Hi Thomas,
You know that before I wrote my dos card games such as black jack and draw
poker we had no such games. That is why I wrote them. I like many other enjoy
a game of black jack or draw poker and as I said we did not have those games
before I wrote them. The same goes for many of my other dos games. I think
that there is room for all types of games and I know that different people have
different likes and dislikes for games. I for one do not care for the first
person shooter games. And I know many others that have told me the same. I am
not into violent games at all. I do like card and board games. I played them
allot when I was young and still like to play them. Having them on the
computer makes that possible and allot easier than on a braille board. I have
never even seen Life, Master Mind or Snakes and Ladders done in a braille
version. Of course I lost my sight long before you did and thus I did not get
a chance to play many of the computer games that you have. The games that I
played were back in the days of Pole Position, Pong, Space Invaders, Pac Man,
bowling, baseball and football.
BFN
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Hi Ari,
The game I was mentioning is Termite Torpedo and is available through
American Printing House for the Blind. The reason I don't favor the game
is it is very simplistic. More what I would consider a childrens game
than a game for adults or serious hard core gamers. However, I have
always had high standards for games, and am hard to please.
The kinds of games that I get really interested in is games with some
complexity in them like Sound RTS where you have to manage everything
from paying your army, aquiring enough food to support that army, and
pay for upgrades and new buildings to better equip and support that
army. Galaxy Civilization is another game I really really dig for the
same reason.
If I am not playing the entire civilization theme games I go for FPS
games like Tomb Raider, Jedi Knight, etc that has puzzle solving
balanced with intense action and drama to keep you going until the
credits scroll. That to me is a good game.
So you can see where I am coming from when I am disappointed by seeing
sighted game developers writing a game like Termite Torpedo. The game is
ok, but nothing for me to write home about. I just felt, maybe just me
only, that the game was targeting someone of low inteligence or was
designed to target blind children rather than blind adults with
commercial quality game taistes. Whichever it was I felt that the game
wasn't designed to be played by a blind gamer who wants more out of
accessible game developers than word puzzles, card games, and so on.
In fact, the lack of my kind of games was why I got into writing games
in the first place. When I was losing my sight I realised commercial
game developers were not going to make their games accessible. When I
discovered the accessible games market via the Audyssey magazine around
98 or 99 I was disappointed that our comunity wasn't actively trying to
make 3D FPS games and other games I was use to playing for the PC. Those
old Audyssey mags I was reading were talking about text adventures etc
and I was so turned off with accessible gaming until GMA released
Lonewolf and Shades of Doom which all comes back to the original issue
that accessible games are not equal to sighted games.
That brings us right back to the original issue of this thread that it
is hard for blind gamers, using accessible games, to attract a sighted
player to play with them. The lack of graphics is certainly a factor,
but for me it was the lack of features, lack of familiarity, and lack of
meeting commercial standards I was expecting to find.
For example, the Jedi Knight games had full featured cut scenes, and
they were in true 3D worlds. You would have to jump or use an elevator
to get to another floor with in the game level. You could cross bridges
or jump off of them to get back down to the main floor etc. Then, after
playing all that to find out that the blind games didn't have anything
like that is quite a disappointment from someone formally sighted turned
blind.
Jim
You're a card which will have to be dealt with.
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Chardon Ohio USA
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