Gra z VoiceOver

#Before you start

1. 1Turn on VoiceOver in the iPhone Settings › Accessibility › VoiceOver, or ask Siri: “Turn on VoiceOver”. Setting the Accessibility Shortcut lets you triple-click the side button to switch it on and off.
2. 2Open OutBrick. Home reads first; the Play level button starts your current board, and a two-finger double tap on Home does the same.
3. 3The first time you meet a new idea, a short teaching card explains it. It is the only thing on screen while it shows: double-tap to start playing.

#How the board reads

• The Board summary comes first. It reads the level, its name, the stage, the goals and the moves left. Double-tap it to hear the whole board read out with a hint.
• Then every cell, row by row, from the top left. Gaps in a board’s shape are skipped. Each cell’s value is its place, for example “Row 3, column 2”.
• Pieces are named by kind, colour and state, never by colour alone: “Red bomb”, “Crate, 2 layers”, “Yellow brick, locked, a line through it frees it”, “Red long brick, 2 tall”.
• Extras follow the piece: “in front of the red gate”, “red gate to the left”, “portal entrance below”, “counts for Daffodil, yellow” when a goal needs it. An empty cell says “Empty”.
• Gates are their own elements, for example “Red gate, 2 cells wide, left side, rows 3 to 4”, and their value says whether they are open, iced, need more bricks, or are closed for good.
• Face-down bricks never tell you their colour: “Face-down brick, turns over when a brick next to it leaves the board”. That is fair play, not a missing label.

#Making a move

There are two ways to move, and you can mix them.

With actions (fastest)

1. 1Put VoiceOver on a piece.
2. 2Swipe up or down to hear its actions, such as “Slide left, out through the red gate”, “Slide up to the end, 3 cells” or “Swap up with blue brick”. Working swaps come first; a swap that would make nothing says “no match”.
3. 3Double-tap to play the action you heard.

By choosing a piece, then a direction

1. 1Double-tap a piece. VoiceOver says “Chosen. Choose a direction to slide it, or a neighbour to swap”.
2. 2Direction controls appear over its neighbours. Move to one and double-tap it.
3. 3Changed your mind? Double-tap the same piece again (“Put down”), or use the two-finger scrub.

#Rotors: jump straight to what matters

Twist two fingers on the screen to pick a rotor, then swipe up or down to jump between matching pieces.

Pieces that can match

Pieces with a move that makes a match right now.

Specials

Bombs, line blasters and the other special bricks.

Goals

Pieces your goals are asking for.

Blockers

Crates, stone, ice, locks, moss and anything else in the way.

Gates

Every gate on the board, when the board has them. The first gate board you play tells you about this rotor once.

Each element also has More Content (in the rotor, choose More Content, then swipe up or down): the special, the gate, the blocker, jelly layers underneath, and whether a goal needs this piece.

#Gestures, screen by screen

#What you hear after a move

As soon as a move is decided, VoiceOver says one sentence about it, before the animation finishes. Anything urgent comes first.

• Where a brick went: “Slid 3 cells, to row 2, column 4”, “Through the portal, out at…”, “1 red out through its gate”.
• What changed: “Turned over: red and blue”, “The counter lid opened. Its bricks can move”, “New gates open”.
• What cleared: pieces, cascades, combos and any specials made, and which goals moved.
• Moves left, with a warning at five, three and one: “Only 5 moves left”.
• The end: “Every goal done. Level complete” or “Out of moves”.
• If no move is possible, the board reshuffles and says “The board shuffled. Your move.”

#Hints

• Asking: the two-finger double tap, the Hint action, or H on a keyboard. The hint is spoken, for example “Hint: slide red brick, row 1, column 3, left, out through its gate”, and VoiceOver moves to that piece.
• Free: a hint you ask for with the two-finger double tap or the action never uses a Hint booster from the tray.
• Idle hints: if you pause for a while, a quiet hint may be spoken without moving your focus.

#Finding your way on the Journey

• Every element on the map has two actions: Where am I and Go to my next level, which scrolls the map and puts VoiceOver on your next level.
• The two-finger double tap speaks the guide, for example “Garden City, 7 of 12 levels cleared. Next: level 8. 3 stars to the village reward.”
• A locked level says how far away it is: “4 more to unlock”.
• Swipe with three fingers to move a village at a time.

More about the map in The Journey and its villages.

#Tips from the team

• With VoiceOver on and Animation speed at 100%, moves play one and a half times faster, so you are not waiting. Choose any other speed and the game uses yours exactly.
• Turn on Row sound to hear a whole row as tones: each colour symbol has its own pitch, blockers make a low knock and empty cells are silent. It needs sound effects on and the Ring/Silent switch on ring.
• Lost? Double-tap the Board summary at the top, or use Read the board.
• Menus: every button reads its printed words, and cards trap VoiceOver inside them until you close them, so you never end up behind a card.