thats true dark, I have an autistic game friend that is graphic
hungry I have another friend that doesn't care and I have another
blind friend who's father plays ages of empires and other adventures
which both use mouse, graphics text and sound.
Apart from the japanese games though a lot of stuff is bang bang and
violent which is fine there are sports to but even so.
its interesting the industry is shifting.
I have noticed at least in nz the cd stores don't carry the variety
of games and in deed software as they used to.
As we move to the cloud it seems software distribution along with
music and books are moving away from the physical media to something else.
Yes you can buy just about everything you need to get online, and
some games and such but even with physical media a lot of games have
either by subscription or something an online mode.
The game has a story which is usually ok but sometimes a crappy
afterthought as 90% is for online use.
so things are changing.
At 08:45 PM 10/30/2013, you wrote:
Hi Tom.
On the point of text based games it's actually interesting how many
new games are being developed, look at choiceofgames on the iphone
as a prime example.
The only problem is not all of these are accessible. I was for
example rather disappointed that the tinman series of gamebooks,
perported to be extrra ports of the old 1980's publications have
entirely unlabeled buttond, graphical dice etc. Thus, ti'd actually
be great to include some articles to potential sighted developers of
text based games on how to make their games accessible.
most indi devs are pretty good about this and I've contacted many in
my time, (most recently the developers of space odyssey and their
other game astro galaxy), but it'd be great to have some actual
guidelines which people could google.
Btw, on the graphics front, I'll also add that while a lot of what
you might call casual gamers are graphics mad (and usually fps mad),
that isn't true about people who are interested in games!
It's sort of the old one, kids who just want to listen to the latest
manufactured bangin' popgroup won't think much to just a skilled
musician with a single guitar, but people who appreciate good music will.
It's also worth noting that according to my brother who tends to
keep up with game industry news various people are being
dissatisfied with the current state of the mainstream industry hence
the greater amount of indi games, and indi games means accessible
games, (as well as developers who actually are possible to talk to).
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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