Hi Jeremy.
My concern of making this too developer specific is that you'd then be in a
position where you might alienate some people by not highlighting certain
types of games.
For example, suppose Vga, pcs, and gma all chipped in. Well that's fine as
far as futuristic scifi adventure and action games goes, however suppose
someone was a fan of traditional card and board games or of sports games? Or
suppose someone wanted a game without particular violence?
That's why I'd rather not have it too specific, sinse by keeping things
relatively general you could give generalized examples and links to several
developers as an example, particularly because one major aspect I do think
you could sell to career minded organizations is that of learning through
playing games, both learning information technology and screen readers
through playing things like browser games, gamebooks or interactive fiction,
and learning more general spacial coordination scanning and listening skills
through playing audio games.
I'd therefor personally be in favour of something like a 10 page leaflet.
Perhaps 7 pages (or around 1000 words), of general introduction with a few
examples, then three pages of "further places to look" which could indeed
cover a paragraph for specific developers.
All the best,
Dark.
There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast
and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even
the archmaesters of the citadel can dream.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Brown" <[email protected]>
To: "gamers" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2015 1:43 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] braille/large print/other media (was audio games,game
engine)
Dark,
I understood your original intent, but I think you misunderstood mine
somewhat. What I was proposing was just such an introductory
pamphlet. It would be defrayed by a consortium of developers,
distributed free through the organizations (assuming they would do so)
and would have a list of contributors and their home page link.
That's all. No hard sale, just a list of contacts. If I read such a
piece as you describe I'd want to know how to find such things. Such
a brief description and a list of contributors could be perhaps no
more than 5 pages of braille, would be relatively inexpensive to
produce, and would give each contributor a chance to get their name
out. I have to admit, I said ad space, but I was thinking more in
lines of contact info. Anything much more than that, and you'd be
likely to either lose your audience or never get it to them through
the organizational roadblocks.
I think Dentin's comments earlier are an important indicator in this
line: we'd have to sell this to the organizations as both a. helping
visually impaired entrepreneurs and b. providing a quality of life
improvement to some of their members in terms of accessible
recreation. While the organizations for the blind generally promote
political action and/or community support for visual impairment, most
of them also pay lip service to both of the above goals.
Take care,
Jeremy
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