Wow, amazing! I wonder if he is able to actually play without sight though,
or if it is like the things people have talked about for Second Life, where
they get in to basically chat with someone who only talks there.
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From: "Yuma Antoine Decaux" <jamy...@gmail.com>
To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 11:33 AM
Subject: anyone trying to play world of warcraft?
Hi All,
Have a look at this page:
http://wow.joystiq.com/2013/03/07/blind-player-ben-shaw-on-raiding-and-wow-for-the-sightless/
I read this article about a blind gamer playing world of warcraft using a
set of macros and commands by creating add-ons for the game. It uses simple
text editor and on the mac, a lot of commands exist in terminal for opening
wow with console mode etc. The scripting language doesn't seem too hard to
learn and the wow API seems to have everything required for parsing text and
streaming sets of variables to figure out what to do.
Here are some example scripts or add-ons I wanted to write for blind wow
access:
1-chat frame announcements using either voice over or another tts solution.
2-inventory, magic and character profile information frames. These use
standard xml layouts so I'm guessing that it can work fine with some html
coding to pass arguments back and forth from in game frame to an external
html page keeping tabs of information and perhaps controllable from the page
back into the game
3-orientation and guidance helpers: there is a fairly decent 3D audio in
world of warcraft. Perhaps some of the lock in systems wow uses can be
exploited to get a player vs player positional stream from which particular
sounds could be produced. The web audio API is very good and fast at doing
this. Again, using the external window method, positional information for
one's player against selected ennemy can be created.
4-inventory or pouch: a macro or key binding to open the sachel can
theoretically open a new frame in the external page at which point using the
trackpad we can navigate through the items, changing their positions or
blending items such as reagents for magic and spells.
5-use a mouse position tracking and positioning script with terminal to
control positioning from within the external page to reflect in game.
And so many other methods available to make playing wow somewhat of a
possibility?
In any case, has anyone tried world of warcraft like that guy?
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