your probably right. I just hope that when the change happens that either we have control of it, or its in our favour. In nz its actually legal to get a reasonable income and not loose your benifit. At 09:34 PM 5/31/2006, you wrote: >Hi, Shaun. >It is true we don't have much commercially available for us. Allot of it >has to do with lack of skills, and also a majority of visually impaired >are on social services like SSI which prevents a person from collecting >income not handed out by the government. Especially, if it comes in >chunks of 2000 one month, and 0 the next. >As for sighted working along side us commercially I don't see that >happening unless they can build in 3D color graphics, and so on. There >is little interest except for say a few who would like an audio based game. >As for the big time companies we are nothing to them. When they collect >hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions on a title what is a >mere 12000 or 20000 to them. That is to them pocket change. >I don't have any answers here, but one thing is clear things will >continue as is for a while until something major changes it. > > > >shaun everiss wrote: > > true. > > Opensource will continue without question. > > It just scares me that when we eventually get the sighted interested > > they could go either of 2 ways. > > Either and this is in my opinion extremely rare, but I may be totally > > wrong, here not going to happen is actually work along side us. > > Its just that the paying type game industry may be over. > > Sertainly opensource and freeware will live on. > > The only other way is that the blind and sighted could form big > > companies some how. > > We then could go into bigger and bigger companies including sighted, > > and maybe we could hold our own. > > I guess all I am saying is don't rush stuff to much. > > It also brings out the question how many games do we have actually? > > If we exclude the opensource market, agrip and agdev, kitchensinc > > since thats free and in fact every freeware game around. > > We have several names. > > usagames, gma, pcs, and maybe bavisoft. > > bavisoft has 2 games. > > gmagames have 3 games. > > pcs have a few games mostly dos but going to windows > > then there is l-works, who have around 4 games and only really 2 > > actually count as purchacible items. > > We also have pb-games and thats another single game. > > I don't know how much all this adds up to but its not much. > > We also have bsc games. > > Now if we cut out all the oldstyle and arcade games that the sighted > > wouldn't want anyway this includes all the stuff draconis makes since > > its essentually arcade, we have trek2k, sod, gtc, lw and stfc. > > I don't know wether to count the bavisoft games as they have 0 replay > > value really. > > even if I counted those in we actually have very few actual > > action/strat games that sighted would actually want. > > there is terraformas by pin interactive but even then as I said thats > > still small. > > I'm not saying stop the music, i don't want to stay behind the river > > for the rest of time, just be vary carefull in approaching it. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >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: 268.8.0/352 - Release Date: 5/30/2006
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