Hi, To avoid confusion: Game Maker (http://www.gamemaker.nl/) and Audio Game Maker (http://www.audiogamemaker.com) are 2 different programs. The first has been developed by a Dutch professor named Mark Overmars of Utrecht University (Netherlands) and is an application with which to create your own games. Game Maker is not intended as an accessible development tool for the blind (it uses a visual interface) but you can make blind-accessible/audio games with it. Audio Game Maker is an original idea of Richard van Tol and Sander Huiberts (that's us) of AudioGames.net/Accessibility/Utrecht School of the Arts (also Netherlands) and it is intended as an accessible game development tool for the blind and features an accessible auditory interface.
And some interesting background information: I have been in contact with Mark a few times before we started the Audio Game Maker project, to see whether or not it would be possible to simply make Game Maker accessible instead of building a complete seperate program. The thing is that Mark is a very busy man and that with Game Maker he is focusing on other things first. This means that accessibility might still be a possibility in the future. But since we couldn't setup a project about making Game Maker accessible, we decided to setup a different project: to create a specific audio game development tool - Audio Game Maker! I talked to Mark at the Dutch Game Days in November of last year and he said that he was quite excited about the Audio Game Maker project. Hopefully it will be an inspiration :) Greets, Richard http://www.game-accessibility.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:15 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] game maker > Hi Dark, > I've heard that to. Problem with these off the shelf engines and > building tools many of them simply don't have the ability to create the > kinds of access features we want. I am happy to see Audio Games Maker is > at least going to be an off the shelf tool from which to create games > with accessibility in mind. _______________________________________________ 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.
