Hey everyone, I was just looking at a guardian tech article on the best iphone games for this summer, and thought it interesting to start a discussion on the concepts of gaming for a blind/visually impaired user.
All of the technologies bundled into the iphone (touch screen, gravitometer, stereo audio) can probably allow us to use all these cues as a foundation for some interesting gaming experience. Imagine playing a sims game where you can actually direct your sim to move around place with gestures and create situations which will be fed back into the audio environment. There's this game on pc called sound RTS. in which you command an army and build villages to feed your barracks and send them out to the enemies. It's also a multiplayer game. The whole thing works on audio cues. Add the gestural commands and touchscreen integration and i'm sure we can get a few kicks out of a lot of different games to adjust to our needs. Another game which, to my knowledge, is very text based but with locational navigation, is The secret of monkey island. You can move the character around and unlock puzzles which are primarily combinations of an object with another or with dialogues in which you can get info for said objects. Wouldn't it be great if games such as this could be available for blind people? Here's the link to the article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/gallery/2009/jul/30/games-iphone --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
