Well, while I agree that there are many games which would only require slight tweeking to make them accessible, there are many more which would require an overhaul of the entire game structure. Consider the popular game, The Sims. If one wanted to make that accessible, first of all, they would have to find a way to label anything and everything in the game somehow. There would have to be an enormous amount of keystrokes, which I've found most people don't like, and you'd have to slow down the game clock to get everyone to be able to do what they need to do. Many of the developers of the world aren't big developers, percentage-wise, but almost every game you see on store shelves was released by a company. If you're part of a company, it doesn't matter whether you have no blind family members or come home to a completely blind wife, kids, dog, and toaster oven. You do what the companyies' higher-ups say. If the higher-ups have blind family members, they know that it sucks that there aren't many games for the blind, but they have a company to run. Let's face it. We are a minority. Not only are we a minority, we're a hard minority to grasp, because it's not based on ethnicity or creed or anything like that. Some people, from every population, are simply blind. So, if you take the fact that making some mainstream games accessible is a project that would either be impossible or would take the fun out of the games, combined with the industrially required indifference of big companies, we either need to get all the developers of accessible games together into one company that has loads of talent working for it, or we need to rely on individual developers to do the best they can. I'm not saying that it's impossible for big companies to eventually consider us when making games, but it's going to be a while, and there are some games that, I believe, we are going to have to accept that we just can't play. It kind of sucks, but there it is.
Signed: Dakotah Rickard On 1/12/09, The Kolesar Brothers <kolesar16...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > Now this is true. Why must everything have to be special? Now let's blind > fold the 99 percent who don't have a blind family member, a blind friend or > doesn't work with a blind person. With phisical force feedback, I wished > that the wei system was blind friendly. I even offered to beta test their > system for them and give feedback from a blind consumer. But their responce > was don't call us we'll call you. So that's my two cents on this thread. > Matt & Ron Kolesar & there great Dogs! > > kolesar16...@roadrunner.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jason" <kb3...@verizon.net> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:48 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] question aboout video game developers > > > I have a question why is it so hard for a developer to make their games > accessible for disabilities. it's just to hard to go out of their way to > do this. , or we just a minority? I mean video games have been out for > years now, and you would think they would get the hint? wow it's amazing > what people think sometimes. I guess it has to happen to them, meaning to > have one of their family members have a disability in order to get > something accomplished for us. > > > Sincerely, > Jason known as Blind Fury > windowslive contact kb3...@msn.com > skype contact kb3icc > --- > 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/gam...@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/gam...@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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
