I personally have dectalk installed, so I'm quite fine as far as the sapi voices go. Still, screen reader support would be nice, though not necessary.I just played for quite some time, captured some manamons, got them to level 10 or so, then alt tabbed to something else just for a moment. Soon, the computer restarted for no reason at all.
Ah well, lesson learned. Save more often. Though it would be nice if we could have autosaves, like it was in paladin where it saved the progress when you went to bed. I allways forget to save and then my computer makes me pay for it.

You can save at any time you want except while in combat, and this is how I prefer it, honestly. Paladin had save points, but it didn't have forced saves. The problem with a forced save is that if you put it in the wrong place, you may put the player in an unwinnable scenario or might get them to trigger it without realizing. Maybe they want to go back and try something different, but with auto-save now they can't. So I like this method, honestly. I think it makes sense.

There was one a few pages back if memory serves.

Just a quick heads-up, for those who don't know:

Some games do indeed heal you a little (or to full) when you level. Many don't. Pokemon is one such game that does not do so, and Aaron's mostly modelling the game after that franchise I think.
As far as the Manapedia goes? Actually it makes sense that you get more complete info once you actually catch the thing. If you want its type, attack it and find out what's effective/not very effective/super-effective, and work from there. This is how you find out that Awlaw is air-sound, for instance, and Granate is earth-stone. It's a little bewildering at the start especially, but for me at least, that's half the fun of it.
I was actually ready to come on here and take the same issue, at least right at the start, until I realized that frankly, playing pokemon in the past, I've been spoiled. I either 1. had a sighted person to help a little, 2. could use the internet to find out cries/moves/type effectiveness, or 3. had seen the anime. There was all kinds of reference. But in this game, there is no such reference. Some things - such as that water is good against flame - are self-explanatory. But I don't think I've even seen a shadow type yet, even though I've seen equipment that only a shadow manamon can use. There is a handy text file which explains type effectiveness though, which is good.

On that note thought, it would be nice if the manual covered status conditions and what they did. Does scorch cut your attack? I know paralysis doesn't cut your speed, and if scorch doesn't cut attack then it's really just another damage-over-time counter. Can you stack status conditions? What the hell is berserk? Stuff like that.

Wow wow. very good game. great work. I will buy it when I will get my bank account online.

Hello,
I carefully read all messages before my posting.
About cloning, its ok for me, because video games have nothing to do with audio games, and we will never be able to play it.
The game sounds interesting to me and price tag is ok, even I am buying games so rare do the my bad financial situation.
But I understand developers and hard work.
I hope that this game have the end?
I dont like games like psycho strike, which you could play without final target.
I like to see final stage, battel  or whatever.
Aaron, screen reader support is something that comercial games with that price must have.
Nothing against you, but if Yukio did that in BK3, surely its not too hard to implement.
I am using eloquence 16 years already, and its so expensive for sapi 5.
I need to pay more then 100 dollars for eloq and your sapi based game.
Finally, this game is not working for me, at my work place computer.
Its too buggy.
I am running windows 10, 64bit.
Installation went fine. But After initial game speaking and introducing myself to the system, game said that adventure will begin, I encountering the folowing error:
Error
The tamer requested does not exist. Lad - howard
OK.
And game exits.
After I turned on autoupdate feature, I found a new bug.
After game loaded, coming bunch of errors that wav files cannot be found and I need to terminate game process.
When autoupdate is turned off, no problem.
Reinstalled the game, but still cannot play.
Will try to run at my home.

i have tried the game but find sapi tedious so will be purchasing it if screenreader support if possible, in my case jaws, can be added. i only have microsoft anna voice at the moment. also how many stadiums are in the full game? finally when the mainu menu comes up only new game is available not options. i do like the soundwork though but would like if possible jaws support.

One thing I've found really helpful is to talk to everyone, especially the trainers after battling them.   sometimes they can give useful hints.

Hello all,
The difficulty of adding screen reader support is minimal. I can largely recycle the implementation from Paladin of the Sky.
But after adding it to Paladin, I really felt it detracted from the experience significantly.
Screen readers are not designed for gaming. As a programmer, I need to have as much control over the user's experience as possible, and unfortunately screen readers do not offer the abilities required.
Everyone likes Screen Reader support because they can get good voices, but there are just some issues with it, especially on bigger games.
I've seen many games which only support screen readers which I personally find unplayable.
I also remember somewhere in this thread, someone said the Jaws Keyhook wouldn't be an issue since Manamon doesn't have timed attacks like Paladin.
Actually, the keyhook causes more problems than just a slight delay. Sometimes I will hold down a key, then release it, and the game lags so much that it will continue walking a few steps before stopping.
That in itself wouldn't be enough to stop me from adding screen reader support, because that's an issue only in JAWs.
The other issues, namely having no control, are present in all screen readers.
All the best,
Aaron

I'm curious to know exactly what screen reader support would not give in terms of control that sapi does in this game. All the other big rpgs I've played namely shadow line and all of Morokuma's text rpgs use screen reader support, at the very least, clipboard support, which works just fine. If the difference really is minimal, then coding support for NVDA shouldn't be so hard and seeing as how requested of a feature it is, I think you should seriously consider it. I think one of the issues mentioned was that screen reader support doesn't take into account when a line of dialog may end which may cause interrupts... I think most peoples' screen readers are set with their speech rate fast enough to where that won't be a problem. Other than that, a vast majority of games developed these days have screen reader support in one form or another.

threeblacknoises, Shadow Rine also has this auto-advanced feature, and it works wonderfully with NVDA. It even lets you control how fast you want it to scroll so in case your speech is set to a slower rate, it doesn't cut off bits of the dialog when it advances.