Hi Shaun, I think you are being way too overly pessimistic here. For one thing audio games are continually growing, and there are now more audio games on the market than ever before. When Michael Feir started the Audyssey Magazine it was basically restricted to Dos text based games and interactive fiction titles played with Frotz, Tads, etc. Now, in addition to many games like Swamp for the PC there are a number of accessible games for the iPhone, and there are a number of browser based games like Space Odyssey, Sryth, and Core Exiles that didn't exist back then. So things are looking up for audio games in general.
As for the magazine itself admittedly things have fallen short over the last few years, but I don't think it would take a lot to get it up and running better than before. We have a web site, and right now what I have put up was meant to be a place holder rather than be a fully flashy webzine. I could do the work, but a lot depends on how flashy and commercial a look and feel you guys expect from the new site. I don't really think we need anything too fancy or flashy as that just seems like overkill to me seeing as most of our visitors are totally blind and the graphics, formatting, and so on important to sighted people don't really apply to most blind end users. Still, any thoughts or suggestions regarding improvements are welcome. Cheers! On 10/29/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > You have a point dark everyone that wants to be everyone has a central > website. > Its the seat of power and where they shout to the universe at large. > Its never took off for us. > How much resource would it take to write one or pay for an accessable > one which is attractive to be written. > We have a server I know maybe we need a bit more of those. > That at least can be done. > I have seen it with some radio stations with the blind as djs. > Enough have been able to buy resource in form of datacentres and > enough able to buy or create themselves the resources they need. > Ofcause it goes a bit better if you get a few normals on your side ofcause. > And get your name bandied round the place like so much crap. > If audyssey was something a comman word associated with the blind > heck why not make it other disabilities to, physical interlectual, > etc maybe we may have power but its all relitive. > I am quite sure that within a week or 2, we will get the dreadded > notification to close the thread. > Then nothing will happen for another year or 10 or 100. > What scares me is that I fear a lot of the gaming is down to the > first generation gamers. > A lot of the newer ones well who knows. > When we die, audyssey dies. > We need more than us to handle it. > In fact we really need someone that is not us to put new life into > the mag something outside the core group. > Ofcause we would have internal control over it, couldn't allow > someone to go off and go nuts, even so we at least need to look attractive. > not sure. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
