Hi Dark,
Yah man, I know it was in the extra section, and I emailed Eleanor
earlier this year about it, but it seems to me if the list is made up of
sites that have an impact on audio gaming and the community, BA should
be in the main list.
There are several sites on that list that have only one or two games,
and few games that have the complexity of Rail Racer, and no sites that
have the feature set of the BA card room.
With over 250 current paying customers and over 2000 trial accounts
over the past 3 years, I'd say BA deserves its place in the pond, eh?
Sorry for the excessive horn tooting, but sometimes card games get
dismissed as something anybody can code out in a weekend. What we've
created at BA is a very intricate set of features and options, leaving
things as open ended as possible to the end user, and a lot of blood
sweat and tears has gone into making the interface as efficient as
possible. Ok, no blood or sweat, but I almost cried once when I stubbed
my toe sitting at my computer chair.
I think however I may be confused still about how the list is
generated, there was something about not listing online games, which I
never quite understood, if anyone can explain that to me more, I'd
appreciate it. I think playing online is the best way of playing audio
games, as your going up against other humans, the most dangerous game so
to speak.
Also, kudos to these guys for making a list and helping to get the
word out there about accessible games, no matter where BA ends up, glad
you guys are doing this.
As for Jeremy's site, I would definately rank it top 10 at this
point. Nobody has done more in less time than Jeremy in the history of
audio games, and we need to encourage him all we can to keep up the
great work.
One last thing, I think free games have been given a leg up when it
comes to making the list over commercial games, but the card room is as
close to free as I can make it and maintain a dedicated server and a
high level of tech support.
At less than a dollar a week, its difficult to find less expensive
entertainment with such high attention to detail and features.
Later gang,
Che
On 12/19/2011 12:13 PM, dark wrote:
Actually che, Blind adrenaline was! on last years list, just in the
recommended sites bit under the top 25 list, see
http://www.7128.com/top25/topsitesblind.html
so it'll likely be reviewed this year too.
I also agree with Dennnis. Altereon, especially with the mush client
soundpack could actually be considdered as a fully audio rpg rather than
a standard text mmorp, sinse the access in the game, level of textual
descriptions and interaction with the soundpack goes beyond just "making
a mud accessible" and as far as developing a game for everyone. That's
why it's got an entry on audiogames.net specifically, (I actually need
to get back on the game myself :D).
As to other sites, first is Aprone's games on
http://www.kaldobsky.com/audiogames/
Aprone aka Jeremy Kaldobski discovered audio games in late 2010, and has
done a staggering amount sinse then, particularly in creating unusual
games that explore genres and ideas not tried in audio.
These include the rapidly developing first ever mouse aiming online
zombi shooter swamp, Castaways, a very detailed military and settlement
stratogy game with online cooperative or pvp play, Lunimals, a detailed
eco system management simulation, Daytona an arcade game with ful mouse
movement, towers of war, the first tower defense game in audio, and
indeed Dog who hates ttoast, a random litle word game.
He also makes various other useful litle programs, like one to turn your
keyboard into a brailler, or a colour identifyer for use with digital
cameras, so imho deffinately deserves a place.
Another is driftwood games, http://www.blind-games.com/
this is the home of Entombed, the first, and stil largest and most
complex audio role playing game. Random generating passages of a massive
dungeon, a complex battle system, more character choices than are
concieveable and a huge amount of replay value. it even has it's own
mailing list administrated by muggins. Like sound rts, it's a very
revolutionary audio game.
Then there is Paulosoft on http://pawlosoft.webs.com/ they are also a
very new developer just started this year, and have made the first
action/rpg game in the manner of Zelda. you play as Airik the clerric
and explore a vast Kingdom, collecting christals to increase your
abilities.
the game has hopefully good voice acting to tell the story.
They are intent on making Airik into a series with an ongoing story, and
indeed are very interested in access in mainstream games.
Hth.
Beware the grue!
dark.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Robinson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 3:41 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Top 25 websites for gamers who are blind
Gamers - I think my request for information got lost in the shuffle.
We would like people on this list to let us know if there are any
websites we should consider for the Top 25 list that are not currently
on our list. If there are, please let me know so they will be included
in our review.
Thanks.
Eleanor Robinson
7-128 Software
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