Hi Ron, One issue I think this Samuel has totally overlooked is the skill of the developers and the pay involved to do a better job. As I have said in a prier post most developers are self-taught and they are not going to be as good as someone who works for a big name software company, nor do they have the resources to do a equal job. Second, those who have or might have those skills is not going to do it for $10000 or $15000 per game when a big name developer can bust his hind off and get $60000 a year. Ok, the blind comunity wants graphics with audio. Let's see the money to pay a graphics designer for the games. Each game is going to be between $80 and $100 just to start off. Oops, that is more than a Xbox game. Ok, blind gamers want something that is totally like a sighted game. Well, I want to hire my own team of game devs, and we all want a starting sallary of $20000 a year. That means if we spent one year on it the game has to be $100 and sell at least 600 units. Audio gaming has juststarted out, but the customers of them have to be realistic about them. One man can't do the work of three, and a blind man can't do graphics design. We can't compete with a game company that has teams of developers working 8 hours a day 5 days a week with paid vacations, a 401K, etc. Just ain't happening in this life time.
Ron Schamerhorn wrote: > Hi Richard > > I'd like to say firstly thanks for the below info about the half-hearted > survey. > I've checked it out and think it's eventually going to prove to be > invalid. > Firstly, had you not brought it to the lists attention how many folks > would have ever read over it? I know we aren't yet the centre of the > universe with subscribers and such. > I disagree with the survey creator as it seems the limits of audio games > are being pushed consistently to reach for more. I don't think we are > anywhere near the "death of audio games". More the infancy stage since > we've only had audio games for a handfull of years. There is more to be > done I'm sure with the interfaces and such. > I'll keep this and most likely reply to the limited questions he's asked > but have no faith in any results he may or may not find out. Also what > comes to mind is what experience has this person had with these games? > Perhaps he has been under a rock or something? > > Ron > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org > To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make > any subscription changes via the web. > > > _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. Gamers@audyssey.org To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
