2007-04-17 12:30:37 (edited by dark empathy 2007-04-17 12:32:32)

Just like it's real world counterpart, thom Lorimer's whitestick.co.uk site helps visually impared and blind people wander the web and run into new and astounding things. of particular interest here are his pages about gaming.

Here on the Phantasy gamebooks page you'll find a selection of online gamebook adventures, such as The Lone wolf gamebook series. Most recent of these is Hunger of the Wolf, a new adventure on the Fighting fantasy project site with magic, mercinaries, and mages running amock.

then, this page about online games has recieved several recent updates. These include Gothador, a complex fantasy rpg with literally hundreds of quests, Warrior's 2, another text Rpg (though not as complex) and altar-ego, the life simulator which lets you make decisions about your real world character's life from infancy until death and features some entertainingly dry writing. Fans of the Warring factions space stratogy game will also be pleased to know the link to that has been returned to this page.

To check out the vast wealth of information thom puts out on his site, please visit the Whitestick homepage your bound to find something surprising.

also, any new links to online games, programs or whatever that might be of use to other visually impared or blind people are always welcome as well, just mail the details to thom and he'll update the site.

With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)