Greetings! Okay, for people who didn't get the previous message, KJC are the people who make a variety of online and play by E-mail games found at http://www.kjcgames.com/index.php
As I'm in the same country as them, I phoned them up to talk about accessibility related stuff. the bad news is the games Warlord and Monster island require graphical pdf attached maps in order to play. the good news is the others are all html or plain text. the map graphics (such as the quadrent map for space troopers), are only overview jpgs and the game can be played successfully without them. the games do involve tables, but this shouldn't be a problem, and the missions andother objectives don't require them and can be done looking at the text coordinates of the squares on the main game pages (look at the sample page for space troopers). the various football management games such as extra time and eto manager are all apparently plane text as well. the boss also was incredibly nice, and asked me to contact him if I ran into any trouble, ---- so if anyone has problems with the games let me know. the games themselves have a large exploration focus as well as resource management. they've been running for literally 16 years, starting as snale male games back in 1989. Thus their main game, phenix has over thirty thousand text pages, ---- which sounds good for exploration fans like me. It's also worth noting that the games work differently as to how often you get game turns, some are completely online, others have action points to control one thing in the game, ---- such as one squadren of space marines or one ship in phenix. I'm now going to sign up to space troopers as a tester, and maybe Quest and some of the others as well. the only slight downer is some of the game prices on the commercial ones seem a tad expensive to me, but I'll try things out first and see how they work before passing judgement, ----- besides, space troopers is free. It wa actually nice to talk to someone by phone about game accessibility for once, rather than doing it by E-mail. so, I hoe that clarrifies things for people, and thanks of course to Orin for first coming across the site. Beware the Grue! Dark. --- 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]
