Hi Dark, This mirrors my experience when I suggested the same things to him. I understand his reasons, bt they are still frustrating. 95% accessible is hard to swallow. Best, Zack. On Mar 4, 2014, at 11:16 AM, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote:
> Well I contacted the developer of starbase orion. > > he basically said that converting the open gl galaxy map would involve too > much work and some buggy additions to the program. When i raised the issue of > an alternate display of the same information ala the the startraders nav > menue, he told me he'd already looked into that and decided against it. > Frankly I doubt his abilities at looking at alternate solutions sinse > genrally speaking most sighted developers are not good at finding > alternative ways of desplaying graphical map info, which is one reason why > it's often a good idea to discuss these things. > > The STarbase orion dev just seems narrow minded, and I'm tempted to go and > give starbasee orion a zero star rating because of that. > > I have said if he wants to discuss alternatives I'd be happy and have come as > close to politeness allows to calling him a closed minded arrogant so and > so, (I did use the word intractable). > > So, unfortunately it seems no access fixes here, which is pretty bad and not > what I was hoping for (I am usualy at least a little more successful at > this), though now that Trees brothers (the chaps who make startraders rpg), > have moved into game developement we might see an accessible 4X game for the > Iphone in the future. > > All the best, > > Dark. > --- > 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. --- 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.
