Sorry for posting that large amount of ... posts, but I just wanted to say that the above website has learned me how to beat Super Liam.

Alright. Not to slam any developers. There's a bunch of rather more interesting game recordings on

www.brandoncole.net

These consist of samples and reviews of mainstream console and pc games. Check them out, and look into getting a ps2 or psp, because those systems rule!!!!!! Mainstream games rule too! Not that ags are bad, but look into some variety.

This is true. However, remember that at least some mainstream games are accessible. Starcraft could probably be played. Diablo would be harder, unless you memorized everything.

But in the meanwhile, games such as Rise to Honor, Mortal Kombat, Soul Calibur, Tekken, The Bouncer, Urban reign and other such games are awesome! I wish blind game devs would make more shooters. And we're talking about shooters like Haylo and Counter Strike. Including multiplayer, good sounds and a good weapons system and shooting engine. If several devs joined together I'm pretty sure they could make it work.

Yep, using a pointer minus screen reader support is something of a nightmare, even with a small amount of vision. I've recently had several run ins with such things.

i think Max shrapnel was supposed to be an audio game in the Halo style, but with all the shinanigans surrounding Alchemy, I'm not certain what's happened to this game at all.

I do think considerably more could be done with audio games, particularly in game genre's that aren't merely based upon reacting to immediate danger but have stratogy or exploration and plot elements.

I deffinately think features like scanning haven't been taken as far as they could be, probably because of the old trouble about lack of resources.

I really hope audio game maker will keep going as a project upto the point where it is possible to create complex games with new features, such as a 2D platform game with overhead scanning for ledges, or a slightly more involved stratogy game.

Yes, I know that there are shooters for the blind. Davy, what I meant was first person shooters, yes, which include SOD. However, there aren't nearly enough original fps games for the blind. A game such as Haylo would be wonderful, if we had a version of that for the blind, or a game with the same concept. That would be very enjoyable. And yes, Max was supposed to be in that style of playing, last I remember. I wish that more people would try and make games such as that.

I have come across a utility that claims it can allow use of a mouse pointer by a joystick, and can supposedly be set up so that movement controls position not speed. I haven't tried it yet, but if it works as advertised it would mean that if the mouse pointer were positioned in the centre of the screen initially you could use the joystick to roughly guess where on the screen you have the mouse and move it around. Not sure whether any games could be played like this.

I'm considering whether it would make playing Diablo 2 vaguely possible with sighted help, probably in a multiplayer situation with someone I know well, but even if it were possible it would be rather cumbersome and you would have very low effectiveness.

lol, well if you are familiar with the DOS edit program you could easily imagine it starting there to help sighted users select text faster etc. From there on it could have grown to where it is now.

Disclaimer:
I am not saying this is how it happened, just how my brain reconciles it in an evolutionary manner. It may be along these lines, or may not.