Damien, I am Phil Vlasak and have been doing all my games on a Vista computer.
It has been slowly breaking down, not allowing me to use Internet Explorer and email as I was used to. I am in the process of switching to a Windows 8.1 laptop, but this requires me to switch to FireFox, Thunderbird and NVDA screen reader. I switched my web site to: http://www.pcs-games.net adding a dash btween PCS and games. I also dropped using [email protected] for too much spam reasons. I now get and respond to messages at, philfv at sign bex.net I will be attempting to update my web site which I have been ignoring for over a year. I do check out the audio games forum and post comments. I was part of the A Hero’s Call beta team which took up a lot of my time in 2017. I can still send out new registrations for the Sarah game so just send me your computer code and if I have you as a purchaser of the game, I wil send you a new key. Phil Vlasak. www.pcs-games.net From: Damien Garwood Sent: August 20, 2018 7:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [blind-gamers] Where is all the developers. Hi there, Here is what I know of. I unfortunately had to close X-Sight down in 2014 due to a massive hard drive crash. I am now thankfully recovered from that (meaning I was able to reobtain my sound and music libraries etc) but unfortunately I can never get my old code back. I never quite had the motivation to make new games after that, especially since I want to make a move away from BGT and am struggling with that to such a degree that it has lowered my confidence considerably. BSC Games disbanded a fair while ago, leaving the keygen and several games available for download via the Audio Game Archive. DanZ also has his own website with old games and patches, but his programming skills have far surpassed the games mark now and so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he has a full time job as a head programmer or something. XLStudios closed down a long time ago. Lighttech Interactive seems to be active in so far as the website and downloadable games, but we haven't heard from them for a while now. Philip Bennefall has his website still up at Blastbay, but again his endeavours are concentrated a lot more now with Elias, a dynamic game music engine which PsychoStrike, the Gate and a few Leasey games make use of. I believe Draconis are still active in their own way, though again we haven't heard from them for a while. I think we can also safely say the same for Phil Vlasak of PCSGames and David Greenwood of GMA. I have no idea what happened to Che Martin (his cardroom is still up, RailRacer is down, and he seems to not be getting his emails). The same can be said for the guy who made Entombed, and Marco Steinebach of Mardy, who made Mississippi. I am especially interested to contact him, as I legitimately bought the game but can't play it on my current machine, thanks to machine-based registration. BPCPrograms have closed the doors, but have made 3D Velocity open source. Same goes for Playing in the Dark and TopSpeed. On the other extreme, people who have disappeared off the radar without so much as a tiddly doo are such as James North, Jeff Gibbons of Bavisoft, and Igor Khmelevtsov of VIPGamesZone. The latter is another one which causes quite a few issues for people who have legitimately purchased their games but can no longer play them any more with the online registration whose servers are now nonexistent. The only developer of the early games era who I know to be still actively developing and maintaining games, albeit to a lesser degree, is Liam Erven of L-Works. Other than that, we are now moving forward with new enthusiasts such as Aaron Baker, Nick Adamson and Jeremy Kaldobsky, people who I believe are still testing the waters like Sam Tupy, Mason Armstrong and Colton Hill, and then the Japanese crowd who have gone and taken audiogames to a whole new level. Hope this helps. Cheers, Damien. On 20/08/2018 09:05 PM, michael barnes wrote: > Hello. > > Earlier today me and a friend got talking about all the developers of > games that blind people can play. > So it made me wonder this. > Where is all the developers at? > I know about Jim Kitchen and Thomas Ward. > However what about those developers who are still alive? > > Thanks. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#119485): https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/message/119485 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/24828524/21656 Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/blind-gamers/leave/607459/1071380848/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
