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Synthizer, the default audio backend, is currently not available for Mac, and as long as that stays up-to-date, we'll have to find an alternative for that.
I'd probably go with my own Bass4Py solution, but that one isn't Mac-ready yet either, so we'll have to find an alternative here.
Just like with the output backend, i'd like this to be available in 1.0, but I don't have time and money to work with a Mac right now, so i'll see if someone can help with that later.

there currently is no output backend available under Mac. I know that there are ways to communicate via VoiceOver, but I don't have any experience with mac yet myself. I'd like this to go into 1.0 as well, but right now I don't have the time and devices to work on this myself, so i'll leave this open to later be moved into 1.0 as well if someone offers assistance with this.

there currently is no speech available under Linux. An output backend should be provided to work under Linux to support screen reader like speech feedback. I know that there was speech dispatcher available under Linux some years ago, but I don't know what the current options would be. Maybe embedding eSpeak directly would be an option.

a menu item working as a checkbox which can:

• be toggled by pressing space bar
• be toggled at will by code

When using pip install -Ur requirements.txt, I get the following error:

Ignoring cytolk: markers 'sys_platform == "Windows"' don't match your environment
Ignoring synthizer: markers 'sys_platform == "Windows"' don't match your environment

It should match my platform, although sys.platform == 'win32'... Even though I'm running a 64 BIT machine with a 64 BIT installation of Python 3.9:

Python 3.9.1 (tags/v3.9.1:1e5d33e, Dec  7 2020, 17:08:21) [MSC v.1927 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32

Interesting work so far.

When releasing the first 1.0 version, a step-by-step tutorial would be ideal to motivate people to look into the project.

• an example game would be great
• should contain at least one menu, maybe even more, as well as sounds, configuration saving? and maybe even more

On my system, I get the mssagebox module with from tkinter import messagebox.

a menu item which should represent slider functionality. it should:

• be able to contain several items of any type, as long as they can be converted into a string so that they can be spoken
• those items be selectable with the left and right arrow keys
• wrapping should be optional
• the currently selected item needs to be accessible from within code
• the list of items must be setable from within code
• optionally, a callback can be handed over to the slider whichreceives the direction (forward/backward) and should return a string to be spoken.

make sure that pyAGE builds well under Windows, Linux and maybe even Mac with pyInstaller and create a dedicated hook if necessary.

Hi.
I would like see unispeak being added as a backend for the mac, and possible windows, because it supports them all.

a configuration manager should be provided. It would be able to:

• store configuration data of any type (pickle-based?)
• read and write configuration files to a given location (probably within the game directory to encourage portability)
• ensure superficial encryption to prevent simple modifications