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Kerkerkruip - the interactive fiction roguelike game
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Reword opening message #300

Closed VictorGijsbers closed 10 years ago

VictorGijsbers commented 10 years ago

A new install of the game currently starts with "Kerkerkruip has a graphical interface ..." or something like that. You then have to choose whether or not you want to disable it. This always confuses me. My though process is: "graphics" -> yeah, I want them -> type yes.

I'm wondering whether we couldn't change the first sentence to something like "Kerkerkruip's graphical interface can be disabled for players using a text-only interpreter ..." and then leave the rest identical. That feels more logical to me; you immediately start by making clear that question will be about whether or not to disable the interface.

Thoughts?

curiousdannii commented 10 years ago

Sounds good.

curiousdannii commented 10 years ago

So in tracking down the bug from audiogames, I think we're going to have to introduce a screen reader mode. What do you think about changing the question so that it explicitly asks whether the user is using a screen reader? If they answer yes it will disable graphics, panels and the new option (which will be used to disable the popover menu.) Maybe it should enable hyperlinks too... I'll ask if they like that.

curiousdannii commented 10 years ago

@VictorGijsbers any opinions? I'm about to implement this. Any downsides of asking if they're using a screen reader rather than a text only interpreter? They won't get the graphical menu in that case anyway.

VictorGijsbers commented 10 years ago

Sounds good!

ektemple commented 10 years ago

I recommend adding a note at the bottom that users who wish to selectively disable graphics, sound, etc. can do so in options menus. On Apr 15, 2014 4:43 PM, "VictorGijsbers" notifications@github.com wrote:

Sounds good!

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/i7/kerkerkruip/issues/300#issuecomment-40538273 .

curiousdannii commented 10 years ago

I've committed the changes and am (slowly) uploading the zip to dropbox. If you're impatient you might like to compile it yourself.

But I've realised that it doesn't say anything if your interpreter doesn't support graphics. It think I want to add a note about that first, but it will have to wait till this afternoon. Also it may not currently compile without the Glimmr.

As I wrote in one of the other issues, I'm calling this one 9.0.1. If someone has downloaded version 9 and it works for them they don't need the update. We can limit our news about this release to those who've told us about bugs.