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Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Hayes" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey Format
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Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <[email protected]>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey FormatOn this page, they list/offer 4 sort of real interactive fiction narnia eBooks, but, they seem to be scanned page PDF files, inside zip files, and am busy running one of them through PDF2TXT's OCR functionality to see if it's readable/usable at all, but, would also assume/expect that there would be some actual infocom/glulx interactive fiction games out there based on the world of narnia, as such - but anyway:http://www.abandonia.com/fr/gamebooks Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Hayes" <[email protected]>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 8:24 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey FormatNOw i wish i was a programer i'd make a narnia game for us and a game based on watership down by richard adams, if there is one tell me someone please.Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Rivard" <[email protected]>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey FormatThose who think that The Chronicles of Narnia are Satanic or anti Christian have never read them. Same for the Christians who will have nothing to do with the Harry Potter series because the series deals with magic and witches and wizards. They believe what others have told them rather than firsthand knowledge.As for Narnia games, I'll bet there are some, but none designed or playable by the blind gamer.--If guns kill people, writing implements cause grammatical and spelling errors! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lisa Hayes" <[email protected]>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2013 11:10 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey FormatAnd i got myself in to strife for mentioning the chronicles of narnia purely bvecause one person thought those books evil because they were fantasy and she doesn't believe that fantasy should be read due to her religion now getting back to games are their any games based on the narnia books, similar to sara based on harry potter.Lisa Hayes www.nutrimetics.com.au/lisahayes----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:58 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Children's Games was Audyssey FormatHi Dark, Yeah, seriously. There were Christian publications that actually stated He-Man was satanic and urging Christian moms and dads not to let their kids watch it during the early 1980's when the show wasoriginally aired. As incredible as that sounds to me today it actuallyhappened. However, one must keep in mind the mindset of the readers and writers here. One of the main characters of the show, Evil Lyn, was a sorceress who could wield powerful dark magic as could Skeletor. On the flip side the Sorceress of Grayskull also could wield white magic to combat the villains, and He-Man did not derive his power from Godbut from a magic sword. Since in the mind of many Christians all magic is evil, satanic there is no such thing as white magic and dark magic.In their opinion all magic is evil, and the authors of such publications objected to witchcraft etc being practiced on TV for their children's entertainment. Plus I guess the idea of the hero, He-Man, getting his powers from a magic sword instead of God was pretty objectionable as well. It is basically the same argument leveled against Harry Potter and other such popular series. Any time there is a popular series be itHe-Man or Harry Potter with magic involved there are people in Americafrom the Christian Right who will get on TV or write articles in some publication or other asking for censorship of the content based on their religious views. In fact, it doesn't even have to involve magic per say. I heard of a case where some Christian publication claimed that Darth Mahl was suppose to represent Satan in the Phantom Menace which was totally off the mark. I am pointing this out only to state that rating a game, movie, whatever is really complicated because it seems everyone has his or her own opinion on what is and is not appropriate for their children to watch, play, read, whatever. For some it comes down to their religious views. For others, such as myself, I base content on moregeneral principles like if I think it is too violent, too gory, or toosexually explicit for a child and will not share it with them. Still, I agree that sites like Audyssey and Audiogames.net does need some rationale for how they rate their games. I think everyone doesthis on some level anyway, and most of it is common sense so to speak.Excluding issues of religion and such a person should be able to tell if this or that is alright for a child, teen, or needs to be labeled for an adult based on its content. Something like Jim Kitchen's Battleship is fine for people of all ages, but Dungeon Master obviously needs to be labeled for adult gamers only. I think most people would agree with that assessment and would do the same if it were up to them. Cheers! On 4/17/13, dark <[email protected]> wrote:Lol tom, heman too violent or satanic? with all the morality it includedthat is just insane!while I agree everyone has a slightly different opinion, some more extreme than others, equally there does need to be some sort of rationale worked outfor such things and some thought given into it, especially when considderingwratings for sites like audiogames.net.for example, the game flexible survival is both a mud, and an rpg written inglulx format, yet, because it's subject matter is exclusively s/xual in nature and it's descriptions can be pretty graphic, on audiogames.net it's catagorized as an adult wrated xxx game. It's rpg features are certainly mentioned! in the entry, and there is no restriction on trying it, just as there is no restriction to someone playing tripple j shooter or any other ofJim's adult games, but I am concerned people know what they're getting intobefore trying the game hence the wrating. Beware the Grue! 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