Re: [blind-gamers] Audio Gaming Webinar Tonight

[Marda]

Wow that was fast.  Have to leave shortly but will check it out when I 
get home.  Thanks again and also will be looking forward to the much 
anticipated links.


Marda

On 5/18/2023 12:38 PM, Liam Erven wrote:


the archive is now posted. They worked fast on this one.

https://youtu.be/Pjk8YI_4kkw



On 5/18/2023 12:37 AM, Marda wrote:
Thank you so much.  Eagerly awaiting both them and the youtube 
recording.  do you know when it will be available?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 9:49 PM, Liam Erven wrote:

Yes. You will receive a list of links tomorrow evening.


On 5/17/2023 9:48 PM, Marda wrote:
Liam, I was planning to attend the webinar tonight and did register 
but was unable to attend due to the fact that my transportation was 
late and I was stuck out in a public place with no headphones to 
privately access it on my phone and not near my computer so was 
unable to attend.  I was disappointed because I'm sure I would have 
asked questions.  At least I can hopefully listen to the youtube 
recording and perhaps ask questions on this list. If I was unable 
to attend live can I still get the list of links that live 
attendees would be sent since I am registered and they have my 
contact info? Thanks.


Marda

On 5/17/2023 2:03 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
I think we're going to be talking about IOS a bit tonight 
actually. Attendees will also receive a follow up mail tomorrow 
with a bunch of useful links. I'm super excited that we're 
including that.




On 5/17/2023 1:49 PM, Marda wrote:
Sounds great.  I have heard another blind person who plays a 
monopoly game on the iPhone called earoppoly but i searched on 
the app store and couldn't find it.  He says the person who wrote 
it has written many other accessible games for iPhone.  Are you 
familiar with that game and that person and his other games?  Are 
there any kinds of organized lists of accessible games in 
different categories for different devices?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 1:44 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
Marda. That's what the webinar is here for. We want to provide 
people a space to learn about a hobby they can enjoy. I think 
it's hard for folks to get started, so we want to try to bridge 
that gap a little bit.



On 5/17/2023 1:42 PM, Marda wrote:
Thanks. Really looking forward to it. I am not a programmer or 
anything just a sort of young at heart old lady, totally blind 
with limited tech knowledge but fun loving and wanting to play 
both with friends and with new people as well as games I can 
play by myself. Looking forward to the webinar and thank you 
for taking the time to present it.


Marda

On 5/17/2023 1:37 PM, Liam Erven wrote:

Not at all. We'll try to cover as much of that as possible.


On 5/17/2023 1:36 PM, Marda wrote:
Hi.  I am pretty new to gaming. i.e. I have played trivia and 
other games on my amazon alexa device, an echo dot.  I want 
to expand my gaming knowledge to include board, card, dice, 
role playing and other games on computer and iPhone but i am 
relatively new to both devices and don't even know where to 
start. I have registered but am I too much of a novice for 
this webinar or is it for more advanced gamers?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 12:51 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
I don't think this got posted to the list before, but the 
Lighthouse for the Blind INC is hosting a webinar about 
audio gaming tonight. I'm super excited about this as I'm 
the guest speaker. If you have an interest in audio games or 
maybe want to learn more, this would be an awesome webinar 
to attend. Registration is free, and it takes place at 7 PM 
Eastern/4PM Pacific in the United states. Registrations are 
world-wide, so no one is left out.


http://lerven.me/lh is a short link to go register.


































































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Re: [blind-gamers] Audio Gaming Webinar Tonight

[Liam Erven]

the archive is now posted. They worked fast on this one.

https://youtu.be/Pjk8YI_4kkw



On 5/18/2023 12:37 AM, Marda wrote:
Thank you so much.  Eagerly awaiting both them and the youtube 
recording.  do you know when it will be available?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 9:49 PM, Liam Erven wrote:

Yes. You will receive a list of links tomorrow evening.


On 5/17/2023 9:48 PM, Marda wrote:
Liam, I was planning to attend the webinar tonight and did register 
but was unable to attend due to the fact that my transportation was 
late and I was stuck out in a public place with no headphones to 
privately access it on my phone and not near my computer so was 
unable to attend.  I was disappointed because I'm sure I would have 
asked questions.  At least I can hopefully listen to the youtube 
recording and perhaps ask questions on this list.  If I was unable 
to attend live can I still get the list of links that live attendees 
would be sent since I am registered and they have my contact info? 
Thanks.


Marda

On 5/17/2023 2:03 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
I think we're going to be talking about IOS a bit tonight actually. 
Attendees will also receive a follow up mail tomorrow with a bunch 
of useful links. I'm super excited that we're including that.




On 5/17/2023 1:49 PM, Marda wrote:
Sounds great.  I have heard another blind person who plays a 
monopoly game on the iPhone called earoppoly but i searched on the 
app store and couldn't find it.  He says the person who wrote it 
has written many other accessible games for iPhone.  Are you 
familiar with that game and that person and his other games?  Are 
there any kinds of organized lists of accessible games in 
different categories for different devices?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 1:44 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
Marda. That's what the webinar is here for. We want to provide 
people a space to learn about a hobby they can enjoy. I think 
it's hard for folks to get started, so we want to try to bridge 
that gap a little bit.



On 5/17/2023 1:42 PM, Marda wrote:
Thanks. Really looking forward to it. I am not a programmer or 
anything just a sort of young at heart old lady, totally blind 
with limited tech knowledge but fun loving and wanting to play 
both with friends and with new people as well as games I can 
play by myself. Looking forward to the webinar and thank you for 
taking the time to present it.


Marda

On 5/17/2023 1:37 PM, Liam Erven wrote:

Not at all. We'll try to cover as much of that as possible.


On 5/17/2023 1:36 PM, Marda wrote:
Hi.  I am pretty new to gaming. i.e. I have played trivia and 
other games on my amazon alexa device, an echo dot.  I want to 
expand my gaming knowledge to include board, card, dice, role 
playing and other games on computer and iPhone but i am 
relatively new to both devices and don't even know where to 
start. I have registered but am I too much of a novice for 
this webinar or is it for more advanced gamers?


Marda

On 5/17/2023 12:51 PM, Liam Erven wrote:
I don't think this got posted to the list before, but the 
Lighthouse for the Blind INC is hosting a webinar about audio 
gaming tonight. I'm super excited about this as I'm the guest 
speaker. If you have an interest in audio games or maybe want 
to learn more, this would be an awesome webinar to attend. 
Registration is free, and it takes place at 7 PM Eastern/4PM 
Pacific in the United states. Registrations are world-wide, 
so no one is left out.


http://lerven.me/lh is a short link to go register.
































































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Re: [blind-gamers] A Dragon Reborn

[Michael Maslo]

I don’t understand the big deal myself.

Not one individual before this announcement came out said anything about this 
company and the fact that titles have not been updated or such until this came 
out. Now everybody is up in arms about it. Why? 

In my opinion, if a company chooses to take another route then so be it. If 
you’re unable to purchase these titles now, you had all the way up to the date 
of the announcement either get a replacement key and or to try these titles 
out. If they were not available, what are you losing?

Now, mind you, this is my opinion only. I personally don’t care, for. I have 
not played these titles in many many years and have absolutely no interest in 
playing them ever again.

Sincerely,

Michael maslo

> On May 17, 2023, at 11:16 PM, QuentinC  wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> IF you don't want to upgrade your old windows titles any longer, making them 
> freewares is a good thing to do. This will let people who are under windows 
> for whatever reason to continue enjoying your games.
> 
> If I'm under windows today, what should I do if I want to play your game ? If 
> you have stopped selling it to new customers, I'm stuck. The day I'm 
> switching to mac or iOS, I may remember that your games were unavailable, 
> impossible to grab or try out, be limited to demo mode, when I was under 
> windows, and won't search further. I can think that you aren't very reliable. 
> Potentially you have lost a customer.
> 
> By making your old windows titles freewares, on your side, you no longer need 
> to care about past customers who lost their keys. You are making time free to 
> invest on what you want today, develop for mac and iOS. I'm pretty sure that, 
> after a while, you will just be annoyed about all those guys who lost their 
> old windows key, and will start taking ages to reply and eventually no longer 
> reply at all.
> 
> I have lost my key. You don't reply within a reasponable time. Certainly I 
> won't ever try to buy your mac or iOS games since you dont appear very 
> reliable. Again you have lost a customer forever.
> 
> So if I wrap things up, be clear with your customers: you keep supporting 
> your windows titles as you have done until now, and so you can of course keep 
> making money out of them. If you chose to stop supporting them, you should no 
> longer make money out of them. There is no free sugar ! Being in an 
> half-closed unclear state is going to be annoying both for you and your 
> customers in the long run.  Several other audio game companies did it, and 
> slowly, finally died.
> 
> You can of course decide to close everything under windows right now without 
> releasing freewares and it's a perfectly valid thinking, but you are just 
> losing an opportunity to reach more people wo may buy your iOS version 
> tomorrow, and you are frustrating your current customers who stay under 
> windows for the moment and with whom you will lose a little of good 
> reputation. It's up to you.
> 
> 
> Thank you for reading.
> With all the best.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Le 17.05.2023 19:32, Tobias Vinteus a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> 
>> If your goal is to reach the widest possible audience, then it would
>> seem to me that staying on Windows would be the better choice.
>> 
>> Technologies like haptic feedbakc and spatial audio are available on
>> Windows, after all.
>> 
>> There is one more thing to consider. I have an iPod 6th generation. Many
>> apps cannot be updated due to the last supported OS version for that
>> device being iOS 12. This means that your games might potentially stop
>> working or at least wouldn’t be able to update on older iOS devices.
>> Being able to afford newer devices might not be as easy for us in the
>> blind Community compared to people in general. On a sidenote this rarely
>> happens on my Android device despite its oS being several iterations behind.
>> 
>> Being no exper, I don’t know the ammount of effort it would take to port
>> a modern Windows game to Xbox, but I would imagine it to be
>> comparatively Little, furthermore strengthening the argument to stay on
>> Windows.
>> 
>> If you haven’t already don eso, I would recommend you perform some kind
>> of market survey to gauge which platform would be the most profitable
>> one to develop for.
>> 
>> Just my two cents. I wish you good luck and am looking forward to what
>> comes out of Draconis in the future.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Tobias
>> 
>> Skickades från E-post 
>> för Windows
>> 
>> *Från: *Cara Quinn 
>> *Skickat: *den 15 maj 2023 18:51
>> *Till: *blind-gamers@groups.io 
>> *Kopia: *Cara Quinn 
>> *Ämne: *[blind-gamers] A Dragon Reborn
>> 
>> It's been a long while, but it's finally time to announce the start of a
>> new chapter for Draconis Entertainment, LLC. The dragon is awakening yet
>> again!
>> 
>> This new incarnation of the company