Agree that this would be a lot of fun. I was thinking of maybe putting a different texture on each of the balls for the different collors, except the white one as this is smaller than the rest. So really just a texture for red, yellow and black. Unless of course you want to play snooker, which is a different story. Hahaha. Saying that though, having a texture on each different color would also involve moving the balls slightly from their position, which is kind of not the point of the game.
-----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Tom Randall Sent: 26 December 2009 6:30 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Things like playing on a pool table Hi Jacob and all. This is a very interesting question, I do play pool quite a little bit in the real world with a couple of sighted friends. I am a total so what I have to do is to have somebody tell me where the cue ball (the white one) is and then either carefully check around for what I think is a decent shot or else have the person point out some good ones if I am feeling lazy. In order to do this successfully you need to have good spatial concepts, e.g. you have to know what angles are and to be able to at least somewhat predict what a ball will do when your cue ball strikes it at a certain angle. For us there is unavoidably a certain amount of luck involved because there just get to be too many variables involved particularly when the table is crowded or if you are trying to do something like hit one ball into another in order to knock the second one into a pocket. However this is true for the sighted as well if you are playing against the occasional or semiskilled player. Using a k-sonar or similar device is an excellent idea, something that I had not considered. I will have to try that once I get the battery in mine replaced. I also have something called a mowatt sensor, an older version of the k-sonar that I can try. As for doing something like this in an accessible game, this is something I've been thinking about for years. How hard it would be would depend on how complex you wanted the game to be, e.g. would you be able to move your player around the table and find the cue ball or would it be a matter of just lining up your shot because the game would put you at the closest point to the cue ball? Personally I would not recommend the second approach because it will not lend itself to a realistic game of pool, there are times when you have to lean way across the table or even use a device called a bridge to extend your reach to line up a shot. So, the mechanics of the game could get pretty complex and I am frankly not sure how you would do some of it, but I am pretty sure it could be figured out if enough people were interested. Well as you can probably tell, I have been thinking about this idea for a while. I think something like this would be loads of fun and definitely something I'd be interested in if somebody took it on as a serious project and made a realistic game out of it, adding online multiplayer capability would be absolutely killer as well. Game on. Tom -----Original Message----- From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org [mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 6:48 AM To: gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey] Things like playing on a pool table I know in the old days one of my relatively short time passing computer games was playing pool on the computer, and at the recent pub2pub fundraising walk, we got the sighties to try a shot or two on a pool table with blindfolds on, and in my one attempt I apparently hit the edge of the corner pocket around 1.5cm off target with the red ball after hitting it with the white ball using the pool cue from the other end of the table, and another thing have been thinking about trying one day would be a combination of a well lit pool table, with limited colours of target balls, and then trying out using a combination of the vOICe, and maybe my KSonar to try fine tune my aim and see how close I could come to playing real pool on a pool table, but in any case, just wondering if anyone has ever tried out a VI gamers version of anything like a pool game? I did also use to be relatively good at playing real pool on a pool table, which also helps since I can still pretty much visualise the whole situation, but anyway... Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4706 (20091221) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com --- 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. 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