OutBrick wants its sliding brick puzzles to read aloud as well as they look
A calm block puzzle for iPhone and iPad about sliding bricks to their gates, built by its developer to be explored with VoiceOver.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
Most block puzzles are designed for the eye first and patched for everything else later, if at all. OutBrick, from indie developer Mourad, claims the opposite order of business: a calm puzzle about sliding coloured bricks out through gates of their own colour, which Mourad says was designed to be explored through VoiceOver. That is a rare thing to lead with. A board that is meant to be read aloud By Mourad's account, VoiceOver reads the board cell by cell, empty cells included, names the pieces and the gates, and offers a slide or a swap as an action rather than asking for a drag. The Voice...