Category: Accessible Games
Hi Guys, i'm interested to know how many of you play online games and what online games are availalbe for the VI. For example, Audio Quake I know is quite popullar. Also, sighted people may be albe to play games such as Counter Strike etc. The reason I ask is I am looking inot a local and maybe national games project which will be backed by a company called Memset. Memset have very kindly offered to donate web and server solutions for Game Servers specifically for this project. NOw I know you'll all probablly say, "its been done...", "whats the point..." and "it probablly wont work..", but after doing a lot of research, I sont think there is sufficient gaming resources for blind and visually impaired people to all come to one place, chat on a comms server like Ventrilo and shoot a load of people! Your comments, opinions, questions and ideas would be most appriciated by both myself and Memset. Thanks guys.
I'd like a server for gaming. I'm just starting to get into the online gaming world with quake, as you know. hehehehe. I think it would be fun!
I play a few muds, which are online games, but I'm not sure that's quite what you're looking for.
I think that it would be a good idea. I tried working towards something simular but didn't make it. I hope the best for you and I would help sponsored anything I could.
I would is there a way that one day we the blind comunity be able to play games like runescape, world of warcraft and many more.
I don't know about the blind and the sighted coming together in perfect harmony to "shoot a bunch of people" (grin), but I would love it if someone came up with a version of Spades to be played on line by both sighted and blind.
hey matt,
i play a few on line games mostly green dragon which is good,and also play poker on line too.
too bad there isn'ta a few cards games like spades,hearts,and canasta to play on line against others.
well take care,andif you run into kristen tell her i say hi.
tony/ff
Hi there
I play Legend of the Green Dragon (www.dragonmachine.com) and that seems to work quite well with sighted and VI players, but the game itself isn't very interactive, i.e, you can't form a gang to kill the green dragon. The chat element's brilliant though, and this particular server doesn't clutter their pages with ads. I've tried a few of the online audio games, but i've never managed to make them work.
i also played logd, but i am a person who likes to explore the other games out there? any play heros of ardainia?
Mum plays online poker and she is sighted. She says it probably wouldn't be very accessible for people like us who use jaws and other screen readers. I have just been givenquite a few offline games, though.
How do you get to heros of ardainia?
i play free kick http://www.freekick.org and a living universe http://www.alivinguniverse.com they are web based text games perfectly screen reader friendly. give 1 or either a look.
what is a living universe about?
It seems you have to pay for a full membership...
taken directly from the game:
Overview of the Game
Living Universe is a science fiction, space based, Massively Multiplayer On-Line
Game (MMPOG). It takes place in a perpetual universe, which as the term implies,
runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You are initially placed in control of two small
Starships and one small base. You must use your cunning, entrepreneurial and combat
skills to build yourself an empire of wealth and fame while competing against other
human and non-human players with goals similar to your own. There are many paths
to riches and fame, which you take is for you to choose.
From your small Starship you can:
Expand your fleet with multiple starships.
Interact with other players in chat room and intra-game messaging system.
Establish bases in Star Systems.
Conduct Combat Operations against targets of your choosing.
Transport goods and resources across interstellar space.
Gather and refine the natural resources of the universe.
Compete with others conducting commerce in a free market economy.
Expand your bases to produce weapons, equipment and Starhips!
Explore new space for the first time, expand your empire, the universe is the limit!
Turns
Living Universe is based on a series of consecutive turns. Turns last 5 minutes each.
At the End of each turn a number of things happen. Ships Bend (or move) from sector
to sector, combat operations are conducted, mines and factories produce goods and
other things that are required to keep the Universe running.
In between turns is when you transfer, buy and/or sell your cargo. You plot ships
courses and plan your next turns space combat. Many times ships must cross vast reaches
of space requiring multiple Bends to traverse. So actual travel time may be 15 or
20 minutes, other times travel may exceed an hour. Time between turns is spent managing
your resources, making plans with your allies and generally having fun!
A little more about the game
While A Living Universe is a very detailed and complex game one thing you won't find
much of is graphics. There are a few reasons for this: First, I'm not a graphics
artist, my games are my art. So, I'll accept my limitation and tell you that when
I find a good graphics artist you will start to see some cool graphics. The second
reason you won't see many pictures is that they take up a lot of bandwidth. So I
made that choice that I'd rather have a few more players on-line at the same time
rather than have more cool stuff.
A Living Universe takes a good imagination and a little patience. You will need to
start making star maps on graph paper or something like that if you want to see the
bigger picture. I know when you first start playing 5 minutes between turns seems
like forever, wait, pretty soon you'll be clicking your mouse frantically trying
to get that last bit of business completed before the end of the turn.
Please let me know what you think! I am always willing to listen to an honest opinion.
I fully understand that A Living Universe isn't for everyone. I wish I could make
a game that everyone would love... but in today's global market I can't be everything
to everyone.
Why choose A Living Universe?
Foremost is the sense of community that you will find amoung our many members. Of
course there is yelling, kicking, screaming and battles of epic proportion! It's
a game! Now please, really, relax because A Living Universe is a game where the differences
we settle in the virtual universe can be set aside as we try to better understand
the metagame and strategies which may be used to overcome the next hurdles.
You will find a "genuine market economy" while playing the game. One thing that frustrated
me over and over when playing games is how there always seemed to be an endless supply
of "+1 Magic Swords", "Pulse Grenades" or whatever type of resource, equipment or
weapon you could imagine. Where was the mage that enchanted all those swords? Where
was the blacksmith, the smelter and the mine? You see my point of course, there were
none. A Living Universe offers you the opportunity to build your empire from the
ground up, literally! The sense of accomplishment you will earn along the way is
something that you can only experience for yourself.
You won't find many free lunches here, you get what you earn. A positive side effect
to this is that before a player is willing to commit their resources to destructive
purposes, they will understand the true costs of their action.
One playtester has referred to A Living Universe as the "Wild West" gone sci-fi.
The analogy may fit too well in many respects. There is the vastness of space, the
badlands so to speak, in which the outlaw can hide. In more civilized regions you
may find the law. Justice on the frontier can be swift but so can success.
Although the current mapping and charting utilities are crude (did I mention the
pencil and paper earlier) you will find that you travel in a real universe, not one
with seemingly endless twists, turns and dead ends but one with vast open space and
clusters of stars. Real space that you can defend, lose or conquer.
Adventure is where you find it! While A Living Universe is not a role-playing game
per se, the team building and collaboration that success will require will allow
players to fill many roles, from the obvious Starship Captain to Fleet Admiral there
are positions of corporate power and influence, merchant roles, governerships and
many more.
cool i might check it out are there thousands of players?
not thousands no but it's pretty active. the trouble is that it's very slow starting. and that's the problem because you need pacients to play thi game and not many people have that these days. they want everything and now don't they.
yeah they kinda do, I can have patients if its not such a long and drawn process
well i like it i must admit.
well yeah, some people do
ALivingUniverse appears to be down? What's going on?
have no idea, I found a new game called mage realms. The sight is magerealms.com if you are in to stradegy games
Nhice, will check it out.