These people talk in the millions, or at least in the hundreds of thousands, not in the hundreds or at most a couple of thousands that could be had from the accessible games community.
On the other hand, indi developers would! recognize the advantage, and also tend to be much more easy to contact given that all the developers for mainstream games are hidden in bunkers somehwere and impossible to talk to, that when games aren't designed by board room committees anyway.
So, mainstream no, I don't think it'll happen, but good indi games? most definitely, indeed it already has, and we're likely to see more in the future.
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No, actually, there is not a way to make current mainstream games accessible, unless, of course, they already have accessibility features built in. It does not help us (blind folks), but all of Relic Entertainment's games provide subtitles for all spoken dialogue in their games, starting with Company of Heroes and onward. If we want accessible games, we are going to have to find a way to convince a mainstream developer, i.e. any company that develops mainstream games, to take a crack at creating something for us. But, and here is the thing, it has to be presented in such a way that they will be able to make a profit, i.e. we (the blind community) have to be willing to pay for it and not complain how it is not free to play. On 10/25/16, lenron brown <[email protected]> wrote:Steam pisses me off majorly. The xbox one and ps4 are both accessible. So if they was away for narator to pull the text from games we would be golden. I still love my consoles even though you can get a lot of the same games for computers. My comp only has 6 gb of ram and probably not the best graphics card anyways. All I have ever really wanted is for main stream games to be accessible and I am sure there is away to do this. On 10/25/16, dark <[email protected]> wrote:Sadly "just having the sounds turned into pictures" is easier said than done, likewise I doubt game stop (which I assume is rather like game station is over here in the Uk), would stock independently produced games. If there was an audiogames console, the plane fact is only blind people would buy it and it's doubtful anyone would develop games with graphics forit. Plus, to be brutally honest, why should I pay for additional hardwarewhen I already have a computer and an Iphone that can play games no problem?When a sighted person buys a games consoles, there are lots of games thatwon't! be available on their pc, or mac or whatever, however as a blindperson that is not the case, and I don't think you could find a dedicatedlist of developers willing to write games for a new platform when they could already develop games for Windows pc, Ios, or even Mac or Android and know they'd have a dedicated pool of users who already have the hardware and inclination to buy their games without laying out additional costs. Developing audiogames for actual graphical consoles like the playstation or xbox might be a possibility, though even there you have the problem of firstly how a blind person accesses the text in the game with no softwareor os based synthesisers (I have heard importing of things like sapi ontoXbox and ps4 has been tried but I'm not sure how it went), also manifestly you have the problem that only some blind users will have consoles, and of the potential sighted users of games consoles it's uncertain how many would buy an audiogame anyway making development of it worth while. Game consoles come from a time when most people didn't own computers, and when the dedicated processing power and potentials of the hardware was farmore than a similar computer system. That however is fading these days nolonger the case, most people already own a computer or smart phone and can play games on it, indeed I've heard steam (irritating as it is for their lack of access), called the next step in consoles, ie, a virtual os thatdoesn't come with any hardware at all but runs on the user's own existingdevices. So bottom line, I don't really think a console for the blind would work at all, at most it'd mean laying out extra expense for a few users and for developers to write for a platform with potentially even less users than normal, and it's even less likely that such a console would be picked up by sighted people. Better focus on platforms everyone! has access too than try to create another, heck look at the interest by sighted players in games like pappasangre on the Iphone. all the best, Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. 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