the x box is expensive though. especially the 360. Me and one of my sighted gamer friends were discussing this last night, and neither of us could understand why someone would plop down 500 bucks for the XBox to take a gamble like that. I could understand if the xBox offers more that we could do besides play some games, but I'd much rather save my money and play windows based stuff. Though, who knows. maybe down the road something will open up that will let us use Xbox live or get auditory feedback about other things. I just would never spend the serious cash on that. I'd be interested to see how many blind folks own a 360?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:29 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Article about New Program for Creating XBox 360 Games > Hi Shaun, > It is a little early to really be going down this road yet. They offer a > Windows version for free which allows users to try out xna studios for > free and no apparent licensing issues attached to it. > That will allow for evaluation and to experiment weather or not certain > games are possible with it. > There is a $99 per year fee attached to the Xbox version, but it may be > our key to getting on to a platform and sell console games. I would love > being able to say play something like Aliens in the Outback on an Xbox. > That would be cool. > > > shaun everiss wrote: >> read my msg I posted to the list today. >> I don't like the fact ms is taking or going to take a cut of the >> proffits and control sales because well I've never seen an >> accessible ms game yet and I have never seen an ms software that >> hasn't needed to be full of graphics, have no security holes or >> activation. >> Its not worth it if we blindies would have to spend more cash on >> getting graphics, and systems to stop others hacking into our systems >> because of microsoft in what will essentually be ms owned and controled >> games. >> In short it makes me feel very uncomfortable. >> And would it even make an improvement, and how much is the ms cut? >> Probably 99% of all sales, we will get nothing because we are blind >> and so will all the other poor sods who try this. >> Sorry to be so pesimistic but every os and other app from ms seems to >> be full of activation and security updates. >> Do we even want to go down this road. >> This really doesn't sit well. >> Anyway would the tools even be accessible. >> There are a load of game creation toolkits around, one of which is >> the audiogame engine by enspired code. >> Which I havn't seen much of. >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > 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. > > > > __________ NOD32 1.1706 (20060814) Information __________ > > This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. > http://www.eset.com > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org 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.
