Hi Tyler.
While I agree in principle, it's not an either ore situation. I have some
working vision and have played graphical games all my life, and still do,
especially in the freeware and indi section.
There is no earthly reason a sighted person can't play an audio game, in the
same way there is no earthly reason a sighted person can't listen to an
audio drama.
While I agree accessible games with full graphics are a great way to
introduced sighted gamers to the concept of audio games, at the same time I
don't think it's an absolute necessity. The main problem is most audio games
are marketed as "Games for the blind" and if something is for the blind
average Jo Blogs sighted gamer will avoid it like the plague since he will
assume it's for those crazy alien blind creatures and not for him.
In all the research I've done it's this avoidance, this perception of
difference in disability terms that seems to make the difference.
Yet, just as lots of sighted people still listen to audio dramas, with the
Iphone we are slowly seeing a number of sighted people getting interested in
audio games as a unique genre of their own. Games like Papasangre have made
a major difference here, and one I hope will continue, it's just a shame
that people like david Greenwood who have been making audio games for years
can't seem to be able to bennifit from the same sort of interest.
Maybe part of it is the emphasis on "games for the blind" and
accessible, ---- which, while i fully agree are good concepts, probably
shouldn't be on the front of your website, or maybe it's just a desimination
thing since there's no denying the ap store is a convenient way of
advertising as well as distributing, ---- or maybe it's just that as the
culture of personal tablets and the like grows, people are taking more
notice of audio.
Either way i don't think it's the lack of graphics not anymore.
Beware the grue!
dark.
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