Hi Thomas, I really enjoy your emails, they are always filled with great information. I was waxing nostalgic concerning the console port thing, because I figured something like an accessible game on the playstation or other console would be unfeasible.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 10:17 PM Subject: Re: audyssey: game console thoughts > Hi, Allan. > I will admit accessible games has a ways to go before reaching any > equality with mainstream games, but there is an entire number of factors > barring developers such as myself from obtaining that goal. One is > coming up with the money to buy effects, graphics if desired, other devs > to help make the game better, more hours, etc... In short accessible > game devs are undr manned, under paid, and generally faced with not > enough time in the day to devote to designing the games they put out. > As for the Sony Play Station I actually got as far as contacting them > about this very idea of accessible games that ran on their platform. > First, they did not want to hear from me if I did not represent some > major game company. Second, they wanted mega bucks for the rights to > there SDK which was several thousand dollars. Third, like Microsoft with > the Xbox Sony has to aprove the title in advance before it can even be > written and marketed for the platform. Finally, since you use Sony's > platform Sony gets a cut of the sales of the games that use the PS engine. > In the end the $10000 or $20000 games being sold by a accessible game > dev isn't squat when Play Station games like Star Wars Battle Front is > in the millions. > In short using a propriatary game console is not cost effective fot the > developer or Sony, and in all likelyhood never happen. Smile. > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > to leave send a blank Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can contact the list owners/moderators by Emailing [EMAIL PROTECTED] to go nomail send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] change "nomail" to "normal" to resume messages. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindgamers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
