I think another real aspect of this is the lack of technology and
goes back to the legacy thing above.
We don't or well didn't have the tools back then.
as a result we have to deal with a legacy autoit, vb6 and other
inferior languages as the basis for our games.
including directx8.
We don't have that many games that support the dx9 and up or dotnet standards.
If we do its mostly 1.1, 1.0, or 2.0.
I think we may have one or 2 games running 3.5 and maybe 4.0, and
xna, but really thats our limit.
Python has some traction but I doubt we will ever get up there, at
least not till we ditch all the old languages.
And since about 90% of all games are in those outdated crappy and has
been languages I can't see the backlog will ever clear itself, at
least not right away.
And ofcause the blind start simple and unless you have been exposed
to the otherside or wanted to try and not stayed in your assigned
boxes where you are put then you never know and therefore you never do.
Also the bg community is only in its first generation cycle its still
vary young.
So give it another 100-500 years and maybe it will work or it will die.
Even when biggish games come, since its only 1 real person its so
fragile that anything from the biggest disaster to the smallest
illness can derail everything.
The industry is like a mudflat, unstable at best at worse it could
collapse at any time.
There are probably only a few devs that actually have the ideas of
how the other side the rest of us are just along for the ride.
and though we may have a chance with the engines comming out, we are
not yet going to go foreward at least not that much for now.
At 01:59 a.m. 30/09/2011, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
this is my own opinion and my own experience here.
I was born blind.
And it is true that I never played mainstream console games.
However I know the basics of games like Tomb Raider or Doom or Quake.
Even if vi developers might not have the money for expensive sounds
or music and maybe less experience than longtime mainstream
developers, this seems not enough to explain why some games are way
behind their mainstream versions.
Even if we might have some "unexperienced" developers in comparison
to mainstream developers, this doesn't explain, why Sound RTS is the
only full real time strathegy game, when such things are much older
than our products.
There we had and might still have the Age of Empires game series, of
which many sighted people know even if they haven't played them yet.
Or we have the total lack of really big RPGs.
I mean, everyone probably knows Final Fantasy by name and theese
were originally created before Windows.
Or the Elder Scrolls series.
OK, maybe we couldn't do a clone due to license issues, but that's
not keeping us from inventing something new.
While games like Shades of Doom and some other titles are not bad
products, no one seemed to want to create another of them with a new story.
You said that the problem might be lack of mainstream knowledge, but
that doesn't explain away the fact of less creativity.
We have interactive fiction titles and free gamebooks.
But why not create an audio version of something like out of the
game books (provided it would be allowed)?
Or we had the talk about RPGs. Why don't we have games like Alter
Aeon or Sryth made into a something for offline play and with audio?
Creativity is apparently there. And if our developers might have not
enough knowledge or experience to atempt something like it, why not
do it with a team instead of doing it alone?
I would not say I do know all about games or game styles, but I have
experimented on my own with and without sighted assistance.
I know several blind PC users in Germany who are glad if JAWS or
whatever they use can read a program and its controls. But they are
not the ones who use the advanced tools (e.G. various JAWS tools) to
help make unknown objects accessible.
I at least have tried and in some cases it was enough to use some
things like labeling graphics or such "simple" things to improove my
access to a given program.
I also think that not enough training in using such things as screen
readers is given to thoose who would need it, especially if it is
their first contact with such technology, especially, if we are
dealing with people who became blind or visually impaired after their birth...
But that's far enough in that direction .
But the Things I know are enough to know that I'd like to have more
RPGs for example.
And finally I am interested in the upcoming game.
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