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 chunks of 2000 one month, and 0 the next. As for sighted working along side us commercially I don't see that happening unless they can build in 3D color graphics, and so on. There is little interest except for say a few who would like an audio based game. As for the big time companies we are nothing to them. When they collect hundreds of thousands of dollars and even millions on a title what is a mere 12000 or 20000 to them. That is to them pocket change. I don't have any answers here, but one thing is clear things will continue as is for a while until something major changes it.
shaun everiss wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
