haha, good effort! If the mainstream gaming industry is anything like what us musos have to put up with though, most executives have probably got a dusty old SNES somewhere at home and it's their kids who are the real gamers. Now, before you think it, I'd never sanction cruelty to children. Short of that, seems to me our next best option would be to temporarily blind at least 50% of each major business's programmers, leaving enough to still maintain graphics for the afore mentioned kids, with the rest of the programmers having to adapt to what makes sense for us and most importantly, what they'd then want to play. The way in would be to infiltrate the canteens of each business with a highly trained ruthlessly efficient lunchtime ninja type who's sympathetic to our cause. They can hover under cover, working out who codes what and who amongst those coders thinks innovatively enough to meet the terrifying standards of the members of the audyssey email list. When the time is right, and every major games manufacturer is unknowingly sussed out, we pounce. Our canteen crew strike in the dead of night, switching a drink here and there, re-labeling this and that. Come noon next day, programmers are drinking blindness in a bottle, or munching blind bars for lunch. Boom! Job done!
PS: no actual developers have been harmed during the dreaming up of this slightly unhinged idea, at least not yet. Volunteers welcome though. PPS: any cynics reading this thinking "oh, but they'd just sack the blinded workforce and hire new coders", don't, I was enjoying myself! Scott On 8/16/09, peter Mahach <piterm...@gmail.com> wrote: > lol! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Phil Vlasak" <p...@pcsgames.net> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 12:25 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] Top ten ways to get mainstream game accessibility > > >> Top ten ways to get mainstream game accessibility >> 10. Organize all the guide dog owners in the country to visit mainstream >> game company headquarters and have their dogs poop on the floor. >> 9. Kidnap the children of mainstream game company executives and hold >> them ransom until their games are Accessible. >> 8. Picket mainstream game company headquarters with Braille signs saying >> that they are discriminating to the blind. >> 7. Have every blind person in the world learn computer programming and >> require them to debug a line of game code before they can read an audio >> book. >> 6. Start a charity, National Association of Accessible Games, and get >> people to donate millions of dollars, then hire sighted programmers to >> develop accessible games. >> 5. Get all colleges to add a class of Accessible game development to all >> computer programming courses. >> 4. Get the NFB and ACB to protest that there are not enough mainstream >> game accessibility. >> 3. Petition Stevie Wonder to be the spokesperson for mainstream game >> accessibility. >> 2. Get all blind people to send a dollar to Thomas Ward so he can finish >> his accessible game engine. >> >> And the top way to get mainstream game accessibility, >> Visit the homes of mainstream game company executives and poke their eyes >> >> out. >> >> >> >> >> --- >> 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.
