Original message from Matthew Tylee Atkinson: This is an urgent request for your help, for feedback on the Level Description Language. I realise it is short-notice but I would appreciate it if you could at least read this email and consider if you wish to give feedback. As we're asking about how LDL suits the way you think about navigation and for constructive feedback on how it may be improved, we are keen to get feedback from those of you that didn't get as far as you would have liked with, or even gave up on, LDL. This is all valuable to our research, though we do ask that you give it as good a go as you can, of course -- I'm on hand to help with any problems. Thanks very much to those that have already or have stated an intention to very soon. As you may be aware, the past few years have been very difficult for me and, as a consequence, the AGRIP project. My entire life has been turned upside down due to a near-fatal road accident that has a continuing and profound effect on me and my intended career path. Through this time I have been trying to pick up the pieces of my Ph.D., which started off very promisingly but was interrupted for 16 months, so I'm basically back to square 1. I realise that the AGRIP project has suffered due to this and it is a great regret, but we are now finally at the stage we wanted to be -- offering the game, modding and early stages of map-making to blind gamers and putting more power into the community's hands to improve the whole thing in future. The techniques used by the Level Description Language could, if shown to be successful, be applied to any other 3D game, whether it's accessible now or not. Your feedback is the only thing that I can use to justify the time spent doing this and I desperately need it to be able to continue this line of work. For most of this year I have been chasing very pressurised funding bids to get the money I need to continue my research. Now I need to ask you for some feedback on a short timescale, because coding LDL took longer than I had hoped, mainly due to the aforementioned bids. However, if you can possibly fill in the survey at http://www.agrip.org.uk/ldl/survey/ on or by the 4th of May I may be able to get the paper I'm working on accepted and thus justify the expense of my research time on this project. We have never and will never ask for anything but community support and feedback in return for our work on AGRIP. Again I realise it has gone painfully slowly over the past year or two -- that's why I really need your help to get things going again. It will help the project and it will enable me to continue in the line of research I was working before the accident. So I am asking you to, please, (1) try LDL and constructively criticise it and, really importantly, report bugs so I can fix them and (2) fill in the survey by or on the 4th of May (even if it's last minute -- the deadline is the day after but I need some hours to collate results!) Thanks for your time and I hope that you will enjoy LDL, best regards, -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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