[Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal

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Yes, that's exactly what we need! We haven't got a lot of news on AGM, by 
the way, other than that we're still waiting for the software to come in and 
that one programmer is still busy (re)programming a few parts.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Peterson" <b-peterson at hotmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal


> Funding from us isn't what's going to determine whether or not AGM is
> further developed. It's the foundation itself. All we really need to do is
> produce enough quality games and give them enough positive feedback that
> they can take it to the big bugs, say that this is what the consumers
> thought and, armed with that information, build the features that both we
> and they wanted in the program. But we gotta wait for its initial release 
> to
> come out first.
> Bryan and Jennie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal
>
>
>> If they put a paypal button on their website I'l gladly donate all that I
>> can.
>>
>> Josh
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Bryan Peterson" <b-peterson at hotmail.com>
>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 7:58 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal
>>
>>
>>> They just won't be games where you can save, unless the project gets 
>>> more
>>> funding and they're able to build that feature into the program.
>>> Bryan and Jennie
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Josh" <jkenn337 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 10:08 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal
>>>
>>>
>>>> and when audio game maker comes out I'm sure we'll see the number of
>>>> games
>>>> dramatically go up as audio game maker will make it real easy to make
>>>> games.
>>>>
>>>> Josh
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Che" <che at tridigitalbb.com>
>>>> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
>>>> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 8:44 PM
>>>> Subject: [Audyssey] Forcing accessibility was: deal or no deal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>  I for one don't think we have any business trying to force companies
>>>>> to
>>>>> make their games accessible.
>>>>>  First of all, for the vast majority of games, it simply cannot be
>>>>> done,
>>>>> it
>>>>> would be like trying to force the car manufacturers to make their
>>>>> automobiles accessible.
>>>>>  Secondly, it places a black mark on the perception of blind folks in
>>>>> general, as people will roll their eyes and say "Well here go the 
>>>>> blind
>>>>> again, asking the many to sacrifice for the few for no good reason."
>>>>>  If I thought even a small percentage of mainstream games could be 
>>>>> made
>>>>> accessible, I would feel differently, but I'm afraid you are spitting
>>>>> in
>>>>> the
>>>>> wind on this one.
>>>>>  We're just going to have to accept the fact we're dependant on a
>>>>> handful
>>>>> of developers to make games for us due to our small market, and help
>>>>> them
>>>>> out as much as we can by buying their games.  Or, like me, you can
>>>>> learn
>>>>> how
>>>>> to program games yourself and create quality games for the blind.
>>>>>  Out.
>>>>>  Che
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>> From: "Dennis" <dennisl0 at verizon.net>
>>>>> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <gamers at audyssey.org>
>>>>> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 4:09 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] deal or no deal?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi, my friend and I are attempting through legal remendies to force
>>>>>> companies to make there computer games accessible to people with
>>>>>> visual
>>>>>> impairments or any other handicap the more people we have the better
>>>>>> our
>>>>>> chances!  Feel free to contact me or my friend penny my email is
>>>>>> dennisl0 at verizon.net
>>>>>> Penny's email spicey_angelbaby at yahoo.com
>>>>>> Your thoughts  and suggestions are appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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