I would buy a good racing game. Hell some of my favorite main stream
racing games have been, need for speed, burn out, and a few others.
Miss the days when I could some what see to know what I was doing.

On 6/5/18, Tyler Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> As usual, you're absolutely spot on in this assessment.
>
> There are only certain parts of a game that can be translated into sound
> or vision - but without the visual esthetic in terms of the blind, we'd
> be missing out on tons of things that really can't be explained.
>
>
> What I would love to see is a realistic racing game. Top speed is close
> but nowhere near close enough - although I'm sure that's a lot more
> difficult than it sounds in reality. Funding is likely another issue and
> interest in racing games is probably a lot less than something like an
> FPS like Swamp etc.
>
>
> On 05-Jun-2018 1:54 PM, Jeremy Kaldobsky wrote:
>> I agree with Charles.  What he is trying to say is that if you modify
>> certain games to make them accessible, they are no longer the same
>> game.  If we took one of those dance dance revolution games and had a
>> deaf player try it, they would be bored and not understand why anyone
>> would like the game. There would be no music, no beat, and basically
>> no reason why they should enjoy stepping on the pads at the correct
>> intervals.  Yes you could argue that the game was accessible to them,
>> but it isn't the same game anymore.
>>
>> Minecraft is a game that really hinges on the art style and the
>> free-form way you can create the environment.  I've seen many topics
>> where people suggest making it blind accessible by just having
>> everything labeled somehow (insert magic here).  Even if such a system
>> worked, it would be just like the dancing game example.  You'd be on
>> the minecraft server, be able to walk around and do a few things, but
>> you would not be playing minecraft.  Sure if you didn't know any
>> better you'd possibly Believe you were playing the game, but by any
>> sighted player's standards you would be playing some extremely watered
>> down game that happened to have several of the features of
>> minecraft... but not minecraft.
>>
>> Going back to another hearing example, you can not make a beautiful
>> song accessible to a deaf person by just writing out the notes and
>> handing them the paper.  Yes you've translated the notes into a format
>> they can input into their brain (using their eyes), but it is so far
>> from experiencing a song that it doesn't actually count.
>>
>> I know there are people in the blind community who want to believe any
>> game can be made accessible, but that is not the case.  Just like the
>> song being turned into a page of sheet music, there are probably ways
>> you can technically sort of translate concepts from the game into a
>> new blind friendly format, but it will not be the original game
>> anymore.  You can play it and maybe fool yourself into believing
>> you're playing the game now, but it would only be sweet sweet
>> ignorance.  Many games can never ever be made blind accessible, just
>> like there are many things that can never be made deaf accessible.
>> There are concepts and experiences that exist in the realm of sight,
>> or the realm of sound, and trying to translate them into something
>> else simply destroys them.
>>
>> - Aprone
>>
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