Hi Dark, That might work assuming a game developer can get the blindness organizations interested in promoting their games or allowing their clients to see the article on audio games. The problem is I find NFB and other organizations like it very institutional about various things and may not be as receptive of audio games as one would like. Although, my personal experience isn't that extensive I can say I can recall a few cases where I approached someone on the topic only to get the brush-off from those kinds of folks.
For example, several years ago I remember when I was losing my sight I was sent to a training course on Jaws and other adaptive products. At the time I had just come from a sighted world of mainstream games so innocently inquired of the instructor if he knew of an accessible games =that were Jaws accessible. The reply I got in return was that computers were used for work and not play. That I shouldn't spend my time with games and that other junk. I was shocked at that attitude, and have discovered there are many in the adaptive tech industry with that same attitude that computers are for work not play mindset. I can't say how extensively it runs in the NFB, ACB, and other circles but my initial encounter with organizations like them was not a positive one. So brailing up a pamphlet and sending it to the various organizations may work or it may not depending on how they view sharing it with their clients. Although, it might be worth a shot for a developer to try and advertise through those sorts of organizations as they would be able to get developers in touch with the community beyond our little audio games community. Cheers! On 6/15/15, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Conventions might be problematic, partiuclarly sinse they only cover certain > > geographical regions meaning even if the money was raised to send someone > the return on new interest probably wouldn't be worth it. > > I do wonder however if there is an alternative approach. > > As I have said before, some of my first pc games were the ones I discovered > > through whitestick.co.uk, web games like Legend of the green dragon and > ashes of angels. I found out about those thanks to a small one line > paragraph in the rnib braille advertising leaflet with the silly name of > "welcome to a world of" > > I'm not sure where that add came from, indeed Tom Lorimer the > whitestick.co.uk webmaster said he didn't know about it, however it does > make me wonder about the uses of promotional literature, particularly for > people or organizations who might have reach to people who are only just > learning their way around computers. > > I wonder therefore if it would be worth creating a general audiogames > introduction, and paying the smaller amount of money (compared at least to > sending someone to a convention), it'd take to get it recreated in braille > and large print as well as electronically, and then sending copies of that! > > to various organizations, conventions etc, for people to pick up, find on a > > desk etc. > > such a thing could even be translated into different languages as well. > > All the best, > > Dark. > There is always more to know, more to see, more to learn. The world is vast > > and wondrous strange and there are more things benieth the stars than even > the archmaesters of the citadel can dream. --- 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.
