Hi Thomas. I understand that most of us don't have access to a braille display but some do and most audio games dont enable death blind players to get involved. Also I'm not using the display to show braille in its normal format, I'm using the display more like a screen with moving shapes and representations of they playing area.
The reason I asked if braille displays have been used in accessible games before is I wanted to see weather Dotris is going to be as unique as I think it is going to be. I'm very aware that if I was trying to make any money out of this restricting my user base to those that have access to a braille display wouldn't be a good idea but this is more about the programming challenge and the chance to do something a little bit unusual as well as raising a bit of money for charity. I'm also trying in my own small way to encourage the use of braille, a skill I worry that a lot of blind people, including myself at one point in my life, think to be a completely antiquated and pointless skill when so many things now speak to us. A view I now disagree with. thanks Nick Sent from my iPhone On 5 Aug 2012, at 04:38, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Most of the accessible games out there use speech and/or audio for > feedback. The reason is that braille displays are extremely > expensive,and most blind computer users don't own one. The other > reason is that there has been a huge migration from text based gaming > to real time audio gaming and in a lot of cases the action moves too > fast to review the information via braille. Speech feedback is much > much quicker in an arcade, FPS, or side-scroller so most accessible > game developers don't bother with braille display support. > > Cheers! > > > On 8/2/12, Nick Adamson <n...@ndadamson.com> wrote: >> Hi All. >> My Name is Nick Adamson. Some of you may remember me from about 8 years ago >> >> on the old blind gamers list. >> I'm a blind software engineer who's been out of touch with the blind gaming >> >> community for ages but I'm back and after some software testers for a new >> game I'm working on. >> >> For quite some time I've been wondering if it would be possible to write a >> Tetris like game but played on a Braille display. A month or so ago I >> stopped thinking about it and Started coding Dotris. This is a windows based >> >> game that I'm working on in the little spare time I've got. >> So if you've tested software before and enjoyed the opportunity to shape the >> >> direction of the game or have never done game testing but would like to give >> >> it a go then I want to here from you. >> For now I'm looking for a smallish group of people, You must have a Braille >> >> display of at leased 12 characters, a windows XP PC or better, confidence in >> >> using the computer and a couple of hours of spare time. >> If you want to get involved then please send me details of which make model >> >> and size Braille display you have and which version of windows and screen >> reader your using along with your email address. Please send the details to >> >> me using the contact us link at www.ndadamson.com. >> I want to keep the list of testers relatively small and manageable but still >> >> test on the widest range of software and hardware possible. this means I may >> >> not ask everyone I here from this time. >> >> I'm also planning to release the game as donation-ware. The idea is that, >> once complete, the software can be downloaded at no charge but the user will >> >> be strongly encouraged to make a donation of what ever they think the game >> is worth to a charity I'm going to support. I've not yet decided which >> charity but am looking in to those that promote the learning and use of >> Braille. with this in mind there isn't going to be any payment for testers >> made available, just my gratitude, credits in the documentation and the >> opportunity to work on a pretty unique game. >> >> I've not been around for ages, are there many games that use a Braille >> display as the main feedback method? >> >> Thanks for your time. >> Nick. >> >> >> --- >> 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://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@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://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
