Re: I have a deep desire to build higher quality games for blind people.
I don't disagree that you need to pay for a high-budget game, but I think what a lot of people here are saying is that quality doesn't always mean depending on movie-grade sounds or music. As someone who has played the Japanese games over and over again, those are the games I will point to... because those are the model examples of games where people made them and haven' charged for them. This is why to those of you who haven't yet tried them, I would strongly encourage it... this is all my opinion of course, but people who are obstinate about using a few utilities to get these experiences to me sound like the people who don't touch pc mainstream games because steam wasn't made accessible out of the box and you had to work to make something happen. Yes, mainstream developers spend thousands and thousands on audio and production alone. But those are also massive development teams with hundreds of people. And just as a guess of ratio... some of the big budget console or pc game manufacturers probably have a development crew which consists of an amount of people comparable to all the blind gamers in the world. And Swamp is a great example, yes. Swamp is or should I say was a great example of a quality game that it wasn't necessary to purchase. I'm a mainstream gamer. I play fighting games very often, and I'm a huge jrpg fan when I can get someone to blast through them with me. lol My point being that there are some games on the audio games market right now that I would happily pay for, though the developer / developers hasn't seen fit to charge for them yet. Shadow Line has minimalistic graphics, and considering that they're drawn by a guy who's totally blind, that's pretty impressive on its own... since most blind developers probably wouldn't even care about that kind of thing. bokurano Daibouken 3, which is developed by a 17 year old from Japan, has taken over 100 hours of my playing time, and I still haven't unlocked everything. And that game has fantastic music and sound.
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