well We have one on radionz.co.nz called one in 5 its supposed to be
good and would be but its on at the wrong time.
At any rate I could care less about what the media say.
As far as media care we are the poor blind.
Yeah they do help but most of the time they hinder and make
background noise so I learned not to listen.
The net has better info than any news station though they are trying
to change it.
At 05:49 p.m. 27/04/2011, you wrote:
There is a radio show over here called In Touch that's on every
Tuesday. Mind you, they sometimes go on about and try and promote
the RNIB stuff as well at times. The link for the listen again thing
if you want to hear the latest show is below. Its normally abut
different blind stuff as well and they sometimes feature guide dogs
for the blind among other things.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/intouch/ -----Original Message-----
From: gamers-boun...@audyssey.org
[mailto:gamers-boun...@audyssey.org] On Behalf Of Che Sent: 27 April
2011 04:36 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] The
importance of patronage Hi Dark, I've heard from others the RNIB
is a crusty joke as well, though thatâs really all I know of them
is hear say. Regarding blind adrenaline, we've not done nearly as
much marketing in the U.K. as we should, but as soon as I finish our
next game for the card room site sometime in the next two weeks, I'm
gonna polish off a few small things in code on the site, then start
some more aggressive marketing. at that point BA will not only be
the site with the most online games for the blind to play, but also
the card games with by far the most features per game, a fact that a
lot of potential blind gamers out there don't know. I haven't done
much to market BA really overall, as the site has been far more
popular than I thought it would be to start with , and I know very
little about what marketing options are available in the UK,
advertising on UK sites aimed at the visually impaired, possible
radio interviews, podcasts, etc. So if you have any suggestions
where folks that patronize RNIB might frequent, I'd be glad to do my
part to help them realize what is available in the wider world of
accessible entertainment that can be had on the cheap. Take
care, che -----Original Message----- From: dark Sent: Tuesday,
April 26, 2011 10:09 PM To: Gamers@audyssey.org Subject: [Audyssey]
The importance of patronage Hi. As people might know, I've been
doing a lot of work on the audiogames.net database and something
rather odd struck me. I'm finally adding in descriptions for the
azabat games (not the least because the developer did send me the
demo cd about a year ago and I stil haven't updated them). Azabat is
the only developer of audiogames sold through the rnib. This is of
course because the Azabat's aim, of providing nice old blind people
with easy games to play at exaubitant prices (can you tell I'm not
impressed!), goes along very much with the rnib, an organization who
quite literally don't notice visually impared people under the age
of 60 or so exist, mostly because younger people are less likely to
give them donations in their will, ---- I'm serious! at a so called
"information day" the rnib spent about two hours just talking about
will donations to them, --- and most of the rest of the time saying
how great they were providing "dayly living skills" services" the
amount of times myself, or another member of my family (most
recently my dad in a survay), has given them what for over this,
whether it's about what books they record (sinse their main producer
of accessible books in this country given that the government does
bugger all), or about what services they provide, they really! don't
like the idea that people younger than about 60, or who have
interest outside knitting and braille crosswords exist (I'm serious,
there are several amagazines devoted to knitting patterns alone, but
nothing whatsoever on roleplay). And if you tell them this they
ignore you (the survey lady slammed the phone down on my dad after
he'd said this). Anyway, getting the wranting train under control,my
point is azabat, dispite producing games which are no better (and in
many case not as good), as others around even in the same catagory
like the recently released pontes backgammon (lacking graphics but
having online play), and all of the spoonbill and blind adrenaline
type stuff, yet have a huge record in this country simply! because
they have had publicity through the Royally nasty inhibition of the
blind, aka the rnib (oooh, I made a funny!). This doesn't seem
correct, but I am now wondering what can be done about it. The
business of sending myself to site village, the uk tech show didn't
really advance much unfortunately mostly due to booking costs and
such, but possibly a more reasonable organization such as Guide dogs
(who do a lot more than train dogs, ---- I've been skeeing, touring
egypt, cycling and goodness knows what with their holiday crew in
the past) would be open to discussion, especially sinse they do deal
with blind people who aren't the sterriotypical poor old useless
individuals the rnib think they are. I've already introduced a
friend of mine who does voluntry tech support at a charity for
helping disabled computer users in her local area to audiogames.net
and pcs games so she can show people some of the fun things their
computers will do. When i red The only computer games sold by the
rnib" It made me actually pretty mad, so it's time to do something
about it. Any suggestions for people to contact? ---- I'm not
familiar with us or european organizations, but is there a stink we
can kick up? Action for blind people here (another of the smaller
but nicer groups), did a pole a while ago, maybe it'd be worth
seeing if they will do something else? Imho this situation needs
rectifying, and people need to know there are more and better
developers out there than just Azabat, and games to appeal to all
sorts of tastes. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __
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