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 that the paying type game industry may be over. Sertainly opensource and freeware will live on. The only other way is that the blind and sighted could form big companies some how. We then could go into bigger and bigger companies including sighted, and maybe we could hold our own. I guess all I am saying is don't rush stuff to much. It also brings out the question how many games do we have actually? If we exclude the opensource market, agrip and agdev, kitchensinc since thats free and in fact every freeware game around. We have several names. usagames, gma, pcs, and maybe bavisoft. bavisoft has 2 games. gmagames have 3 games. pcs have a few games mostly dos but going to windows then there is l-works, who have around 4 games and only really 2 actually count as purchacible items. We also have pb-games and thats another single game. I don't know how much all this adds up to but its not much. We also have bsc games. Now if we cut out all the oldstyle and arcade games that the sighted wouldn't want anyway this includes all the stuff draconis makes since its essentually arcade, we have trek2k, sod, gtc, lw and stfc. I don't know wether to count the bavisoft games as they have 0 replay value really. even if I counted those in we actually have very few actual action/strat games that sighted would actually want. there is terraformas by pin interactive but even then as I said thats still small. I'm not saying stop the music, i don't want to stay behind the river for the rest of time, just be vary carefull in approaching it. At 11:46 PM 5/30/2006, you wrote: >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 write games, accessible games will continue. The agdev-newbies >comunity is a forem where I am attempting to pass on my skills, knolege, >so that a new generation of blind programmers can be made. >What's more at some point if blind programmers were to use the GPL >mottle and make engines open source then anyone with a nack for >programming can maintain and update games. This doesn't work for games >under the commercial license, but were a game to be made open source it >would have a long life time ahead of it. >I've actually conceptually thought about some ideas for making open >source games. Especially, ones that were multiplatform for Mac, Linux, >and PC. Once I get my Linux reinstalled and all upgraded to current I >might actually look at that possability. > > > >_______________________________________________ >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. > > >-- >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG Free Edition. >Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.7.4/351 - Release Date: 5/29/2006
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