Yeah I'll do arrow navigation and stuff, I'll update you guys when I have something to show and you can give me some feedback.

And yeah it's true more devs would allow bigger projects but for big projects you need full time people otherwise it takes too long and has pretty much zero chance of being finished, I've seen it happen a lot of times.  And full time means you need some kind of salary haha it's the case for pretty much any experienced programmer.

Making good progress...possibly a first version tonight, stil with a synth voice but open for feedback before I send the lines to Sapphire the voice actress.

Still not sure about the achievements and highscores sections, I can't get SAPI to narrate anything because it's a flash game and voices for those sections would be a lot of lines.

Hi,
What is dynamic about the achievements and the highscores menu?
I assume the numbers are dynamic, but it is pretty easy to write something that reads numbers based on prerecorded speech. You will need files from zero to ten, then from twenty to ninety (twenty, thirty, forty, etc), and lastly hundred, thousand and possibly million.
You should have around 23 files in total. Let me know if you need help with this!
The achievements should be also pretty easy: a list of all the achievements, e.g. complete the eighth level in story mode, and a status, such as achieved or pending.
As @Seal said, it is fine if these are narrated using a prerecorded sapi voice. To make things faster, you could use something that can record in bulk, such as DSpeech

Rob

Hi Evildog,

ok, I think we have to agree to disagree here. For me, being blind in a game is nowhere near neccessary to make it logical in some way, and certainly it's not fun. But we'll see what comes out of this.

Hi evildog, great to see that this will be a stand alone game and adapted for us. I am very interested in games myself. Will the next games you make have a single Player mode as well? And will they be available as .exe files for downloading like TBS as well? That would be great and interesting to me, since I like playing in single Player against the Computer. I am not the Kind of Person wich likes playing online so much. Thank you for the great work you put into this, Keep it up.

hi
when I can tri this game?
thanks

If a program is not accessible using just the keyboard, screen readers usually have some kind of second review cursor which uses the mouse. In those cases, the mouse is moved just like the normal text cursor, by line, word, character, etc. For games, the mouse is only really used for aiming, and for now it's only left/right. The keyboard works much better for strategy games. In games like soundRTS, the map is divided into squares like in battleship (a1, b1, b2, etc), and you move between them with arrow keys, then when you're on a square you want you can use tab to move through various units and targets you can work with.
HTH

I agree on this, a game driven by the mouse only would be interesting. Or you make it optional, so the Player can decide what is prefered for playing, mouse or Keyboard, or possibly a game Controller like a game pad or something. That would be another possibility.

Hey guys! Here's a first version of The Blind Swordsman for the visually impaired, the game still has all the synth voices, which are quite bad in my opinion and which are to be replaced by a voice actress once we all agree it's working well.  I'd just like you guys to give it a test run and give me feedback on the adaptation and give me suggestions to improve it if you have any, not things like add this or that game mode or change the gameplay, but on the audio game adaptation itself.  We can discuss adding to the game itself later.

I did do the highscores and achievements sections, credits, controls help and all that good stuff so check it out! And let me know
Here's the link
http://evildogserver.com/theblindswords … rdsman.exe

Thanks sswwaaiikkee, give me some feedback on usability if you have any.

its pretty good. But I hate how i have to complete the story to do survival. I am on level 9 and when the knight does his third attack I cant dodge it.

Hi,

just tried the new version, and it's just great. Thanks for that! It's so cool to have spoken menues in this game. I'm really looking forward to the human spoken menues. Thanks for all your work and keep it up!