objectives. Kind of like how they made super Mario Brothers the audio addition,  and sonic the hedgehog

Hi all.
Well it looks like the project is gone.
A message now is on the site stating that a website is not in the best interest of the project right now but indicates the project still continues.
However with this in mind there are only 3 possibilities open to us.
1.  while they had hopes, a major setback happened, something major finantial or system related.
One thing's for sure they are not ready to go live and probably won't be for some time.
2.  For whatever reason the project is offline for some sort of delay maybe there is a problem.
However its most likely as with all audiogame ventures released by those that have good intentions but are to quick off the mark.
This project is basically gone folks.
And so comes the end of another console for blinks.
To be honest I think if you got a standard computer with a linux distro on it as an os or windows iot or even a raspberry pie you could make a console for that.
but even so, I think this is gone, the origional poster has not posted in ages, lets close this topic, delete it and move on.