Hi ashly well we were discussing this stuf on list just well today.
I'll answer your questions.
a lot of this is probably changing and a lot know more than I do but
I will try to help.
exposure is what we need if we are ever going to make progress with
mainstream stuff.
Our games lack a lot of concepts that the sighted will take for
granted mostly because we havn't figured out a way to handle those or
convert them yet.
we have multiplayer and such but there are still gaps though the gap
is closing all the time.
At 12:42 PM 3/27/2013, you wrote:
Hello,
I am a journalist writing an article about computer games for the blind and
would really appreciate your input. Please only reply to this post if you
are willing for me to quote you in my article (for the Popular Mechanics
website). It would be helpful if you could describe yourself as you'd like
me to describe you in the article.
What are the qualities of a good computer game for the blind? What does it
have to have to work well for someone who can't see?
Hmmm thats a hard question.
Right now it needs to be simple to play, can be controled by the keyboard etc.
No graphics what so ever, and needs to work with a screen reader or
sapi synth voices though we would prefur full dialog to be honest
synths really are not the best convayers of things during a game
depending on that game.
We do need things to help us target as well as locate things right
now anyway maybe in the future we won't be as simple.
For blind or visually impaired gamers, what are your favorite audio games,
and why? Which games designed for sighted people are these most analogous
to?
Hmmm.
Thats a hard one.
shades of doom is mine.
this is like the doom series 1 and 2 not sure about 3 though.
Audioquake though sadly that project died.
It was a shell for the quake engine and was good.
lone wolf.
Thats like I guess silent hunter but with less features.
gtc, or gma tank commander.
That has its roots in panza98 but I don't know what game it came from
or is going to and I may have it all wrong.
there are a couple of trek games to
final conflict is based on several games that are trek.
there is soundrts which is based on warcraft.
entombed which is a rpg and is quite good.
Most games though are all based on space invader clones, card and board games.
The landscape between the sighted and blind is vast.
What are some examples of games for the blind that I can play online?
Hmmm.
There arn't any I know of off my head unless you mean the
experimentals at audiogames.net.
most in fact almost games need to be downloaded and installed or at
least unzipped.
What do you think is the most interesting factoid about games for the blind?
Hmmm to be honest that we can play games at all.
To the sighted blind games have no interest what so ever because of
their lack of graphics.
And if there is an interesting fact then its only really usefull to
the blind not sighted users.
I can't think of one but then I am not one of the up to date geeks here.
you should try to register this topic on forum.audiogames.net.
you will get better coverage.
Also I'd like to check your sight and the article online I am sure
everyone else will I havn't heard of the site you are putting things
on there are so many.
Thank you,
Ashley
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Writer and journalist
ashleyptaylor.com
(270) 485-1753
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