I actually agree here.
While a lot of blind people do dabble with video games, some more
successfully than others for me, I play text games and audio.
Due to my timezone to actually play any online game for any measurable
length of time is impossible unless I have a blank day.
Most of my days are full of something in the morning which means I can't
stay up all night to play as I once did.
Most games are sound based.
The sighted are not interested in blind games without graphics as a rule
and while smart devices have more inclusive hybrid type games, and while
we can play some on consoles and some emulators there are still scarse
hybrid games on windows with exceptions of a few experiments like the
blind eye, long ded, teraformers which is no longer in development and a
few others.
Visual novels made with renpy to some extent can be accessible, so are
games like sequence storm and code7.
Some even have had some success with fligh simulator but for windows
unless you use steam which can be hit and miss, there are vary few games
we can play with our sighted peers and while we have a few, most of
these are not online at all.
Even with the audio and text game industry its not huge, it started with
a hiss and a raw but its slowed down a lot, some bits either do not
exist or are basically stopped.
You can do only so much with sound after all and there are no mainstream
games per say for us right now.
It would be good for inclusive games on a grand scale but its unlikely
to happen, and while I'd never say never it may take a while, before it
happens if it ever does.
In fact its my view, that probably all the issues with blind people in
general may be solved before we even get this mainstream issue with
games handled to a satisfactory level but then I may be off my rocker.
I do know that its likely I won't live to see that change though.
Then I may be wrong.
If the industry wants to move it can.
I have seen the net as a whole move from dialup to fibre in 10 or so
years, I have seen books and music, tv and streaming services take over
pirated content and standard tv.
Now if we could push some of this energy to games and other things like
security programs and software, and a few things like that maybe we will
see things appear.
This aint saying its not appearing but games move slowly, so slow you
can't see things move.
On 22/12/2019 1:51 am, Luke Hewitt wrote:
Hi.
I'm looking at the survey, but one question I have, is what do you
mean exactly by "video games" here.
Most gaming I do is either via audio or text games, especially online
gaming. I do play standard graphical games occasionally on older
devices with games that are still visually simplistic enough for me to
handle, with limited vision, but these are mostly on older consoles
like my Snes or retro remakes, so there is no online component, plus I
don't play these half as often as audio or textual games these days.
So, before I complete the survey, I'd please like a little
qualification on what you mean by "video games" here, since some
people use "video games" to simply refer to games with graphics, where
as some people refer to all computer games, be they text, audio or
whatever as video games.
I would also suggest you make it clear on the survey exactly what sort
of games your talking about as well, otherwise you could end up with
erroneous data.
All the best,
Dark.
On 20/12/2019 17:46, David Gonçalves wrote:
Greetings, I’m David, a new member of the group. I hope that you are
all doing ok!
I'm a researcher and developer from Lisbon, Portugal and I'm
currently working with the blind and low vision community to create
games that can be enjoyable for players with different levels of
vision, for instance games that can be played and enjoyed by the
whole family and mixed-ability groups of friends. Maybe you can help me.
I’m asking volunteers aged 18 or older to answer some online
questions. If you’re blind or have low vision and you like to play
games (videogames or tabletop games) you can help me, answering the
following short Microsoft Form questionnaire:https://bit.ly/2r3XZKJ
<https://bit.ly/2r3XZKJ?fbclid=IwAR2bcMsSEoqhHaRMD9azZSVoHO-qbivxUGqQrSxert11lXg2pa5u4SgkLPs>.
If you’re sighted and you have a close relationship with someone
blind or with low vision who likes to play, you can also help me by
filling this second questionnaire:https://bit.ly/2PBBPJv
<https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2PBBPJv%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR28HWE_qWMKgK1jy-dsMTgMsN3yCP2POBsgjDba_u2hLZc0NEz9cLcSr0Y&h=AT2QLGqjPrO5VkqQnG2ggCd4y6rDfnQT056fkg04Q1A7ataImWdg_goY3B3Pix3OhnUokWDaMXuTSTF87HcadTbTbesXOIz8Kqjf_OlZ7Zg7wQNS975L5m2VaExEpu0fsGvcA6V9QIqZXYZltEUYqzh4LLQiFPn8VA>.
If you're blind or have low vision, you can further help, sharing
this second survey with your sighted friends.
Counting on you! Games must be for everyone! If you're interested and
want to know more, you can message me. Many thanks and best regards!
David G
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