Hi Jim, agreed, yours were actually the first audio games I'd ever seen for the computer!... Personally, the card / board games I like are BlackJack (which I love) woohoo! and Monopoly! I think you've done an amazing job with your versions and I'd love to see one on the Mac, so I don't have to do Windows anymore! lol!...
One game I'd love to see, which I haven't seen anyone go for yet, is Risk. I don't like the 'war' games per se, but what I like about that game in particular is that you have the entire earth to play on and strategize over, and when I'd played it, it was with a bunch of friends, so one might find themselves dealing with allies rather than single opponents... We just had fun with it... :) anyway, I think a game like that could really work well over the web, and certainly wouldn't be all that difficult to create, with the stats / AI for computer play, probably being the most difficult part. Anyway, I'm straying a bit, so I'll just close by thanking you for your work which made some great games realities for the VI community on the computer!... Have an awesome day!... Smiles, Cara :) On Jan 20, 2008, at 1:38 AM, Jim Kitchen wrote: > 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 > > ----- Original Message ----- > 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. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.kitchensinc.net > (440) 286-6920 > Chardon Ohio USA > --- > 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] --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn --- 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. 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