Hi criss. Thats not going to happen until we join with sighted people to make games at which point the sighted companies will just buy us out because we are not worth much even to those that pirate our stuff and all our games will just be another sighted gaming thing. Call me biest but I think our days to make major games if at all are numbered for now. We may survive if we continue as we are. I know we protect ourselves against ilagitimate users but how much do you think we actually ern? A year? Say something like 2000 to 4000 dollars something like that. Its going to be easy to get brought out and well thats the end of blind games. I don't even think sighted companies want to make games accessible they will just take our ideas. and games. Or they will leave us allone. For now I think its best we sit tight. There is a load of open source projects and groups around like agrip and others. Once we have enough people in the blindness community and companies and orgs that use our stuff or are interested then maybe we can try to hold our own. I know we should reach out, but at the same time I often wander if we are doing the wrong thing by doing just that. What defence do we have if someone actually wanted to sue us, buy us out or accuse us of coppying something or something like that. Even if we are carefull, people seem to sue for no reason these days. I am sure we could handle a piracy cracking suit, these are small. But has anyone thought beyond that, I mean corperation against coperation type suits. I don't know if our 1 man band or 4 people or what ever small companies even count as actual companies in the grand scheme of things. I always fear that one day something bad is going to happen. And I mean outside. I wander what will happen 50 years from now. Where will we be? as we are, probably not though. So the question is will we be finnished or will we actually get along with sighted companies. One of 2 paths exist and currently no one seems interested. But if they do. Then I fear we could just end up in the trash. If we have enough big groups standing buy us maybe we can handle the sort of triles we will have to face with sighted games. I am sure that all the sighted companies will think about is graphics. accessibility will come last and the games will cost to much. Personally I prefur restricted and free. I'm to scared to think what will happen. I can just imagine, somewhere traiding auth keys for games and companies that don't exist, playing games that have no obselete things or function because their companies do not exist, and we will just be back to old if games again or worse. At 05:05 PM 5/30/2006, you wrote: >In a post a few months back, I expressed the opinion that the current >development paradigm in which one-person companies, or at most very >small shops are the only ones doing this work cannot produce the >kinds of titles you are looking for. Until game development can >actually support a developer and his/her family as a full-time >profession, there is an upper limit on the complexity of games that >can be created. > > Chris Bartlett > > > >_______________________________________________ >Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] >To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit >http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make >any subscription changes via the web. > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.4/351 - Release Date: 5/29/2006
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