Hi Nicol, there certainly are a few games that can be played without any assistance after a bit of pracitce. HOwever, I don't know any game that would be really 100% accessible. It's not as simple as inserting the disc and starting to be a master right away. :-) There always is a bit of memorization and perhaps sighted assistance involved to tell you how the menus are layed out, for example, but then you can improve your skills on and on by learning what sounds represents what etc. I am talking especially abut the Mortal Kombat series here. As far as I know, there already are three parts of that series out there for PS2 - Deadly aliance, Deception and Armagedon. I've only played Deadly aliance but I used to have great fun beating my sighted friends and winning arcade tournaments on the hard difficulty. :-D As to making Sing star accessible - well, I'm not a programmer but I guess that implementing a reasonable voice recognition system would be damn difficult and time and resource demanding, when you consider that our developers are usually just one or two man "companies". But again, I'm not a true developer yet... Hope this helps. Take care, Lukas ----- Original Message ----- From: "nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Audyssey Blind gaming Gamers discussion list" <Gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2007 9:02 AM Subject: [Audyssey] ps2 games
> HI all > When I was on holiday I spent time with my brother and his children have a > ps2 play station. I played a bit on the play station with the help of my > brother's child. He told me which buttons on the joystick to press and it > was cool feeling how the joystick vibrates when I kill an enemy. > We played a game called ragid and plank. Well that is how you pronounce > it. > Its really a cool game. I think its almost like treasure hunt. In the game > you also shoot a lot of enemies and you have to jump onto leafs and over > acid pits. That's really a game I would like to see become accessible. > My brother's daughter and me played finding Nemo. It's a game they based > on > a movie. That would also be nice to see become accessible. > And then we played a game called sing star where you have to sing and earn > points. The lyrics shows on the screen. Its almost like carioki, the only > difference is: the full band sings as usual. You can't take away the > artist's voice while singing. For example if we sing up town girl of Billy > Joel the original Billy Joel track plays as usual, but then you sing with > it. > The game is very lenient for it doesn't judge you on how well you know the > words but how well you know the tune. > My sister's children also had such a sing star game but with tracks on it > which is not so popular and easy to sing than the 80s tracks. There was > only one song on that cd which I knew and that's a song of the rolling > stones from a movie. > I new none of the words and my sister's children couldn't read the words > to > me because it was too quickly changing on the screen but I got the highest > points just because I knew the tune; I lha lha lha the whole time on the > tune and I was getting the highest score. > I earned a medal on that song. You can earn different trophies if I may > call > them like that. I think the smallest one is a face, then you get a duck, > and > then a medal. I can't remember the others. > A song my sister's youngest girl loved to sing was tick tock. The song > begins where the woman is sitting in front of the piano and tries to > practice singing a song while accompanying herself, she only sang and > played > a few notes, then she slammed the piano and stood up and then you hear a > clock ticking for a while and then you hear a sound like a car starting up > and then the song begins and in the song they sing: > What you waiting what you waiting what you waiting for? > Can you remember that song? > Anyway do you think an accessible sing star is possible? Then one could > script jaws to read the words as they come up and in this way you would > then > listen to the words a few times and then know it by heart later on. > Is it possible for a blind person to play games on the ps2 without any > sighted assistance? > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > __________ Informace od NOD32 1.1189 (20050808) __________ > > Tato zprava byla proverena antivirovym systemem NOD32. > http://www.nod32.cz > > _______________________________________________ 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.
