One thing to consider is that many programmers use bgt to write their games. Bgt does not support, in any way, sighted gaming. I've given this substantial thought for my own projects, even going so far as to attempt using the nvda speech viewer in order to allow sighted users to read what the game is saying. Therefore, at least part of the prevalence of "pure" audiogames is that the infrastructure is not there, especially for newer developers.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Travis Siegel" <tsie...@nfbcal.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 20:06 To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Subject: [Audyssey] preludeamals (way too much fun) I don't know how many folks here have played aprone's preludeamals, but if you haven't, you should. The game is so much fun. This is exactly the kind of thing I've been thinking of making for myself, only I hadn't quite managed to get all the details worked out, but the vague outline was there, and this game fits the bill completely. Great fun, although level 15 took me several hours to solve, I am *not* looking forward to level 16, but I'm having a blast with this thing. And, just for reference. I have been saying for years there's no reason why audio games can't have graphics, and Aprone proves the point by his games being playable both by sighted and blind players. Sure, the graphics aren't anything to write home about, but they don't have to be, they just have to work, and they do, and that's the kind of thing I mean when I say there's no reason not to have graphical interfaces to games. Hell, sometimes, there is no graphics, just plain text, but that text is only presented via text to speech, and no actual text is written on the screen, and that (in my opinion at least) is inexcusable, that's just plain laziness. Putting text on the screen is something computers have done since nearly the very beginning (excluding punch cards and line printers), so not including text onscreen just because it's intended for the blind is just silly. Anyway, I digress (as usual). I'm just having a blast with this game, and figured I'd mention it, in case others haven't tried it out yet, (or if they had, maybe they'd go back and try again :)) --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus --- 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.
