[Audyssey] Audio Game Maker vs. Game Maker (was: game maker)

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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 quite excited about the Audio Game Maker project. Hopefully it 
will be an inspiration :)

Greets,

Richard

http://www.game-accessibility.com






----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ward" <tward1978 at earthlink.net>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers at audyssey.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] game maker


> Hi Dark,
> I've heard that to. Problem with these off the shelf engines and
> building tools many of them  simply don't have the ability to create the
> kinds of access features we want. I am happy to see Audio Games Maker is
> at least going to be an off the shelf tool from which to create games
> with accessibility in mind.