Hi all,
My name is Felipe Oliveira, and I'm the developer behind Dungeon Scoundrel and Audio Football.
My newest game is Cards With Us, a card game site with a new set of daily challenges every day, plus tables where you can play with friends or bots. This week I added full VoiceOver support, and I'd love your help testing it.
You can play it in your browser here: https://cardswith.us/
It works on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and computers. No download needed. You can play as a guest, or sign in with email or Google to keep your stats on every device.
What's in it:
- Eight daily solo games: Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid, TriPeaks, Yukon, Cromwell and Hex Poker.
- Everyone gets the same deal each day, with a leaderboard. You can also play unranked games anytime.
- Four games with friends or bots: Hearts, Texas Hold'em Poker, Truco and Buraco.
- English, Portuguese and Spanish.
- The daily challenges are free. Without VIP you get 3 unranked games per game each day and 3 tables a day.
How VoiceOver works:
- Every card has a name and a place, like "9 of hearts, column 4, top card". Face-down cards are counted but never named.
- Swipe through the board in reading order, and double tap a card to select or play it. Piles, free cells, foundations and the stock are buttons too.
- Every move is spoken: what moved where, cards that turned over, completed runs, points, hints, undo and wins.
- At the top of each board there are hidden commands you can swipe to:
- Describe board reads the whole table.
- Where can this go lists the moves for the selected card.
- Auto move sends a card to its best spot.
- In Klondike and Cromwell, a double tap sends the card to its best spot, the same as a tap. If you'd rather choose where it goes, turn on Pick destinations in the game menu. Then a double tap selects the card, and a double tap on a pile moves it there.
- At the tables, every player's move is read in order, bots included. You hear "your turn" with the seconds left, plus a warning at 10 and 5 seconds. Read the table and Describe table are there whenever you need them. The host can set turn timers up to 3 minutes.
- On a Mac with a keyboard, the arrow keys move between piles and cards and Enter plays. Escape clears the selection. B describes the board, W says where a card can go, A auto moves, H gives a hint and U undoes. Each game's rules include a "Playing with a screen reader" section with its own keys.
- The game has sound effects. You can turn them off in the game menu.
One honest note: the VoiceOver support is brand new. I tested it with a keyboard and with automated checks, but nobody has played it with VoiceOver yet, so expect some rough edges.
What I need most:
- Can you play a full daily game with VoiceOver? Where did you get stuck?
Is the speech the right amount? Some games say a lot after each move, like TriPeaks listing what you can play next. Is that helpful or too much?
- Are the card names and positions clear? Does the swipe order make sense?
- When you explore the screen by touch, does your finger land on the card you expect, especially in tall columns?
- Is Pick destinations useful? Should it be on by default for VoiceOver users?
- At the tables, can you follow what everyone does? Is the turn timer long enough?
- Hex Poker puts cards on a grid of hexagons, read as "row 2, column 3". Does that work for you?
- If you play in Portuguese or Spanish, does the wording sound natural?
Anything else is welcome too: bugs, confusing moments, games you'd like to see, or how it went on your device and browser.
Tell me what you all think!