Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Shaun. It is true we don't have much commercially available for us. Allot of it has to do with lack of skills, and also a majority of visually impaired are on social services like SSI which prevents a person from collecting income not handed out by the government. Especially, if it comes in

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-31 Thread allan thompson
, smile The truth will set you free... Jesus of Nazareth 33 AD - Original Message - From: shaun everiss [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 3:13 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Shaun. Point is as long as there are programmers and a lack of accessible games there will be people making accessible games. One of the reasons they sell game programming books for hobbiests to write games at home. Long before I knew of GMA, PCS Games, etc I was writing my own text

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Che and all. I'd like to point out that the rules are different depending on if you have SSI or SSDI. SSDI is much more flexible with making outside income than is streight SSI. With SSI they really cut you if you make any money out side of SSI with SSDI it depends on what your maximum cap

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi. Ok, I'll email you off list about this as I am in the same situation. I don't want to mess up my income I got, and plan to reinvest most sales back in to making games, or equipment needed to make them. Che wrote: Right, the restrictions are different, but with a corporation, you don't

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-30 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi, Shaun. I don't honestly think we have seen the end of blind games. Your opinion, which I am sure is shared by others, is the pecimistic view long term. The aspect you seam to miss however is as long is there are blind programmers who know how to write computer programs, have a desire to

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-30 Thread meeping necdet
What games do you have available at the moment then? Where can I get them? What programming language do you use? You got me all excited, even though I'm already x-sighted, or not as the case may be lol Regards, Damien ___ Gamers mailing list ..

Re: [Audyssey] conspiricy theory, the future of the blind gaming industry

2006-05-30 Thread shaun everiss
true. Opensource will continue without question. It just scares me that when we eventually get the sighted interested they could go either of 2 ways. Either and this is in my opinion extremely rare, but I may be totally wrong, here not going to happen is actually work along side us. Its just