Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight

Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Hello, apologies if I have posted in the wrong place.  I was directed to this forum from the gaming charity Special Effect.  I am not a gamer so will not be good with technical terms, so please bear with me! I am a

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight @Jude, the problem with the XBox is none of the games were made with a blind person in mind so are fairly un accessible. Some blind players have managed to play a few XBox games through trial and error or through

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Thank you Thomas.  he does have access to both windows and an apple iPhone.Jude URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=213955#p213955 ___ Audiogames

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Hmm, thats rough. Well the issue is not the lack of audiogames, it's the ability to learn new concepts so something simple. Well Death on the road by Oriol Gomez would be a good one. Think of it as blindie Fr

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Jude, welcome to the forum, even if it is due to the unfortunate football accident the boy suffered.  There are indeed many games and I am sure you will find several that he will enjoy.  We may be able to help narrow

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Jude, welcome to the forum, even if it is due to the unfortunate football accident the boy suffered.  There are indeed many games and I am sure you will find several that he will enjoy.  We may be able to help narrow

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Hi, and welcome to the forum.Now, that the boy previously have played XBox, he is familior with the controller, how it Works etc. The mortal kombat games are very much playable. He have to remember the menus, but the

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight @Jude hello and welcome to the forum. What Tward and the others here have said is true, actual Xbox games are not accessible via audio only. However, depending upon this boy's gaming preferences and also m

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Something to add here, if the boy likes to play complex adventure with good plot and adicting challenges, he can try soul trapper on his iOS device.Also he can try the bavisoft games like chillingham, code factories

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight I'm not sure about skull girls, sinse it still takes soun memorization and all the clipboard to sapi and emulation stuff would be dam hard for someone who hasn't even used a screen reader. Bavisoft'

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight If he's comfortable typing (he probably isn't), then muds are a great option for the blind.  They're huge multiplayer text games, where people can team up and work together - similar to world of war

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight One thing of note, since this boy's a previous Xbox player, there are Xbox 360 controllers which have a cable attached instead of being wireless, they plug into a computer's USB port. This way if he play

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight If we're talking brain training, something reaction based like beatstar or quicktap see http://oriolgomez.com/en_index.php might work, and of course aprone's audio puzzles dog who hate's toas

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Thank you so much for your replies, I'm overwhelmed by the time you've taken to think this through.  Cognitively - his short term memory is impaired but his intellect is intact.  He mental responses are s

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Just to clarify, its a separate controller, you cannot simply use the one you already have, it is about $30 USD for one of these. There are also alternatives. I personally own one of these controllers and use it too

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Glad to help. Note that "playable" in the case of mortal combat is a fairly relative term, sinse to play the game a person would need to carefully listen to it's sounds and have a clear knolidge and

Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight

Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Glad to help. Note that "playable" in the case of mortal combat is a fairly relative term, sinse to play the game a person would need to carefully listen to it's sounds and have a clear knolidge and

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight I tend to agree with Dark here. That is why I did not reference any games like Mortal Kombat because while some blind players find them playable in this case playable is a very relative term and state of affairs. We

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight Hi.The reason for I mentioned console games was only because, as mentioned in the first post, he already have a XBox. So he knows what mainstream console games are about, he know the XBox, the controller etc. If

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Re: Audio games as an alternative for someone who has recently lost sight @Jude, just to let you know the site database is now fixed and in working order. If you go to This link you can search the database by genre such as rpgs, you can also exclude say games that use text meaning that a