Hi Tom.
well to be accurate I knew games were! available for Pc sinse I used to
watch the show Games master, which was the first Uk program about computer
games (and very good fun), which showed me reviews of things like doom,
quake, 7th guest etc, heck in the early 90's we had a comador Amiga computer
on which I regularly played games like turrican 2, golden axe, moonn stone,
rampage or robocod. However, while I used a screen reader for school work,
it never occurred to me that this could be used to play text games, much
less accessible ones.
To me, computer games meant graphical games, most often on games consoles.
I'd have probably enjoyed various text based games if I'd been introduced to
them, indeed that was the same point I tried to get the Rnib to produce
braille fighting fantasy books, however it just didn't occur to me that
screen reading and text and computer games went together, heck the only
thing I knew how to do on my laptop was turn on word perfect and write with
it, and even when i got a windows 95 machine with microsoft word, I still
avoided running anything but word processing, although I did use it to play
D&D when i was 16.
I read an article in one of the rnib circulars about the whitestick.co.uk
site which talked about games, but My first games were browser games like
Legend of the green dragon, nation states, ashes of angels and Sryth in
2002-2004. I investigated interactive fiction, and also muds like alter, I
even mailed someone at Alter for info, (although as the only information I
found was about jaws, I didn't get to play any muds which was a shame).
I will admit that I found the page of "games to play offline" and read about
several games like the original montizumas revenge, galaxy ranger and the
games from azabat, but I sort of assumed that they would be symplistic from
what I read, and not really interesting to someone who still was buying
graphical games for the game boy advanced, (or at least the game cube with
the gba player to bring them up full screen). It wasn't until late in 2005
that bryan P on the Sryth forum pointed me in the direction of Gma games and
by extention audiogames.net, and I believe had shades of doom not been the
first audiogame I tried, ---- a game which was undoubtedly more than complex
and unique enough for me not to just dismiss as a simplistic game for the
poor little blindies, which gave a propper experience of a genre I wasn't
otherwise able to play, I probably wouldn't have continued.
It also was quite convenient that at the time I'd finished my masters but
was unable to start anything further so had a spare 10 months or so, so
could devote a lot of time and energy to trying games out in 2006, ---- heck
I believe i played pretty much every single game on the audiogames.net
database at the time.
Then in 2007 Sander asked me to start writing news for the audiogames.net
site, and the rest as they say is history! :d.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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