A passion born from personally feeling for the needs of others has produced a motivation and desire in our lives to help others. Currently we are engaged in developing Ipad, Ipod, and Iphone apps for people who are visually challenged. These apps will use text-to-speech and voice recognition for all game interactions. We are attempting to bring the enjoyment of game playing back to those who have been limited or have completely lost the ability to play games. Our first game is SpokenSlots, a casino style slot machine which is available on the Apple AppStore.
SpokenSlots is our first IOS audiogame with speech recognition. After observing the problems sight challenged people have playing traditional games on the Ipad, Iphone and Ipod, even using VoiceOver, we recognized the need for games that could be easily played and enjoyed by those who are either blind or visually challenged. Spoken Slots was born from the hope that we could bring back and brighten the lives of others through this game and others. As a result there are no graphics in the game only spoken descriptions of the game play.
The game is played by tapping the screen which is divided into four large buttons (SCORE, BET, SPIN, and HELP). Each covers one quarter of the screen. Spoken instructions tell the player what each button does and informs them of the current device game settings. These settings allow the player or assistant to control three features. First, the Save Game feature which will retain the score between games. Secondly, a Tilt-to-Spin feature which allows the player to tilt the device from vertical to horizontal and back in order to spin the slot machine reel. And the last feature is voice recognition which recognizes bet, spin, balance, score, and help as words to control the game play. We have added a triple two finger tap to turn the voice recognition on and off and a double two finger tap to turn the Tilt to Spin feature on and off. This will allow the user to change these settings without going to the device game settings. This app should be available soon in the AppStore on any IOS device.
The game is played by tapping the screen which is divided into four large buttons (SCORE, BET, SPIN, and HELP). Each covers one quarter of the screen. Spoken instructions tell the player what each button does and informs them of the current device game settings. These settings allow the player or assistant to control three features. First, the Save Game feature which will retain the score between games. Secondly, a Tilt-to-Spin feature which allows the player to tilt the device from vertical to horizontal and back in order to spin the slot machine reel. And the last feature is voice recognition which recognizes bet, spin, balance, score, and help as words to control the game play. We have added a triple two finger tap to turn the voice recognition on and off and a double two finger tap to turn the Tilt to Spin feature on and off. This will allow the user to change these settings without going to the device game settings. This app should be available soon in the AppStore on any IOS device.
