Well, while I agree that there are many games which would only require
slight tweeking to make them accessible, there are many more which
would require an overhaul of the entire game structure. Consider the
popular game, The Sims. If one wanted to make that accessible, first
of all, they would have to find a way to label anything and everything
in the game somehow. There would have to be an enormous amount of
keystrokes, which I've found most people don't like, and you'd have to
slow down the game clock to get everyone to be able to do what they
need to do.
Many of the developers of the world aren't big developers,
percentage-wise, but almost every game you see on store shelves was
released by a company. If you're part of a company, it doesn't matter
whether you have no blind family members or come home to a completely
blind wife, kids, dog, and toaster oven. You do what the companyies'
higher-ups say. If the higher-ups have blind family members, they know
that it sucks that there aren't many games for the blind, but they
have a company to run. Let's face it. We are a minority. Not only are
we a minority, we're a hard minority to grasp, because it's not based
on ethnicity or creed or anything like that. Some people, from every
population, are simply blind.
So, if you take the fact that making some mainstream games accessible
is a project that would either be impossible or would take the fun out
of the games, combined with the industrially required indifference of
big companies, we either need to get all the developers of accessible
games together into one company that has loads of talent working for
it, or we need to rely on individual developers to do the best they
can. I'm not saying that it's impossible for big companies to
eventually consider us when making games, but it's going to be a
while, and there are some games that, I believe, we are going to have
to accept that we just can't play. It kind of sucks, but there it is.
Signed:
Dakotah Rickard
On 1/12/09, The Kolesar Brothers kolesar16...@roadrunner.com wrote:
Now this is true. Why must everything have to be special? Now let's blind
fold the 99 percent who don't have a blind family member, a blind friend or
doesn't work with a blind person. With phisical force feedback, I wished
that the wei system was blind friendly. I even offered to beta test their
system for them and give feedback from a blind consumer. But their responce
was don't call us we'll call you. So that's my two cents on this thread.
Matt Ron Kolesar there great Dogs!
kolesar16...@roadrunner.com
- Original Message -
From: jason kb3...@verizon.net
To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:48 AM
Subject: [Audyssey] question aboout video game developers
I have a question why is it so hard for a developer to make their games
accessible for disabilities. it's just to hard to go out of their way to
do this. , or we just a minority? I mean video games have been out for
years now, and you would think they would get the hint? wow it's amazing
what people think sometimes. I guess it has to happen to them, meaning to
have one of their family members have a disability in order to get
something accomplished for us.
Sincerely,
Jason known as Blind Fury
windowslive contact kb3...@msn.com
skype contact kb3icc
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