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Bat Outta Hell is now playable on mobile. Not gonna say it's perfect, but the start is there. It supports tilt steering. It calibrates after a short countdown when you hit start game if tilt steering is on / available. On iOS, this requires accepting a permission. Touch gestures available if you don't wanna use the tilt steering. I probably need to run through the how to play section and do some updating, but controls are:
Swipe up / down: Throttle
Flick left and right (when tilt steering is off or unavailable): steer
Two finger single tap: Activate power-up
3 finger single tap: Pause / unpause
Two finger up / down / left / right: Announce various bits of info
These work on most of the playable area, but two vertical strips on the left and right are dedicated to the horn / horn ball.
On iOS and Android, touch controls are unavailable unless screen reader is off. Thus, there's a use TTS checkbox in options. On iOS, every time the TTS fires, it significantly ducks audio. This is far from idea, but completely out of my hands. I would therefore recommend becoming familiar with the game / sounds on PC or Mac, then turning off the automatic speech announcements on mobile once you know the sounds well enough. This will still let you use the two finger swipes to get info.

For those who need the link: https://ironcross32.github.io/Bat_Outta_Hell/
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Bat Out Of Hell

JamminJerry 1d ago

@bscross32 interesting game! I am playing it on windows, and the only problem at least for me is trying to hold down the up arrow isn't really making me go fast at all. I think I get up to 16MPH, but it takes me forever to get up to that speed. I did manage to get a rocket or two, and was able to get up to I think maybe 150MPH, but when it ran out, I was back down to 16MPH. am I doing something wrong?

bscross32 1d ago

@JamminJerry Are you on Jaws? The idea is that you don't need to hold the arrows. They work like a throttle, Hold only as long as you need to reach the speed you'd like to be at, then release, and it keeps it. But Jaws won't let arrow keys pass through to the game properly.

JamminJerry 1d ago

@bscross32 actually using the latest version of NVDA, actually the latest beta.

JamminJerry 1d ago

@bscross32 not sure if it matters, but I use Google Chrome as my browser.

bscross32 1d ago

@JamminJerry Very odd. When you put NVDA into input help mode and hold an arrow, does it repeat?
Also, in the game, were you damaged? IF your health gets low, it will not allow you to reach top speed. You'll know because the engine starts sounding rough and will pop and bang. You can also confirm by pressing H.

JamminJerry 1d ago

@bscross32 I was moving so slow that I never hit anything. unless I did in rocket mode. I can record audio for you if you would like so that you can hear what I hear. I can either do it from my zoom H2Essential recorder, or record directly threw my mixer board.

bscross32 1d ago

@JamminJerry I don't think it'll tell me much honestly. IF you continue to tap the arrows, does your speed increase beyond 16mph?

JamminJerry 1d ago

@bscross32 not really. I think only one time I got above 16, I think maybe 18MPH, but it takes for ever for me to get that fast. I will keep trying to play with it to see if I can figure out what might be going on, but just thought I would let you know I had these issues.

bscross32 1d ago

@JamminJerry Yeah all good. That really doesn't match anything either myself, or my testers have encountered.

Cary ✨11h ago

@bscross32 are you the one that made batt out of hell? I play it on pc and I really like it. I'll have to try it on the iPhone.

bscross32 11h ago

@cary5871 Yep, that's me.

Cary ✨11h ago

@bscross32 I like it, I just can't figure out what the horn ball powerups are for. also, is there any way to get above 100mph? and it's too bad you can't get wrenches in reserve for when your car gets beat up, traveling at ridiculously low speeds until you can collect wrenches is annoying. rofl

bscross32 10h ago

@cary5871 They let you shoot obstacles, or really most things. It's kind of stupid, but a long time ago, like late '90s, there was this game called Viper Racing, and there was a cheat that let you shoot these balls out of the front of your car by blowing the horn, when they hit another car, it would cause them to spin out. So I kinda took that idea and added it to this.

Cary ✨10h ago

@bscross32 oh interesting. do you have a website where this game lives? because a friend of mine gave it to me, and I'm not sure if I have the latest version or not. ✨

bscross32 10h ago

@cary5871 https://ironcross32.github.io/Bat_Outta_Hell/

Bat Out Of Hell

Cary ✨10h ago

@bscross32 This game is seriously addictive. here's my stats for the most recent run I did:
Average speed: 115 mph.
Obstacles avoided: 115.
Near misses: 38.
Crashes: 5.
Gas tanks collected: 12.
Wrenches collected: 3.
Total power-ups collected: 31.
Power-up breakdown: Shield 25.8%, Rocket 58.1%, Horn ball 16.1%.
Fired 50 horn balls, hitting 39 and missing 11, for an accuracy of 78%.
Obstacles blocked by shield: 8.
Sink holes traversed: 0.
Hit 8 ramps and missed 19, for an accuracy of 29.6%.
Total air time: 88.0 seconds.
Coins collected: 66.
Longest rocket run: 50.0 seconds.
my one major complaint is, I wish it had better sounds. but for a web browser game, it's pretty awesome. ✨

bscross32 10h ago

@cary5871 The choice of sounds is intentional. They're all synthesized.

Cary ✨10h ago

@bscross32 interesting, did you choose synthesized sounds for a reason? just curious.

bscross32 9h ago

@cary5871 Yeah. I wanted that arcade feel, plus I like Syngen,, which is the engine the game is powered by.

@bscross32 that's cool. I do enjoy the game a lot, it's quite the addictive thing. 💖