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Hi Thomas,
It's been so long since I was a kid that I don't even know what games you would
like to see made accessible. The only game that I have that I put Braille on
is Up Words. I like it better than Scrabble even though it is similar. I of
course have decks of cards and have
anyone?
Hi Charles,
Speaking of bowling, I could never get used to using a bowling rail. Always
wanted to try putting a beeper in the right channel for a bit of targeting
help. Maybe even a beeper in both channels. But the only bowling that I have
done for a long time is WII sports resorts
I would love to try this blind tennis.
I absolutely love tennis.
By the way I will now listen the semifinnals of Rolandgarros in Radio
Rolandgarros.
Cheers,
Jorge Gonçalves
jopo...@hotmail.com
Skype: joport3
Twitter: www.twitter.com/goncalvesjorge
Webpage: www.jorgegoncalves.com
On 6/8/2012
Hi Jim.
I've also seen the Hacu peg based game. in addition, i've seen tactile ludo
(which i believe is called parcheesy in the states), and backgammon, in fact
I just got a backgammon board recently.
I however would love to see some of the more serious board games aimed at
adults made
Hi Ryan,
I don't know that we need a new sport, but we need to involve more
sighted players in the sports we do have. What I mean by that is
beeper baseball is very much like regular baseball accept we have
beepers for the baseball and bases. There is no reason we couldn't
have sighted players
Hey, Thomas.
I agree with you, as a former Beep Baseball player the playing field is
equal for both blind and sighted people.
However most sighted people don't like playing games sports or even
listen to audio described videos, the reason is they want to be able to
see the things that they are
Hi Jim,
Well, I'm not a kid myself, but I do play a lot of board games. I've
several board games that simply are not available from the blind rehab
centers and I think would be enjoyable if they were made accessible.
For example, I've got this one game made in the 80's or 90's called
Hotels. Its
Hi Dark,
Hero Quest and Talisman rock. However, as you said they are difficult
to play simply because there are no accessible boards available. Its
precisely that kind of game aimed at young to middle aged adults I'd
love to see available in accessible format.
Not only that but there are games
Hi Michael,
Yeah, but there is a world of difference between audio games and
beeper baseball. Most audio games don't contain graphics which most
sighted people, like it or not, insist on having. With beeper baseball
they can see the ball and we can here it. So that helps even out the
Hey, Thomas.
In the NBBA which stands for National Beep Baseball Association, has a
rules strick rules I may add.
One of the rules is anytime a fielder and batter gets on the field they
have to wear a blindfold.
The reason for this rule is to make it fair to all players because when
they
Hi Michael,
Ah, I didn't know that although it makes sense. Of course, rules like
that are why sighted players will not play sports with blind players
because most of them are not use to playing games like baseball via
sound alone and actually have a disadvantage when blind folded. We
forget that
Hi Tom,
You might be familiar with a different style of beep baseball than I
am. The version I'm familiar with has a sighted pitcher and a sighted
catcher, both of whom are on the batter's team. When the batter hits a
ball, he has to run directly to either third or first base before the
people in
Hi Steady,
That's kind of my point, though. I want to know what the answer is to
the fact that the rules are different for people with varying levels
of sight. I can't help but think that if the rules have to bend like
that, then maybe the sport isn't worth adapting.
What I want to know is if
Here are the events scheduled for Friday, June 8th:
Smart Alec
8:00 PM eastern
Hosted by Julie and Sherry
Location: Game Zone
Join Julie and Sherry tonight in the Game Zone. We will be hosting a fun
and challenging game of Smart Alec. This is a team game of Who am I, what
am I, or where am I.
With no adaptive or assistive equipment, what are your average bowling
scores? How do you keep a straight approach? I'm interested.
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From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion
Now if the board games that are produced were less expensive! $75 for a
Monopoly set? $60 or so for Scrabble? How much does a game of similar
quality cost for sighted gamers?
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
- Original Message -
From: Thomas Ward
If they can see the ball and the defensive players, they not only know when
or whether to swing, but they can time their swing to hit it where the
defensive players are not positioned. They can also see where the base is,
and run directly to it without accidentally running past it. So, while
It takes a long time to get good at it. That's why teams should hold
practice sessions.
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
- Original Message -
From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Friday, June
How about a beeper attached to a stake for pitching horse shoes? I've been
thinking about that one.
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
- Original Message -
From: Ryan Strunk ryan.str...@gmail.com
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent:
Everything Ryan wrote below is right on the money IMHO. Going on the
personal experiences of training a partially sighted chap and
witnessing a fully sighted team play though, I'd say that perhaps
Goalball is the closest thing I've found to an exception. The team
made up of fully sighted dudes
Hi Ryan,
Honestly I don't know. Keep in mind I wasn't born blind, lost my sight
well into my teens, so really didn't spend much time with organized
beeper baseball. My experience is simply playing it in gym class with
other blind students and hearsay from others who were involved with
organized
Hi Charles,
About my average scores I don't know. I don't keep track of that sort
of thing. I haven't even played for a couple years in any case.
As far as keeping a straight approach I just ask my wife or someone to
help line me up and then I attempt to bowl the ball in that direction.
As long
Hi Ryan,
HmmmI've never had a problem playing air hockey. In fact, I
consider it rather accessible as is. I've beaten several sighted
players at air hockey and I'm totally blind. Is this not the case for
other blind players?
As for how I play air hockey I can hear the puck sliding around
Ok, as everyone knows I submited a letter to this list to see if anyone
would want my two f510s.
Now looking for a newer better gamepad and or stick that will work with the
Three D Velocity and the games from Blind software,especially the pipe
version two Blast Chamber which I was a beta tester
Hi Charles,
Definitely much less. I think a standard version of Monopoly goes for
$20 and sometimes cost a little more if it is a promotional version. I
once saw a Monopoly set for $40, but what made it so expensive is that
it was electronic. What I mean by that is you could put batteries in
the
I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but the main problem i've seen
with organized blind sports in Britain is the Blind Cleaque mentality. I'm
not sure if this applies to all sports, but certainly in chess and goalball
it's pretty dire.
I once looked at joing the local goalball team,
I'll probably expand on this more, but I'm a blind cricket player and in
short I've seen that clique mentality when I captained 2 goalball teams to
victory - we got beaten by a side of girls who were older than us and who
had been playing together for 7 years at least and they wer so braggy about
I would see no need for using a game pad to play Tenpin Alley. The keyboard
works perfectly for that game and has all you need.
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
- Original Message -
From: Ron Kolesar kolesar16...@roadrunner.com
To: Audyssey
Hi Thomas and Dark,
You know having no kids or sighted spouse, I have not been exposed to the board
games etc that are out recently. I have not bought a game in like 30 years,
and that was Up Words that later I put braille on. As a kid we as a family we
played games like Life, Monopoly,
Hi Charles,
Yeah, I never really have had a chance to see if beepers would help if I had
them in the gutters.
Your 110 sounds like a pretty darn nice average.
I think that totally blind I have had a hard time making 100.
BFN
Jim
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the
Hi Charles and all,
I am curious, who decides what games to make accessible. I mean is it the
original manufactures of the games, or do some of the blind organizations get
together and commission for the games to be made accessible or what? And then
who does set the price of them?
BFN
Hi Ben.
Unfortunately my experience of cricket was not good, sinse other than
playing in P.E. in school, the only other time I played was at one of the
chess championships when several blind people started a cricket match,
ostensibly for fun, but essentially they were all from the same blind
Hi Jim.
at least in my case, it's not really the standard board games that bothered
me. My parents brailled see how they run, the house that jack built and
other games, and we regularly played life, ratrace or braille monopoly. The
problem I have now is a lot of my friends play the sort of
I know I never have.
Life, don't talk to me about life.
-Original Message-
From: Jim Kitchen
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 3:49 PM
To: Charles Rivard
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] bowling blind - Re: tennis
Hi Charles,
Yeah, I never really have had a chance to see if beepers would help if
As I understand it, in this country it's the rnib who pretty much rule
everything with an iron fist.
They commission someone to make the accessible versions of the games, get
the copywrites, and then distribute them themselves, and sinse the
government agencies will always put newly blind
Doesn't the noise of the table and the sound of the sticks hitting the puck
overpower the noise of the sliding puck? Although I helped build tables,
I've never tried the game, but would like to.
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Shepherds are the best beasts, but Labs are a close second.
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Hi, I do not like it when people just do sports and set up clubs, not really
looking for new members. I had this experience with a local shooting club which
i was going to join, the problem is there is no structure and they went to one
place looking for members and did not advertise the club so
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