Hey everyone,
I wanted to share something I've been working on for a while now. Card World is a new multiplayer card game built from the ground up with accessibility at its core — same philosophy as Dice World, just with cards.
The first games available will be Gin Rummy and Rummy 500, with full VoiceOver support on iOS. Blind and sighted players play together in the same games — no separate modes, no compromises. If you've played Dice World, you know that's how I think games should work.
A few things worth mentioning:
• More games are already in development. These 2 games are just the starting point. The plan is to keep adding card games to Card World over time, so it becomes a place you can always find a game and someone to play with.
• Accessibility isn't a feature, it's the foundation. Every interaction in Card World was designed to be accessible from day one — not bolted on after the fact.
Card World will be available on the App Store soon. I'll post again when it's live.
If you have questions or want to know more, happy to answer in the comments.
Thanks for all the support over the years — the Dice World community is the reason I keep building.
— Nick
Comments
Will you be adding?
Card games such as Spades, Yahtzee, and Blackjack at any point? If so, consider me a happy supporter. 😁
games
Spades yes, Yahtzee is in Dice World (not a card game). Not sure on Blackjack.
I'd be happy with Blackjack and Uno
I'd be happy with Blackjack and Uno.
Yahtzee
Oh, you are right. My mistake.
Licensed games
This sounds interesting. I'm assuming there could be some generic games to get around popular game licenses, like how Yotsy is a generic version of the brand name game Yahtzee. What about Crazy 8's in place of Uno?
Is Accessibility in Card World native like Dice World? Some of the later games that were added to Game World, used the Unity plugin, which I found less easy to use than native VoiceOver support. Although, didn't Apple add their own accessibility support for Unity games a few years ago?
not unity
This is not unity. I tried forever to make the Unity thing work and it was not maintainable, which is why Game world is no longer avail.
Interesting.
Interesting. I wondered why that game just kind of disappeared. I did like some of the games in it, like Ludo.
I wonder if the Unity plugin went away. I know there was a WWDC session a few years ago on making games with Unity accessible. The presenter made a demo simple matching game, and it seemed to me to act more like a native accessible game -- it seemed different than the Unity plugin. Although I did enjoy reading how the dev came up with it and seemed to genuinely want to be helpful.
Anyway, looking forward to Card World.
Unity Plugin
I remember the game you're talking about: Blindy Match. Honestly, I still miss that little game. I think the plug-in still exists, though. Seven Little Words was using it last time I checked, and I seem to recall a few other games use it. Dawncaster for sure uses it.