At 12:50 p.m. 1/02/2006, you wrote:
>General Accessible 3D First Person Games Questionnaire
> The following questionnaire is regarding 3D first person games such as Audio
> Quake, Shades of Doom and Monkey Business.
> I would appreciate it if you could answer the following few questions.
>They should only take a few minutes.
>Thank You.
> Name: shaun everiss
>Age: 23
> 1. What level of vision do you have from a rating of 1 to 5? 1 being no
> vision at all and 5 being 20/20 vision.
1
> 2. Do you enjoy playing accessible games?
yes
> 3. If you answered yes to the last question, do you play accessible games on
> a regular basis?
>If yes, please state approximately how often.
yes, 6 hours
> 4. Have you ever played an accessible 3D First Person game?
>If yes, please state witch.
yes, sod, gtc most others done by bsc software, pcs and l-works.
> 5. What do you think about the current accessible 3D first person games out
> there? Is there certain things you would like changed to improve their
> accessibility?
>Please state the name of any games and the changes you would like to see.
my answers are currently ok and not really accessible wise except audioquake
which seems to need some shades of doom like detecters otherwise all I want is
more games to be able to be played online.
> 6. Do you have surround sound speakers? If yes, please state whether they
> are 4.1, 5.1 or higher.
no
> 7. Do you prefer to be able to load a game up via the command line or via
> menus?
menus
> 8. Do you prefer messages in the game to be conveyed via speech or via
> non-speech sound?
don't care, speech is good, human speech is prefured, sapi speech is adoquit
standard text in message dialogs is crap but I suppose it would be ok, depends
on what game.
> 9. Are you ok with having to learn the meanings of non-speech sounds or do
> you just want to get into a game straight away?
Each game has sounds to learn, and each has different sounds.
Non speech audio cues are good.
However I am the kind of guy who hacks into the games without reading the
manual, and mostly I am ok.
> 10. Do you prefer games wich have lots of background sounds or do you find
> them distracting?
Depends on the game.
Generally I like background fx.
> 11. What queues do you think should be included in a 3D first person game to
> help you navigate and to comprehend your surroundings? E.g. compass/sound of
> footsteps etc.
Footsteps, beeps, pitch going up and down.
Saying that standard beeps are crap so they would have to sound quite chunky
depends on game.
> 12. If you were designing a 3D first person game, how would you go about
> designing a 3D environment so that it was accessible to a blind person?
Never thought about that, sounds in front, behind, and on each side.
But I am not a dev just a lowly hacker.
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