Hi, Yes. Kind a simular, but its cool because I have bluetooth, and a Wiimote! I wanna try this thing out!
Regards, Tristan Bussiere Owner, ACE Games http://www.acegamesonline.net Skype: Tristanbussiere MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken the Crazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:16 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Video games' new frontier: The visually impaired - > I'm downloading it right now. Is this related to the other game we tested > recently, with the two styles of music? > Ken Downey > President > DreamTechInteractive! > > And, > Coming soon, > Blind Comfort! > The pleasant way to get a massage--no staring, just caring. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ian and riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 10:18 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Video games' new frontier: The visually impaired - > > >> grate i am going to take a look at this this is grate that some is >> thinking >> of us. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Phil Vlasak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Gamers Discussion list" >> <gamers@audyssey.org> >> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 3:11 AM >> Subject: [Audyssey] Video games' new frontier: The visually impaired - >> >> >>> Hi Folks >>> I think this article is important enough for the blind community to post >>> it >>> in full: >>> Video games' new frontier: The visually impaired - >>> from CNN.com >>> By Steve Mollman >>> September 4, 2007 >>> >>> . Story Highlights >>> . New interactive music video game developed for visually impaired >>> . Nintendo Wii's Wiimote controller or keyboard used to play >>> . Developers hope game will also be played online by mainstream players >>> >>> Forget shoot-em-up addicts -- video games are reaching out to the rest >>> of >>> us. >>> >>> The greatest symbol of this is the Wii console from Nintendo. Its >>> innovative >>> wireless control -- the Wiimote -- has even non-gamers excited as they >>> swing >>> it through the air to control, say, a tennis racket on the screen. >>> >>> Wii's Wiimote may play a pivotal role in bringing the visually impaired >>> into >>> the electronic gaming fold. >>> >>> But not quite everyone has been reached. One group is still largely >>> ignored >>> by video game makers: the blind. >>> >>> With that in mind, a team of researchers at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT >>> Game >>> Lab in Massachusetts set out this summer to make a music-based video >>> game >>> that's >>> designed for mainstream players and also accessible to the blind. >>> >>> Appropriately, perhaps, they incorporated the Wiimote into the >>> game-play, >>> though it's optional. >>> >>> The resulting DJ game, designed for the PC, is called AudiOdyssey. In >>> it, >>> players try to lay down different tracks in a song by swinging and >>> waving >>> the >>> Wiimote in time with the beats. Or they can just use keyboard controls. >>> >>> The game reminded this writer of my lack of any rhythm whatsoever. I >>> used >>> the keyboard version, where you're instructed to follow the beat by >>> hitting >>> an >>> arrow key. Miss a beat and you get an ugly sound. Things sounded pretty >>> ugly. But I did start to get a little better after 15 minutes and was >>> awarded occasionally >>> by crowd cheers. It's a fun game. And I got a kick out of it. >>> >>> So did 41-year-old Alicia Verlager. For her, though, the fun is a bit >>> more >>> significant. She's visually impaired. >>> >>> "Play is one of the ways in which people build relationships," she >>> notes. >>> "It's fun to take on the challenge of a game and take turns encouraging >>> and >>> laughing >>> at each other's sillier mistakes. That's the experience I am really >>> craving >>> in a game -- the social aspects." >>> >>> AudiOdyssey is presently single-player only, and there's no scoring >>> system. >>> But a multiplayer online version will be released in a few months. >>> Intriguingly, >>> players in this version won't necessarily know whether their opponent is >>> blind -- and it won't make a difference in the game. >>> >>> "Ideally, they shouldn't even know that it is designed with the visually >>> impaired in mind, since we want to make a 'mainstream' game," says Eitan >>> Glinert, >>> a 25-year-old grad student at GAMBIT and the lead researcher on >>> AudiOdyssey, >>> which is his thesis. >>> >>> That said, "after they find out that the game is designed to be >>> accessible, >>> it increases awareness," he adds. >>> >>> Though using the Wiimote isn't necessary, Glinert believes it's a more >>> fun >>> and expressive option. From a development standpoint, getting the >>> Wiimote >>> to >>> work with a PC game (it's meant to be used only with Nintendo's Wii) was >>> a >>> considerable engineering challenge. >>> >>> And players who want to use the device will have to do a little extra >>> work, >>> as well, including linking a Wiimote to a PC wirelessly via Bluetooth >>> signal >>> (instructions on how to do this are included with the game). >>> >>> Verlager believes AudiOdyssey's use of the Wiimote makes it unique among >>> accessible games. It's also, as far as she knows, the first accessible >>> music >>> game >>> for blind players. A startup called All inPlay offers online games, >>> including poker, designed to allow play between blind and sighted users. >>> >>> For Verlager, it's important that games be mainstream and inclusive -- >>> rather than "special" and for blind players. >>> >>> "I really get frustrated with the way blind people are portrayed as if >>> they >>> live in isolation from the rest of the world and have no sighted family >>> or >>> friends," >>> she says. >>> >>> Media, which includes video games, "is something people share and >>> participate in together, a way of building relationships and exploring >>> feelings and attitudes >>> about real life," she says. >>> >>> For now, AudiOdyssey is an "early concept prototype," says Glinert. But >>> "ultimately, we'd love to bring the game to consoles," he adds. "If we >>> get >>> the chance >>> we'll definitely move quickly on that." >>> >>> The current version of AudiOdyssey is available for free at the GAMBIT >>> Game >>> Lab Web site. >>> http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/ >>> Here is the game direct download link: >>> http://gambit.mit.edu/loadgame/summer2007/AudiOdysseyinstall.exe >>> It is 120 MB in size. >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >>> list, >>> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -- >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.6/991 - Release Date: 9/5/2007 >> 2:55 PM >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.485 / Virus Database: 269.13.6/991 - Release Date: 9/5/2007 > 2:55 PM > > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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