I'm very glad you are doing this Thomas. You're right of course. There is no
comparison between games for the blind and games for sighted folk. I
personally just pre-ordered MK VS dc universe yesterday for ps3. can't wait
for that game to be released! the voice chatting should be awesome. and
there's another thing we're missing. not many games for the blind have the
ability to be played online let alone voice chatting. the mainstream games
however, have these chat-room environment whereby you can jump in there and
challenge people at random, or some of your friends. it's great.
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From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:34 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Mainstream games was sl accessibility contact details
Hi,
Yeah, and the wait between accessible game releases isn't the only reason
blind gamers are looking at mainstream games. For me personally I tend to
find the majority of audio games produced for the blind do not hold my
personal interest. We have plenty of card games, board games, Space
Invader type clones, but nothing really like the games you can get for the
XBox or Playstation these days. I'm not saying there is anything wrong
with card games, board games, etc but it seams to be the main focus of
audio game developers.
The main reason I have been working on a full 3D game engine for the
blind, fairly similar to mainstream FPS engines, is that I would like to
see more accessible games made like Halo, Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, Jedi
Knight, Gear Wars, etc. Those games really hold my interest, and I will
sit for hours trying to play the mainstream versions, and if there was an
accessible game made like that I'd certainly be spilling my pockets to get
it. However, at this point in time I find myself the only blind accessible
game developer creating a game engine that can make games on the par with
the mainstream games.
Orin wrote:
Most people are at least trying mainstream games, or attempting to. Wanna
know why? Think about this. When in audio games did we have the last
"big" rlease? Rail Racer which, as of now was released a year ago. Heck,
I don't even know what the last big release was. Been so long.
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