It's too soon to tell, and too soon for you to ask. You should be ashamed
of yourself.
If you think you're finished, you! really! are! finished!!
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From: william Lomas
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 8:05 AM
To: Gamers Discussion list
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The last messages from Thomas Ward
will no-one be able now, to finish these projects? they are games for which
our money has been taken, yet failed attempts to deliver the final products
so many of us have put money in to games, that we will sadly never see now.
what happens about this?
Sent from my iPhone
On 4 Mar 2016, at 13:20, Phil Vlasak <phi...@bex.net> wrote:
I am devastated that Thomas Ward passed away. I went through my saved
messages and found the last few from him
I also got this about his games from Thomas Ward's web site:
USA Games Interactive
http://www.usagamesinteractive.com/
In 1985 USA Games president and founder, Thomas Ward, discovered he
had an eye disease called Optic Atrophy. Over the following years the
disease damaged his optic nerves leaving Thomas blinded for life.
However, prier to losing his vision he had time to enjoy many classic
video games including such titles
as: Packman, Space Invaders, Double Dragon, Star Wars, Tomb Raider,
and more. He dreamed one day to make his own games he himself could
play even though
he was blind.
In the fall of 1997 Thomas Ward entered college at Wright State
University located in Dayton Ohio. While at Wright State Thomas began
taking courses in
computer science. Two of his favorite fields were software design and
computer network administration. He knew almost from the beginning he
wanted to design
software made for people with blindness and other physical
disabilities.
In the spring of 2004 Thomas ward founded USA Games Entertainment. A
privately owned online game company dedicated to making audio games
for the blind and
low vision driven by sound rather than graphics. His first accessible
audio game for Microsoft Windows was Final Conflict, and soon many
more were in production
as well
In the spring of 2006 USA Games took over production of Alchemy Game
Studios' Montezuma's Revenge and Raceway projects.Both projects have
increased interest
in USA Games's products, and have been updated with new features,
sound effects, ideas, and have been made better than before.
In addition to games USA Games founder, Thomas Ward, has been active
in the testing, research, and development of open source accessibility
technologies
for FreeBSD, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. In the future USA
Games plans to target the open source operating systems with games,
support, and new
access technologies.
As well as president and founder, Thomas Ward, USA Games has a wide
range of private testers, sound designers, and others who voluntarily
help out to improve
our products. We look forward to the years to come serving the blind
and low vision community with high-quality games and other accessible
technologies.
On January 24, 2016, at 3:36 AM, Thomas Ward
<thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Lisa and all,
I have been in the hospital for the last two months and am currently
on various antibbiotics for a serious infection. The surgery went well
though and the large tumor in my brain was removed successfully. I am
ccurrently in a nursing home and am recovering.
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
Sunday, January 24, 2016 5:53 AM
Hi Dark,
You did not get a response because I have been unable to respond to my
messages until now. I underwent a brains surgery on Nov. 17 to have a
tumor removed and then ended up with an infection in my lungs.
Believe me, this has not been a very goods last couple of months. I
actually came very close to dying on a couple of occasions.
From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 5:51 AM
Hello everyone,
This is a very important message from your friendly neighborhood
moderator and list owner to let you know what to expect over the next
few weeks. Unfortunately, I have some very bad news to share, and to
be frank about it I have held off way too long without saying
anything. The news essentially is this.
For quite some time my health has been in serious decline. I've been
tied up with medical tests, doctor appointments, and other things
dealing with my medical situation thus have virtually no time to
attend to the Audyssey List, working on writing games, or about
anything else outside of my day to day situation. I had intended to
promote one or two moderators in my place to look after the list, but
unfortunately my life has been so utterly crazy of late I have not
even managed to do that. So I hope that all of you can get along and
bare with me as it is likely or even possible over the next few weeks
this list will not have any hands on moderation or oversight as I go
into and out of the hospital for various operations, testing, and so
on. If I can I will try and assign a moderator before I go into the
hospital, but given the time frame I'm thinking that is doubtful. Plus
I would hate to just dump the list on him or her and leave for x
amount of time anyway.
In any case here is the scoop. Thursday I'll be going into the
hospital all day for various tests. The following Tuesday I will be
going into the hospital for an operation, and will probably not have
internet access for a few days as I recover So I do expect at least a
week or so in mid November without a list moderator to look after
things here. I Can see that probably won't be a problem, nor am I
expecting one, but I thought you all should know Justin case you try
to reach me and I am totally unreachable over the next two or three
weeks.
Thanks.
Sincerely,
Thomas Ward
Owner-Moderator of the Audyssey Mailing List
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