Hi, To avoid confusion: Game Maker (http://www.gamemaker.nl/) and Audio Game Maker (http://www.audiogamemaker.com) are 2 different programs. The first has been developed by a Dutch professor named Mark Overmars of Utrecht University (Netherlands) and is an application with which to create your own games. Game Maker is not intended as an accessible development tool for the blind (it uses a visual interface) but you can make blind-accessible/audio games with it. Audio Game Maker is an original idea of Richard van Tol and Sander Huiberts (that's us) of AudioGames.net/Accessibility/Utrecht School of the Arts (also Netherlands) and it is intended as an accessible game development tool for the blind and features an accessible auditory interface.
And some interesting background information: I have been in contact with Mark a few times before we started the Audio Game Maker project, to see whether or not it would be possible to simply make Game Maker accessible instead of building a complete seperate program. The thing is that Mark is a very busy man and that with Game Maker he is focusing on other things first. This means that accessibility might still be a possibility in the future. But since we couldn't setup a project about making Game Maker accessible, we decided to setup a different project: to create a specific audio game development tool - Audio Game Maker! I talked to Mark at the Dutch Game Days in November of last year and he said that he was looking forward to having a go with Audio Game Maker. Hopefully it will be an inspiration :) Greets, Richard http://www.game-accessibility.com _______________________________________________ Gamers mailing list .. [email protected] To unsubscribe send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can visit http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org to make any subscription changes via the web.
