Am I the only one who misses actual football gameplay?

I'd love to be able to play a game like this but I'm more interested in the strategic aspects of football.
Managing a club as the manager or even as the owner.
Yes, we have a few choices here but I'd love to see more options here as well :-)

How you would do that on iPhone I have no idea, but I've always wanted a Fifa style game for iPhone. I also think that EA, with there billions of dollars, should put some money into making it accessible, but hey, that's another conversation.
The only game that I think comes close to it is Blind Fold soccer kick, but you likely have played it already and the game mechanics leave a lot to be desired.

It's all about football ain't it? I want rugger and cricket too. Tennis, golf, all would be good.

There used to be an accessible golf game for android. This would have been more than a decade ago, as I got my first iPhone in mid 2012. I do not know if that game still exist or not, but it was actually pretty good for its time.

If I am remembering correctly, and keep in mind this was a long time ago, but it was more or less a fully fledged golf game. And you had to watch out for things like wind speed, and weather, sand pits, etc. Things I imagine people typically have to be wary of in actual golf. As for swinging your club and striking the ball, there was a type of meter, I think it was done with sound, or maybe sound and haptics? Anyways, the more evenly matched it was when you tapped the button, the better/more accurate your shot was.
I hope that makes sense. If that game is still around, that would be amazing, because I imagine after all these years they would've had a lot of updates, assuming the death kept it up of course.

Yeah I would love to have a good football game to play. I have fond memories of playing FIFA when I was younger and had enough sight.
Perhaps I lack imagination but I’m not sure how it would work. Do you have any thoughts or examples on game mechanics?
On the strategy side, are there any good football management games that are accessible? I’d love to play the proper top tier ones like Football Manager. I tried the likes of Soccer Boss, but thought it was rubbish honestly.
Dave

So, have you ever played the game FEER? That could be the foundation for an audio soccer game. Imagine it. You're running across the field, working the ball toward the goal, you hear a player coming up on you, you swipe left or right to get around them, keeping the ball between the Arch of your feet as you work it down the field (maybe some haptics could be worked in here?). Perhaps they can incorporate a gesture, such as a two finger swipe up, to hop the ball over someone's leg if they try to sweep it away from you, or a two finger swipe down to try to do a more spectacular kick/maneuver toward the goal? Such as the move (I forget what it's called) where you place 1 foot with your heel against the front of the ball, and the toes of your other foot under the back of the ball, you kind of lock the ball in place and sort of hop up, Bending your knees, popping the ball up into the air behind you. If done right, the foot behind the ball pops the ball upward slightly, and the heel of your front foot hits it, knocking it up over your head, where you can either headbutt, or perform some kind of jumping kick like a scissor kick for example). Yes, I may have played soccer when I was a kid...

What do you think on incorporating FEER's game mechanics? Obviously it will need a lot more game mechanics, but for a foundation, I think something like this could work. 🙂

Edited for typos

Is that the move you are referring to?

I honestly could not remember the name of the maneuver, but rainbow flick sounds about right. The ball does kind of do this Arch move or it pops up behind you over your head and potentially can land in front of you, if done right.

There is a real shortage of decent audio games on mobile now. Nothing against personally but I don't care about these card / dec building game! I want an actual immersive, fun to play game, that doesn't treat blind gamers as 10 years old kid to build a medical grade poorly thought half baked distraction for.
A lot of adjectives there but I do think each word.
The only recent title I can think of is blind drive, but I also want something advanture ish, long. Not necessarily a shadow rine / a hero's call on mobile (though that would be cool), just a good combat style thing, actually dopamine driven thing. Something with actions. That moves.
This shortage is not even on mobile in fact, everywhere, just that desktop is a bit safe and old titles still work or are updated.
PS: I'm pretty sure we have and ios/ipad os gaming thread? Could change the location there.

That's why I went back to retro games. Our games for iOS suck, but that's just my opinion. BitLife, BC4000, LifePop and Wrestle Verse are the only iOS games for me.

I always enjoyed football games - whether it was Match Day on the BBC Micro, or the Kick-Off series on the Amiga, or later Pro Evo and Fifa on consoles. I like the idea of a version I could play again but I'm dubious about whether it would work on a phone, or even if it did whether my audio skills would be sufficient. I can't quite get my head around how this would work and be playable for someone like me. But I would be very interested if there was a console game that I could play.

Out of interest, are there actually any good football management games that are accessible? I tried Chairman Pro or something on the phone and it was OK for a bit but not really involved enough to be that interesting. I'm guessing things like Football Manager on the Mac are not going to be accessible. I suspect football management games are too complicated for me these days. I need to feel like I am influencing a game but I don't want to devote my entire life to figuring it out.

I used to spend a lot of my sighted life gaming and bar occasionally trying the odd pedestrian iphone game I've pretty much left it all behind since going blind which is a shame.

This was used in games like Papa Sangre 1 & 2, as well as The Nightjar by the company, Something Else. This would be crucial IMO in order to give the player a sense of being on the field, and being able to determine where other players are in relation. I still stand by my previous post that game mechanics from the game, "FEER", could be incorporated here. Better yet, give the player a full 3D panoramic world, like in Papa Sangre games, and add the necessary components to make it playable.

Hey guys!
Ea fc, the old fifa, is playable if you have enough patience and desire to play.
What I mean is that the game is not natively accessible.
No accessibility sounds, the screen reader is quite limited but it is possible.
So how?
Unfortunately, I don't have any apple devices to test to see if it would work. The most I can do is try to help.
I play on my Windows PC using NVDA with OCR, and these days I tested it on the Amazon Luna on android, which in my opinion is what would have to be used to play on an Apple, since the game only works on PCs and consoles.
Basically I use OCR to read the menus. At match time, I use the sounds of the crowd, comments and vibration from the controller.

If you need more information, I'm happy to help.

Hey guys!
Below are the minimum and recommended requirements for the game.

Minimum (720p, 60 FPS gameplay, Low preset)
◦ OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, latest update)
◦ CPU: Intel Core i5-6600k or AMD Ryzen 5 1600
◦ Memory: 8 GB RAM
◦ GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti or AMD RX 570 (4 GB VRAM)
◦ Storage: 100 GB
◦ DirectX: Version 12
◦ Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Recommended (1080p, 60 FPS gameplay, Medium preset)
◦ OS: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, latest update)
◦ CPU: Intel Core i7-6700 or AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
◦ Memory: 12 GB RAM
◦ GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1660 or AMD RX 5600 XT (6 GB VRAM)
◦ Storage: 100 GB
◦ DirectX: Version 12
◦ Network: Broadband Internet connection

I recommend downloading the showcase version of the game to give you an idea of ​​whether it's worth playing.
You can download the game via Steam or the EA app.

I can try to record something, although my English isn't very good and I'm not used to the game's commentary, as I play in Portuguese. If it's not a problem, I can record it.

I think you may have linked the wrong folder. You may want to check and unshare that link :) As I think it could contain personal info.

Hi guys!
Thanks for letting me know. I have no idea what Google Drive did; there was a strange bug. It's best to check next time. Well,
Here's the link
:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WCcDH-lXnojTDaAciV_0CqON3t_RrG9d/view?usp=drivesdk

Hey guys!
I discovered the problem, it was the microphone effects enhancements that were taking away all my voice, already fixed.
Sorry my microphone is louder than the game. I still haven't struck a good balance. With this, my fan will end up picking up the audio.
Here is the link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/123uhHOaiA3RuRNoxBl-lTj98pTbaaL1V/view?usp=sharing

First, thank you so much for taking the time to make this demonstration for us. I have a couple of suggestions, which I hope you will take is constructive criticism, over sarcasm or anything else.

1. When you are demonstrating a game, and it's accessibility, whether it's through OCR, built-in TTS, or something else; it's best to go through the screens, stop or pause the game, or simply put the controller down, and explain what you're doing there. Then move onto the next screen, rinse and repeat. This makes it a little easier for your listeners to follow along. However, here you went several minutes explaining things, before you ever pulled up the game menus.

2. While I appreciate you went through every setting screen, and/or option and explain what each one was for, I think it would be better if you simply made a guide here as a post, you could even separate each category by heading, for example one heading could be graphics, one heading could be audio, etc. While you did a good job explaining the settings, nobody, I mean nobody, is gonna go back and listen to it again just to find that one particular setting that they really want to switch on/off, to make their gameplay experience better. If you wrote it down as a post/guide, it's Easier to go back to for reference sake.

3. You absolutely need to adjust your microphone, whether that means replacing it, or something else. I had to turn the volume way up to hear your voice. Nothing personal, but you are a soft spoken individual.

4. Last, but not least, when you're making demonstrations like this, it might pain you to do so, but turning down the speech rate will be beneficial for listeners who are not used to extremely fast spoken synthesized speech. Just a thought.

Having said that, I want to thank you once again for providing this demonstration for us.

Best,

Brian

Hi,

You mentioned in your demonstration above, that sometimes NVDA can crash when trying to get the game going. I wonder if this little add-on will help? It's supposed to be a little add-on that helps with games where you have to hold down keys for long periods of time. Link below.
https://github.com/maxe-hsieh/game_mode