I can't figure out why blind people don't think there should be at least a
little feedback, even if it doesn't aid in the playing of the game, for the
sighted gamer. Using that logic, there should be no sound for any game
designed for a deaf gamer. Of course, if there were sound, maybe a blind
player could play the game, too? But without any sound, the speaker must be
broken, right? Same idea.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 7:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Audio Archery news.
Hi Ryan,
Yes, I am certainly blind. However, I wasn't blind my entire life so
perhaps that makes the difference. I know how sighted people think, and I
know how blind people think. So I am in a position to understand both
sides of the argument. However, the problem is that a sighted person knows
no more about what it is like to be blind than a blind person knows what
its like to see so often those people argue from a position of ignorance
of the other party's perspective.
In a situation like this one I get frustrated with the blind who say
adding icons, graphics, etc to a game is unnecessary. Of course its
unnecessary for a blind player, but since they don't understand how much a
sighted person depends on sight they blithely make statements like they
can learn to play without graphics. While that may be technically true the
fact of the matter is most sighted people will be disinterested in the
game if there aren't any graphics, and even if they do go as far to play a
game by sound they would still want something to look at besides a black
screen. The sooner blind people recognize this the sooner we'll be able to
at least open up dialog between blind game developers and sighted game
developers on how we can bridge the needs of blind and sighted users at
the same time. However, instead of attempting to meet the needs of both
blind and sighted gamers some blind people want to argue the point and
force a sighted person to play our games as we do, and I'm afraid to say
that will never happen unless we are willing to meet them half way.
Cheers!
On 5/21/2012 7:22 AM, Ryan Strunk wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something here. Aren't you blind, too, Tom?
Thanks,
Ryan
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