Hi, I don't know about other kids but when the braillenotes first came out with the games I had a young student at the time who wasn't keen on learning braille. This day I said to him we are going to play computer games today he was so excited until he found out he had to read braille still but in the end he enjoyed himself and the games made a big change to him wanting to learn. The next week he couldn't wait to get back into the games so I think it should work with most children since he was about thirteen at the time.
Good luck, >From Shaz. BN QT Apex and PK user. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Grant Hardy" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:14 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] Games Ruchi and all, Another resource to download interactive fiction games, with a little more guidance, is called Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive. 쟕he address is as follows:http://www.wurb.com/if/ There are also two titles included with every BrailleNote, Winter Wonderland and Dragon Adventure, that are designed especially for children. 쟃ames are simply files, so you can easily transfer titles to the BrailleNote by copying the appropriate files to the 'My Games' folder of the Flash Disk through any normal means. 쟕he BrailleNote will only play text adventure games written in z-code, and the game files will have a.z5 or .z8 extension. 쟅'm not sure really how engaging young children would find these games as they are completely text based and involve a lot of reading, but it never hurts to give it a go. 쟕o play a game, simply open the 'Games' application from the main menu, and press SPACE to browse through the files in the 'My Games' folder. 쟕he games I mentioned will be called winter.z5 and dragon.z5. Apart from the text adventures, there aren't huge numbers of games that can be played on BrailleNotes. 잸nother gentleman on this list, Alex Hall, has written a few accessible games that can be played in the BrailleNote's web browser. 쟅 am sure he will jump in and tell you where you might be able to get those games. Finally, there's a hidden Tetris game included on BrailleNotes. 잹izarrely, it's under Utilities, Key Management. 쟕o play it, select "Enter a new product key" and type the word playtime followed by ENTER. 쟕he game then comes up and there's a help menu to walk you through the user interface, but I'm not familiar enough with Tetris to tell you how to play it. Cheers, Grant ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
