Hi Shaun, You may be right. I guess I'm just surprised with the availability of tools like BGT its now easier than ever to develop audio games for Windows quickly, easily, and within a person's low income budget and game releases for PC seem to be dropping off instead of increasing.
For a while there, perhaps last year, there were a number of freebies written in BGT that were released. They weren't award winning games by any means, but they were something to download and play. I had hoped some of those up and coming developers would release something else by now, but a lot of them released one or two simple freebies and disappeared. Some of them like Battle Zone was showing promise, and I haven't heard anything new on that project for a while. It seems to me that a lot of people are buying iPhones or iPads, and there are a wealth of games there that has redirected focus to the smart phone and tablet market. Eventually, I myself will be buying one when I have the money, but as someone who has just a regular cell phone I don't have instant access to all the new cool games. I have been able to borrow my in-laws iPhone to get a feel for the device and played a few games on it, but since its not mine I don't have access to it 24/7. However, because of the up serge in interest in such devices I'm wondering if USA Games might be better off investing in the tools to write games for iOS and get out of the PC business while the iron is still hot. :D However, even though I sound a bit dire I do think it is just a trend. There is a certain logic in having games on an iPhone and that is a matter of convenience. If someone is riding a train, sitting outside waiting for a class to start, taking a lunch break, he or she can just take out there iPhone and play Lost Cities or something while they wait. You can't do that with a PC unless you have a Netbook or something like that along. Even then an iPhone is probably handier. There is still a market for PC games given that an average desktop or laptop has more CPU power, can handle graphics better, has a larger screen, and of course may have better audio as well. Those kinds of features will most likely encourage developers to produce better games for Windows while they continue to develop simpler games like the Storm8 games for iOS. Cheers! On 3/20/13, shaun everiss <sm.ever...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah it looks that way, a lot of the big blind gamer companies well > not all of them obviously but a lot of them are either concentrating > on the msmartphone markets or simply not releasing anything pc related. > The ag forums team of opensourcers and hackers did keep things going > but thats stopped to. > Most stuff is for android or the i devices mostly the latter. > This was part of my rants a bit ago, it feels like just about > everything has died or stopped for an extended length of time. > I can't name who has stopped but as a whole its stopped. > Its just possible that with the rise in access especially for the ios > devices the blind community is seriously having second thoughts about > where to go. > Right now myself, the next revolution in gaming for the pc needs to > be the touch screen and in particularly even though this will > probably disadvantage a large percentage of the community at large > for some time the windows8 system. > A lot of stores are pulling out of pc gaming in general for cds at any > rate. > Mostly because the games now are all cloud based web games or simply > using things like steam, etc. > I think the market is switching from a lot of standalone games to > multiplayer games of large size. > I still like the pc games but that market is getting smaller and > smaller as pcs well focus is shifted to handheld devices. > I'm not suggesting that the pc game market is totally dead and I > don't think it is the end of gaming for the blind or gaming for pcs > in general but its quiet out there. > Even when I go online these days bar the occational security update, > virus or hacker attack on the network or news article the net is > slowed right down for me at any rate. > I can't explain it but thats what it is. > --- 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/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.
