Hi Ari, I know exactly what you mean about sighted developers with his or her heart in the right place but stereotypes tending to over simplify something thinking that a blind computer player doesn't have the mental ability to play something really good. I don't know how much this influenced the development of games like Termite Torpedoes, but I really felt as though the game was dumbed down for someone who was clueless, and wondered if the reason the game was so lame was because the developers were drawing upon some stereotype that blind people can't play more complicated game genres. That is one reason why I tend to spend more time and energy on one single game. I don't want to see another Space Ijnvaders or Packman clone. I want to see some of the side-scrollers of my youth as well as some third-person and first person action games I played later on become a reality for us gamers. It is time we start owning the kinds of games our sighted gamers play or played 10 years ago at least.
ari wrote: > Another issue I'm throwing out, and, please, I don't want to start a debate > on the blind philosophy thing, but you know those types of sighted persons > who someone, even if you've got a Masters degree and can do things for > yourself, but you know when you need a bit of help or if you just > accidentally "meet" a sighted person and they somehow think that because > you're blind there's something wrong with you mentally, what effect does > that have on the whole games thing? OK, to break it down, let's say you're > walking with a pal at Uni and you know the type of person, coming along and > asking your pal "how is he?" Starting with assumptions, believing you > incapable of answering yourself. Now, some normal game developers might sort > of have this same perception when it comes to games. If someone sighted > decides to do a "good deed" and makes a game for blind people, how much > could it creep into his mind that somehow blind people might have > difficulties understanding the game, so he makes it very simplistic, because > he somehow thinks that blind persons may also have mental difficulties based > on his assumptions? I know I'm not putting my point very clearly here, but I > do think you guys sort of understand, it's about the whole thing with > sighted persons attitudes to blind persons, and unfortunately some blind > persons attitude to blindness as well. We're not just blind people, we also > have our different attitudes to stuff, and if you have a blind person with a > negative attitude trying to show an audio game to a sighted person, this is > a problem. > Ari > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
