Hi Nicol. Just let your sighted friends play Quake 4 or some other hard 3d shooter games. Say to them: "Don't smash the mouse when you die." Or beat them in a fighting game on the ps2 and say: "Don't smash the gamePad!"
Best regards Søren. Mail & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webside: http://www.coolfortheblind.dk ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicol Oosthuizen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:01 AM Subject: [Audyssey] using the keyboard in accessible games. presscontrol+down arrow to skip the disclaimer part. > > NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice > which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf > > ---- > HI all > I've moved to a new boarding place so it will take a while for my > telephone line to be transferred so I have to use my work computer to > send posts for a while . I find it more often that sighted people > sometimes doesn't understand blind people properly. The need to be > educated how to understand and handle blind people. > Something which really bothers me is that my mom thinks I'm wilfully > breaking my keyboard. Sometimes when she visits me and I'm playing pipe2 > and I'm hitting my control keys very fast to shoot the thugs, she will > say: > Be more carefull with your keyboard, son. Don't smack it. > The more I try to explain to her that it's the way I play the game, the > more she tells me: > Its not necessary to smack the keyboard. > Did you also experience it that sighted people think you are smacking > the keys?What is the correct way of explaining this? I'm sure sighted > people that plays games on a play station will also hit the joystick > buttons hard if the enemies appears speedily. > Sighted people need to understand that we are using our computers as > play stations, to play games. If I'm in the middle of a battle > especially with dark destroyer, I'm immersed into the game world. AT > that stage I'm not thinking of it as keys on a keyboard that I'm > hitting very hard, I'm imagining it as a gun I fire forcefully to > kill the enemies more efficient. > When I type a document for example then its wise not to hit the keys > too hard, but in a game its something different. > How can I explain this to sighted people that think I'm trying to break > my keyboard? > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] > 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. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.8/717 - Release Date: 10-03-2007 > 14:25 > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] 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.
